10 February:CHOI SI WON = Korean actor and pop singer
12 February:O'RYAN = American R&B singer
24 February:KIM KYU JONG = Korean pop singer
1 March:KE$HA = American pop singer
9 March:BOW WOW = American Hip-Hop artist
26 March:YUI = Japanese pop singer
3 April:PARK JUNG MIN = Korean pop singer
9 April:JESSE McCARTNEY = American singer and actor
10 April:HAYLEY WESTENRA = New Zealand singer, classical crossover artist, songwriter, and UNICEF Ambassador
11 April:JOSS STONE = English singer, songwriter and actress
30 April:NIKKI WEBSTER = Australian pop singer and actress
16 June:DIANA DeGARMO = American singer/songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in 2004 as the runner-up of the third season of American Idol
21 June:KIM RYEO WOOK = Korean pop singer
1 July:
NICOLA BENEDETTI = British violinist
YOGA LIN = Taiwanese pop singer, One Million Star, Season 1 winner
6 July:KATE NASH = English pop singer
3 August:BRENT KUTZLE = American musician, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, member of OneRepublic
21 August:KIM KI BUM = Korean actor and pop singer
27 August:THOMAS ISAAC CHAPMAN = American bass player and composer
26 September:ROSIE MUNTER = Swedish vocalist and dancer
28 September:
HILARY DUFF = American singer and actress
CHLOE HANSLIP = British violinist
17 October:STEPHANIE THE GRACE = Korean pop singer
5 November:KEVIN JONAS = American musician and actor. He is the oldest member of The Jonas Brothers
30 November:DOUGIE POYNTER = English musician, songwriter, fashion model, clothing designer, author, actor and philanthropist. He is the bassist and youngest member of the pop rock band McFLY
2 December:TEAIRRA MARI = American R&B singer
7 December:AARON CARTER = American pop singer
18 December:AYAKA = Japanese pop singer
27 December:YUI OKADA = Japanese pop singer
Timeline of Musical Events
January: Steve "Silk" Hurley's innovative "Jack Your Body" becomes the first house music record to top the UK singles chart.
3 January: Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
5 January: Elton John, after several months of voice problems, undergoes throat surgery in an Australian hospital. The outcome would hinder his voice permanently and he would soon start singing in a deep register.
16 January: Beastie Boys become the first act to be censored by American Bandstand.
6 February: Sonny Bono announces his candidacy for mayor of Palm Springs, California
14 February: Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" reaches #1 in the USA. It would be 1987's biggest hit song worldwide.
7 March: 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 are available in the US.
9 March:
U2 releases The Joshua Tree, an album that launches them into superstar status in the music world. The album would sell over 14 million copies worldwide in 1987 alone and would win the Grammy for "Album of the Year" (at the 1988 ceremony). U2 have two #1 hit songs from this album on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts.
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 release their debut single, "All You Need Is Love".
13 March:
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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.
27 March: 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
23 April: 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.
9 May: Ireland's Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Brussels, Belgium, with the song "Hold Me Now", making him the first artist to win the contest twice. The song tops the charts in Ireland, and peaks at No. 2 in the UK.
14 June: Madonna starts her Who's That Girl Tour in Osaka, Japan.
27 June: Whitney Houston's second album Whitney becomes the first album by a female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200
3 August: Def Leppard releases Hysteria, the longest rock album ever released as a single LP or cassette.
31 August: Michael Jackson releases Bad, the first studio album after Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. The album would produce five number one singles in the USA, a record which has not been broken.
6 September: Madonna ends her Who's That Girl Tour in Florence, Italy.
12 September: Michael Jackson starts the Bad World Tour, supporting his Bad album.
25 September: Matthew Garrison Chapman is born, 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. The publication day of new charts is moved from Tuesday to Sunday.
19 October Mötley Crüe 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.
30 October: George Michael releases his first solo studio album, Faith, which would win the Grammy Award for album of the year and sell 11 million copies in USA alone.
31 October: The Zorros headline on the Halloween for the last ever show at the Crystal Ballroom, Saint Kilda, Melbourne's premier Punk/ New Wave Venue. The Crystal Ballroom has seen almost ten years of intense Musical Evolution. The venue has Chandeliers, stained glass windows, paisley wallpaper and a tiled foyer.
13 November: Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman
23 December: Nikki Sixx of the rock band Mötley Crüe suffers a heroin overdose, but is revived shortly thereafter.
Also in 1987:
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 reform and now has Ronnie Van Zant's little brother Johnny Van Zant as lead singer.
The Smiths disband after guitarist and songwriter Johnny Marr leaves the band.
Andreas Kisser replaces Jairo Guedes in Sepultura.
Alice Cooper almost dies on stage when one of the props, the Gallows, malfunctions.
Published Popular Music
"Last Midnight" = lyrics & music by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
"Children Will Listen" = lyrics & music by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" = lyrics & music by GLORIA ESTEFAN & E. E. GARCIA
"The Time of My Life" = lyrics & music by FRANKE PREVITE, DONALD MARKOWITZ & JOHN DeNICOLA
Classical Music
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Quartetto for flute, violin, viola and violoncello
JOËL-FRANÇOIS DURAND
Lichtung
PHILIP FEENEY
Mémoire Imaginaire (ballet)
LORENZO FERRERO
Ostinato
Non parto, non resto
MALCOLM FORSYTH
Songs from the Qu'appelle Valley
NICHOLAS MAW
Odyssey
JUAN MARIA SOLARE
Doce variaciones 1987 (for piano)
JOAN TOWER
Fanfare for the uncommon woman no 1
Opera
JOHN ADAMS
Nixon in China
FRIEDRICH CERHA
Der Rattenfänger (The Pied Piper)
MICHAEL NYMAN
Vital Statistics
JUDITH WEIR
A Night at the Chinese Opera
Musical Theatre
ANYTHING GOES
Broadway revival
BLESS THE BRIDE
West End revival
CABARET
(Kander and Ebb)
Broadway revival
DREAMGIRLS
Broadway revival
INTO THE WOODS
Broadway production
LES MISÉRABLES
Broadway production
OIL CITY SYMPHONY
Broadway production
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Broadway production
STARLIGHT EXPRESS
(Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe)
Broadway production
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 27th August 2011
Last edited: 21st February 2024
