1989 in music

Events

January 7 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London
January 14 - Paul McCartney releases Back in the U.S.S.R. exclusively in Russia. Bootleg copies sell for as much as $1,000 in the United States
January 14 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London
January 23 - James Brown is sentenced in Georgia to 6 years in jail in connection with a police chase through two different states
January - Phil Keaggy and Randy Stonehill form the "Keaggy/Stonehill Band" for a one time tour that pays tribute to 1960s artists like The Beatles. Tim Chandler plays bass for the band and David Raven plays drums.
January 28 - Genesis '88 stage large-scale illegal Acid House (from strength to strength) party in London
February 6 - King Tubby Jamaican dub music master, was shot and killed by unknown persons outside his home in Duhaney Park, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio, probably in a robbery attempt.
February 12 - Tiny Tim launches an unsuccessful campaign to be the mayor of New York City.
February - Roy Orbison joins Elvis Presley as the only singers to ever simultaneously have two Top 5 albums on the Billboard Charts
February 17 - Whitesnake's David Coverdale marries Tawny Kitaen
March 6 - Smokey Robinson's autobiography Inside My Life is published
March 21 - Madonna's Like a Prayer music video attracts criticism for its use of Catholic iconography and for the use of cross burning imagery, but also garnered praise for its interpretation of discrimination, rape, and faith. Pepsi drops Madonna as a spokesperson out of fear the video will cause religious groups to boycott the company.
April - Three young men attempt to mug record producer and author Reed Arvin. Reed, being a rather large man, was able to go home with his money. The three young men were forced to return to their homes empty handed and nursing a few bruises.
April 9 - The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman announces that he's getting married to 19 year old Mandy Smith, whom he has dated for 6 years
April 28 - Jon Bon Jovi marries his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
May 1 - California jewelry store employees call the police reporting a suspicious person hanging around their store. The person turned out to be Michael Jackson shopping in disguise
May - The first issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope is published
June 13 British-born singer Sonia Evans made her debut Disco hit

"You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" went straight #1 in her native the UK after She was sign PWL Records and team up with Stock Aitken Waterman

July 9 - All four original members of the Monkees reunite in Los Angeles for a concert performance at the Universal Amphitheater. The following day the quartet attend an induction ceremony at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where they receive a star.
December 12 - Genesis '88 stage large-scale illegal Acid House (the fight goes on) party in London
December 17 - Gloria Mills "Millie" Chapman is born as the second child of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Amy's 1991 hit "Baby Baby" was dedicated to her.
December 24 - Genesis '88 and Biology parties stage illegal Acid House party in Slough UK
December 31 - Genesis '88 and Biology parties stage biggest Acid House (FREE) party (Future Power People) of the night in Slough Panasonic building (15,000 people), which was later joined by Sunrise/Back to the Future after their event was stopped by police.
July onwards, UK - sampling/mix group Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers are the year's biggest chart phenomenon. Their montages of classic rock and roll records make them only the third act to top the charts with all of their first three singles.
Summer - L7 sign a contract with Sub Pop Records
LL Cool J is booed offstage at the Apollo Theater
Garth Brooks debut album released, it will reach the top of the Country charts and make top 20 in the American pop charts.
Guttermouth forms
Marilyn Manson forms
The Chemical Brothers form
Firehouse forms
Fuel forms
The Sweet Children change their name to Green Day, add drummer Al Sobrante and release the EP 1,000 Hours, their debut recording
The Jerky Boys forms by John G. Brennan
Leftover Salmon forms
Monster Magnet forms
Morphine forms
The Plasmatics reunite
Therapy? forms
Toadies forms
Orbital releases their first recording, "Chime", which had premiered on Jackin' Zone the previous year
Café Tacuba forms

Albums Released

Eat The heat - Accept
Adeva! - Adeva
Pump - Aerosmith
After 7 - After 7 (debut)
Two Highways - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Allroy's Revenge - ALL
Penikufesin EP - Anthrax
Cosmic Thing - The B-52's
Quickness - Bad Brains
Badlands - Badlands (former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee & former Black Sabbath & then-future KISS drummer Eric Singer's new band's debut)
No Control - Bad Religion
Psycho Cafe - Bang Tango (debut)
Different Light - The Bangles
Paul's Boutique - The Beastie Boys
Mr. Music Head - Adrian Belew
Best Shots - Pat Benatar
Surprise - Better Than Ezra (debut)
Headless Cross - Black Sabbath
Blue Murder - Blue Murder (John Sykes & former King Kobra drummer Carmine Appice's group) (debut)
Killin' Time - Clint Black
Realm Of Chaos - Slaves To Darkness - Bolt Thrower
A Peacetime Boom - The Boom
Garth Brooks - Garth Brooks
Heart Shaped World - Jackson Browne
Dig? - Bill Bruford
The Sensual World - Kate Bush
Go Off! - Cacophony
Key Lime Pie - Camper Van Beethoven
Runaway Horses - Belinda Carlisle
Vanity/Nemesis - Celtic Frost
Heart of Stone - Cher
Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry (debut)
Journeyman - Eric Clapton
Steady On - Shawn Colvin
Trash - Alice Cooper
Boomerang - The Creatures
Oh Yes I Can - David Crosby
Danger Danger - Danger Danger (debut)
Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys (debut)
Spike - Elvis Costello
The Bootleg - Crass
- Recorded live in Nottingham in 1984
Best Wishes - Cro-Mags
Sonic Temple - The Cult
Live ED - Étienne Daho
Thrash Zone - D.R.I.
Sumiran Karle (Bhajan) - Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta
Leprosy - Death
Yo Frankie - Dion DiMucci
Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
Force Majeure - Doro (debut)
3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
Stuck in Wonderamaland - Dramarama
When Dream and Day Unite - Dream Theater
Big Thing - Duran Duran
Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Wild ! - Erasure
Extreme - Extreme (debut)
The Raw and the Cooked (album) - Fine Young Cannibals
Truth and Soul - Fishbone
All That Jazz - Ella Fitzgerald
Greatest Hits - Fleetwood Mac
Through The Storm - Aretha Franklin
Trouble Walkin' - Frehley's Comet
Margin Walker - Fugazi
13 Songs - Fugazi
Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ - Peter Gabriel
- This album is regarded as a landmark in the popularization of world music
Kiss Of Life - Gene Loves Jezebel
Like A Girl, I Want You To Keep Coming - various artists, see John Giorno
Long Hard Look - Lou Gramm
...Twice Shy - Great White
1,000 Hours - Green Day
Def, Dumb & Blonde - Deborah Harry
Desert Wind - Ofra Haza
Modern - Hijokaidan
Magnum Cum Louder - Hoodoo Gurus
Healer - John Lee Hooker
Enter the Realm - Iced Earth (demo EP)
The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech...Just Watch What You Say - Ice T
Heart Shaped World - Chris Isaak
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson
Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
Jaya - Jaya
Rock Island - Jethro Tull
Sleeping with the Past - Elton John
Bulletproof Heart - Grace Jones
Mick Jones - Mick Jones
Back on the Block - Quincy Jones
West Textures - Robert Earl Keen
City Streets - Carole King
Hot In The Shade - KISS
Night of Rage - Kraut
Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz (debut)
Cocked And Loaded - L.A. Guns
A Night To Remember - Cyndi Lauper
Piretos tou erota - Vicky Leandros
Flying Cowboys - Rickie Lee Jones
The Death of a Dictionary - Live (debut)
Godhead - Lowlife
Powertrip - Ludichrist (final album)
Drowning In Limbo - Lydia Lunch
Kite - Kirsty MacColl
The White Room - The KLF
Like a Prayer - Madonna
Trial by Fire / Live In Leningrad - Yngwie Malmsteen
Rasta Souvenier - Manu Dibango
Flowers in the Dirt - Paul McCartney
No More Blues - Susannah McCorkle
Touch - Sarah McLachlan
Ozma - Melvins
Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli (US release)
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
All Aboard the Mind Train - The Modern Art
Altars Of Madness - Morbid Angel
Face of Despair - Mortal Sin
Shine - Mother Love Bone (debut EP)
Dr. Feelgood - Mötley Crüe
Mr. Big - Mr. Big (debut)
Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
Helter Stupid - Negativland
Yellow Moon - The Neville Brothers
The Other Side Of The Mirror - Stevie Nicks
Disintegration - The Cure
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails (debut)
Bleach - Nirvana (debut)
Once We Were Scum, Now We Are God - No (band)
S&M Airlines - NOFX
Wrong - NoMeansNo
Get Yer Jujus Out - Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band
Self-Titled - The Offspring (debut)
No Rest for the Wicked - Ozzy Osbourne]] (first album with Zakk Wylde)
White Limozeen - Dolly Parton
I Enjoy Being a Girl - Phranc
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt
New York - Lou Reed
Something Inside So Strong Kenny Rogers
Presto - Rush
The Early Years - Roxy Music
Mystery Girl - Roy Orbison
A Black & White Night Live - Roy Orbison
Word from the Wise - Pennywise (EP)
Consuming Impulse - Pestilence
Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
Doolittle - Pixies
Record Collectors - Poison Idea
Suck on This - Primus (live debut)
Batman - Prince
Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
Fight The Power...Live! - Public Enemy (live, released on VHS)
The Miracle - Queen
All Hail the Queen - Queen Latifah (debut)
Brain Drain - The Ramones
Mother's Milk - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blow - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
The Symphony Sessions - Red Rider
Don't Tell a Soul - The Replacements
Hard Volume - Rollins Band
Workin' Overtime - Diana Ross
Samiam - Samiam (debut)
Early Music - Santana
Better Than a Stick in the Eye - SNFU
Flying in a Blue Dream - Joe Satriani
Best Of Rockers & Ballads - Scorpions
Buzz Factory - Screaming Trees
Nothing Matters Without Love - Seduction
Beneath the Remains - Sepultura
Century Flower - Shelleyan Orphan
Blood, Sweat & No Tears - Sick of it All
Street Fighting Years - Simple Minds
Skid Row - Skid Row (debut)
Rabies - Skinny Puppy
Tweez - Slint (debut)
11 - The Smithereens
Club Classics Vol. I - Soul II Soul
Nights Like This - Stacey Q.
Love Among The Cannibals - Starship (final album)
In Step - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (final album)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (debut)
Surprise - Syd Straw
Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week! - Björk & The Sugarcubes
Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu - Suicidal Tendencies
Another Place & Time - Donna Summer
The Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears
Neither Fish Nor Flesh (A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction) - Terence Trent D'Arby
The Great Radio Controversy - Tesla
Up to Here - The Tragically Hip
Lincoln - They Might Be Giants
Foreign Affair - Tina Turner
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As Nasty As They Wanna Be - 2 Live Crew
Peace Thru Vandalism/When in Rome Do as the Vandals - The Vandals
Dum Dum - The Vaselines
3 - Violent Femmes
Liberation - Bunny Wailer
Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich - Warrant (American band)Warrant (debut)
The Headless Children - W.A.S.P.
Prime 5 - Ween
Big Game - White Lion
Slip of the Tongue - Whitesnake
Oranges And Lemons - XTC
Freedom - Neil Young
Broadway the Hard Way - Frank Zappa
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 - Frank Zappa

Top hits

"Ride On Time" - Black Box
"All She Wants Is" - Duran Duran
"My Brave Face" - Paul McCartney
"Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins
"Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)" - Soul II Soul
"Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
"Batdance" - Prince
"Bat Attack '89" - Crime Fighters Inc
"Beds are Burning" - Midnight Oil
"Blame It on the Rain" - Milli Vanilli
"Buffalo Stance" - Neneh Cherry
"Cartoon" - Soul Asylum
"Compulsory Hero" - 1927
"Chained To The Wheel" - Black Sorrows
"Cherish" - Madonna
"Cry In Shame" Johnny Disel + The Injectors
"Do You Believe In Shame?" - Duran Duran
"Don't Wanna lose You" - Gloria Estefan
"Dr. Feelgood" - Mötley Crüe
"Drama!" - Erasure
"Eternal Flame" - The Bangles
"Every Beat Of My Heart" - Taylor Dayne
"Express Yourself" - Madonna
"Eyes Of A Stranger" - Queensrÿche
"Hangin' Tough" - New Kids On The Block
"Heavy Metal" - Judas Priest
"I Drove All Night" - Cyndi Lauper
"I Feel The Earth Move" - Martika
"If I Could" - 1927
"If I Could Turn Back Time" - Cher
"If Tomorrow Never Comes" - Garth Brooks
"Kickstart My Heart" - Mötley Crüe
"Killin' Time" - Clint Black
"Leave A Light On" - Belinda Carlisle
"Like a Prayer" - Madonna
"Listen to Your Heart" - Roxette
"Lost in Your Eyes" - Debbie Gibson
"Love Shack"- The B-52's
"Make Me Smile" - Nick Barker + The Reptiles
"Me,Myself And I" - De La Soul
"Miss You Much" - Janet Jackson
"Monsters Of Rock" - Judas Priest
"Open Letter (To A Landlord)" - Living Colour
"Orange Crush" R.E.M
"Personal Jesus" - Depeche Mode
"Rendez-vous chaque soir" - Dalida (inédit)
"Right Here Waiting" - Richard Marx
"Ring My Bell" - Collette
"Rock On" - Michael Damian
"Rock 'N' Roll Music" - Mental As Anything
"Say Goodbye" - Indecent Obssesion
"She Drives Me Crazy" - Fine Young Cannibals
"She Has To Be Loved" - Jenny Morris
"Sometime To Return" - Soul Asylum
"Soul Revival" - Johnny Disel + The Injectors
"Stand" - R.E.M.
"Stop" - Sam Brown
"Straight Up" - Paula Abdul
"Stuck On You" - Paul Norton
"Talk It Over" - Grayson Hugh
"The Crack-Up" - The Black Sorrows
"The Dance" - Garth Brooks
"The Look" - Roxette
"The World Seems Difficult" - Mentals
"Toy Soldiers" - Martika
"Tucker's Daughter" - Ian Moss
"Un soir qu'on oublie pas" - Dalida (inédit)
"Veronica" - Elvis Costello
"When I See You Smile" - Bad English
"Where Are You Now?" by Jimmy Harnen w/ Synch
"We Didn't Start the Fire" - Billy Joel
"Wild Thing" - Sam Kinson
"Wild Thing" - Tone Loc
"You Got It" - Roy Orbison
"You Got It (The Right Stuff)" - New Kids On The Block
"Young Years" - Dragon
"You'll Never Know" - 1927

Published popular music

"Kiss the Girl" m. Alan Menken, w. Howard Ashman, from The Little Mermaid
"Part of Your World" m. Alan Menken, w. Howard Ashman, from The Little Mermaid
"Under the Sea" m. Alan Menken, w. Howard Ashman, from The Little Mermaid
"We Didn't Start The Fire" w.m. Billy Joel
"You Got It" w.m. Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne & Tom Petty