1988 in music
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See also: 1987 in music, other events of 1988, 1989 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music'
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Events
- January – Broadcast of the Cinemax television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, California.
- February 13 - Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. He calls his new home "Neverland".
- February 16 - Billy Vera receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
- February 17 - A 12-year old Mötley Crüe fan in Florida is badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's "Live Wire" music video. The boy suffered burns over ten percent of his body. Mötley Crüe issued a statement saying the band's stunts should not be tried at home.
- February 24 - Alice Cooper announces that he is going to run for Governor of Arizona.
- March 10 - During a concert in Perth, Australia, George Michael thanks Tipper Gore, head of the Parents Music Resource Center, for helping the sales of his Faith album.
- March 12 - Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
- April to July - Suicidal Tendencies records How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today?, which will be a blockbuster album on September 13
- April 19 - Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California
- May 1 - Citing the 1st Amendment, a judge drops all charges filed against singer Billy Joel. Joel was being sued by Jack Powers for defamation following an interview with Playboy magazine in which he called Powers a "creep".
- July 1 - Quartetto Cetra's last concert.
- August 28 - While traveling down the Ventura Freeway in Southern California, the motor home carrying the Charlie Daniels band bursts into flames. Daniels and his band members escape without injury.
- October 10 - Acid House: Genesis'88 stage their first illegal Acid House Party in UK
- November - The "Guess The Eddies" contest begins, inviting people to guess the identities of the six members of the rock band The Swirling Eddies.
- Compact discs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
- "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at No. 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.
- December 4 - singer Roy Orbison gives his last concert in Akron, Ohio.
- December 31 - Acid House: Genesis & Sunrise/Back to the Future stage the biggest Acid Party in the world in a warehouse in Hackney, UK (5,000 people)
- Nirvana's career begins
- Phish's career begins
- Steven Morrissey begins solo career;
- The Offspring begins their recording career
- Baha Men forms
- After 7 forms
- Blind Melon forms
- Blues Traveler forms
- Cypress Hill forms
- Guttermouth forms
- Jesus Jones forms
- No Doubt forms
- Radiohead forms (as On A Friday)
- Warrior Soul forms
- Big Black break up
- The Cars break up
Albums released
- Blow Up Your Video - AC/DC
- Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul (debut)
- Y Kant Tori Read - Tori Amos (debut)
- State Of Euphoria - Anthrax
- Pound For Pound - Anvil
- Saints Will Conquer - Armored Saint
- Suffer - Bad Religion
- Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven
- In Heat - Black N' Blue (final album)
- New Jersey - Bon Jovi
- Britny Fox - Britny Fox (debut ALBUM)
- Bullet Boys - Bullet Boys (debut)
- Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (debut)
- 19 - Chicago
- LOng Cold Winter - Cinderella
- I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
- The Trinity Sessions - Cowboy Junkies
- Dangerous Age - Bad Company
- Danzig I - Danzig (debut, Glenn Danzig's 3rd band following The Misfits & Samhain)
- Wyau - Datblygu
- Bug - Dinosaur Jr.
- Beast From the East - Dokken (live album)
- Big Thing - Duran Duran
- Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
- The Innocents - Erasure
- Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
- On Target - Fastway (final album)
- Only Life - The Feelies
- Lita - Lita Ford
- [[Live +1 EP]] - Frehley's Comet
- Second Sighting - Frehley's Comet
- Fugazi (album) - Fugazi (debut EP)
- Breakwater - Lennie Gallant (debut)
- Gipsy Kings - Gipsy Kings
- The Sweet Children - Green Day
- GNR Lies - Guns N' Roses
- Racing after Midnight - Honeymoon Suite
- Over The Edge - Hurricane (debut ALBUM)
- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
- Colin James - Colin James
- Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
- 20 Years of Jethro Tull - Jethro Tull
- Reg Strikes Back - Elton John
- Greatest Hits (1977-1987) - Journey
- Ram It Down - Judas Priest
- Straight Out The Jungle - The Jungle Brothers
- Shadowland - k.d. lang
- Big Deal - Killer Dwarfs
- Smashes, Thrashes & Hits - KISS
- King Kobra III - King Kobra (final album)
- Blow My Fuse - Kix
- Kylie - Kylie (debut album)
- L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns (debut)
- Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe
- Vivid - Living Colour
- Pontiac - Lyle Lovett
- Odyssey - Yngwie Malmsteen (or Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force)
- So Far, So Good... So What! - Megadeth
- ...And Justice for All - Metallica
- Time Odyssey - Vinnie Moore
- No Sleep At All - Motörhead (live album)
- Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
- Land of Dreams - Randy Newman
- Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- If You Can't Lick Em'...Lick Em' - Ted Nugent (last solo album before forming the 90's band Damn Yankees)
- The Lion and the Cobra - Sinéad O'Connor
- Outrider - Jimmy Page
- Force Majuer - Doro Pesch (former Warlock vocalists solo debut album)
- Introspective - Pet Shop Boys (EP)
- The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips
- Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd
- Surfer Rosa - Pixies
- Open Up And Say...Ahh!! - Poison
- Lovesexy - Prince
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
- Operation: Mindcrime - Queensr˙che
- Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot
- Green - R.E.M.
- Abbey Road EP - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- The Uplift Mofo Party Plan - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Talk Is Cheap - Keith Richards
- Savage Amusement - Scorpions
- Sick Of It All - Sick of it All (debut album)
- South of Heaven - Slayer
- Green Thoughts - The Smithereens
- Out Of Order - Rod Stewart
- In God We Trust - Stryper
- How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today? - Suicidal Tendencies
- Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
- Junekbox - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
- Toots in Memphis - Toots
- Traveling Wilburys, Volume I - Traveling Wilburys
- The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD - Ween
- Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
- Winger - Winger (debut)
- Roll With It - Steve Winwood
- Rattle and Hum - U2
- OU812 - Van Halen
- Vixen - Vixen (debut)
Top hits
- "Kokomo" - The Beach Boys
- "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin
- "Man in the Mirror" - Michael Jackson
- "Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car)" - Billy Ocean
- "Anything for You" - Gloria Estefan
- "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" - Poison
- "Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley
- "Look Away" - Chicago
- "Johnny B. Goode" - Judas Priest
- "One More Try" - George Michael
- "Roll With It" - Steve Winwood
- "Sweet Child O' Mine" -Guns N' Roses
- "Mountain Song" - Jane's Addiction
- "Got My Mind Set On You" - George Harrison
- "1-2-3" - Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
- "Forever Young" - Rod Stewart
- "Is this Love" - Whitesnake
- "I Get Weak" - Belinda Carlisle
Published popular music
- "Kissing A Fool" w.m. George Michael
Classical music
- Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape
- Peter Sculthorpe - Kakadu
- Tōru Takemitsu - Tree Line for chamber orchestra
- John Tavener - The Akathist of Thanksgiving
Musical theater
- Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) - London revival
- Chess (Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus) - Broadway production
- The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production
- Sarafina Broadway production
Births
- May 5 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian pop singer
- August 27 - Alexa Vega, Spy Kids as Carmen Cortez and song for "Isle Of Dreams"
- October 8 - Scott Gall, graffiti artist.
Deaths
- January 21 - Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
- February 27 - Gene De Paul, US pianist and composer
- March 8 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist
- March 10 - Andy Gibb, singer
- April 9 - Brook Benton, complications of spinal meningitis.
- April 9 - Dave Prater, of Sam & Dave, car accident
- May 22 - Dennis Day, US singer
- June 25, Hillel Slovak, Red Hot Chili Peppers, guitarist
- August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
- October 7 - Billy Daniels, US singer
- October 19, Son House, blues musician
- November 13 - Antal Dorįti, conductor
- December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
- December 6, Roy Orbison, singer
Awards
- The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan, and The Supremes
