18 January:SAMANTHA MUMBA = Irish singer and actress
19 January:HIKARU UTADA = singer and songwriter
20 January:MARI YAGUCHI = Japanese singer (Morning Musume) and host
25 January:ANDRÉE WATTERS = Canadian singer
8 February:JIM VERRAROS = American singer
19 February:MIKA NAKASHIMA = Japanese singer and actress
3 March:KATIE WHITE = British musician and member of The Ting Tings
8 March:PIANO SQUALL = American pianist
9 March:MAYTE PERRONI = Mexican singer and actress
10 March:CARRIE UNDERWOOD = American singer-songwriter and actress
14 March:TAYLOR HANSON = American musician best known as a member of the pop rock band Hanson
15 March:FLORENCIA BERTOTTI = Argentine actress and singer
19 March:ANA REZENDE = Brazilian musician, member of Cansei de Ser Sexy
29 March:LUIZA SÁ = Brazilian musician, member of Cansei de Ser Sexy
30 March:HEBE TIAN = Taiwanese musician, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
16 April:MARIÉ DIGBY = American singer
24 April:TAIO CRUZ = British R&B singer
8 May:MATT WILLIS = British musician, member of Busted and presenter
11 May:HOLLY VALANCE = Australian actress, singer, songwriter and model
14 May:ANAHI = Mexican singer and actress
2 June:BROOKE WHITE = American singer
17 June:
CONNIE FISHER = British actress and singer
LEE RYAN = British singer
27 June:
EVAN TAUBENFELD = American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
CHERYL TWEEDY = English singer, dancer, and television personality, member of Girls Aloud
30 June:PATRICK WOLF = English singer/songwriter
1 July:
PARK JEONG-SU bka LEETEUK = South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
MARIT LARSEN = Norwegian musician, member of M2M
2 July:MICHELLE BRANCH = American singer, songwriter and actress, member of The Wreckers
4 July:BEN JORGENSEN = American singer, guitarist, member of Armor For Sleep
9 July:LUCIA MICARELLI = American violinist and actress
10 July:HEECHUL = South Korean singer, songwriter, presenter, and actor
11 July:MARIE SERNEHOLT = Swedish singer and model, member of A*Teens {1998-2004}
18 July:AARON GILLESPIE = American musician, member of Underoath and The Almost
21 July:EIVØR PÁLSDÓTTIR = Faroese singer and composer
7 August:CHRISTIAN CHÁVEZ = Mexican singer and actor
18 August:
DANNY! = American record producer/recording artist
MIKA = British singer
28 August:ALFONSO HERRERA = Mexican singer and actor
30 August:JUN MATSUMOTO = Japanese singer and actor
14 September:AMY WINEHOUSE = English singer = [died: 2011]
17 September:JENNIFER PEÑA = American Tejano/Latin pop singer and actress
26 September:SAMANTHA HAMMEL = American producer, actress and singer
30 September:T-PAIN = American rapper & singer-songwriter
10 October:ALYSON HAU = Hong Kong radio DJ
24 October:ADRIENNE BAILON = American singer and actress
26 October:HOUSTON = American R&B singer
29 October:
AMIT SEBASTIAN PAUL = Swedish singer, member of A*Teens
RICHARD BRANCATISANO = Australian actor/musician
30 October:DIANA KARAZON = Jordanian singer
7 November:FORREST KLINE = American singer and songwriter, member of Hellogoodbye
10 November:MIRANDA LAMBERT = American country musician
14 November:LIL BOOSIE = American rapper
16 November:
FALLON BOWMAN = South African–born guitarist, member of Kittie
K = South Korean singer
18 November:MILA J = American singer/rapper
17 December:KOSUKE SAITO = Japanese DJ
29 December:JESSICA ANDREWS = American country music singer
31 December:SAYAKA ICHII = Japanese singer, member of Morning Musume
Timeline of Musical Events
January
January: ZTT Records is founded.
8 January: The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization. In 1984 electronic terminals will be used in selected stores to gather sales information, and the old "sales diary" method will be gradually phased out over the next few years.
February
2 February: "Menudomania" comes to New York as 3,500 screaming girls crowd Kennedy Airport to catch a glimpse of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, who are playing six sold-out shows at the Felt Forum.
11 February: The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York.
13 February: Marvin Gaye performs a soulful, extraordinary rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner before the NBA All-Star Game.
26 February: Michael Jackson's Thriller album hits #1 on the US charts, the first of thirty-seven (non-consecutive) weeks it would spend there on its way to becoming the greatest-selling album of all time.
March
2 March: Compact discs go on sale in the United States. They had first been released in Japan the previous October.
4 March: Neil Young cancels the remainder of his tour following a backstage collapse in Louisville, Kentucky after playing for seventy-five minutes.
April
April: A Generative Theory of Tonal Music by Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff is published.
5 April: US Interior Secretary James Watt causes controversy when he effectively bans the Beach Boys from a return performance at the Fourth of July festivities in Washington, announcing that Wayne Newton would perform instead. Watt claims that rock bands attract "the wrong element". That same week President Reagan, himself an avid Beach Boys fan, presents Watt with a plaster foot with a hole in it, symbolizing that Watt had shot himself in the foot.
11 April: Dave Mustaine is fired from Metallica just as the band is set to begin recording its debut album. He is replaced by Kirk Hammett.
18 April: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich becomes the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
May
May: Singer Anna Vissi marries composer Nikos Karvelas.
16 May: The Motown 25 Special airs on NBC, celebrating a quarter century of Motown Records. The most talked-about performance is by Michael Jackson, who unveils his famous moonwalk dance move during an electrifying performance of "Billie Jean".
28-30 May and 4 June: The second US Festival is held at Glen Helen Park in California.
June
18-19 June: Menudo's second visit to New York is an even bigger event. This time, the band plays four shows at Madison Square Garden; all 80,000 available tickets had sold out within three days of going on sale.
20 June: Catalunya Ràdio begins broadcasting.
July
19 July: Simon and Garfunkel begin their North American summer tour in Akron, Ohio.
21 July: Diana Ross performs a filmed concert in Central Park in pouring rain; eventually the storm forces her to postpone the rest of the concert till next day.
27 July: Madonna releases her debut album on Warner Bros.
29 July: Friday Night Videos premieres on NBC.
August
5 August: David Crosby is sentenced to five years in prison on charges of drug and weapon possession by a judge in Dallas, Texas.
16 August:
Johnny Ramone suffers a near-fatal head injury during a fight over a girl in front of his East Village apartment.
Singer Paul Simon marries actress Carrie Fisher.
20 August: The Rolling Stones sign a new $28 million contract with CBS Records, the largest recording contract in history up to this time.
September
1 September: Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of The Clash issue a press statement announcing that Mick Jones has been fired from the group.
4 September: Phil Lynott performs his final show with Thin Lizzy in Nuremberg, Germany.
7 September: During a Def Leppard concert in Tuscon, Arizona, frontman Joe Elliott, while trying to fire up the crowd, refers to the site of the previous night's show, El Paso, Texas, as "that place with all the greasy Mexicans". As word of the remark gets out, the band faces boycotts from various radio stations and Mexican-American community leaders.
18 September: The members of Kiss show their faces without their makeup for the first time on MTV, simultaneous with the release of their album Lick It Up.
20 September: The first ARMS Charity Concert is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
30 September: Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott apologizes on an El Paso radio station for the racial slur he made while referring to the city on September 7. The band later follows up the apology with donations to Hispanic charities.
November:
26 November: Quiet Riot's Metal Health album tops the US album charts, the first heavy metal album to hit #1 in America. This commercial breakthrough confirms the ascendancy of "glam metal", which will remain popular with American youth for the next eight years.
December:
2 December: Michael Jackson's extravagant 14-minute music video for Thriller is premièred on MTV.
31 December: The twelfth annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Culture Club, Rick James, Laura Branigan, Barry Manilow, Mary Jane Girls and David Frizzell.
Published Popular Music
"I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" = lyrics by BERNIE TAUPIN; music by ELTON JOHN
"An Innocent Man" = lyrics & music by BILLY JOEL
"Karma Chameleon" = lyrics & music by GEORGE O'DOWD, JOHN MOSS, ROY HAY, MICKEY CRAIG & PHIL RICKETT
"Uptown Girl" = lyrics & music by BILLY JOEL
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" = lyrics & music by JIM STEINMAN
Classical Music
JOHN CAGE
Thirty Pieces for String Quartet
FRIEDRICH CERHA
Requiem für Hollensteiner
GEORGE CRUMB
Processional for piano
JEAN DAETWYLER
Concerto for Alphorn, Flute, Saxophone and Strings No. 2
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Romancero, for soprano, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), violin and violoncello
LORENZO FERRERO
Ellipse for flute
Onde for guitar
My Rock for piano
JACQUES HÉTU
Clarinet Concerto
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Symphony No. 3 (1972–83)
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Viola Concerto
JOHN PICKARD
Nocturne in Black and Gold
PETER SCULTHORPE
Piano concerto
IANNIS XENAKIS
Shaar
Opera
ROBERT ASHLEY
Perfect Lives (An opera for television)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
A Quiet Place
OLIVER KNUSSEN
Where the Wild Things Are (children's)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Saint François d'Assise
PER NØRGÅRD
Det guddommelige Tivoli (The Divine Circus)
Musical Theatre
BABY
Broadway production
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Broadway production
DOONESBURY
Broadway production
MAME
(Jerry Herman)
Broadway revival
MERLIN
Broadway production
OLIVER!
(Lionel Bart)
London revival
ON YOUR TOES
Broadway revival
MY ONE AND ONLY
Broadway production
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
London production
THE TAP DANCE KID
Broadway production
ZORBA
Broadway revival
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Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 27th August 2011
Last edited: 21st February 2024
