Music of the 1980s

1989 in music

See also:

1 Events
2 Bands formed
3 Bands disbanded
4 Bands reformed
5 Albums released
6 Top hits
7 Published popular music
8 Classical music
9 Opera
10 Musical theater
11 Musical films
12 Births
13 Deaths
14 Awards
15 Charts
- 15.1 List of No. 1 Hits
- 15.2 KROQ
16 External links

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 Снова в СССР 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 25 - Madonna files for divorce from Sean Penn after three-and-a-half years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
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
Alice Cooper completes his return with the album Trash. It becomes one of the best selling albums of the year.
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 12 Garth Brooks debut album released, it will reach the top of the Country charts and make top 20 in the American pop charts.
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 made her debut Disco hit "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" went straight #1 in her native home country in the UK charts 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.
August 11 - 12 - Moscow Music Peace Festival held in the Soviet Union. The event was put together by Doc McGhee and the Make a Wish Foundation to expose the Russian people to western culture, promote international cooperation in fighting the drug war, and promote peace. The event came to epitomize the fall of the Soviet Union and the height of pop metal. Headlined by Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Cinderella, and the Scorpions.
September 14 - Madonna and Sean Penn's divorce is granted.
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.

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Bands reformed

The Plasmatics

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
Alice in Hell - Annihilator
Penikufesin EP - Anthrax
Cosmic Thing - The B-52's
Quickness - Bad Brains
Badlands - Badlands (former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee and former Black Sabbath and then-future KISS drummer Eric Singer's new band's debut)
No Control - Bad Religion
Psycho Café - 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
Follow the Blind - Blind Guardian
Blue Murder - Blue Murder (John Sykes and former King Kobra drummer Carmine Appice's group) (debut)
Killin' Time - Clint Black
Hats - The Blue Nile
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
Disintegration - The Cure
Danger Danger - Danger Danger (debut)
Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys (debut)
Waking Hours - Del Amitri
Spike - Elvis Costello
Christ: The Bootleg - Crass
- Recorded live in Nottingham in 1984
Best Wishes - Cro-Mags
Sonic Temple - The Cult
Live ED - Étienne Daho
Tragedy Again - D.I.
DC Talk - dc Talk
Liebe ist... - Die Flippers
Lotosblume - Die Flippers
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
Cuts Both Ways - Gloria Estefan
Wild ! - Erasure
What You Don't Know - Exposé
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
Technique - New Order
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 and Blonde - Deborah Harry
Desert Wind - Ofra Haza
Modern - Hijokaidan
Magnum Cum Louder - Hoodoo Gurus
The 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
Extreme Aggression - Kreator
Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz (debut)
Cocked & Loaded - L.A. Guns
A Night to Remember - Cyndi Lauper
Western Shadows - Carole Laure
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 Souvenir - Manu Dibango
Flowers in the Dirt - Paul McCartney
No More Blues - Susannah McCorkle
Touch - Sarah McLachlan
Ozma - Melvins
Devil's Night Out - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
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
Avalon Sunset - Van Morrison
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
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
The Offspring - The Offspring (debut)
- Originally recorded and released in 1989 on vinyl and it was not released on CD until 1995.
Energy - Operation Ivy
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
A 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)
The Good News and The Bad News - The Rainmakers
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
Riders go Commercial - Riders in the Sky
Hard Volume - Rollins Band
Workin' Overtime - Diana Ross
Nearly Human - Todd Rundgren
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
Bound by the Beauty - Jane Siberry
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
Agent Orange - Sodom
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
Kaleidoscope World - Swing Out Sister
The Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears
Pump Up the Jam: The Album - Technotronic
Neither Fish Nor Flesh (A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction) - Terence Trent D'Arby
The Great Radio Controversy - Tesla
Practice What You Preach - Testament
Up to Here - The Tragically Hip
Lincoln - They Might Be Giants
Foreign Affair - Tina Turner
Life Is...Too Short - Too $hort
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 (debut)
The Headless Children - W.A.S.P.
Prime 5 - Ween
Big Game - White Lion
Slip of the Tongue - Whitesnake
Oranges And Lemons - XTC
UHF - 'Weird Al' Yankovic
Niki Nana - Yanni
Freedom - Neil Young
Broadway the Hard Way - Frank Zappa
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 - Frank Zappa
The Real Thing - Faith No More (first album with singer Mike Patton)
Doolittle - The Pixies

Top hits

"Im Nin'Alu" - Ofra Haza
"All She Wants Is" - Duran Duran
"Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins
"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)" - Soul II Soul
"Lay Your Hands On Me" - Bon Jovi
"I'll Be There For You" - Bon Jovi
"Bat Attack '89" - Crime Fighters Inc.
"Batdance" - Prince
"Beds Are Burning" - Midnight Oil
"Blame It on the Rain" - Milli Vanilli
"Buffalo Stance" - Neneh Cherry
"Cartoon" - Soul Asylum
"Chained to the Wheel" - Black Sorrows
"Cherish" - Madonna
"Compulsory Hero" - 1927
"Cry in Shame" - Johnny Diesel & 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
"Forever" - KISS
"Funky Cold Medina" - Tone Lōc
"Hangin' Tough" - New Kids on the Block
"Heavy Metal" - Judas Priest
"The Best" - Tina Turner
"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
"My Brave Face" - Paul McCartney
"Once Bitten, Twice Shy" - Great White
"Open Letter (To a Landlord)" - Living Colour
"Orange Crush" - R.E.M
"Personal Jesus" - Depeche Mode
"Poison" - Alice Cooper
"Rendez-vous chaque soir" - Dalida (inédit)
"Ride On Time" - Black Box
"Right Here Waiting" - Richard Marx
"Ring My Bell" - Collette
"Rock On" - Michael Damian
"Rock 'N' Roll Music" - Mental As Anything
"Round & Round" - New Order
"Say Goodbye" - Indecent Obsession
"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
"Tell Me Why" - Exposé
"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
"What I Am" - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
"What You Don't Know" - Exposé
"When I Looked At Him" - Exposé
"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 Lōc song)" - 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