1995 in music
See also: 1994 in music, other events of 1995, 1996 in music, 1990s in music and
the list of 'years in music'
Events
- January 18 - Jerry
Garcia wrecks his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California. Garcia is not injured in the
accident.
- February 6 - Rapper Tupac
Shakur is sentenced to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in prison on a sexual assault charge.
- February 12 - Iron
Butterfly bassist Philip Taylor Kramer disappeared from
Highway 101 when he was trying to get back home from the Los Angeles International Airport. He tried calling his family, related
people and 911 for somebody to help him, but nothing much has helped him.
- February 19 - Mötley
Crüe drummer Tommy Lee marries Bay Watch actress Pamela Anderson on a beach in
Cancun. (The bride wore a white bikini.)
- February 25 - Lyle
Lovett has an accident while riding his motorcycle in Mexico, breaking his collarbone. The accident prevented Lovett from
attending the Grammy Awards. (He ended up winning 2 awards)
- March 1 - R.E.M.
drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a Switzerland concert after suffering a brain aneurysm, which
requires immediate surgery
- March 3 - R.E.M.
drummer Bill Berry undergoes successful brain surgery, following a brain
aneurysm two days earlier in Switzerland.
- March 17 - Madonna holds a premiere for her new Bedtime Stories video. The party is called the "world's
biggest pajama party" due to the fact that the 1500 guests wear pj's and
teddy bears.
- March 25 - In New Zealand,
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder is
rescued after being carried 250 feet offshore by a riptide.
- March 28 - Lyle Lovett and
actress Julia Roberts announced that they were separating after 21 months
of marriage
- March 31 - Selena is shot and killed
by her former personal assistant and former fan club president, who had been fired for embezzlement.
- April 29 - Tupac Shakur
marries Keisha Morris inside the Clinton Correctional Facility. Shakur is serving a 4½ year jail term on sexual assault
charges
- May 5 - Guns n' Roses
drummer Steven Adler is arraigned on a felony count of possession of
heroin, in addition to two misdemeanor drug charges.
- May - The 2nd EJCF was held in Basel. Next time was in 1998.
- August - The First Tibetan Freedom Concert is organized by Adam Yauch of the Beastie
Boys in Los Angeles. The proceeds from the
ticket event go to the Millareppa Foundation, which exposes human rights violations in Tibet by the Chinese government. Artists appearing included The Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers and A Tribe
Called Quest.
- August 28 - Oingo
Boingo announces that the band will break up following a series of Halloween shows in L.A. Lead singer Danny Elfman goes on to a career scoring major motion pictures, including every
film directed by Tim Burton.
- September 2 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
- November 19 - Part One of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC. The first installment ends with the music video for "Free As A Bird", the first new Beatles recording since their break
up in 1970.
- November 20 - Part Two of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC. (Volume One of The Beatles Anthology CD series is also released on this
day.)
- November 21 - Part Three of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC.
- Sam Phillips makes her motion picture debut in
the Bruce Willis action film, Die Hard With a Vengeance. Phillips plays one of the main terrorists in the film.
- 3 members R.E.M., Bill Berry, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, fall ill to various illnesses while on the "Monster Tour". Berry suffered an aneurism which required immediate surgery, Stipe suffered a hiatal hernia and Mills underwent an appendectomy.
- Nada Surf's career begins
- Nada Surf recorded High/Low, which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
- Phil Collins recorded Dance Into the Light,
which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
- Tool recorded Ænima,
which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
- MxPx releases Teenage
Politics
- The Offspring re-issues The Offspring (the 1989 album)
- Ritmi i Rrugës form -
the pioneering and most succesful Albanian rap group.
- System of a Down form
- The Ataris form
- Days of the New form
- Eve 6 form
- Godsmack form
- Nickelback form
- Coal Chamber form
- Kyuss disbands in October
- Winger disband
- Alanis Morissette resurrects her dying music career with the
album Jagged Little Pill
- MP3 files start flourishing on the Internet
Albums released
Top hits
See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of
1995
Classical music
Births
Deaths
- January 31 - George
Abbott, US librettist and director
- February 18 - Bob
Stinson, The Replacements, complications caused by drug and
alcohol abuse
- February 23 - Melvin Franklin, The Temptations, brain
seizure
- March 9 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, Helloween, suicide
- March 26 - Eazy-E (31), AIDS
- March 31 - Selena, singer
- April 4 - Priscilla
Lane, US singer and actress, lung cancer
- April 14 - Burl Ives, singer,
actor
- April 25 - Ginger
Rogers, US actress, dancer and singer
- June 12 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist
- June 14 - Rory
Gallagher, Irish blues/rock guitarest
- August 9 - Jerry Garcia,
The Grateful Dead
- August 19 - Pierre
Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of Musique concrète
- August 23 - Dwayne
Goettel, Skinny Puppy, drug overdose
- August 26 - Ronnie White (57),the Miracles, cowriter of
the Temptations hit "My Girl" (with Smokey Robinson), leukemia.
- August 30 - Sterling Morrison (53), The Velvet
Underground guitarist, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- October 19 - Don Cherry, jazz trumpeter
- October 21 - Maxene
Andrews, singer, member of The Andrews Sisters
- October 21 - Shannon Hoon, member of group Blind Melon
- October 26 - Gorni
Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
- November 21 - Peter
Grant, manager of The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, myocardial infarction
- December 25 - Dean
Martin, singer,actor
- December 25 - Nicolas Slonimsky, conductor and composer
Awards
Charts
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