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Events

Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra.
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, Western 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
March 13 - The 77s, House of Freaks and the Alarm perform at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California. Neil Young is in attendance.
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)

Albums released

Blow Up Your Video - AC/DC
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul (debut)
Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson
Y Kant Tori Read - Tori Amos (debut)
State Of Euphoria - Anthrax
Pound For Pound - Anvil
Saints Will Conquer - Armored Saint
Sinta - Asin (band)
Sour Mash - The Beasts Of Bourbon
Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven
Wide Awake In Dreamland - Pat Benatar
Small Block - Big Drill Car (EP)
Leather Donut - Black Eye Compilation
In Heat - Black N' Blue (final album)
In Battle There Is No Law - Bolt Thrower
New Jersey - Bon Jovi
Britny Fox - Britny Fox (debut)
Bullet Boys - Bullet Boys (debut)
Brave - Kate Cebrano
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (debut)
19 - Chicago
Starfish - The Church
Long Cold Winter - Cinderella
I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Robert Cray
Dangerous Age - Bad Company
Earth Covers Earth - Current 93
Danzig - Danzig (debut, Glenn Danzig's 3rd band following The Misfits & Samhain)
Wyau - Datblygu
Leprosy - Death
Bug - Dinosaur Jr.
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Beast From the East - Dokken (live album)
Big Thing - Duran Duran
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Eazy-Duz-It - Eazy-E
Watermark - Enya
The Innocents - Erasure
Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
Out of This World - Europe
Fabulous Disaster - Exodus
On Target - Fastway (final album)
No Exit - Fates Warning
Only Life - The Feelies
Truth and Soul - Fishbone
Lita - Lita Ford
Live 1 EP - Frehley's Comet
Second Sighting - Frehley's Comet
Front by Front - Front 242
Fugazi (album) - Fugazi (debut EP)
You Must Be Certain of the Devil - Diamanda Galás
Breakwater - Lennie Gallant (debut)
Gipsy Kings - Gipsy Kings
16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens
Lead Me On - Amy Grant
The Sweet Children - Green Day
GNR Lies - Guns N' Roses
Radio Free Albemuth - Stuart Hamm (solo debut)
Racing after Midnight - Honeymoon Suite
Greg Howe - Greg Howe
Sam & Friends - Sam Hui
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 - Journey
Ram It Down - Judas Priest
Straight Out The Jungle - The Jungle Brothers
Shadowland - k.d. lang
The Live Album - Robert Earl Keen
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)
Lucille - Little Richard
John Lennon - John Lennon (soundtrack)
Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe
Vivid - Living Colour
Honeymoon In Red - Lydia Lunch
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
The Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry
Time Odyssey - Vinnie Moore
Viva Hate - Morrissey
No Sleep At All - Motörhead (live album)
Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
Goodbye Girl - Miyuki Nakajima
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
No Rest for the Wicked - Ozzy Osbourne
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
Now and Zen - Robert Plant
Open Up and Say...Ahh!- Poison
Lovesexy - Prince
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Mindcrime - Queensrÿche
Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot
Green - R.E.M.
Abbey Road EP - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nothing Wrong - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Talk Is Cheap - Keith Richards
O Melancolía - Silvio Rodríguez
Skyscraper - David Lee Roth
Hit Me With The Surreal Feel - Kim Salmon And The Surrealists
Savage Amusement - Scorpions
Greatest Hits Live - Carly Simon
Hallowed Ground - Skin Yard
VIVIsectVI - Skinny Puppy
South of Heaven - Slayer
Green Thoughts - The Smithereens
Prison Bound - Social Distortion
Ultramega OK - Soundgarden
Beaches - Soundtrack
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Soundtrack
Hard Machine- Stacey Q.
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
The New Order - Testament
Lincoln - They Might Be Giants
Hold an Old Friend's Hand - Tiffany
Ancient Heart - Tanita Tikaram
Toots in Memphis - Toots
Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 - Traveling Wilburys
E Tu - Upper Hutt Posse
The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD - Ween
Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
Winger - Winger (debut)
Roll With It - Steve Winwood
Rattle and Hum - U2
Ain't Misbehavin' - UFO
E Tü - Upper Hutt Posse
OU812 - Van Halen
3 - Violent Femmes
Vixen - Vixen (debut)
Guitar - Frank Zappa
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 - Frank Zappa
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 - Frank Zappa

Top hits

"I Want You Back" - Bananarama
"Orinoco Flow" - Enya Irish singer
"Simply Irresistible" - Robert Palmer
"Tell It To My Heart" - Taylor Dayne
"Nothing Can Divide Us" - Jason Donovan
"Age Of Reason" - John Farnham
"So Excellent" - Kylie Mole
"Two Strong Hearts" - John Farnham
"That's When I Think Of You" - 1927
"Dignity" - Deacon Blue
"Ship Of Fools" - Erasure
"Chains Of Love" - Erasure
"A Little Respect" - Erasure
"Stop!" - Erasure
"Devil Inside" - INXS
"New Sensation" - INXS
"I Should Be So Lucky" - Kylie Minogue
"Suedehead" - Morrissey
"Crash" - The Primitives
"Angel Of Harlem" - U2
"Desire" - U2
"Kokomo" - The Beach Boys
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin
"Heaven Is A Place On Earth" - Belinda Carlisle
"Lead Me On" - Amy Grant
"Love Changes Everything" - Climie Fisher
"When Will I Be Famous" - Bros
"Push It" - Salt-N-Pepa
"Revolution Baby" - Transvision Vamp
"Drop The Boy"- Bros
"Man in the Mirror" - Michael Jackson
"Smooth Criminal" - Michael Jackson
"Dirty Diana" - Michael Jackson
"Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car)" - Billy Ocean
"Anything for You" - Gloria Estefan
"Saved By Love" - Amy Grant
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
"Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley
"Look Away" - Chicago
"Quelque part au Soleil" - Dalida (inédit)
"Johnny B. Goode" - Judas Priest
"One More Try" - George Michael
"Roll With It" - Steve Winwood
"Welcome To The Jungle" - Guns N' Roses
"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
"The Promise" - When in Rome
"When You Put Your Heart In It" - Kenny Rogers
"Another Lover" - Giant Steps
"John Skero Goes West" - John Skero
"Stutter Rap ( No Sleep 'Til Bedtime )" - Morris Minor and the Majors
"Twist in My Sobriety" - Tanita Tikaram

Top Hits

"Love Bites"- Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me"- Def Leppard

Classical music

Gerald Barry - Cheveux-de-frise
Luciano Berio - Sequenza XI
George Crumb - Zeitgeist (Tableaux Vivants) for two amplified pianos
Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape
Joël-François Durand - Die innere Grenze for string sextet
Henryk Górecki - String Quarted No. 1, "Already it is Dusk"
Stephen Hartke - Pacific Rim Overture
Nicholas Jackson - Variations on ‘Parise to the Lord, the Almighty’
António Chagas Rosa - Piano Sonata
Peter Sculthorpe - Kakadu
Tōru Takemitsu - Tree Line for chamber orchestra
John Tavener - The Akathist of Thanksgiving
Takashi Yoshimatsu - Concerto for Bassoon "Unicorn Circuit"

Musical theater

Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) - London revival
Chess (Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus) - Broadway production
The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production
Sarafina Broadway production

Births

January 14 - Jordy, French singer
January 14 - Mikalah Gordon, American Idol contestant
January 15 - Sonny Moore, American rock singer
January 25 - Yasmien Kurdi, Fillipina pop singer
February 7 - Ai Kago, Japanese pop singer
February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer
February 23 - Ashley Cooper, New Zealand pop singer
February 27 - JD Natasha, American latin music artist
February 29 - Milly Edwards, Australian Idol contestant
March 2 - Nadine Samonte, German pop singer
March 6 - Agnes Carlsson, Swedish pop singer
April 6 - Raymond David Henriksen, Norwegian singer
April 24 - Natalie Zahra, Australian Idol contestant
April 25 - Sara Paxton, American singer/actress
May 2 - Guilherme Rodrigues, Portuguese jazz musician
May 2 - Brooke Hogan, American pop singer
May 5 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian pop singer
May 13 - Casey Donovan, Australian Idol winner
May 24 - Billy Gilman, American country singer
June 1 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
June 6 - Neha Kakkar, Indian pop singer
June 12 - Dave Melillo, American singer-songwriter
June 16 - Keshia Chante, Canadian urban singer
June 19 - Magdalena Diaków, Polish pop singer
June 29 - Martina Šindlerová, Slovak pop singer
July 2 - Amali Ward, Australian Idol contestant
July 7 - Kaci Brown, American pop/R&B singer
July 12 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian Idol winner
July 25 - Sarah Geronimo, Fillipina pop singer
August 2 - Brittany Hargest, American pop singer
August 14 - Shahd Barmada, Arabian Idol contestant
August 23 - Niki Leinso, Croatian singer and songwriter
August 27 - Alexa Vega, American pop singer
August 31 - Megan McCauley, American pop singer
September 16 - Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter
September 22 - Bethany Dillon, American Christian music artist
October 4 - Jessica Benson, American R&B singer
October 11 - Knut Eirik Kokkin, Norwegian singer
October 20 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese pop singer
October 23 - Caleigh Peters, American pop singer
October 24 - Cory Bold, American hip hop musician
November 10 - Chisaki Hama, Japanese singer
November 28 - Scarlett Pomers, American singer/actress
December 19 - Paulina Gretzky, American pop singer
December 23 - Eri Kamei, Japanese pop singer
December 30 - James Hall, British singer-songwriter

Deaths

January 19 - Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor
February 14 - Frederic Loewe, composer of musicals
February 27 - Gene De Paul, US pianist and composer
March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, singer
March 7 - Divine, singer
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
April 29 - James McCracken, tenor
May 1 - Claude Demetrius, songwriter
May 10 - Ciaran Bourke, The Dubliners
May 13 - Chet Baker, jazz musician
May 21 - Sammy Davis, Sr, vaudeville performer
May 22 - Dennis Day, US singer
June 25, Hillel Slovak, Red Hot Chili Peppers, guitarist
July 2 - Eddie Vinson, jazz/blues musician
August 8 - Félix Leclerc, folk singer
August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
October 7 - Billy Daniels, US singer
October 18 - Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer
October 19, Son House, blues musician
November 11 - William Ifor Jones, conductor
November 13 - Antal Doráti, conductor
November 26 - Antonio Estévez, composer
December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
December 6, Roy Orbison, singer
December 20, Gaybreil Carson, model.singer/actor

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

Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards of 1988

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1988

Charts

List of No. 1 Hits

Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1988

KROQ

KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1988

External links

1988 en musique | 1988 - muzyka | 1988 в музыке | Musikåret 1988

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