1987 in music
See also:
1986 in music ,
other events of 1987 ,
1988 in music , 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music'
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 14 –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 Help! 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
March 13 - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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.
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 12 - Twisted Sister breaks up
October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart.
October 19 - 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.
November 13 - Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman Albums released
Compilation - Accept
Classics Live II - Aerosmith
Tango in the Night Fleetwood Mac
Permanent Vacation Aerosmith
Among The Living Anthrax
I'm The Man EP - Anthrax
Strength of Steel - Anvil
Raising Fear - Armored Saint
Heaven on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
Eternal Idol - Black Sabbath
Tunnel of Love Bruce Springsteen
Into the Fire Bryan Adams
Speed Metal Symphony Cacophony
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)
Never Let Me Down David Bowie
Hysteria Def Leppard
Pool It! - The Monkees
Dream Evil Dio
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
Back For the Attack - Dokken
White Fields The Escape Club (debut)
Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim
Introduce Yourself Faith No More
Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
Frehley's Comet - Frehley's Comet
Official Version - Front 242
Funhouse - Funhouse
Faith George Michael
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
Wild in the Streets - Helix
Bring the Family - John Hiatt
Warehouse: Songs and Stories Hüsker Dü (final album)
A More Perfect Union - Icon
Rhyme Pays Ice-T (debut)
Kick INXS
Bad Michael Jackson
Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction
Crest of a Knave Jethro Tull
Priest... Live! - Judas Priest
Keel - Keel
Abigail - King Diamond
Crazy Nights - KISS
1987 (What the Fuck is Going On?) - KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) /The Jams. Subsequently destroyed after copyright infringement claim
Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Trio - Linda Ronstadt , Emmylou Harris , Dolly Parton
Running in the Family - Level 42
Terror Rising EP - Lizzy Borden
Visual Lies - Lizzy Borden
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
Immaculate Deception - Ludichrist
Strange Weather Marianne Faithfull
Deathcrush - Mayhem
Perfect Timing - McAuley-Schenker Group (first release after Robin McAuley joined and they changed their name)
Huevos - Meat Puppets
(The $5.98 EP) Garage Days Re-Revisited - Metallica
Master of Puppets Diesel and Dust Midnight Oil
Stereoland - The Modern Art
Girls, Girls, Girls - Mötley Crüe
Rock N' Roll - Motörhead
Escape From Noise Negativland
In Dreams: The Greatest Hits Roy Orbison
Tribute - Ozzy Osbourne
Taking Over - Overkill
Power Metal - Pantera
Actually Pet Shop Boys
A Momentary Lapse of Reason Pink Floyd
Come On Pilgrim Pixies (debut)
Sign O' the Times - Prince
Yo! Bum Rush the Show - Public Enemy
Halfway to Sanity The Ramones
Randy Travis - Randy Travis
Document R.E.M.
Pleased to Meet Me The Replacements
Kane Roberts - Kane Roberts (former Alice Cooper guitarist's solo debut)
I Prefer The Moonlight - Kenny Rogers
King's Record Shop - Rosanne Cash
Hold Your Fire Rush (band)
Surfing With the Alien Joe Satriani
Hall of the Mountain King Savatage
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 September , final studio album)
Sister - Sonic Youth
Floodland The Sisters of Mercy
New Again - TexAns
Introducing the Hardline... - Terence Trent D'Arby
Bridge of Spies - T'Pau
Love Is for Suckers - Twisted Sister (final album)
The Joshua Tree U2
To the Power of 3 - 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)
Whitecross - Whitecross
Pride - White Lion (2nd album, major label (Atlantic Records ) debut)
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Characters - Stevie Wonder
Contagious - Y&T
3.V - Zebra
Tattooed Beat Messiah - Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
Top hits on record
Other Singles
Published popular music
"Children Will Listen" w.m. Stephen Sondheim
"The Time Of My Life" w.m. Franke Previte, Donald Markowitz & John DeNicola
Mario Davidovsky - Quartetto for flute, violin, viola and violoncello
Philip Feeney - Mémoire 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
John Adams - Nixon in China Friedrich Cerha - Der Rattenfänger (The Pied Piper)
Judith Weir - A Night at the Chinese Opera
Births
Deaths
January 15 - Ray Bolger , actor, of cancer
February 4 - Liberace , US pianist
March 15 - Don Gant , singer/songwriter, record producer
April 2 - Buddy Rich , brain tumor
April 7 - Maxine Sullivan , US singer
May 2 - Larry Clinton - US bandleader and songwriter
May 3 - Dalida commits suicide
May 4 - Paul Butterfield , drug overdose
May 11 - Peter Tosh is murdered
June 18 - Kid Thomas Valentine , jazz trumpeter & bandleader
September 21 - Jaco Pastorius , jazz bassist
October 19 - Jacqueline Du Pré , English cellist
October 28 - Woody Herman , US bandleader
December 10 - Jascha Heifetz , violinist
Awards
The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame : The Coasters , Eddie Cochran , Bo Diddley , Aretha Franklin , Marvin Gaye Bill Haley , B. B. King , Clyde McPhatter , Ricky Nelson , Roy Orbison , Carl Perkins , Smokey Robinson , Big Joe Turner , Muddy Waters , and Jackie Wilson
