1987 in music

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Years in music:	1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Centuries:	19th Century Â· 20th century Â· 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990

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[edit] Events

January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
January 16 - The Beastie Boys become the first act to be censored by American Bandstand.
January - Steve "Silk" Hurley's innovative "Jack Your Body" becomes the first house music record to top the UK singles chart.
February 6 - Sonny Bono announces his candidacy for mayor of Palm Springs, California
February 14â€“March 7 - Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" is the #1 song. It would be 1987's biggest hit song.
March 7 - The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released on Compact disc. Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US.
March 9 - Carole King is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City; The career that would end in an infamous appearance at The Brit awards and the burning of a million pounds began in Britain, as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu released their debut single, "All You Need Is Love". Their debut album, 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?), would follow in June.
March 13 - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Alice Cooper almost dies on stage when one of the props, the Gallows, malfunctions
March 13 - In the US, Bryan Adams' "Heat of the Night" becomes the first single to be commercially released on cassette. Cassette singles become known as cassingles.
March 27 - Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 shoots a music video for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California
April 23 - Carole King sues the owner of her record company, Lou Adler, claiming that she is owed more than $400,000 in royalties. King also asks for rights to her old recordings.
June 14 - Madonna starts her Who's That Girl Tour in Osaka, Japan.
June 27 - Whitney Houston's sophomore album Whitney becomes the first album by a female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200
September 6 - Madonna ends her Who's That Girl Tour in Florence, Italy.
September 25 - Matthew Garrison Chapman is born as the first child of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Lead Me On, Amy's 1988 album, is said to have been dedicated to Matt
October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart
October 12 - Twisted Sister breaks up - they would not reunite until the end of the 1990s.
October 19 - MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
October 19 - English cellist, Jacqueline du Pre dies at the age of 42.
November 13 - Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman
December 23 - Nikki Sixx of the rock band MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e suffered a lethal heroin overdose, but was revived shortly thereafter.
Social Distortion returns to record Prison Bound
Winger signs to Atlantic Records
Kylie Minogue's recording career begins, when her cover version of the Little Eva hit The Loco-Motion spends seven weeks at number one in her native Australia and leads to a contract with UK based record producers Stock Aitken Waterman.
Lynyrd Skynyrd reforms and now has Ronnie Van Zants little brother Johnny Van Zant as lead singer.

[edit] Bands formed

[edit] Bands Disbanded

[edit] Bands reformed

Lynyrd Skynyrd

[edit] Albums released

In alphabetical order by artist/band -

Compilation - Accept
Into the Fire - Bryan Adams
Classics Live II - Aerosmith
Permanent Vacation - Aerosmith
Among the Living - Anthrax
I'm the Man EP - Anthrax
Strength of Steel - Anvil
Jackomo - Little Annie Anxiety Bandez
Raising Fear - Armored Saint
Eternal Idol - Black Sabbath
Career of Evil: The Metal Years - Blue Ã–yster Cult
Terror Rising EP - Lizzy Borden
Visual Lies - Lizzy Borden
Never Let Me Down - David Bowie
Touch - Laura Branigan
Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers
Speed Metal Symphony - Cacophony
Heaven on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
Secrets Of Synthesis - Wendy Carlos
King's Record Shop - Rosanne Cash
Raise Your Fist and Yell - Alice Cooper
Best Before 1984 - Crass
Electric - The Cult
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure
The Best Of Dalida, Vol. 2 - Dalida (compilation)
Scream Bloody Gore - Death (debut)
Hysteria - Def Leppard
Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
Aus Liebe weint man nicht - Die Flippers
Weihnachten mit den Flippers - Die Flippers
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
Dream Evil - Dio
Back For the Attack - Dokken
Silence - Stephan Eicher
The Blanton-Webster Years - Duke Ellington
Menjaring Matahari - Ebiet G. Ade
The Circus - Erasure
Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim
White Fields - The Escape Club (debut)
Death Before Dishonour - The Exploited
Exposure - ExposÃ©
Introduce Yourself - Faith No More
Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
Bombay City - Remo Fernandez
Between The Lines - Five Star
One Night Stand - Flamin' Groovies
Tango in the Night - Fleetwood Mac
Frehley's Comet - Frehley's Comet
Official Version - Front 242
Funhouse - Funhouse
Tallulah - The Go-Betweens
In The Dark - Grateful Dead
Once Bitten... - Great White
Rock You To Hell - Grim Reaper (final album)
2X4 - Guadalcanal Diary
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses (debut)
I Never Said Goodbye - Sammy Hagar
Music to Strip By - Half Japanese
Bad Animals - Heart
Wild In The Streets - Helix
Bring the Family - John Hiatt
Get Close To My Love - Jennifer Holliday
Warehouse: Songs and Stories - HÃ¼sker DÃ¼ (final album)
Rhyme Pays - Ice-T (debut)
A More Perfect Union - Icon
Kick - INXS
Bad - Michael Jackson
Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction
Crest of a Knave - Jethro Tull
Priest... Live! - Judas Priest
1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. Subsequently destroyed after copyright infringement claim.
Akwaba Beach - Mory KantÃ©
Keel - Keel
Abigail - King Diamond
Crazy Nights - KISS
Too Late To Cry - Alison Krauss
Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Trio - Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton
Running in the Family - Level 42
Bigger and Deffer - LL Cool J
By the Light of the Moon - Los Lobos
Ready or Not - solo debut album of Foreigner lead vocalist Lou Gramm
Hurricane Eyes - Loudness
Diminuendo - Lowlife
Lubricated Goat Plays the Devil's Music (debut) - Lubricated Goat
Immaculate Deception - Ludichrist
You Can Dance - Madonna
Strange Weather - Marianne Faithfull
Clutching at Straws - Marillion
Deathcrush - Mayhem
Perfect Timing - McAuley-Schenker Group (first release after Robin McAuley joined and they changed their name)
Huevos - Meat Puppets
Gluey Porch Treatments - The Melvins
(The $5.98 EP) Garage Days Re-Revisited - Metallica
Faith - George Michael
Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil
Go On... - Mr. Mister
Stereoland - The Modern Art
Pool It! - The Monkees
Poetic Champions Compose - Van Morrison
Girls, Girls, Girls - MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e
Rock 'n' Roll - MotÃ¶rhead
Escape From Noise - Negativland
Substance - New Order
Tritonian Nash-Vegas Polyester Complex - No Trend
Dirty Dancing - Original Soundtrack
In Dreams: The Greatest Hits - Roy Orbison
Tribute - Ozzy Osbourne
Taking Over - Overkill
Power Metal - Pantera
Trio (album) - Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
Signs of Life - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Actually - Pet Shop Boys
Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd
Come On Pilgrim - Pixies (debut)
Buster Poindexter - Buster Poindexter
Sign 'O' The Times - Prince
Yo! Bum Rush the Show - Public Enemy
Right Now! - Pussy Galore
Halfway to Sanity - The Ramones
Document - R.E.M.
Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements
The Cowboy Way (album) - Riders in the Sky
Saddle Pals - Riders in the Sky
Best of the West - Riders in the Sky
Kane Roberts - Kane Roberts (former Alice Cooper guitarist's solo debut)
I Prefer The Moonlight - Kenny Rogers
Stinkfist - Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch
Hold Your Fire - Rush
Surfing With the Alien - Joe Satriani
Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage
The Walking - Jane Siberry
Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
Floodland - The Sisters of Mercy
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate - Skinny Puppy
The World Won't Listen - The Smiths (February, compilation)
Louder than Bombs - The Smiths (March (U.S.)/May (U.K.), compilation)
Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths (September, final studio album)
The Perfect Prescription - Spaceman 3
Sister - Sonic Youth
Join the Army - Suicidal Tendencies
Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen
Brenda K. Starr - Brenda K. Starr
...Nothing Like the Sun - Sting
All Systems Go - Donna Summer
It's Better To Travel - Swing Out Sister
Make It Last Forever - Keith Sweat
In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs
The Legacy - Testament (debut)
Never Again - TexA.N.S.
Tiffany - Tiffany
Introducing the Hardline According to... - Terence Trent D'Arby
Bridge of Spies - T'Pau
Always & Forever - Randy Travis
Love Is for Suckers - Twisted Sister (final album)
The Joshua Tree - U2
To the Power of Three - 3
Calm Before The Storm - Venom
Live...In the Raw - W.A.S.P.
Live...Animal EP W.A.S.P.
Triumph And Agony - Warlock (final album)
Radio K.A.O.S. - Roger Waters
Whitecross - Whitecross
Pride - White Lion (2nd album, major label (Atlantic Records) debut)
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Characters - Stevie Wonder
Starting Up - Roy Wood
Contagious - Y&T
Out of Silence - Yanni
The Young Gods - The Young Gods
3.V - Zebra
Tattooed Beat Messiah - Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction

[edit] Top hits on record

"Alone" - Heart
"Angel" - Angela Winbush
"At This Moment" - Billy Vera and the Beaters
"Back In the High Life Again" - Steve Winwood
"Bad" - Michael Jackson
"Ballerina Girl" - Lionel Richie
"Big Love" - Fleetwood Mac
"Im Nin'Alu" - Ofra Haza
"Big Time" - Peter Gabriel
"Can't We Try" - Dan Hill & Vonda Shepard
"Casanova" - Levert
"Causing a Commotion" - Madonna
"C'est La Vie" - Robbie Nevil
"Change of Heart" - Cyndi Lauper
"Come Go with Me" - ExposÃ©
"Control" - Janet Jackson
"Cross My Broken Heart" - The Jets
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" - Whitney Houston
"Doing It All For My Baby" - Huey Lewis & The News
"Don't Dream It's Over" - Crowded House
"Don't Mean Nothing" - Richard Marx
"Every Little Kiss" - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" - Wang Chung
"Faith" - George Michael
"Hazy Shade of Winter" - The Bangles
"Head To Toe" - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
"Heat of the Night" - Bryan Adams
"Here I Go Again" - Whitesnake
"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" - Belinda Carlisle
"I Found Someone" - Cher
"I Heard a Rumour" - Bananarama
"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" - Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett
"(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight" - Cutting Crew
"I Knew You Were Waiting for Me" - Aretha Franklin & George Michael
"I Know What I Like" - Huey Lewis & The News
"I Need Love" - LL Cool J
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2
"I Think We're Alone Now" - Tiffany
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" - Whitney Houston
"I Want Your Sex" - George Michael
"In Too Deep" - Genesis
"Is This Love" - Whitesnake
"Jacob's Ladder" - Huey Lewis and the News
"Just to See Her" - Smokey Robinson
"Keep Your Hands to Yourself" - Georgia Satellites
"Kiss Him Goodbye" - The Nylons
"La Bamba" - Los Lobos
"La Isla Bonita" - Madonna
"Land of Confusion" - Genesis
"Lean on Me" - Club Nouveau
"Let's Go" - Wang Chung
"Let Me Be the One" - ExposÃ©
"Let's Wait Awhile" - Janet Jackson
"Livin' On a Prayer" - Bon Jovi
"Looking for a New Love" - Jody Watley
"Lost In Emotion" - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
"Love You Down" - Ready for the World
"Luka" - Suzanne Vega
"Mandolin Rain" - Bruce Hornsby and The Range
"Midnight Blue" - Lou Gramm
"Mony Mony" - Billy Idol
"Need You Tonight" - INXS
"Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley
"No One In the World" - Anita Baker
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" - Starship
"Notorious" - Duran Duran
"One Heartbeat" - Smokey Robinson
"Only in My Dreams" - Debbie Gibson
"Open Your Heart" - Madonna
"Paper In Fire" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"The Pleasure Principle" - Janet Jackson
"Point of No Return" - ExposÃ©
"The Power of Love" - Laura Branigan
"Respect Yourself" - Bruce Willis
"Rock Steady" - The Whispers
"Rhythm Is Going to Get You" - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
"Shake You Down" - Gregory Abbott
"Shake Your Love" - Debbie Gibson
"Shakedown" - Bob Seger
"Someday" - Glass Tiger
"Songbird" - Kenny G
"Somewhere Out There" - Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
"Stone Love" - Kool & the Gang
"Strangelove" - Depeche Mode
"The Final Countdown" - Europe
"The Finer Things" - Steve Winwood
"The Way It Is" - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" - Genesis
"Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" - Samantha Fox
"U Got The Look" - Prince and Sheena Easton
"Victory" - Kool & the Gang
"Wanted Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi
"Walk Like An Egyptian" - The Bangles
"Walking Down Your Street" - The Bangles
"War" - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
"We're Ready" - Boston
"What's Going On" - Cyndi Lauper
"Where the Streets Have No Name" - U2
"Who Will You Run To?" - Heart
"Who's That Girl" - Madonna
"Will You Still Love Me" - Chicago
"With or Without You" - U2
"You Got It All" - The Jets
"You Keep Me Hanging On" - Kim Wilde

[edit] Other Singles

"Shattered Glass" - Laura Branigan
"Somebody Save Me" - Cinderella
"Freedom" - Alice Cooper
"Why Can't I Be You?" - The Cure
"Just Like Heaven" - The Cure
"Pour en arriver lÃ " - Dalida
"Les hommes de ma vie" - Dalida
"Behind the Wheel" - Depeche Mode
"Never Let Me Down Again" - Depeche Mode
"Strangelove" - Depeche Mode
"Midnight Blue" - Lou Gramm
"Bring Him Back Home" - Hugh Masekela
"Beds Are Burning" - Midnight Oil
"True Faith" - New Order
"In The Dutch Mountains" - The Nits
"You Can Call Me Al" - Paul Simon
"We Connect"- Stacey Q.
"Free" - Stryper
"Something inside so strong" - Labi Siffre
"China in your hand" - T'Pau
"Hot Love" - Twisted Sister
"Wait" - White Lion
"Sugar Free" - WaWaNee

[edit] Published popular music

"Children Will Listen" w.m. Stephen Sondheim
"The Time Of My Life" w.m. Franke Previte, Donald Markowitz & John DeNicola

[edit] Classical music

Mario Davidovsky - Quartetto for flute, violin, viola and violoncello
Philip Feeney - MÃ©moire Imaginaire (ballet)
Malcolm Forsyth - Songs from the Qu'appelle Valley
Juan Maria Solare - Doce variaciones 1987 (for piano)
Joan Tower - Fanfare for the uncommon woman no 1

[edit] Opera

John Adams - Nixon in China
Friedrich Cerha - Der RattenfÃ¤nger (The Pied Piper)
Michael Nyman - Vital Statistics
Judith Weir - A Night at the Chinese Opera

[edit] Musical theater

Anything Goes - Broadway revival
Bless the Bride - London revival
Cabaret (Kander and Ebb) - Broadway revival
Dreamgirls - Broadway revival
Into the Woods - Broadway production
Les MisÃ©rables - Broadway production
Oil City Symphony - Broadway production
Starlight Express (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe) - Broadway production