This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.

January-March

• January 1 – André Rieu
  André Rieu
  André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.- Early life and studies :...
  
  's Johann Strauss Orchestra
  Johann Strauss Orchestra
  The Johann Strauss Orchestra was founded by André Rieu in 1987. At the time of its first concert on January 1, 1988 the orchestra consisted of 12 musicians. In 2008 the orchestra has expanded to 43 members and performs regularly with guest musicians and singers such as Mirusia Louwerse, Carmen...
  
   plays its first concert.
• January 3 – The Cinemax
  Cinemax
  Cinemax, sometimes abbreviated as simply "Max", is a collection of premium television networks that broadcasts primarily feature films, along with softcore erotica, original action series, documentaries and special behind-the-scenes features. Cinemax is operated by Home Box Office, Inc., a...
  
   television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night
  Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night
  Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night is a 1988 Cinemax television special originally broadcast on January 3, 1988 starring Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Roy Orbison. The special was filmed entirely in black and white...
  
  , recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, USA, is broadcast.
• January 20 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way,...
  
   ceremony inducts The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
  
  , The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  , The Drifters
  The Drifters
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...
  
  , Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
   and The Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
  .
• January 28 - A Tampa, Florida
  Tampa, Florida
  Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
  
   man files an unusual lawsuit against Mötley Crüe
  Mötley Crüe
  Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil...
  
  . Matthew John Trippe, who has a history of mental health issues and trouble with the law, claims that he was secretly hired to pose as Nikki Sixx
  Nikki Sixx
  Nikki Sixx is an American musician, songwriter, author, fashion designer, radio host, and photographer, best known as the co-founder and bassist of the band Mötley Crüe. Prior to forming Mötley Crüe, Sixx was a member of Sister before going on to form London with his Sister band mate Lizzie Grey...
  
   and toured, wrote and recorded with the band for a time during 1983 and 1984. Trippe drops the lawsuit in 1993.
• February 13 – Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
   purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California
  Santa Ynez, California
  Santa Ynez is a census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The town of Santa Ynez is one of the communities that make up the Santa Ynez Valley, and features the Santa Ynez Airport for general aviation with a paved 2804 x 75 foot runway. The population was 4,418...
  
  , USA. He called his new home "Neverland
  Neverland Ranch
  Neverland Valley Ranch is a developed property in Santa Barbara County, California, most famous for being a home of American entertainer Michael Jackson from 1988 to 2005. Jackson named the property after Neverland, the fantasy island in the story of Peter Pan, a boy who never grows up...
  
  ".
• February 16 – Billy Vera
  Billy Vera
  Billy Vera is an American singer, actor, writer and music historian.-Life and career:Vera was born in Riverside, California. He began his singing career in 1962 as a member of the Resolutions. He went on to write several songs throughout the early 1960s, writing for the likes of Barbara Lewis,...
  
   receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
  Hollywood Walk of Fame
  The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
  
  .
• February 24 – Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
   announces that he is going to run for Governor of Arizona, USA.
• March 12 – Record producer Jimmy Iovine
  Jimmy Iovine
  James "Jimmy" Iovine is an American music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.-Biography:...
  
   presents the Special Olympics
  Special Olympics
  Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries....
  
   with a donation of US$5 million, which is raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas
  A Very Special Christmas
  A Very Special Christmas is the title of an ongoing series of Christmas music compilation albums that benefit Special Olympics. It features songs performed by artists from a variety of genres, such as U2, Stevie Nicks, Jon Bon Jovi, Madonna, The Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, Whitney Houston,...
  
   album.
• March 26 - "Man in the Mirror
  Man in the Mirror
  "Man in the Mirror" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson and written and composed by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett. It peaked at number one in the United States when released as a single in January 1988 off his seventh solo album, Bad. It is one of Jackson's most critically acclaimed songs and...
  
  " by Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
   from the Bad
  Bad (album)
  Bad is the seventh studio album by American songwriter and recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on August 31, 1987 by Epic/CBS Records, nearly five years after Jackson's previous studio album, Thriller, which went on to become the world's best-selling album...
  
   album tops the Billboard Hot 100
  Billboard Hot 100
  The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
  
  . It's the first time in history a solo artist has had four Number One singles from the same album.

April-June

• April 19 – Former rock and roll
  Rock and roll
  Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
  
   singer Sonny Bono
  Sonny Bono
  Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.-Early life:...
  
   is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California
  Palm Springs, California
  Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, within the Coachella Valley. It is located approximately 37 miles east of San Bernardino, 111 miles east of Los Angeles and 136 miles northeast of San Diego...
  
  , USA.
• April 25 - Rock supermanager Doc McGhee
  Doc McGhee
  Doc McGhee is an American music manager, best known for working with KISS, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe. The latter two groups experienced their rise to stardom under his management...
  
   is sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to charges of drug smuggling stemming from a 1982 seizure of nearly 40,000 pounds of marijuana entering North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
   from Colombia
  Colombia
  Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
  
  .
• April 30 – The Eurovision Song Contest
  Eurovision Song Contest 1988
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1988 was the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 30 April 1988 in Dublin. The presenters were Pat Kenny and Michelle Rocca...
  
  , held in the RDS Simmonscourt Pavilion
  Royal Dublin Society
  The Royal Dublin Society was founded on 25 June 1731 to "to promote and develop agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland". The RDS is synonymous with its main premises in Ballsbridge in Dublin, Ireland...
  
  , Dublin, is won by French-Canadian singer Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  , representing Switzerland
  Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest
  Switzerland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest every year since it began, except 1995, 1999, 2001, and 2003. Switzerland hosted the first contest in 1956, and won it themselves. Switzerland has won the contest twice, in 1956 and 1988. A third victory in 1963 could have been possibly...
  
   with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi
  Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi
  "Ne partez pas sans moi" is the Swiss winning entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, performed by Céline Dion. It was released as a single in Europe on May 6, 1988...
  
  ".
• May 14 - Atlantic Records
  Atlantic Records
  Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
  
   stages a concert at Madison Square Garden
  Madison Square Garden
  Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...
  
   celebrating its Fortieth birthday with performances by many of the label's greatest acts of the past. Artists include Crosby, Stills & Nash, Iron Butterfly
  Iron Butterfly
  Iron Butterfly is a US psychedelic rock band best known for the 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".Their heyday was the late 1960s, but the band has been reincarnated with various members. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is the 31st best-selling album in the world, selling more than 25 million copies.-History:The...
  
  , Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown was an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress, noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and " He Treats Your Daughter Mean".For these...
  
  , Foreigner
  Foreigner (band)
  Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm...
  
   and Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett was an American R&B/Soul singer and songwriter.A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100...
  
  , but the most talked-about performance is by a reunited Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
  
   with Jason Bonham
  Jason Bonham
  Jason John Bonham is an English drummer. Jason's parents are Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham and his wife Pat Phillips. After his father's death in 1980, he has played with Led Zeppelin on different occasions, including the Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert at The O2 Arena in London in...
  
   on drums.
• May 27 - The Monsters of Rock Tour 1988
  Monsters of Rock Tour 1988
  The Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 was a festival tour of the USA in 1988, headlined by hard rock band Van Halen as part of their promotion for their OU812 album with heavy metal band Metallica as well as other bands including Scorpions, Dokken, and Kingdom Come. It formed the first section of the...
  
   commences in East Troy, Wisconsin
  East Troy, Wisconsin
  East Troy is a village in Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,564 at the 2000 census. The village is located southeast of the Town of East Troy. A small portion extends into the adjacent Town of Troy...
  
  . Van Halen
  Van Halen
  Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...
  
   headlines with the other acts on the massive bill consisting of Metallica
  Metallica
  Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
  
  , Scorpions
  Scorpions (band)
  Scorpions are a heavy metal/hard rock band from Hannover, Germany, formed in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who is the band's only constant member. They are known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and many singles, such as "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still...
  
  , Dokken
  Dokken
  Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide...
  
   and Kingdom Come
  Kingdom Come (band)
  Kingdom Come is a hard rock band fronted by Hamburg-born vocalist Lenny Wolf. The group's first album, Kingdom Come was that band's only international hit. It currently consists of an entirely German line-up.-History:...
  
  .
• June 18 – Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
  
  's final concert of their world tour takes place in the Rose Bowl stadium near Los Angeles with 80,000 spectators which is the significant moment in the bands career.
• June 27 - Motown Records
  Motown Records
  Motown is a record label originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit...
  
   is sold to MCA
  MCA
  - Archaeology :* Medieval Climatic Anomaly, an extreme and persistent drought in California and Patagonia during Medieval TimeChodu- Aviation :* Minimum crossing altitude, a minimum obstacle crossing altitude for fixes on published airways...
  
   and and investment firm for $61 million.

July-September

• July 1 – Quartetto Cetra
  Quartetto Cetra
  Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during the 1940s.The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and...
  
   play their last concert.
• August 12 - Public Enemy
  Public Enemy
  Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff and his S1W group, DJ Lord , and Music Director Khari Wynn...
  
   garners publicity by staging a concert at Riker's Island prison for 250 inmates and 100 journalists.
• August 20 – Two people are crushed to death at the annual Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
   festival at Castle Donington
  Castle Donington
  Castle Donington is a village, with a population of around 7000 in the North West of Leicestershire, part of the Derby postcode area and on the edge of the National Forest. It is the closest town to East Midlands Airport.-Transport and housing:...
  
  , UK. during the Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
  
   set.
• August 28 – While travelling down the Ventura Freeway
  Ventura Freeway
  The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. From Ventura to its intersection with the Hollywood Freeway in the southeastern San...
  
   in southern California, USA, the motorhome
  Recreational vehicle
  Recreational vehicle or RV is, in North America, the usual term for a Motor vehicle or trailer equipped with living space and amenities found in a home.-Features:...
  
   carrying the Charlie Daniels
  Charlie Daniels
  Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...
  
   band bursts into flames. Daniels and his band members escape without injury.
• September 6 -9 - Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
   auctions off many items from his personal collection, including memorabilia and stage-worn clothing, at Sotheby's
  Sotheby's
  Sotheby's is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.-History:The oldest auction house in operation is the Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674, the second oldest is Göteborgs Auktionsverk founded in 1681 and third oldest being founded in 1731, all Swedish...
  
   for a total of $8.5 million. John had been known for wearing flamboyant stage costumes during the glam rock
  Glam rock
  Glam rock is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the UK in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter...
  
   era of the '70s, but he increasingly abandoned them in later years.
• September 10 – Billboard magazine publishes its Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for the first time.
• September 24 - James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
   is facing a variety of charges after leading police on an interstate chase, after reportedly breaking into a seminar in an Augusta, Georgia
  Augusta, Georgia
  Augusta is a consolidated city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located along the Savannah River. As of the 2010 census, the Augusta–Richmond County population was 195,844 not counting the unconsolidated cities of Hephzibah and Blythe.Augusta is the principal city of the Augusta-Richmond County...
  
   building he owned an office in, waving a gun and demanding to know who had used his restrooms. Earlier in the year Brown had been arrested on drug and firearms-related charges.

October-December

• October 10 – Genesis'88 stage their first illegal Acid House Party in the UK.
• November – The "Guess The Eddies" contest begins, inviting people to guess the identities of the six members of the rock band The Swirling Eddies
  The Swirling Eddies
  The Swirling Eddies are a band that began as an anonymous spinoff from the band Daniel Amos, along with new drummer David Raven.-Career:For each Swirling Eddies release, band members adopted pseudonyms for the liner notes; "Camarillo Eddy" , "Berger Roy Al" , "Gene Pool" , "Arthur Fhardy" , "Spot"...
  
  .
• November 7 - John Fogerty
  John Fogerty
  John Cameron Fogerty is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival and as a #1 solo recording artist. Fogerty has a rare distinction of being named on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest...
  
   wins a self-plagiarism lawsuit with Fantasy Records
  Fantasy Records
  Fantasy Records is a United States-based record label that was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record-pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label...
  
  . The record label had contended that Fogerty's 1985 comeback hit "The Old Man Down the Road
  The Old Man Down the Road
  "The Old Man Down the Road" is a popular song written and recorded by John Fogerty. It was released in 1985 and became a top 10 hit single, peaking at #10 on the US singles chart, and spending three weeks at the #1 spot on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart. It was lifted from Fogerty's comeback...
  
  " was too similar to his 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
  
   song, "Run Through the Jungle
  Run Through the Jungle
  "Run Through the Jungle" is a 1970 rock song recorded by the North American band Creedence Clearwater Revival.-History:The song was written by the Creedence's lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, John Fogerty. It was included on their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory, the group's fifth album...
  
  ".
• November 12 - U2's
  U2
  U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
  
   Rattle and Hum
  Rattle and Hum
  Rattle and Hum is the sixth studio album by rock band U2 and companion rockumentary directed by Phil Joanou, both released in 1988. The film and the album feature live recordings, covers, and new songs...
  
   hits the Number One spot on the U.S. charts, the first double album
  Double album
  A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....
  
   to do so since Bruce Springsteen's
  Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
  
   The River in 1980.
• December 4 – Singer Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
  
   gives his last concert in Akron, Ohio
  Akron, Ohio
  Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...
  
  , USA, before his death from a massive heart attack.
• December 28 – A few months before the release of her new album Like A Prayer
  Like a Prayer
  Like a Prayer is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on March 21, 1989 by Sire Records, three years after her previous studio album. Madonna worked with Stephen Bray, Patrick Leonard, and fellow icon Prince on the album while co-writing and co-producing all the...
  
  , Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
  
   files assault charges against her husband, Sean Penn
  Sean Penn
  Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...
  
  . Though she later drops the charges, the couple separate three days later and are divorced in the following year.
• December 31 - The seventeenth annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Natalie Cole
  Natalie Cole
  Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
  
  , Taylor Dayne
  Taylor Dayne
  Taylor Dayne was born Leslie Wunderman on March 7, 1962 before later adopting her current stage name. She is an American pop vocalist, songwriter, and dance artist. Overall, she has had eighteen individual hit songs reach the top ten in Billboard magazine...
  
  , DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
  DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
  DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop duo from West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Vocalist Will Smith met Jeff Townes while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop scene. After joining forces with Clarence Holmes the team members became local celebrities...
  
  , Richard Marx
  Richard Marx
  Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
  
  , Reba McEntire
  Reba McEntire
  Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
  
   and Frankie Vallie and The Four Seasons
  The Four Seasons
  - Music :* The Four Seasons , a 1723 set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi* The Four Seasons , an American rock band led by Frankie Valli* Four Seasons EP, a 2006 EP by Kaddisfly...
  
  .

Also in 1988

• Peter Ruzicka
  Peter Ruzicka
  Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music.Peter Ruzicka was born in Düsseldorf on July 3, 1948. He received his early musical training at the Hamburg Conservatory. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze and Hans Otte...
  
   becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera
  Hamburg State Opera
  The Hamburg State Opera is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.Opera in Hamburg dates back to 2 January 1678 when the "Opern-Theatrum" was inaugurated with a performance of a biblical Singspiel by Johann Theile...
  
   and State Philharmonic Orchestra.
• Andrew Davis
  Andrew Davis (conductor)
  Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE is a British conductor.Born in Ashridge, Hertfordshire to Robert J. Davis and his wife Florence J. née Badminton, Davis grew up in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and in Watford. Davis attended Watford Boys' Grammar School, where he studied classics in his sixth form years...
  
   begins a term as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain.-History:...
  
  , and is appointed musical director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera
  Glyndebourne Festival Opera
  Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an English opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.-History:...
  
  , effective with the 1989 season.
• Acid house
  Acid house
  Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed around the mid-1980s, particularly by DJs from Chicago who experimented with...
  
   music sweeps the UK. The year would later be known as the "Second Summer of Love
  Second Summer of Love
  The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988-89 in Britain, during the rise of acid house music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed MDMA -fuelled rave parties...
  
  ".
• Compact discs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine
  I Heard It through the Grapevine
  "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a landmark song in the history of Motown. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966, the single was first recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles...
  
  " experiences a surge in popularity in the USA sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins
  The California Raisins
  The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins based on black caricatures. Lead vocals were sung by musician Buddy Miles...
  
   version of the song peaks at number 84 on Billboard
  Billboard (magazine)
  Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
  
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• Fish
  Fish (singer)
  Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, is a Scottish progressive rock singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of Marillion.-Biography:...
  
   leaves British neo-progressive rock
  Neo-progressive rock
  Neo-progressive rock is a sub-genre of progressive rock, developed in the UK and popular in the 1980s, although it lives on today....
  
   group Marillion
  Marillion
  Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, England in 1979. Their recorded studio output comprises sixteen albums generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve...
  
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Bands formed

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Bands disbanded

See Musical groups disestablished in 1988

January - March

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
J A N U A R Y	4	L.A. Guns L.A. Guns (album) L.A. Guns is the first official full length album of the band L.A. Guns. This album was released in 1988. Following the success of the second album, Cocked & Loaded, this album reached gold status in the US....	L.A. Guns L.A. Guns L.A. Guns is the name of a hard rock group formed in Los Angeles, California, of which two rival incarnations currently exist due to numerous line-up changes. The first incarnation of the group was formed, by Tracii Guns, in 1983 but disbanded in 1985 following its merger with fellow Los Angeles...
	B'Sides Themselves B'Sides Themselves B'Sides Themselves is a compilation of single B-sides by the rock band Marillion released on CD only in January 1988. This was the first time that those B-sides were made available in the then still relatively new Compact Disc format...	Marillion Marillion Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, England in 1979. Their recorded studio output comprises sixteen albums generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve...	B-sides compilation
	11	Pontiac Pontiac (album) - Chart success :Pontiac reached number 12 on Billboard's chart for Top Country Albums, and 117 in the Billboard Hot 200.- Critical acclaim :...	Lyle Lovett Lyle Lovett Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
	The Road: Live	The Kinks The Kinks The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...	Live
	15	History of a Time to Come History of a Time to Come History of a Time to Come is the debut full-length album by the British thrash metal band Sabbat.-Background:In May 1986, Sabbat recorded a 4 track demonstration tape entitled “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten”, recorded at a cost of £10 in a converted farmhouse near Ripley, Derbyshire.During the...	Sabbat Sabbat (band) Sabbat are a thrash metal band from Nottingham, England, currently consisting of Martin Walkyier , Andy Sneap , Simon Jones , Gizz Butt and Simon Negus . Over the years Sabbat have released three studio albums, four demos, two split singles/compilation albums, two singles and a live VHS...
	18	Blow Up Your Video Blow Up Your Video Blow Up Your Video is the 11th Australian and 10th international studio album by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, first released on 1988. It was later released in the US on 1 February 1988...	AC/DC AC/DC AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...	Australia
	19	So Far, So Good... So What! So Far, So Good... So What! - 2004 bonus tracks :† The intro makes use of a sample from The Ink Spots' 1941 song "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire"- Personnel :- Charts :-RIAA Certifications:- External links :*...	Megadeth Megadeth Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
	Tell It to My Heart Tell It to My Heart (album) Tell It to My Heart is the debut album by singer-songwriter Taylor Dayne. The LP yielded four top-ten singles: "Tell It to My Heart" , "Prove Your Love" , "I'll Always Love You" and "Don't Rush Me" . The album achieved double-platinum sales in the United States.Two covers were issued for the album...	Taylor Dayne Taylor Dayne Taylor Dayne was born Leslie Wunderman on March 7, 1962 before later adopting her current stage name. She is an American pop vocalist, songwriter, and dance artist. Overall, she has had eighteen individual hit songs reach the top ten in Billboard magazine...
25	Shove It	The Cross
26	Skyscraper Skyscraper (album) Skyscraper is the second full-length album by David Lee Roth , released in 1988. It was the last to feature guitarist Steve Vai, who left the group in 1989 to join Whitesnake and continue his solo career. Bassist Billy Sheehan would also leave the group before the tour to eventually form Mr. Big...	David Lee Roth David Lee Roth David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. Roth was ranked nineteenth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Singers of All Time....
-	If I Should Fall from Grace with God If I Should Fall from Grace with God If I Should Fall from Grace with God was well-received by critics. Mark Deming of Allmusic awarded the album four and a half out of five stars, calling it "the best album the Pogues would ever make." Robert Christgau gave the album a B+ and said that "neither pop nor rock nor disco crossover stays...	The Pogues The Pogues The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before...
	Never Die Young Never Die Young Never Die Young is singer-songwriter James Taylor's twelfth album. It was released in 1988, three years after his previous effort, That's Why I'm Here...	James Taylor James Taylor James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
Tear Down These Walls Tear Down These Walls Tear Down These Walls is the seventh album recorded by Billy Ocean. The album features the hit singles, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" and "The Colour of Love".-Track listing:...	Billy Ocean Billy Ocean Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...
F E B R U A R Y	1	Ain't Misbehavin' Ain't Misbehavin' (UFO album) Ain't Misbehavin' is an EP by the British hard rock band UFO, recorded in 1986 after the band's USA tour, and released early in 1988.-Track listing:#"Between a Rock and a Hard Place" — 3:37#"Another Saturday Night" — 4:39...	UFO UFO (band) UFO are an English heavy metal and hard rock band, who were formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal...	mini-album
	2	Lita Lita (album) Lita is an album by Lita Ford, released in February, 1988 on RCA Records. The album features a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, "Close My Eyes Forever," as well as "Kiss Me Deadly," another hit for Ford...	Lita Ford Lita Ford Lita Ford is a British-born, American rock musician and singer who was the lead guitarist for The Runaways and achieved popularity for her solo career between the 1980s and late 2000s.-Early life:...
	Live+1 Live+1 Live+1 is a 1988 EP from Frehley's Comet. It was meant to serve as a stop-gap until the release of the group's second studio album, Second Sighting. The first four songs were recorded live at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Illinois on September 4, 1987...	Frehley's Comet Ace Frehley Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of the "Spaceman" or "Space Ace" when the band adopted costumes and theatrics...	Live EP +1 studio track
	16	All About Eve All About Eve (album) All About Eve is the self-titled first album of All About Eve. Commercially, this was their most successful, reaching No.7 in the UK charts and spawning four Top 40 singles...	All About Eve All About Eve (band) All About Eve were a British rock/pop band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry born Julianne Regan , and the Huddersfield born Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years...
		Starfish Starfish (album) The breakthrough 1988 album by The Church, Starfish has remained the band's most commercially successful release. The first single, "Under the Milky Way", charted well into the American Top 40, peaking at #24 and #2 on Mainstream Rock Tracks leading to significant exposure of the then relatively...	The Church The Church (band) The Church is an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave and the neo-psychedelic sound of the mid 1980s, their music later became more reminiscent of progressive rock, featuring long instrumental jams and complex guitar interplay...
	Nada como el sol Nada Como el Sol ...Nada como el sol is an EP released by Sting, containing five tracks from the album ...Nothing Like the Sun performed in Spanish and Portuguese.-Track listing:# Mariposa Libre – 4:54# Frágil [Portuguese] – 3:50...	Sting	EP
	23	Goin' Off Goin' Off Goin' Off is the debut studio album by Biz Markie, a US hip hop musician. The album was released by Cold Chillin' Records, and produced by Marley Marl. The album was praised for its wit and humor. Big Daddy Kane wrote the lyrics of the album's first five songs...	Biz Markie Biz Markie Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name, Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, comedian, singer, reality television personality, and commercial spokesperson. He is best known for his single "Just a Friend", an American Top 10 hit in 1989...
	29	The Frenz Experiment The Frenz Experiment The Frenz Experiment is a 1988 album by The Fall. It was released on Beggars Banquet Records, and like the group's other albums with the label, it has a different track listing across the various formats on which it was released: LP, CD and cassette. A number of the tracks are credited exclusively...	The Fall
	Now and Zen Now and Zen Now and Zen is an album by the former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, released in 1988 under the label Es Paranza. The album made the top 10 in both the U.S. and the UK, reaching #6 in the former, and #10 in the latter...	Robert Plant Robert Plant Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...
-	Falling Up Falling Up (Kevin Ayers album) Falling Up is the thirteenth studio album by Kevin Ayers.The song "Flying Start" was first released on the Mike Oldfield album Islands in September 1987.-Track listing:# "Saturday Night"...	Kevin Ayers Kevin Ayers Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...
	Hard Machine Hard Machine Hard Machine is the third solo album of singer Stacey Q, released in 1988. It includes the moderate hit, "Don't Make a Fool of Yourself" which peaked at #66. While the album was not very successful with mainstream audiences, it fared slightly better with electronic dance music audiences. It also...	Stacey Q Stacey Q Stacey Q is a pop singer, dancer and actress. She is best known for her 1985 hit single "Two of Hearts".-Early life:Stacey Swain was born on November 30, 1958 in Fullerton, California. She is the youngest of three children...
	Idlewild Idlewild (Everything but the Girl album) Idlewild is the fourth album by British music duo Everything but the Girl. It was released in 1988.-Track listing:All tracks composed by Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt; except where indicated# "I Don't Want to Talk About It"...	Everything but the Girl Everything but the Girl Everything but the Girl was a two-person English band, formed in Hull during 1981, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt . They are currently inactive although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may reform someday...
I'm Your Man	Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
If You Can't Lick 'Em...Lick 'Em If You Can't Lick 'Em...Lick 'Em -Track listing:All songs written and arranged by Ted Nugent, except "That's the Story of Love", written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Ted Nugent.#"Can't Live With 'Em" - 4:19#"She Drives Me Crazy" - 2:45#"If You Can't Lick 'Em...Lick 'Em" - 6:10...	Ted Nugent Ted Nugent Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
Pinker and Prouder Than Previous Pinker and Prouder than Previous Pinker and Prouder Than Previous is a 1988 album by British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe and was released on the Columbia Records label.-Track listing:All songs written by Nick Lowe, except as indicated:# " Wildest Dream" - 3:19...	Nick Lowe Nick Lowe Nicholas Drain "Nick" Lowe , is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer.A pivotal figure in UK pub rock, punk rock and new wave, Lowe has recorded a string of well-reviewed solo albums. Along with vocals, Lowe plays guitar, bass guitar, piano and harmonica...
M A R C H	1	The Seventh One The Seventh One The Seventh One is Toto's seventh studio album. It was released in 1988, and became the best-received Toto album since Toto IV. This is the second and last album to feature Joseph Williams on lead vocals. He was fired after the Seventh One world tour due to loss of voice attributed to drug abuse....	Toto Toto (band) Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The group currently consists of Joseph Williams , David Paich , Steve Porcaro , Steve Lukather , Mike Porcaro , and Simon Phillips . Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard...
	7	Past Masters, Volume One	The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...	Compilation
		Past Masters, Volume Two	The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...	Compilation
	13	Don't Blow Your Top	KMFDM KMFDM KMFDM is an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project...
	14	Viva Hate Viva Hate Viva Hate is Morrissey's debut solo album, released on 14 March 1988 by HMV Records. The album was considered a very strong foray into Morrissey's solo career, as he utilised his traditional lyrical style and retained the basic sound that The Smiths had developed by the time they broke up. It...	Morrissey Morrissey Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...	UK
		From Langley Park to Memphis From Langley Park to Memphis From Langley Park to Memphis is the third album by English pop band Prefab Sprout, and was released in March 1988.The title is taken from a lyric to the song, "The Venus of the Soup Kitchen", and refers to the village of Langley Park, County Durham in England, and the city of Memphis, Tennessee in...	Prefab Sprout Prefab Sprout Prefab Sprout are an alternative English pop rock band from Witton Gilbert, County Durham, England who rose to fame during the 1980s. Eight of their albums have reached the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart, and one of their singles, "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", peaked at number seven in the UK...
	16	Green Thoughts Green Thoughts Green Thoughts is the second album by The Smithereens. "Only a Memory" only reached #92 on the Billboard Hot 100, but topped the Album Rock Tracks chart in 1988.-Track listing:All songs written by Pat DiNizio.# "Only a Memory" – 3:42...	The Smithereens The Smithereens The Smithereens are a rock band from Carteret, New Jersey, United States. The group formed in 1980 with members Pat DiNizio , Jim Babjak , Mike Mesaros , and Dennis Diken...
	21	Surfer Rosa Surfer Rosa Like Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa displays a mix of musical styles; pop guitar songs such as "Broken Face", "Break My Body", and "Brick Is Red" are featured alongside slower, more melodic tracks exemplified by "Where Is My Mind?". The album includes heavier material, and prominently features the...	Pixies	UK
	23	No Exit No Exit (Fates Warning album) No Exit is the fourth album by the progressive metal group Fates Warning, released in 1988 . Lyrically, No Exit proved a radical departure from Fates Warning's last three albums, as the album focused more on society and dreamscapes than the occult metal embraced by albums such as The Spectre...	Fates Warning Fates Warning Fates Warning is an American progressive metal band, formed in 1982 by vocalist John Arch, guitarists Jim Matheos and Victor Arduini, bassist Joe DiBiase, and drummer Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut. Fates Warning has experienced numerous line-up changes...
		Up Your Alley Up Your Alley (album) Up Your Alley is the sixth studio album by the American hard rock band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. This album contains the single "I Hate Myself for Loving You", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and had been used as the theme song for Sunday Night Football NFL games in America during...	Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
	Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm is the thirteenth album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1988. It was her third for Geffen Records. The album features various duets with guest artists such as Peter Gabriel on "My Secret Place", Willie Nelson on "Cool Water", Don Henley on "Snakes and Ladders", Billy Idol...	Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
	28	Out of the Silent Planet Out of the Silent Planet (album) Out of the Silent Planet is the debut release from King's X. The title of the album comes from the title of a book of the same name by C.S. Lewis, an author favored by band members Ty Tabor and Jerry Gaskill...	King's X King's X King's X is an American hard rock band that combines progressive metal, funk and soul with vocal arrangements influenced by gospel, blues, and British Invasion rock groups. The band's lyrics are largely based on the members' struggles with religion and self-acceptance...
	Odyssey	Yngwie Malmsteen
29	He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper is the second studio album by hip hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.-Background:The original release of the album on Vinyl LP and Cassette lasts for more than 85 minutes...	DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop duo from West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Vocalist Will Smith met Jeff Townes while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop scene. After joining forces with Clarence Holmes the team members became local celebrities...
Simple Pleasures	Bobby McFerrin Bobby McFerrin Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
-	Heart Attack Heart Attack (album) Heart Attack is Krokus' tenth studio album, and is described by the band as "The last attempt to keep the band together in a deep crisis"....	Krokus Krokus (band) Krokus is a hard rock/heavy metal band from Switzerland. They enjoyed moderate success in North America during the 1980s.Krokus was founded in Solothurn in 1974 by bassist Chris von Rohr and guitarist Tommy Kiefer...
	Kingdom Come Kingdom Come (Kingdom Come album) - Band members :*Lenny Wolf – lead vocals*Danny Stag – lead guitar*Rick Steier – rhythm guitar*Johnny B. Frank – bass*James Kottak – drums- Credits :*Produced by Bob Rock and Lenny Wolf...	Kingdom Come Kingdom Come (band) Kingdom Come is a hard rock band fronted by Hamburg-born vocalist Lenny Wolf. The group's first album, Kingdom Come was that band's only international hit. It currently consists of an entirely German line-up.-History:...
	On Target	Fastway Fastway (band) Fastway is a British heavy metal band formed by guitarist, "Fast" Eddie Clarke, formerly of Motörhead, and bassist, Pete Way, formerly of UFO.-Career:...
The Pictorial Jackson Review The Pictorial Jackson Review The Pictorial Jackson Review is the eighth album by British alternative rock band Felt, released in 1988. Unusually, the first side of the record consisted of short pop songs with the second side containing just two long keyboard instrumentals by keyboardist Martin Duffy...	Felt Felt (band) Felt were a 1980s British alternative rock band led by Lawrence, whose surname was never listed in any credits or press; the band's name was inspired by Tom Verlaine's emphasis of the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus"...
Push	Bros Bros Bros were a British band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan...
Tattooed Beat Messiah	Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

April - June

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
A P R I L	2	Now That's What I Call Music 11 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
	3	Heart of Gold Heart of Gold (album) Heart of Gold, sometimes called Golden Heart is the studio album by Soviet singer-songwriter Sofia Rotaru, released in July 1988 by Melodiya. The long play album was simultaneously released for the Soviet and international market. The album includes songs performed in Russian with new rock style...	Sofia Rotaru Sofia Rotaru Sofia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru known as Sofia Rotaru is a Soviet and Ukrainian pop singer of Romanian/Moldavian heritage....
	Naked	Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
	5	Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman (album) Tracy Chapman is the self-titled debut album by singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, released in 1988.-History:Tracy Chapman hit #1 on both the US & UK album charts. The album was critically acclaimed and helped to launch the 1990s female singer-songwriter movement, which included artists like Tori...	Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.-Biography:Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland,...
	Conscious Party	Ziggy Marley Ziggy Marley David "Ziggy" Marley is a Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He is the oldest son of famed reggae musician Bob Marley...  & the Melody Makers
	11	Hairway to Steven Hairway to Steven Hairway to Steven is the fourth full-length studio album by American punk band Butthole Surfers, released in February 1988. All songs were written by the Butthole Surfers, co-produced by the Surfers and Ric Wallace, and mixed by Wallace...	Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers is an American alternative rock band formed by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has been consistent since 1983. Teresa Nervosa served as second...
	Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is the seventh studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released in 1988 by EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US...	Iron Maiden Iron Maiden Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
	12	Lap of Luxury Lap of Luxury -Singles :* "The Flame/Through the Night" - #1 US, #77 UK. #2 Aus, #3 BB Mainstream Rock* "Don't Be Cruel/I Know What I Want" - #4 US, #77 UK, #8 BB Mainstream Rock, #13 Aus* "Ghost Town/Wrong Side of Love" - #33 US...	Cheap Trick Cheap Trick Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
		Even Worse Even Worse Even Worse is the fifth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1988. The album was the fifth produced by former The McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer...	"Weird Al" Yankovic "Weird Al" Yankovic Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...
	This Note's for You This Note's for You This Note's for You is the seventeenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released in 1988. It was originally credited to Young and the Bluenotes. Most of the album's concept centered around the commercialism of rock and roll, and tours in particular...	Neil Young Neil Young Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...  and the Bluenotes
	13	Diamond Sun Diamond Sun (album) Diamond Sun is the second album by Canadian band Glass Tiger. It was released by Capitol Records . It went certified Double Platinum in Canada.- Track listing :# "Diamond Sun" – 5:22...	Glass Tiger Glass Tiger Glass Tiger is a Canadian rock band formed in 1983, in Newmarket, Ontario.-Biography:Originally named 'Tokyo', the band produced several hit singles in Canada and placed two songs on Billboard magazine's top 10: "Don't Forget Me " and "Someday," both of which came from their debut album, The Thin...
	18	Crossroads Crossroads (box set) Crossroads is a music collection box set by Eric Clapton. The set includes his work with The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, and Derek and the Dominos, as well as his solo career...	Eric Clapton Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...	Box Set
		Eden Alley	Timbuk3
		The Innocents The Innocents (album) After releasing The Two Ring Circus, a remix album in 1987, The Innocents was the third proper studio release from Erasure, released in 1988...	Erasure Erasure Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...
	Savage Amusement Savage Amusement Savage Amusement is the tenth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1988. It peaked at #5 in the USA where it became platinum on June 20, 1988. It was also the last Scorpions record to be produced by Dieter Dierks....	Scorpions Scorpions (band) Scorpions are a heavy metal/hard rock band from Hannover, Germany, formed in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who is the band's only constant member. They are known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and many singles, such as "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still...
	Reba Reba (album) Reba is the fifteenth studio album, released in 1988 by Reba McEntire, the title signifying that she had become so well known that she could be identified by first name alone, but also signaling an entirely different style to her music...	Reba McEntire Reba McEntire Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
	21	Hang Time Hang Time (album) Hang Time is a 1988 album from the band Soul Asylum. Released on A&M Records, it was the band's major-label debut.Singer/guitarist Dave Pirner wrote the majority of the album. Guitarist Dan Murphy chimed in with "Cartoon," released as one of the album's singles...	Soul Asylum Soul Asylum Soul Asylum is an American alternative rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983.The band originally formed in 1981 under the name Loud Fast Rules, with the original line-up consisting of Dan Murphy, Dave Pirner, Karl Mueller and Pat Morley. The latter was replaced by Grant Young in...
26	Racing after Midnight	Honeymoon Suite Honeymoon Suite (band) Honeymoon Suite is a Canadian rock band formed in 1981 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The band's name was a nod to the fact that Niagara Falls is the unofficial honeymoon capital.-Band history:...
	Shadowland	k.d. lang K.D. Lang Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
Guitar	Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...	Live
27	Flirt Flirt (album) Flirt is an album by Evelyn King, containing her Top 10 hit "Hold On to What You've Got."-Track listing:# "Flirt"# "You Can Turn Me On"# "Kisses Don't Lie"# "Stop It"# "Hold On to What You've Got"# "When Your Heart Says Yes"# "Before the Date"...	Evelyn King Evelyn King (singer) Evelyn "Champagne" King is an American R&B, disco and post-disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame", "Love Come Down," and "I'm in Love."-Biography:...
Operation: Mindcrime Operation: Mindcrime Operation: Mindcrime is a concept album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Released on May 3, 1988, it is the band's third full-length album. A rock opera, its story follows a man who becomes disillusioned with the society of the time and reluctantly becomes involved with a...	Queensrÿche Queensrÿche thumb|250px|right|Queensrÿche's classic line-up performing at the [[Sauna Open Air Metal Festival]] 2011 in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]. Left to right: bass Eddie Jackson, lead vocals Geoff Tate, drums Scott Rockenfield and guitars Michael Wilton....
-	Ainsi Soit Je... Ainsi Soit Je... Ainsi Soit Je... is the second album by Mylène Farmer, released in April 1988. It contains the hit singles "Sans contrefaçon", "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" and "Sans logique"...	Mylène Farmer Mylène Farmer Mylène Farmer, , born Marie-Hélène Jeanne Gautier, , , is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author....
	Aliens Ate My Buick Aliens Ate My Buick Aliens Ate My Buick is the third studio LP release by New Wave/Synth-pop artist Thomas Dolby. It peaked at #30 in the UK Albums Chart. The album's sales were disappointing and reviews were mixed. The lead single from the album, "Airhead", peaked at #53. Second and third singles, "Hot Sauce" and "My...	Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby is an English musician and producer. Best known for his 1982 hit "She Blinded Me with Science", and 1984 single "Hyperactive!", he has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician.-Early life:Dolby was born in London, England, contrary to information in early 1980s...
	All That Jazz All That Jazz (Breathe album) All That Jazz is the title of the debut album by the British pop group Breathe, released in April 1988. The album peaked at #22 on the UK Albums Chart and at #34 on the US albums chart. It has been certified Silver in the UK by the BPI and Gold in the US by the RIAA.The group's first single, "Don't...	Breathe
	Barbed Wire Kisses Barbed Wire Kisses Barbed Wire Kisses is a compilation of singles, b-sides and rare tracks by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. Throughout the 1980s the band was known for their prodigious output in these formats, often in limited editions which quickly went out of print...	The Jesus and Mary Chain The Jesus and Mary Chain The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride, Glasgow in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid...	Compilation
	In Effect Mode	Al B. Sure! Al B. Sure! Albert Jason Brown III is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He grew up in Leonia, New Jersey and Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B...
	In Heat	Black 'N Blue Black 'N Blue Black 'n Blue is a Hard rock band from Portland, Oregon. The current members are singer Jaime St. James, guitarist Shawn Sonnenschein, guitarist Jeff Warner, bassist Patrick Young, and drummer Pete Holmes.-History:...
Lefty Lefty (album) Lefty is the seventh solo album by Art Garfunkel, released in 1988.The album's cover photo shows a pre-teen Art Garfunkel holding a baseball bat in the front yard of his childhood home in the Forest Hills section of Queens, New York City. The picture was taken by his brother Jules...	Art Garfunkel Art Garfunkel Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...
Life's Too Good Life's Too Good Life's Too Good, released in April 1988, was the first album by the Icelandic alternative rock-pop band The Sugarcubes, which brought fame to lead vocalist Björk...	The Sugarcubes The Sugarcubes The Sugarcubes were an Icelandic alternative rock band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992. They received critical and popular acclaim internationally.-History:...
The Mona Lisa's Sister The Mona Lisa's Sister The Mona Lisa's Sister is a 1988 album by Graham Parker. It was Parker's first album for RCA following an acrimonious split with Atlantic and the first he produced himself . The "stripped-down" sound of the album garnered critical acclaim and presaged a back-to-basics trend in rock music in the 1990s...	Graham Parker Graham Parker Graham Parker is a British rock singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.-Early career :...
Over the Edge	Hurricane Hurricane (band) Hurricane was a 1980s heavy metal / glam metal rock band originally featuring current Foreigner lead vocalist Kelly Hansen , Robert Sarzo , Tony Cavazo , and Jay Schellen...
M A Y	1	The First of a Million Kisses The First of a Million Kisses The First of a Million Kisses was the first album by Fairground Attraction, released in 1988.The album was a characteristic blend of folk, jazz, country, and Cajun elements . Released in May 1988, it followed the success of the band's first single, "Perfect," by entering the album chart at number...	Fairground Attraction Fairground Attraction Fairground Attraction were a British acoustic pop band. They are best known for their hit single "Perfect", and for helping to launch the career of lead vocalist Eddi Reader.-Career:...
	Stay on These Roads Stay on These Roads Stay on These Roads is the third full-length album by the rock band A-ha. It was released on 3 May 1988 through Warner Bros. Records.-Recording:...	a-ha A-ha A-ha were a Norwegian pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. The band was founded by Morten Harket , Magne Furuholmen , and Pål Waaktaar...
	2	Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge (album) Melissa Etheridge is the self-titled debut album by singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge, released in 1988 .The album was re-released on 23 September 2003 as a two-CD remastered edition containing a bonus disc of ten tracks recorded live at the Roxy in Los Angeles and a five-track session from BBC...	Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals...
		Big Deal	Killer Dwarfs Killer Dwarfs Killer Dwarfs were a heavy metal band who formed in late 1981 in Oshawa, Ontario. Though they were known for their off beat sense of humor , they were nominated for two Juno Awards....	US; released May 9 in Canada
	The Great Adventures of Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick -Samples used:*"Children's Story" samples "Think " by Lyn Collins & "Nautilus" by Bob James*"The Moment I Feared" samples "Funky Drummer" by James Brown", "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" by Bob James & "Peter Piper" by Run-D.M.C....	Slick Rick Slick Rick Richard Walters , better known by his stage name Slick Rick is a Grammy-nominated English-American rapper...
	3	Scenes from the Southside Scenes from the Southside Scenes from the Southside is the second album by Bruce Hornsby and the Range. The single "The Valley Road" was Hornsby's third Top 10 U.S. hit, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and also his first number one on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart...	Bruce Hornsby and the Range
		Vivid Vivid (album) Vivid is the debut album by the American heavy metal band Living Colour, which was released on May 3, 1988. The band was discovered by Mick Jagger while playing a show at punk club CBGB's in 1987...	Living Colour Living Colour Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz, funk, neo-psychedelia, hard rock, and heavy metal...
	The Madness The Madness (album) The Madness is a self-titled album by the British band The Madness. In 1988, after the breakup of the original Madness, four of the original members recreated the band, adding "The" to its name...	The Madness
	Open Up and Say...Ahh! Open Up and Say...Ahh! Open Up and Say... Ahh! is the second studio album by American glam metal band Poison, released in 1988 through the Enigma label. The album, which ultimately sold eight million copies worldwide , proved to be the band's most successful release...	Poison Poison (band) Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,...
	10	By All Means Necessary	Boogie Down Productions Boogie Down Productions Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group that was originally composed of KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded. The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the...
		Lovesexy Lovesexy Lovesexy is the tenth studio album by Prince, released on May 10, 1988. Lovesexy was issued as a substitute record after the release of the infamous The Black Album had been suddenly cancelled. The Black Album and Lovesexy almost act as companion pieces, sharing the song "When 2 R in Love", but...	Prince Prince (musician) Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
	Joy Joy (Teddy Pendergrass album) Joy is the tenth studio album by R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, released in 1988 on the Elektra label. Production credits on the album were split between Reggie and Vincent Calloway, Nick Martinelli, Miles Jaye and Pendergrass himself....	Teddy Pendergrass Teddy Pendergrass Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade...
	The New Order The New Order The New Order is the second album by American heavy metal band Testament, released on May 10, 1988. It is the album that broke Testament into the thrash metal mainstream, with singles "Trial by Fire" and "The Preacher"...	Testament Testament (band) Testament is an American metal band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1983. They are often credited as one of the most popular bands of the 1980s thrash metal scene...
	14	Stronger Than Pride Stronger Than Pride Stronger Than Pride is the third studio album by the English group Sade. It was released in the United Kingdom on 14 May 1988 and in the United States on 4 June 1988 by Epic Records.-Track listing:...	Sade Sade (band) Sade is a British smooth jazz band that formed in 1983, named for Nigerian lead singer Sade Adu. Their music features elements of R&B, soul, jazz, and soft rock....	UK
	16	You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 is a double disc set of live tracks by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1988 under the label Rykodisc.-Disc one:#"The Florida Airport Tape" – 1:03...	Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...	Live
	17	Perfect Machine Perfect Machine (album) Perfect Machine is the thirty-seventh album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and the last with the Rockit Band.-About the Album:The last of the three Rockit band albums, Perfect Machine was also Hancock's final album for Columbia Records and is considered the least popular of the three Rockit band...	Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
		In the City of Angels In the City of Angels In the City of Angels is a solo album by Jon Anderson of progressive rock band Yes.This album unlike most of Anderson's works in that he invited outside songwriters to write for him, rather than creating an album wholly of his own material...	Jon Anderson Jon Anderson Jon Anderson is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known as the former lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes...
Ram It Down Ram It Down -Judas Priest:*Rob Halford: Lead Vocals and Production*Glenn Tipton: Lead Guitars and Production*K.K. Downing: Lead Guitars and Production*Ian Hill: Bass Guitar*Dave Holland: Drums-Trivia:*The song Johnny B...	Judas Priest Judas Priest Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...
18	Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing-Off!	Various Artists	Compilation
	Battalions of Fear Battalions of Fear Battalions of Fear is the debut album by German metal band Blind Guardian. It was released in 1988 and is a straightforward metal album. The album is a raw and unpolished speed metal effort that touches on thrash metal. This album lacks many of the stylistic flourishes that would mark the band's...	Blind Guardian Blind Guardian Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres...
23	Out of Order Out of Order (Rod Stewart album) Out of Order is the 15th album by Rod Stewart, released in 1988. It features the hit singles "Lost In You", "Forever Young", "My Heart Can't Tell You No" and "Crazy About Her"...	Rod Stewart Rod Stewart Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
Up Your Alley Up Your Alley (album) Up Your Alley is the sixth studio album by the American hard rock band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. This album contains the single "I Hate Myself for Loving You", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and had been used as the theme song for Sunday Night Football NFL games in America during...	Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Joan Jett Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...
24	Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart is a 1988 album by Camper Van Beethoven, released on Virgin Records. It was the band's first major-label album, and was produced by Dennis Herring, the first time the band had used an outside producer....	Camper Van Beethoven Camper Van Beethoven Camper Van Beethoven is an American alternative rock group formed in Redlands, California in 1983.An eclectic band, Camper Van Beethoven mixes elements of pop, ska, punk rock, folk and alternative country, as well as various types of world music. Their aggressive musical pluralism created a...
	Second Sighting Second Sighting Second Sighting is a studio album by American hard rock band Frehley's Comet. This is the second out of three LPs put out by Frehley in the 1980's, but the last under the band name Frehley's Comet....	Frehley's Comet Frehley's Comet Frehley's Comet was an American rock band formed and led by ex-Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley. The group released two studio albums and one live EP before Ace Frehley left the band to release his 1989 solo album, Trouble Walkin. Before forming a band for his post-Kiss career, Frehley had previous...
OU812 OU812 OU812 is the 8th studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1988. The album title is allegedly a joke on Van Halen's previous lead singer David Lee Roth's 1986 album Eat 'Em and Smile . However, "OU812" was also seen in the 70s sitcom Taxi written on a wall...	Van Halen Van Halen Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...
30	Down in the Groove Down in the Groove Down in the Groove is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 25th studio album, released by Columbia Records in May 1988.A highly collaborative effort, it was Dylan's second consecutive album to receive almost unanimous negative reviews...	Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
-	The Abbey Road E.P. The Abbey Road E.P. The Abbey Road is an EP by Red Hot Chili Peppers, released in 1988 through EMI America. Out of the five tracks included on this EP, four had already been previously-released on the band's studio albums. The only new track is a cover of the song "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix, which was recorded during the...	Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...	EP
	A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck	Wire Wire (band) Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed...
	Greatest Hits Greatest Hits (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel album) Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British band, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released on the EMI label in May 1988.-Side 1:#"Mad, Mad, Moonlight" #"Mr. Soft" #"Sebastian" #"Judy Teen" #"Mr...	Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel	Compilation
Ooh Yeah! Ooh Yeah! Ooh Yeah! is the thirteenth studio album by Daryl Hall & John Oates, released in 1988. Though it went platinum and produced a hit with "Everything Your Heart Desires", it charted lower and sold fewer copies than the band's early-to-mid-eighties albums....	Hall and Oates
J U N E	6	Provision Provision (album) Provision is the third album by the British new wave pop group Scritti Politti, release in June 1988.The album was the band's second top ten hit in the UK, reaching #8, and was certified Gold by the BPI for 100,000 copies shipped....	Scritti Politti Scritti Politti Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Although there have been various changes to the line-up, Cardiff-born singer-songwriter Green Gartside was the founding member of the band and the only member to have remained throughout the group's...
	Sur la Mer Sur La Mer Sur La Mer is the fourteenth album released by The Moody Blues'. It features the hit single "I Know You're Out There Somewhere," a sequel to their 1986 hit "Your Wildest Dreams." Much of the music on this album would fit in the "synthpop" genre, though it does bear more rock and acoustic...	The Moody Blues The Moody Blues The Moody Blues are an English rock band. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their 1967 album Days of Future Passed....
	13	Forever Your Girl Forever Your Girl Forever Your Girl is the debut album from singer Paula Abdul. It was released on June 13, 1988 and took 64 weeks from its release to hit number one on the Billboard 200 album sales chart, the longest an album has been on the market before hitting number one. The album was eventually certified seven...	Paula Abdul Paula Abdul Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R&B hits...
		Survive Survive (Nuclear Assault album) Survive is an album by Nuclear Assault released in 1988 on vinyl, compact disc and cassette. As of 2010, it has yet to be reissued on CD, unlike Nuclear Assault's other albums."Good Times Bad Times" is a Led Zeppelin cover.-Track listing:...	Nuclear Assault Nuclear Assault Nuclear Assault is an American thrash metal/crossover thrash band formed in 1984.-History:After the release of Anthrax's debut album Fistful of Metal, bass player Danny Lilker, a founding member of the group, was fired by the band...
	Conscience Conscience (Womack & Womack album) Conscience is the fourth album by Womack & Womack, released in 1988, containing the hit single "Teardrops".- Track listing :All tracks by Cecil Womack and Linda Womack ....	Womack and Womack
	17	Open All Night	The Georgia Satellites
	18	Ain't Complaining Ain't Complaining Ain't Complaining is the eighteenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo. Initially released on the Vertigo label in 1988, it was the group's first album on that label to fall short of the UK Top 10, reaching no higher than its entry position of No. 12...	Status Quo
	19	Outrider Outrider (album) Outrider is an album by Jimmy Page, released by Geffen Records on 19 June 1988. It is his first genuine solo album, and the first time since 1969 he recorded with a record label other than Atlantic Records/Swan Song Records. It was recorded at The Sol, Page's personal studio...	Jimmy Page Jimmy Page James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...
	20	Chicago 19 Chicago 19 Chicago 19 is the 19th album by American rock band Chicago and was released in 1988. After recording Chicago 18 with David Foster, the band decided to expand their sound with other producers and worked primarily with Ron Nevison and Chas Sandford for this album...	Chicago Chicago (band) Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
		Confessions of a Pop Group Confessions of a Pop Group Confessions of a Pop Group is an album from the band The Style Council. Released on 20 June 1988, the album received moderate success, reaching # 15 on the UK album chart....	The Style Council The Style Council The Style Council were an English band, formed in 1983 by the ex-The Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller, with keyboardist Mick Talbot. The permanent line-up grew to include drummer Steve White and Weller's then-wife, vocalist Dee C. Lee. Other artists such as Tracie Young and Tracey Thorn also...
		Don't Be Cruel Don't Be Cruel (album) Don't Be Cruel is the second album by American R&B singer Bobby Brown, released in 1988 on MCA Records. It includes four hit singles "Don't Be Cruel", "My Prerogative", "Roni" and "Every Little Step." All were #1 R&B singles except "Roni," which peaked at #2, while "My Prerogative" became Brown's...	Bobby Brown Bobby Brown Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...
		Instinct	Iggy Pop Iggy Pop Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
	Irish Heartbeat Irish Heartbeat Irish Heartbeat is the eighteenth album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and is a collaboration with the traditional Irish musical group The Chieftains, released in 1988...	Van Morrison Van Morrison Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...  & The Chieftains The Chieftains The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...
	Reg Strikes Back Reg Strikes Back Reg Strikes Back is the twenty-first studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1988. It was his self-proclaimed comeback album, and his own way of fighting back against bad press. The "Reg" in Reg Strikes Back refers to Elton John's birth name, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. This...	Elton John Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
	Roll with It Roll with It (album) Roll with It is the fifth solo album by blue-eyed soulster Steve Winwood. It topped the album charts in the United States, and has sold over three million copies. The title cut topped the pop singles and the album rock singles charts with subsequent hit status afforded the album tracks released as...	Steve Winwood Steve Winwood Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
21	Information Society Information Society (album) Information Society is the self-titled album by synthpop, techno, and Latin freestyle band Information Society. It was their first release under a major label, after two independently released albums...	Information Society Information Society (band) Information Society is an American band originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, primarily consisting of Kurt Larson , Paul Robb, and James Cassidy; the latter two reconvened the band in 2006, initially with Christopher Anton as lead vocalist, then with Harland rejoining them as lead vocalist by...
Long Live the Kane Long Live the Kane Long Live the Kane is the debut album by MC Big Daddy Kane, released by Cold Chillin' Records in 1988. It was produced by Marley Marl and established both him and Kane as premier artists during hip hop's golden age...	Big Daddy Kane Big Daddy Kane Antonio Hardy better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MC's in Hip Hop...
22	Heavy Nova Heavy Nova (album) Heavy Nova is the tenth solo album by Robert Palmer, released in 1988. His first album for EMI Records after a 15-year association with Island Records , it followed Palmer's very popular album Riptide....	Robert Palmer
27	20 Years of Jethro Tull 20 Years of Jethro Tull -Disc two:Flawed Gems and Other Sides Of Tull-Disc three:The Essential Tull-LP Track listing:The track numbers shown below are for the five LP set...	Jethro Tull Jethro Tull (band) Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...	Box Set
	Outside the Gate Outside the Gate Outside the Gate is the seventh album by English post-punk group Killing Joke and is arguably the most controversial release among their fans....	Killing Joke Killing Joke Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England; other sources report the band formed in early 1979.Related news articles: Founding members Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker have been the only constant members.A key influence on industrial rock,...
Riders Radio Theater Riders Radio Theater Riders Radio Theater is a studio recording by the Western band Riders in the Sky, released in 1988. It is available as a single CD.This contains 18 digitally recorded selections, mock "Public Service Announcements", traffic reports, and commercials....	Riders in the Sky
28	Lead Me On	Amy Grant Amy Grant Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...
	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the second studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released April 14, 1988, on Def Jam Recordings. Recording sessions for the album took place at Chung King Studios, Greene Street Recording, and Sabella Studios in New York City...	Public Enemy
In God We Trust	Stryper Stryper Stryper is a Christian glam metal band from Orange County, California. The group's lineup consists of Michael Sweet , Oz Fox , Tim Gaines , and Robert Sweet...
-	Close Close (album) Close is the sixth studio album by Kim Wilde, released in mid 1988.Produced by Ricky Wilde and Tony Swain, Close was the final album on which Marty Wilde had co-writer credits...	Kim Wilde Kim Wilde Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...
	Coming Back Hard Again	The Fat Boys The Fat Boys The Fat Boys are a successful African American hip-hop music trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s. Briefly, the group was known originally as the Disco 3.-Members:*Mark Morales a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee"...
	Dream of Life Dream of Life Dream of Life is an album by Patti Smith, released in June 1988 on Arista Records. It was her first album after the dissolution of The Patti Smith Group. Lead single "People Have the Power" received some album-oriented rock airplay at the time, and later was revived by Bruce Springsteen as a theme...	Patti Smith Patti Smith Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....
The House of Love The House of Love (1988 album) The House of Love was the debut album by the British band The House of Love. Released in June 1988 by Creation Records, the album was a critical success.-Background:...	The House of Love The House of Love The House of Love is an English alternative rock band. Formed in 1986, the band rose to prominence in the UK as a leading indie rock band in 1988 and split up in 1993, eventually reforming a decade later in 2003. The band is best known for its detailed psychedelic guitar sound and for the...
Tighten Up, Vol. 88 Tighten Up, Vol. 88 -Personnel:* Mick Jones - vocals, guitar, producer* Don Letts - sound effects, vocals* Greg Roberts - drums, vocals* Dan Donovan - keyboards, vocals* Leo 'E-Zee-Kill' Williams - bass, vocals* Flea - Dynamite* Adele - Crew* Josh - Grand Poo-Bah...	Big Audio Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite are a British musical group formed in 1984 by the ex-guitarist and singer of the Clash, Mick Jones. The group are noted for their effective mixture of varied musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip hop, reggae, and funk...
Y Kant Tori Read Y Kant Tori Read (album) -Personnel:*Tori Amos – lead singer, acoustic piano*Paulinho Da Costa – percussion*Richard Bernard – bouzouki*Gene Black – guitar*Kim Bullard – acoustic piano, programming, keyboards*Steve Caton – guitar*Vinnie Colaiuta – drums*Devon Dickson – bagpipes...	Y Kant Tori Read Y Kant Tori Read Y Kant Tori Read was a 1980s synthpop band, fronted by singer-songwriter Tori Amos. The band released one album, also called Y Kant Tori Read, which was largely unsuccessful, perhaps in part because Atlantic Records abandoned promoting the record completely after only two months of release...	featuring Tori Amos Tori Amos Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

July - September

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
J U L Y	4	Kylie Kylie (album) Kylie is the debut album by Australian singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue, released by PWL on 4 July 1988. Stock, Aitken and Waterman produced and wrote eight of the ten tracks on the album....	Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
	5	Long Cold Winter Long Cold Winter Long Cold Winter is Cinderella's second studio album, released in 1988 through Mercury Records. It reached #10 in the US and became double-platinum for shipping 2 million copies in the US by the end of the year, just as their debut album Night Songs had done earlier. It was later certified triple...	Cinderella Cinderella (band) Cinderella is an American heavy metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal band, but then shifted over towards a more hard...
		Temple of Low Men Temple of Low Men Temple of Low Men is Crowded House's second studio album, released in 1988. The album had five singles, Sister Madly, I Feel Possessed, Into Temptation, When You Come and Better Be Home Soon.-Album:...	Crowded House Crowded House Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...
	South of Heaven South of Heaven South of Heaven is the fourth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on July 5, 1988, the album was the band's second collaboration with record producer Rick Rubin, whose production skills on Slayer's previous album Reign in Blood had helped the band's sound evolve.South of...	Slayer Slayer Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
	11	Substance Substance (Joy Division album) Substance 1977-1980 is a singles compilation album by the post-punk band Joy Division, released on Factory Records in 1988. It is companion to a similar singles compilation by their subsequent band New Order, also entitled Substance. It peaked at #7 in the UK album chart and #146 on the Billboard...	Joy Division Joy Division Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...	Compilation
		Wings of Heaven Wings of Heaven -Singles:Days of No Trust 7" #"Days of No Trust" [Edit] — 3:46#"Maybe Tonight" [B-Side] — 4:39Days of No Trust 12" #"Days of No Trust" [Edit] — 3:46#"Maybe Tonight" [B-Side] — 4:39#"The Spirit" [Live] — 0:00...	Magnum Magnum (band) Magnum are a British progressive rock band from Birmingham, England. Formed as a four piece by Tony Clarkin , Bob Catley , Kex Gorin and Bob Doyle in order to appear as the resident band at The Rum Runner night club Birmingham...
	UB40	UB40 UB40 UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records.Their hit singles...
	12	Brian Wilson Brian Wilson (album) Brian Wilson is the eponymous first solo album by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, released in July 1988 on Sire Records. The album was reissued on Rhino Records with an extensive selection of bonus tracks in 2000.-Background:...	Brian Wilson Brian Wilson Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
	18	Time Odyssey Time Odyssey (album) Time Odyssey is the second studio album by guitarist Vinnie Moore, released in 1988 through PolyGram Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Vinnie Moore – electric guitar, production*Jordan Rudess – keyboard*Joe Franco – drums*Michael Bean – bass guitar...	Vinnie Moore Vinnie Moore Vinnie Moore is a guitarist and a member of the English hard rock band UFO. Along with Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, and others, Moore is known as one of the most influential guitarists to emerge out of the shredder boom in the mid 1980s.-Biography:Moore was born in New Castle, Delaware...
	23	Now That's What I Call Music 12 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
	25	View from the House View from the House View from the House is a studio album by Kim Carnes, released in 1988 . The album marked a return to her early country music roots....	Kim Carnes Kim Carnes Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner noted for her distinctive raspy vocal style. Some people have called her "The Female Rod Stewart" due to her raspy voice....
	Follow the Leader Follow the Leader (Eric B. and Rakim album) Follow the Leader is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, released July 25, 1988 on MCA-subsidiary label Uni Records. It is the follow-up to their debut album Paid in Full...	Eric B & Rakim
29	Cocktail Soundtrack	Various Artists	Soundtrack
-	Britny Fox Britny Fox (album) - Track listing :All songs by Dean Davidson except when noted.# "Girlschool" - 4:39# "Long Way to Love" - 4:54# "Kick 'n' Fight" - 3:37# "Save the Weak" - 5:30# "Fun in Texas" - 4:27# "Rock Revolution" - 4:40# "Don't Hide" - 4:50...	Britny Fox Britny Fox Britny Fox was an American Glam metal band from the Philadelphia area, initially active from 1985 to 1992 then subsequently reforming in 2000. They are best known for their music video for "Girlschool" and their hit "Long Way to Love" .-History:...
	Imaginos Imaginos Imaginos is a 1988 concept album by Blue Öyster Cult.The "Imaginos" concept was originally begun by producer Sandy Pearlman in 1967, before BÖC was even formed. Drummer Albert Bouchard began writing music for it following the release of the band's first album in 1972...	Blue Öyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult, often abbreviated BÖC, is an American rock band, most of whose members first came together in Long Island, NY in 1967 as the band Soft White Underbelly...
	The Indescribable Wow	Sam Phillips Sam Phillips (singer) Leslie Ann Phillips, aka Sam Phillips is an American singer and a songwriter.-Biography:Phillips was born in Glendale, California. She began her musical career as a vocalist in the early 1980s, singing background parts for Christian artists Mark Heard, Randy Stonehill and others...
	Let It Roll	Little Feat Little Feat Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles....
Nobody's Perfect	Deep Purple Deep Purple Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...	Live
Reek of Putrefaction Reek of Putrefaction Reek of Putrefaction is the debut album by the British extreme metal band Carcass. It was released by Earache Records in 1988.-Background:...	Carcass Carcass (band) Carcass are an extreme metal band from England, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1995. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons....
Streets of This Town Streets Of This Town Streets of This Town is a 1988 album by singer-songwriter Steve Forbert. Streets of This Town was Forbert's first album in six years and his first with Geffen Records.-Track listing:All Songs Written by Steve Forbert...	Steve Forbert Steve Forbert Steve Forbert is an American pop music singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980....
Wide Awake in Dreamland Wide Awake in Dreamland Wide Awake in Dreamland is Pat Benatar's eighth album, released in 1988. After a string of successful albums, this was her last rock-oriented album of the 1980s, before she would go on to try a blues-based sound. The album's lead single "All Fired Up" reached a high of #19 on the Billboard Hot 100...	Pat Benatar Pat Benatar Pat Benatar is an American singer and four-time Grammy winner. She had considerable commercial success particularly in the United States...
A U G U S T	2	Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third consecutive No. 1 Billboard Country Album by Dwight Yoakam. It features Yoakam's first two No. 1 Hot Country Singles hits. The first was "Streets of Bakersfield," a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, and the second was Yoakam's own...	Dwight Yoakam Dwight Yoakam Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...
		Greatest Hits Live Greatest Hits Live (Carly Simon) Greatest Hits Live is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 15th album, second greatest-hits album and first live album, released in 1988.All the songs are live versions from a 1987 HBO special taped on Martha's Vineyard called Live From Martha's Vineyard, which was released in 1987 on VHS and in 2004 on...	Carly Simon Carly Simon Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work...	Live
		People People (Hothouse Flowers album) People is the debut album by celtic rock group Hothouse Flowers, released in 1988. This album to date is the biggest selling debut album by an Irish artist in Ireland.-Track listing:#"I'm Sorry" – 3:36#"Don't Go" – 3:48#"Forgiven" – 3:21...	Hothouse Flowers Hothouse Flowers The Hothouse Flowers are an Irish rock group that combines traditional Irish music with influences from soul, gospel and rock.-Career:The group first formed in 1985 when Liam Ó Maonlaí and Fiachna Ó Braonáin began performing as street musicians, or buskers, on the streets of Dublin,Ireland as "The...
	A Salt with a Deadly Pepa A Salt with a Deadly Pepa A Salt With A Deadly Pepa is the second album by female rap trio Salt-N-Pepa, released on Next Plateau Records. The album was certified gold in America, reaching #38 on the Billboard 200 and #8 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Album charts...	Salt-n-Pepa Salt-N-Pepa Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
	8	Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (album) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, released in 1988, was American blues musician Robert Cray's follow-up to Strong Persuader. It was unable to match the mainstream success of Strong Persuader, despite having an equal number of gems.-Track listing:...	Robert Cray Robert Cray Robert Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, as well as an acclaimed solo career.-Career:...
		Dragon's Kiss	Marty Friedman Marty Friedman (guitarist) Marty Friedman is a guitarist, well known for his tenure as the lead/rhythm guitarist for thrash metal band Megadeth, which lasted almost a decade...	Debut
	Straight Outta Compton Straight Outta Compton The lyrics on the album were mainly written by Ice Cube and MC Ren. Critics of the album expressed their view that the record glamorized Black-on-Black crime, but the emcees stated that the group was simply showing the reality of living in the areas of Compton, California, and South Central Los...	N.W.A. N.W.A. N.W.A was an American hip hop group from Compton, California, widely considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap sub-genre....
	9	Danzig Danzig (album) Danzig is the 1988 debut album of the American heavy metal band Danzig, led by Glenn Danzig who was formerly the songwriter and vocalist of the Misfits and Samhain....	Danzig Danzig (band) Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for the singer/songwriter Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands The Misfits and Samhain...
	Out of This World	Europe Europe (band) Europe is a Swedish rock band formed in Upplands Väsby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest, guitarist John Norum and drummer Tony Reno. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal and hard rock elements...
	10	Winger Winger (album) Track 11, "Higher and Higher", was a CD bonus track. It wasn't on cassette copies of the album. It was also the B-side of the "Madalaine" single. In this day and age, just as CDs were beginning to become popular, it was not uncommon to include a bonus track like this.-Band:* Kip Winger – bass...	Winger	Debut
	15	Short Sharp Shocked Short Sharp Shocked Short Sharp Shocked is an album by Michelle Shocked. It is her second album, released in 1988 . It was remastered and reissued in 2003 as a two-CD set by Shocked's own label, Mighty Sound...	Michelle Shocked Michelle Shocked Michelle Shocked is the stage name of Michelle Karen Johnston, an American singer-songwriter.-History:Shocked received her first international exposure in Europe, particularly Britain, with her debut album The Texas Campfire Tapes .Her first U.S...
	23	Dangerous Age Dangerous Age Dangerous Age is the eighth album by hard rock band Bad Company, and their second album with Brian Howe in place of Paul Rodgers as lead vocalist and Steve Price in place of Boz Burrell as bass guitarist, released in 1988...	Bad Company Bad Company Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...
		Nothing's Shocking Nothing's Shocking Nothing's Shocking is the first studio album by the American alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released on August 23, 1988 through Warner Bros. Records. Nothing's Shocking was well received by critics upon release and is often cited as the band's best album. Despite this, it peaked at number...	Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...
	Two Nuns and a Pack Mule Two Nuns and a Pack Mule Two Nuns and A Pack Mule is the first and only LP by the Chicago noise rock band Rapeman. The CD re-release contains the Budd in its entirety.-Track listing:All songs written by Rapeman, except where noted...	Rapeman Rapeman Rapeman was an American post-hardcore/noise rock group founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1989. It consisted of Steve Albini on guitar and vocals, David Wm. Sims on bass, and Rey Washam on drums.-History:In an interview, Albini reported that "'Rapeman' is .....
	24	Young Man Running Young Man Running Young Man Running is the fourth album by Corey Hart, released in 1988. It charted in the U.S., reaching #126, and generated the hit single, "In Your Soul", which reached #38.- Track listing :All songs written by Corey Hart....	Corey Hart Corey Hart Corey Mitchell Hart is a Canadian musician, best known for such hit singles "Sunglasses at Night" and "Never Surrender". He has sold over 15 million records worldwide and scored nine consecutive US Billboard Top 40 hits. In Canada Hart has amassed 29 Top 40 hits, including 11 in the Top 10, over...
	25	...And Justice for All ...And Justice for All (album) ...And Justice for All is the fourth studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on August 25, 1988 through Elektra Records. It is the first full-length Metallica album to feature bassist Jason Newsted following the death of Cliff Burton in 1986...	Metallica Metallica Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
	27	So Good	Mica Paris Mica Paris Mica Paris is an English soul singer, radio and television presenter, and occasional actress. Her forename is pronounced Misha.-Beginnings:Paris' roots are in soul and gospel music...
30	Other Roads Other Roads Other Roads is an album by Boz Scaggs, released in 1988. After an eight-year hiatus from recording, Boz Scaggs returned in 1988 with the album Other Roads, a record aimed primarily at the adult contemporary market. The album reached #47 on the Billboard pop album chart, while the lead single “Heart...	Boz Scaggs Boz Scaggs William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...
-	Chameleon Days Chameleon Days Chameleon Days is Yanni's fourth album, released on the Private Music label in 1988 . It peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart in the same year...	Yanni Yanni Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...
	Chimes of Freedom Chimes of Freedom (EP) Chimes of Freedom is the name of a 1988 live Bruce Springsteen EP. It was released to support the multi-artist Human Rights Now! Tour in benefit of Amnesty International. This tour was announced near the end of a first set radio broadcast during Springsteen's July 3, 1988 show in Stockholm,...	Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...	Live EP
	Don't Forget the Struggle, Don't Forget the Streets Don't Forget The Struggle, Don't Forget The Streets Don't Forget the Struggle, Don't Forget the Streets was the first full-length album from New York hardcore band, Warzone.It was released in 1988 on Caroline Records, following the band's 1987 debut release, the Lower East Side Crew EP...	Warzone Warzone (band) Warzone was an American hardcore punk band formed on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1982. The band helped develop the New York hardcore sound, the hardcore skinhead style and the youth crew subgenre...
	Greg Howe Greg Howe (album) Greg Howe is the self-titled first studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records. An article in Guitar World magazine ranked the album as tenth in the all-time top ten list of shred albums.-Track listing:-Personnel:...	Greg Howe Greg Howe Gregory "Greg" Howe is an American guitarist and composer. As an active musician for nearly thirty years, he has released nine studio albums in addition to collaborating with a wide variety of artists.-Recording career:...
	In Battle There Is No Law In Battle There Is No Law In Battle There Is No Law is the debut album of Bolt Thrower. It is recorded at Loco studios by Andrew Fryer, and mixed at Clockwork by Alan Scott. It was released on Vinyl Solution as Sol 11 in 1988 and re-released on Vinyl Solution as Sol 11 in 1992, with a different album sleeve...	Bolt Thrower Bolt Thrower (band) Bolt Thrower are a British death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. The band then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling bands on that label. Their current label is Metal...
	Interior Design Interior Design (album) -CD Edition:-Personnel:* Russell Mael, Vocals, production* Ron Mael, Keyboards, production* Spencer Sircombe, Guitar* Pamela Stonebrooke, Background vocals* John Thomas, Keyboards, engineering...	Sparks Sparks (band) Sparks is an American rock and pop band formed in Los Angeles in 1968 by brothers Ron and Russell Mael , initially under the name Halfnelson...
	Revolutions	Jean Michel Jarre Jean Michel Jarre Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...
16 Lovers Lane 16 Lovers Lane 16 Lovers Lane was the sixth album by Australian indie pop group The Go-Betweens, released in 1988 by Beggars Banquet Records. Prior to the recording of the album, longtime bassist Robert Vickers left the band when the other group members decided to return to Australia after having spent several...	The Go-Betweens The Go-Betweens The Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...
Small World Small World (album) Small World is the fifth album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1988 .Although it reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the album was much less successful than its predecessors, 1983's Sports and 1986's Fore!...	Huey Lewis and the News Huey Lewis and the News Huey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts...
Sunshine on Leith Sunshine on Leith Sunshine on Leith is The Proclaimers' second and best known album, released in August 1988. The album had three singles, including the title track, "I'm On My Way," and "I'm Gonna Be ," which also became a hit following its inclusion on the soundtrack to Benny & Joon five years later in 1993...	The Proclaimers The Proclaimers The Proclaimers are a Scottish band composed of identical twin brothers, Charlie and Craig Reid . They are probably best known for the songs "Letter from America", "I'm On My Way" and "I'm Gonna Be ". The band tours extensively throughout Europe and other continents...
Viva Santana! Viva Santana! Viva Santana! is a 1988 compilation album by Santana.The album's thirty tracks aim to provide an overview of Santana's first twenty years, concentrating on the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s and also includes - mostly live - previously unreleased tracks.-Disc one:#"Everybody's Everything" –...	Santana Santana (band) Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...	Compilation with unreleased tracks
Wild Wild West Wild Wild West (album) Wild Wild West is the second album by rock band The Escape Club, released in 1988. It includes their most well-known song, "Wild, Wild West."-Track listing:# "Wild, Wild West" # "Jealousy" # "Shake for the Sheik"...	The Escape Club The Escape Club The Escape Club began in 1983 as an English pop rock band based in London. The band was composed of former Mad Shadows members' lead singer/rhythm guitarist Trevor Steel and guitarist John Holliday, along with former Expressos members bassist Johnnie Christo and drummer Milan Zekavica...
S E P T E M B E R	5	Peepshow Peepshow (album) Peepshow is the ninth studio album by the English band Siouxsie and the Banshees and their first as a quintet. With the arrival of multi-instrumentalist Martin McCarrick, Peepshow was one of their most musically complex albums, including the singles "Peek-a-Boo" and "The Last Beat of My...	Siouxsie and the Banshees
	Rank Rank (album) Rank is a live album by the English rock band The Smiths. It was released in September 1988 by their British record company, Rough Trade, and reached No. 2 in the British charts. In the United States, the album was released on Sire Records and made No. 77.-About the album:Rank was released as a...	The Smiths The Smiths The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...	Live
	6	Hangin' Tough Hangin' Tough -Production:*Executive Producer: Cecil Holmes*Arranged & Produced By Maurice Starr*Associate Producers: Jordan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg & Danny Wood*Recorded, Engineered & Mixed By Phil Greene, Richard Mendelson, Maurice Starr, Hediki Sunada & Danny Wood...	New Kids on the Block New Kids on the Block New Kids on the Block are an American boy band from Boston, Massachusetts, assembled in 1984 by producer Maurice Starr. The band currently consists of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood.New Kids on the Block enjoyed success in the late 1980s and...
	8	Suffer Suffer (album) Suffer is the third album by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on the Californian independent record label Epitaph Records on September 8, 1988. It was the first album that was both released and distributed by the label...	Bad Religion Bad Religion Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1979. Their current line-up consists of Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz , Jay Bentley , Greg Hetson , Brian Baker and Brooks Wackerman . Gurewitz is also the founder of the label Epitaph Records, which has released almost all of the...
	12	VIVIsectVI VIVIsectVI -Notes:"Dogshit" was released as a single under the title "Censor"."Who's Laughing Now?" was included on the soundtrack of the 1990 film Bad Influence.A note in liner notes is a reference to playing music at a very loud volume, or else...	Skinny Puppy Skinny Puppy Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial musical group, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982. The group is widely considered to be the founders of the electro-industrial genre....
	Ancient Heart Ancient Heart Ancient Heart is a 1988 album by Tanita Tikaram. The album had huge success and was a hit globally, launching Tanita's mainstream career. Guest musicians included Rod Argent, Mark Isham, Peter Van Hooke, Paul Brady and Brendan Croker...	Tanita Tikaram Tanita Tikaram Tanita Tikaram is a British pop/folk singer-songwriter, best known for the hits "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart...
	13	How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today is the third album by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, released on Epic Records on September 13, 1988....	Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...
		New Jersey New Jersey (album) New Jersey is Bon Jovi's fourth album, released on September 19, 1988. The album charted at #1 on The Billboard 200. New Jersey was particularly notable for producing five Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 singles, the most top ten hits to date for a hard rock album.-Unreleased songs:The album was...	Bon Jovi Bon Jovi Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
		Power Power (Ice T album) Power is the second album by Ice-T. Released in 1988, the album produced the single and video "I'm Your Pusher," which got Ice-T major air-play on MTV....	Ice T Ice T Tracy Marrow , better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American musician and actor.He was born in Newark, New Jersey and moved to the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles when he was in the 7th grade. After graduating from high school he served in the United States Army for four years...
	See the Light	Jeff Healey Band Jeff Healey Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist who attained musical and personal popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...
	Truth and Soul Truth and Soul Truth and Soul is the second album by alternative rock band Fishbone. It was released on September 13, 1988. The album features a wide array of genres including punk, ska, reggae, soul, hard rock, funk, blues and heavy metal...	Fishbone Fishbone Fishbone is a U.S. alternative rock band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, which plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk, hard rock and soul. Critics have noted of the band: "Fishbone was one of the most distinctive and eclectic alternative rock bands of the late '80s...
	16	Eazy-Duz-It Eazy-Duz-It Eazy-Duz-It is the debut album of rapper Eazy-E, released on September 16, 1988, through both Ruthless and Priority Records. The production by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella was deemed dense and funky by critic Jason Birchmeier. The pieces were written primarily by MC Ren, Ice Cube, and The D.O.C.. The...	Eazy-E Eazy-E Eric Lynn Wright , better known by his stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper who performed solo and in the hip hop group N.W.A. Wright was born to Richard and Kathie Wright in Compton, California...
		Tougher Than Leather Tougher Than Leather Tougher Than Leather is a 1988 studio album for American rap group Run–D.M.C. and a follow-up to their hit Raising Hell. While the new record did not maintain the same popularity as its predecessor, it obtained platinum status and spawned the favorites "Run's House" and "Mary, Mary" .Tougher Than...	Run-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C. Run–D.M.C. was an American hip hop group from Hollis, in the Queens borough of New York City. Founded by Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, and Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell, the group is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture.Run–D.M.C...
	Spirit of Eden Spirit of Eden Spirit of Eden was the fourth album by the English band Talk Talk. The songs were written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, and performed by numerous musicians using a diverse combination of instruments. In 2008, Alan McGee of the Guardian wrote: "Spirit of Eden has not dated; it's remarkable...	Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk were an English musical group, active from 1981 to 1991. The group had a string of international hit singles including "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in Another World"....
	18	State of Euphoria State of Euphoria State of Euphoria is the fourth studio album by the American heavy metal band Anthrax. It was released on September 19, 1988 through Megaforce/Island Records.-Album information:...	Anthrax Anthrax (band) Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene...
	19	Blow My Fuse Blow My Fuse Blow My Fuse is the title of the fourth album released by the hard rock band Kix, released on Atlantic Records on September 19, 1988.-Track listing:# "Red Lite, Green Lite, TNT" – 3:54...	Kix Kix (band) Kix is an American hard rock/heavy metal band who achieved popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Band members continue to tour, recently appearing at the Rocklahoma festival in 2008 in Oklahoma and the M3 Rock Festival in May 2011 in the band's home state of Maryland.-Formation:Kix was...
		Blue Bell Knoll Blue Bell Knoll Blue Bell Knoll is the fifth album by Scottish band Cocteau Twins.This was the first LP by the Twins to receive major-label distribution in the USA, as it was originally licensed by Capitol Records from 4AD for North American release...	Cocteau Twins Cocteau Twins Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals...
		Staring at the Sun Staring at the Sun (Level 42 album) Staring at the Sun is the eighth studio album released by the British pop band Level 42, in 1988. Produced by Level 42, Wally Badarou and Julian Mendelsohn. Recorded at Miraval, France. Engineered and mixed by Julian Mendelsohn. Engineer's assistant - Jean Lamoot. Mastered at The Townhouse by Kevin...	Level 42 Level 42 Level 42 are an English pop rock and jazz-funk band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s.The band gained fame for their high-calibre musicianship—in particular that of Mark King, whose percussive slap-bass guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the...	UK
	Tender Prey Tender Prey Tender Prey is the fifth album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1988 on Mute Records.Tender Prey contains Cave's 'signature' tune "The Mercy Seat", which he has subsequently played at almost all of his live performances since 1988, and was covered by Johnny Cash...	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...
Watermark	Enya Enya Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...
20	Any Love	Luther Vandross Luther Vandross Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
Workers Playtime Workers Playtime Workers Playtime is a 1988 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on the Go! Discs label, it is his fourth release but third full length album...	Billy Bragg Billy Bragg Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
25	Lincoln Lincoln (album) Lincoln is the second album by the band They Might Be Giants. It was released in 1988 . The album is named after John Linnell and John Flansburgh's boyhood home of Lincoln, Massachusetts. The two men pictured are Linnell's great-grandfather, Lewis T...	They Might Be Giants They Might Be Giants They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are...
26	Boingo Alive Boingo Alive Boingo Alive is a double-disc album by Oingo Boingo, released on September 26, 1988. It serves a number of purposes, being a hybrid of a greatest hits album, studio album and live album...	Oingo Boingo Oingo Boingo Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts. The band was founded in 1972 as The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a performance art group...	Compilation + Live
27	Land of Dreams Land of Dreams Land of Dreams is a 1988 album by Randy Newman full of vignettes of his childhood in New Orleans. The most well-known song on the album is "It's Money That Matters", which rose to the top of the Mainstream Rock chart for two weeks, to become Newman's only number one hit on any U.S...	Randy Newman Randy Newman Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....
28	Let's Get It Started Let's Get It Started (album) Let's Get It Started is the second album released by pop rap emcee M.C. Hammer. The album went double platinum with "Pump It Up", "Let's Get It Started", "Turn This Mutha Out" and "They Put Me in the Mix" as the most popular tracks from this album. Music videos were also produced for all of these...	MC Hammer MC Hammer Stanley Kirk Burrell , better known by his stage name MC Hammer , is an American rapper, entertainer, business entrepreneur, dancer and actor. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s...	Capitol Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...  re-release of 1987 debut Feel My Power Feel My Power is an EP by M.C. Hammer, produced by Felton Pilate and released in 1987. This album sold over 60,000 copies, which led to several offers from major labels.-Album history:...
-	Big Time	Tom Waits Tom Waits Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...	Live
	Buster: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Buster (soundtrack) Buster: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1988 British film Buster. The album is essentially a collection of oldies, tucked in between two Phil Collins songs that were recorded for the film, in which he starred...	Phil Collins Phil Collins Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....  et al.	Soundtrack
	It Takes Two	Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock are a hip-hop duo from Harlem, New York who are best known for their hit "It Takes Two." The duo consists of Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock .- Career :Their first U.S...
	La pistola y el corazón La Pistola y El Corazón La Pistola y El Corazón is the 7th album by the Chicano rock group Los Lobos. The mini-album dedicated to Tejano/Mariachi folk music.-Track listing:#La Guacamaya – 2:05#Las Amarillas – 3:04#Si Yo Quisiera – 2:42...	Los Lobos Los Lobos Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...
	Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 *"Save Us" was not included on the original LP: appears on the NOISE Records release.*Tracks 1 and 2 also appear on the "Dr. Stein" single*Track 3 also appears on the "I Want Out" single*Tracks 4 and 5 also appear on the Treasure Chest compilation...	Helloween Helloween Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...
	Metal Rhythm Metal Rhythm Metal Rhythm is the 11th studio album, and 9th under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1988. It is his first album released through IRS Records.- Overview :...	Gary Numan Gary Numan Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music...
Peace in Our Time Peace in Our Time For the Eddie Money song, see Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money.Peace in Our Time is the fourth studio album by Scottish band Big Country, released in 1988...	Big Country Big Country Big Country are a Scottish rock band formed in Dunfermline, Fife in 1981. They were most popular in the early to mid-1980s, but they still release material for a cult following...
Perpetual Burn Perpetual Burn Perpetual Burn is the first studio album by guitarist Jason Becker, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Jason Becker – guitar, keyboard, bass, production...	Jason Becker Jason Becker Jason Eli Becker is an American virtuoso neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go Off! in 1988...
Vixen	Vixen Vixen (band) Vixen is an all-female American hard rock band which achieved some commercial success during the late 1980s and early 1990s as part of the Los Angeles, California glam metal scene.-Early years:...
What Up, Dog? What Up, Dog? -LP edition:-UK CD edition:* The UK CD edition and Cassette editions featured this configuration-Personnel:* David "Michigan-Boy Snake" Was — flute, keyboards, harmonica, vocals* Don "Rope Drink" Was — bass, keyboards, guitar, mandolin...	Was (Not Was) Was (Not Was) -Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Contributions:* A Christmas Record - "Christmas Time In The Motor City"* That's The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk - "Ba-Lue-Bolivar-Ba-Lues-Are"...

October - December

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
O C T O B E R	1	Breakwater Breakwater (Lennie Gallant album) Breakwater is the debut album by Lennie Gallant, released in 1988 .-Track listing:# "Tales of the Phantom Ship"# "Island Clay"# "Raise the Dead of Wintertime"# "Back to Rustico"# "From a Distance"# "Marie and He"...	Lennie Gallant Lennie Gallant Lennie Gallant, CM is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His music crosses into the folk, Celtic, rock and country music genres...
	3	Talk Is Cheap Talk Is Cheap Talk Is Cheap is the solo album debut by Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, released in 1988. Recorded and released following a brief creative and personal fallout with Mick Jagger, Talk Is Cheap received glowing reviews upon its release....	Keith Richards Keith Richards Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
	4	BulletBoys BulletBoys (album) BulletBoys is the self-titled first album from the American glam metal band BulletBoys, released in 1988. It features the hit "Smooth Up in Ya" as well as a cover of The O'Jay's song "For the Love of Money". The album reached No...	BulletBoys BulletBoys BulletBoys is an American hard rock group formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1987. The group's original lineup was composed of former Ratt guitarist/King Kobra lead vocalist Marq Torien , former King Kobra guitarist Mick Sweda, Lonnie Vencent and Jimmy D'Anda...
		Silhouette Silhouette (album) Silhouette is the fifth studio album by saxophonist Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records in 1988, and reached number 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, number 8 on the Billboard 200, and number 10 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart...	Kenny G Kenny G Kenneth Bruce Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American, adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986...
	No Rest for the Wicked No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album) No Rest for the Wicked is the fifth studio album by Ozzy Osbourne. It was released on October 22, 1988 and was re-issued / remastered on August 22, 1995 and again on June 25, 2002. The album was certified gold in December 1989 and has since gone double platinum. No Rest for the Wicked is the first...	Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Osbourne John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
	Critical Beatdown Critical Beatdown Critical Beatdown is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Ultramagnetic MCs, released October 4, 1988, on Next Plateau Records. Production for the album was handled primarily by the group's rapper and producer Ced-Gee, who employed a E-mu SP-1200 sampler as the album's main instrument...	Ultramagnetic MCs Ultramagnetic MCs The Ultramagnetic MC's is an American hip hop group based in Bronx, New York. Originally founded by Kool Keith, the group is composed of Ced Gee, TR Love, and Moe Love. Tim Dog became an unofficial member in 1989. In 1990, DJ Jaycee was added as Roadmanager and backup DJ. A former member, Rooney...
	10	Imagine: John Lennon	John Lennon John Lennon John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...  et al.	Soundtrack
		Barcelona Barcelona (album) Barcelona is an album recorded by Freddie Mercury, the front-man of the popular British rock band Queen, and operatic soprano Montserrat Caballé. The album was recorded in 1987 and 1988, and released in 1988...	Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range...  and Montserrat Caballé Montserrat Caballé Montserrat Caballé is a Spanish operatic soprano. Although she sang a wide variety of roles, she is best known as an exponent of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi....
	Rattle and Hum Rattle and Hum Rattle and Hum is the sixth studio album by rock band U2 and companion rockumentary directed by Phil Joanou, both released in 1988. The film and the album feature live recordings, covers, and new songs...	U2 U2 U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...	Soundtrack; Studio + Live
	11	The Land of Rape and Honey The Land of Rape and Honey The Land of Rape and Honey is the third studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1988 on Sire Records. The image on the cover appears to be an electronically processed version of a photo of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla sub-camp of Buchenwald...	Ministry Ministry (band) Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...
	Introspective	Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
	14	Broadway the Hard Way Broadway the Hard Way Broadway the Hard Way is a Frank Zappa live album recorded at various performances along his 1988 world tour. It was first released as a 9-track vinyl through Zappa's mail order label Barking Pumpkin in October 1988, and subsequently as a 17-track CD through Rykodisc in 1989.This album was...	Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
	15	Nö Sleep at All No Sleep at All Nö Sleep at All is the second official live album by the British band Motörhead, following 1981's No Sleep 'til Hammersmith. It was recorded on 2 July 1988 at a Giants of Rock Festival performance in Hämeenlinna, Finland.-History:...	Motörhead	Live
	17	Copperhead Road Copperhead Road Copperhead Road is an American country music/country rock album released in 1988 by Steve Earle. Often referred to as Earle's first "rock record", Earle himself calls it the world's first blend of heavy metal and bluegrass, while in their January 26, 1989 review of the album Rolling Stone suggested...	Steve Earle Steve Earle Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
	Fisherman's Blues Fisherman's Blues Fisherman's Blues is the 1988 album by The Waterboys. The album marked a change in the sound of The Waterboys', abandoning their earlier grandiose rock sound for a mixture of traditional Scottish music, country music and rock and roll. Critics were divided on its release with some disappointed at...	The Waterboys The Waterboys The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England. Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Spiddal, New York, and Findhorn have all served as homes for the group. The band has played in a...
	18	Big Thing Big Thing Big Thing is the fifth album by Duran Duran, released worldwide in 1988. It reached #15 in the UK and #24 in the US.A CD reissue was released in 1994. The album is was reissued as a three disc boxset on .- Background :...	Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
		Daydream Nation Daydream Nation Daydream Nation is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in October 1988 by Enigma Records in the United States, and by Blast First in the United Kingdom....	Sonic Youth Sonic Youth Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
		Everything Everything (The Bangles album) -The Bangles:*Susanna Hoffs: Lead & Backing Vocals, Guitars, Percussion*Vicki Peterson: Lead & Backing Vocals, Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Mandolin, Multi-Instruments*Michael Steele: Bass, Lead & Backing Vocals, Guitars, Percussion, Multi-Instruments...	The Bangles The Bangles The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles during the decade.-Formation and early years :...
	Giving You the Best That I Got Giving You the Best That I Got Giving You The Best That I Got is the third album by the American R&B/soul singer Anita Baker. It was Baker's first and only #1 Pop album in the US, the second #1 R&B Album, and was certified 3x platinum in 1989 by the RIAA....	Anita Baker Anita Baker Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....
	Negotiations and Love Songs Negotiations and Love Songs Negotiations and Love Songs is a collection of Paul Simon's songs from 1971-1986. The title of the compilation is taken from a line in the song Train in the Distance.-Track listing:-Chart performance:...	Paul Simon Paul Simon Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...	Compilation
19	Look Sharp! Look Sharp! (Roxette album) Singles*"Chances"*"The Look"*"Dressed for Success"*"Listen to Your Heart"*"Dangerous"-Charts:-Credits:*Vocals — Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson*Drums — Pelle Alsing*Programming and bass — Anders Herrlin...	Roxette Roxette Roxette are a Swedish pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle . Formed in 1986, the duo became an international act from the late 1980s, when they released their breakthrough album Look Sharp!...
24	The Serpent's Egg The Serpent's Egg The Serpent's Egg is the fourth album recorded by Dead Can Dance, which comprises Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. It was released in October 1988, and featured the song "The Host of Seraphim" which was later used in the soundtrack of a number of films, including Baraka, Vexille: 2077 Japanese...	Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance are an ethereal neoclassical duo formed in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1981, by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London in May 1982 and disbanded in 1998. Their 1996 album Spiritchaser reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top World Music Albums Chart...
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 is the debut album by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys and was recorded and released in 1988 to commercial success and critical acclaim.- Background :...	Traveling Wilburys Traveling Wilburys The Traveling Wilburys were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by drummer Jim Keltner...
25	Till I Loved You Till I Loved You (album) Till I Loved You is a studio album by American artist Barbra Streisand, released on October 25, 1988 on Columbia Records. The album was particularly notable both for its thematic structure and its high-budget production, as many guest writers, producers and musicians participated during its making...	Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 is a live album by Frank Zappa. Despite the subtitle "The Helsinki Concert," the album is not one complete concert, but was, in fact, assembled from two different concerts performed in Helsinki in 1974...	Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...	Live
28	Living Years	Mike + The Mechanics
31	Bug	Dinosaur Jr.
	Снова в СССР	Paul McCartney Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...	USSR-only release
	I Am Kurious Oranj I Am Kurious Oranj I Am Kurious Oranj is a 1988 album by British rock band The Fall. The album was written as the soundtrack for the ballet "I am Curious, Orange", produced by contemporary dance group Michael Clark & Company, and themed loosely around the 300th anniversary of William of Orange's accession to the...	The Fall
Quiet Riot Quiet Riot (1988 album) QR is the sixth studio album released in 1988 by the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. The album featured a major line-up change. Singer and founding member Kevin Dubrow had been fired before the recording sessions began, and replaced by Rough Cutt lead singer Paul Shortino...	Quiet Riot Quiet Riot Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...
Ultramega OK Ultramega OK Ultramega OK is the debut studio album by the American grunge band Soundgarden, released on October 31, 1988 through SST Records. Following the release of the EPs Screaming Life , and Fopp , both for the Sub Pop record label, Soundgarden signed with the independent record label SST and went to work...	Soundgarden Soundgarden Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...	Debut
-	Amnesia Amnesia (album) Amnesia is an album by Richard Thompson, recorded and released in 1988.After Across a Crowded Room and Daring Adventures had not troubled the compilers of hit parades, Polydor declined their option to renew their contract with Thompson...	Richard Thompson
	California California (American Music Club album) California is the third album by American Music Club, released in 1988.-Track listing:All songs written by Mark Eitzel.#"Firefly" #"Somewhere" #"Laughingstock" #"Lonely"...	American Music Club American Music Club American Music Club is a San Francisco-based alternative rock band led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel.-History:Although born in California, Eitzel spent his formative years in Okinawa, Taiwan, Great Britain and Ohio before returning to the Bay Area in 1981...
	Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 is a remix album by Boney M. released in 1988. Boney M.'s new manager at the time, Simon Napier-Bell, succeeded in persuading the four original members to briefly reunite and promote this remix album...	Boney M.	Remix
Money for Nothing Money for Nothing (album) Money for Nothing is a greatest hits album by Dire Straits released in 1988. It features highlights from the band's first five albums. The vinyl edition omits "Telegraph Road" and has a different running order, with "Tunnel of Love" placed between "Money for Nothing", the title track, and "Brothers...	Dire Straits Dire Straits Dire Straits were a British rock band active from 1977 to 1995, composed of Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers .Dire Straits' sound drew from a variety of musical influences, including jazz, folk, blues, and came closest...	Compilation
Rage Rage (T'Pau album) Rage is the second album by late-1980s British pop group T'Pau. It reached Number Four on the UK album chart and gave the group three hit singles - "Secret Garden" , "Road to Our Dream" and "Only the Lonely" .- Release background :The Canadian release came out later than the UK version with four...	T'Pau T'Pau (band) T'Pau was a 1980s British Rock group led by singer Carol Decker. They had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe...	U.K.
N O V E M B E R	1	20	Harry Connick, Jr. Harry Connick, Jr. Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American singer, big-band leader/conductor, pianist, actor, and composer. He has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with...
		Shaday Shaday Shaday was a 1988 album by Ofra Haza, released after the international chart success of the single "Im Nin' Alu ." Like the follow-up "Galbi," it was originally included on the 1984 album Yemenite Songs, which consisted of traditional folk songs with lyrics coming from the poetry of 16th century...	Ofra Haza Ofra Haza Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer of Yemeni origin, an actress and international recording artist....
	Reach for the Sky	Ratt Ratt Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...
	7	The Memphis Sessions The Memphis Sessions The Memphis Sessions is the second studio album by Wet Wet Wet. It was released on 7 November 1988, but it was actually recorded prior to their debut album, 1987's Popped In Souled Out...	Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish pop rock band that formed in the 1980s. They scored a number of hits in the British charts and around the world. The band is composed of Marti Pellow , Tommy Cunningham , Graeme Clark and Neil Mitchell...
	8	Green	R.E.M. R.E.M. R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
	12	CK	Chaka Khan Chaka Khan Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...
	14	All or Nothing All or Nothing (Milli Vanilli album) All or Nothing was the debut album by the dance pop duo Milli Vanilli, released only in Europe on the BMG label in November 1988. In 1989, it was repackaged and retitled Girl You Know It's True for release in the United States on the Arista label, with several of the original album tracks replaced...	Milli Vanilli Milli Vanilli Milli Vanilli was a pop/dance music project formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, visually fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The group's debut album achieved international success and earned them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist on Feb. 21, 1990. Milli Vanilli became one of the most...	Debut, Europe
	15	American Dream American Dream (album) American Dream is the 1988 reunion album for Crosby, Stills & Nash with Neil Young.Released on November 3, 1988, there was great anticipation for the quartet's first studio album in eighteen years, but all four performers were in fact at various ebbs in their songwriting. The harmonies still...	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
		Greatest Hits Greatest Hits (1988 Fleetwood Mac album) Greatest Hits is a 1988 compilation album by British-American band Fleetwood Mac. It covers the period of the band's greatest commercial success, from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s....	Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac are a British–American rock band formed in 1967 in London.The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood...	Compilation
	Greatest Hits	Journey Journey (band) Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...	Compilation
	16	Beast from the East Beast from the East Beast from the East is a live album recorded by heavy metal band Dokken in Japan in April 1988, during their Back for the Attack album tour. It was released on November 16, 1988. The album has live versions of the band's most popular songs and includes a studio track entitled "Walk Away"...	Dokken Dokken Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide...	Live
		Smashes, Thrashes & Hits Smashes, Thrashes & Hits -Charts:AlbumSingles- Certifications :...	Kiss KISS (band) Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...	Compilation Remixed +2 new tracks
		Kings of Metal Kings of Metal Kings of Metal is the sixth album by heavy metal band Manowar. Released in 1988 by Atlantic Records, it is thought by many to be among their very best releases....	Manowar Manowar (band) Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York. Formed in 1980 the group is known for its lyrics based on fantasy and mythological topics along with their "loud and bombastic" sound...
	Goodbye Girl Goodbye Girl (Miyuki Nakajima album) is the 16th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in November 1988.The album includes "Namida", her own rendition of a song Nakajima originally wrote for Kiyoshi Maekawa...	Miyuki Nakajima Miyuki Nakajima is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...
	21	Hold an Old Friend's Hand Hold an Old Friend's Hand -B-sides:*"Can't Stop A Heartbeat" *"I'll Be The Girl" *"Gotta Be Love" *"Ruthless"...	Tiffany Tiffany (singer) Tiffany Renee Darwish , known popularly as Tiffany, is an American singer and former teen icon. She is most notable for her 1987 cover version of "I Think We're Alone Now", originally recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967. Released as the second single from her eponymous album, Tiffany,...
	22	Delicate Sound of Thunder Delicate Sound of Thunder -LP / Cassette:Side 1# "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"# "Learning to Fly# "Yet Another Movie"# "Round and Around"Side 2# "Sorrow"# "The Dogs of War"# "On the Turning Away"Side 3# "One of These Days"# "Time"...	Pink Floyd Pink Floyd Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...	Live
Beaches soundtrack Beaches (soundtrack) Beaches is the soundtrack to the Academy Award nominated feature film of the same name starring Bette Midler, who performs most of the tracks on the album, released on the Atlantic Records label in 1988...		Bette Midler Bette Midler Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...	Soundtrack
23	Ancient Dreams Ancient Dreams Ancient Dreams is the third album of Swedish doom metal band Candlemass and was released in 1988, and reissued in 2001 by Powerline Records with bonus CD...	Candlemass Candlemass Candlemass are an influential Swedish doom metal band established in 1984 by Leif Edling , their leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm. After releasing five full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Candlemass disbanded in 1994, but...
28	Hold Me in Your Arms	Rick Astley Rick Astley Richard Paul "Rick" Astley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality. He is known for his 1987 song, "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was a #1 hit single in 25 countries...	UK
29	G N' R Lies G N' R Lies -Personnel:*W. Axl Rose - lead vocals, whistle on "Patience"*Izzy Stradlin - rhythm guitar, rhythm acoustic guitar on tracks 5-8, backing vocals*Slash - lead guitar, lead acoustic guitar on tracks 5-8...	Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
-	Bummed Bummed Bummed was the second album by British band Happy Mondays. It was released in November 1988.Warner later released a 2CD Collector's Edition on . This release collected the original 1988 album with a second disc of remixes from the era.- Production :...	Happy Mondays Happy Mondays Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, keyboardist Paul Davis, and drummer Gary Whelan...
	Gems	Aerosmith Aerosmith Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...	Compilation
	Hold an Old Friend's Hand Hold an Old Friend's Hand -B-sides:*"Can't Stop A Heartbeat" *"I'll Be The Girl" *"Gotta Be Love" *"Ruthless"...	Tiffany Tiffany (singer) Tiffany Renee Darwish , known popularly as Tiffany, is an American singer and former teen icon. She is most notable for her 1987 cover version of "I Think We're Alone Now", originally recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967. Released as the second single from her eponymous album, Tiffany,...
	Isn't Anything Isn't Anything Isn't Anything is the debut full-length studio album by My Bloody Valentine, released in November 1988 on Creation Records after three years of issuing extended plays, singles, and mini-LPs.-Background:...	My Bloody Valentine	Debut
The Living Years The Living Years Living Years is the second album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1988. The album reached number 13 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the UK Albums Chart.- History :...	Mike + The Mechanics
Oasis	Roberta Flack Roberta Flack Roberta Flack is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is notable for jazz, soul, R&B, and folk music...
D E C E M B E R	1	Almost Acoustic Almost Acoustic Almost Acoustic is a 1988 live acoustic album by the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. Held in high esteem by fans for superb sound quality and fine musical selection, it was culled from 18 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre during the fall of 1987...	Jerry Garcia Jerry Garcia Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...	Live
	3	Now That's What I Call Music XIII (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
	7	The Trinity Session The Trinity Session The Trinity Session is a 1988 album by Cowboy Junkies, their second album.The music was recorded at Toronto, Ontario's Church of the Holy Trinity on , with the band circled around a single microphone...	Cowboy Junkies Cowboy Junkies Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins , Michael Timmins , Peter Timmins and Alan Anton ....	RCA RCA RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...  Re-release
	9	Empnefsi! Empnefsi! Empnefsi! is the name of a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi. It was released in Greece and Cyprus in December 1988 by CBS Greece. It featured ten pop songs, written by her then-husband Nikos Karvelas. The album reached Gold status...	Anna Vissi Anna Vissi Anna Vissi , known as Anna Vishy in Cypriot Greek, is a Greek-Cypriot recording artist and actress...
	-	The Best Years of Our Lives	Neil Diamond Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
Mademoiselle chante... Mademoiselle chante... Mademoiselle chante... is the name of an album recorded in 1987 by the French singer Patricia Kaas. It was her debut album and was precedeed by the hit singles "Mademoiselle chante le blues" and "D'Allemagne".- Background :...		Patricia Kaas Patricia Kaas Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following...
Sub Pop 200 Sub Pop 200 Sub Pop 200 is a compilation released in the early days of the Seattle grunge scene . It features songs from Tad, The Fluid, Nirvana, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Mudhoney, The Walkabouts, Terry Lee Hale, Soundgarden, Green River, Fastbacks, Blood Circus, Swallow, Chemistry Set, Girl Trouble, The...	Various Artists

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• Against the Flow – Upper Hutt Posse
  Upper Hutt Posse
  Upper Hutt Posse is a musical band in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The progenitors of Hiphop music in the South Pacific originally formed as a four piece reggae group in 1985, the Posse emerged at the forefront of the local response to emerging rap culture...
  
  
• The Best of Thompson Twins: Greatest Mixes
  The Best of Thompson Twins: Greatest Mixes
  The Best of Thompson Twins: Greatest Mixes is the first compilation album released by the British pop group the Thompson Twins. It was released in 1988, and features various 12" mixes and remixes of classic Thompson Twins songs.-Track listing:...
  
   – Thompson Twins
  Thompson Twins
  The Thompson Twins were a British pop group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid 1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Kingdom, the United States and around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives...
  
  
• Born 2B Blue
  Born 2B Blue
  Born 2 B Blue is a 1988 solo album by Steve Miller, consisting primarily of jazz standards reinterpreted in a more modern context. It represented a departure from Miller's work with the Steve Miller Band.-Track listing:...
  
   - Steve Miller
  Steve Miller (musician)
  Steven H. "Steve" Miller is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more popular-oriented sound which, from the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, resulted in a series of successful singles and albums.-Early years:Born in Milwaukee,...
  
  
• The Chess Box
  The Chess Box
  The Chess Box is a title given to several box sets released by Chess Records for artists such as Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James. The most prominent of these is the set for Chuck Berry, which won a Grammy Award for Best Historical Album in 1989...
  
   – Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
  
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• Children – The Mission
  The Mission (band)
  The Mission are a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy.The band was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams , soon adding...
  
  
• Chobba B C.C.C.P. – Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
  
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• A Classic Guide To No Man's Land
  No Man's Land (record label)
  No Man's Land was a German record label based in Würzburg, Germany. Formed in 1984, it ceased trading in 1997. The label was run by its proprietors in combination with the music publishing and record label Review Records and the distribution company Recommended No Man's Land...
  
   – Various Artists
• Colin James
  Colin James (album)
  Colin James is the debut album from Canadian rock/blues musician Colin James, released in 1988 . The album was recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida.The album earned James a Juno Award for "Most Promising Artist"....
  
   – Colin James
  Colin James
  Colin James is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, who plays in the blues, rock, and neo-swing genres. He grew up as a Quaker.-Early years:...
  
  
• Convergence – Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...
  
  
• Corrosion – Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...
  
  
• Disorder – Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...
  
  
• Distant Thunder – Aswad
• The Dubliner's Dublin – The Dubliners
  The Dubliners
  The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962.-Formation and history:The Dubliners, initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin...
  
  
• Earth Covers Earth – Current 93
  Current 93
  Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...
  
  
• E Tü – Upper Hutt Posse
  Upper Hutt Posse
  Upper Hutt Posse is a musical band in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The progenitors of Hiphop music in the South Pacific originally formed as a four piece reggae group in 1985, the Posse emerged at the forefront of the local response to emerging rap culture...
  
  
• El Mundo – Mitsou
  Mitsou
  Mitsou Annie Marie Gélinas is a Canadian pop singer, businesswoman, television and radio host, and actress...
  
  
• Everybody Needs the Blues Brothers
  Everybody Needs the Blues Brothers
  -Track listing:# "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"# "Gimme Some Lovin'"# "I Can't Turn You Loose"# "She Caught the Katy"# "Green Onions"# "Who's Making Love"# "B Movie Box Car Blues"# "Peter Gunn Theme"# "Soul Man"# "Theme From 'Rawhide'"...
  
   – The Blues Brothers
  The Blues Brothers
  The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live...
  
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• Fabulous Disaster
  Fabulous Disaster
  Fabulous Disaster is the third album by Exodus. UK label Music for Nations released the album in 1988, but in the USA, it was released in January 1989 by Combat/Relativity Records....
  
   – Exodus
  Exodus (band)
  Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in Richmond, California. Spanning a career of over 30 years, Exodus has gone through numerous lineup changes, two extended hiatuses, and the deaths of two former band members. Guitarist Gary Holt remains the only constant member of the band,...
  
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  1989 in music
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989.-Events:*January 14 – Paul McCartney releases Снова в СССР exclusively in the USSR...
  
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• Fearless
  Fearless (Eighth Wonder album)
  Fearless is the 1988 debut album by British pop group Eighth Wonder. It is the group's only UK album release, is entirely uptempo, and contains six UK-issued singles including their highest-selling and best-remembered track, the Pet Shop Boys-produced and written "I'm Not Scared" , and "Cross My...
  
   – Eighth Wonder
  Eighth Wonder
  Eighth Wonder were a British pop band in the 1980s. They formed in 1983 and enjoyed major success in Japan and Italy between 1985 and 1987, before having hit singles in the UK and across Europe in 1988.-Early years:...
  
  
• Flag
  Flag (Yello album)
  Flag is Yello's sixth original album, released in 1988 and featuring the eight-minute tour-de-force, "The Race", the single of which reached number 7 in the UK singles chart in August of that year. An early cut of the album was used as the soundtrack for the film Nuns on the Run.-Track listing:*All...
  
   – Yello
  Yello
  Yello is a Swiss electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their singles "The Race" and "Oh Yeah", which feature a mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals, as does most of their music....
  
  
• Flying Colours
  Flying Colours (Chris de Burgh album)
  Flying Colours is singer Chris de Burgh's 9th studio album, released by A&M Records in 1988. Notably, the single "Missing You" peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, and No.1 in Ireland in Dec 1988 .-Track listing:All tracks composed by Chris de Burgh....
  
   – Chris de Burgh
  Chris de Burgh
  Chris de Burgh is a British/Irish singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1986 love song "The Lady in Red".-Early life:...
  
  
• 47 Song Demo – Anal Cunt
  Anal Cunt
  Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. Since its inception, the band underwent a number of line-up changes. Known for its grindcore musical style and controversial lyrics, Anal Cunt released eight full-length studio...
  
  
• Front by Front – Front 242
  Front 242
  Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. They are known for being the premier pioneer of electronic body music and as a major influence on the electronic and industrial music genres.-Formation:...
  
  
• Fur
  Fur (Jane Wiedlin album)
  Fur is the second album by Jane Wiedlin, released in 1988. The songs "Rush Hour" and "Inside a Dream" were released as singles and both charted on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
   – Jane Wiedlin
  Jane Wiedlin
  Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actress. She is best known as the rhythm guitarist of the all-female New Wave band The Go-Go's.-Early life:...
  
  
• Gipsy Kings – Gipsy Kings
  Gipsy Kings
  The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...
  
  
• Golden Tops The Zorros
  The Zorros
  -Biography:The Zorros played their first gig at the Champion Hotel, Fitzroy in January 1980.Nic Chancellor was previously a roadie for 1970s punk band, The News and a doorman at 'Bernhardt's Nite Club'...
  
  
• Hallowed Ground
  Hallowed Ground (Skin Yard album)
  Hallowed Ground is a 1988 album by grunge rock band, Skin Yard.-Track listing:# "Stranger" - 3:36# "Open Fist" - 3:58...
  
   – Skin Yard
  Skin Yard
  Skin Yard was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, who were active from 1985 to 1992. The group never gained a mainstream audience, but were an influence on their contemporaries – most notably Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, The Melvins, and Green River – alongside whom they are considered...
  
  
• Hell-O
  Hell-O
  Hell-o! is the debut album by Gwar. The album was released in 1988, on Shimmy Disc Records.Gwar's angle on the album is that of a morbid punk band obsessed with debauchery, violence and toilet humor...
  
   – GWAR
  GWAR
  Gwar is a satirical heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, United States, in 1984. The band is best known for its elaborate science fiction/horror film inspired costumes, obscene lyrics and graphic stage performances, which feature humorous enactments of politically and morally taboo...
  
  
• Hide Your Heart
  Hide Your Heart
  Hide Your Heart , is the seventh album by Bonnie Tyler released in 1988. It was produced by Desmond Child....
  
   - Bonnie Tyler
  Bonnie Tyler
  Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...
  
  
• Hit Me With The Surreal Feel – Kim Salmon
  Kim Salmon
  Kim Leith Salmon is an Australian indie rock musician and songwriter, who attained fame in June 2004, when he was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame....
  
   And The Surrealists
• I Used to Be an Animal
  I Used To Be An Animal
  I Used To Be An Animal is an album by Eric Burdon from 1988. It was his first new album in almost four years. It was recorded in Malibu, USA....
  
   – Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...
  
  
• If My Ancestors Could See Me Now - Ivan Neville
  Ivan Neville
  Ivan Neville is a multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to members of The Neville Brothers....
  
  
• In the Spirit of Things
  In the Spirit of Things
  In the Spirit of Things is the 11th studio album, and 13th overall, by American rock band Kansas, released in 1988 . It is a very loosely organized concept album telling the story of a flood hitting the real Kansas town of Neosho Falls in the early 1950s...
  
   – Kansas
  Kansas (band)
  Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on Album-Oriented Rock charts, and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"...
  
  
• Joy
  Joy (Teddy Pendergrass album)
  Joy is the tenth studio album by R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, released in 1988 on the Elektra label. Production credits on the album were split between Reggie and Vincent Calloway, Nick Martinelli, Miles Jaye and Pendergrass himself....
  
   – Teddy Pendergrass
  Teddy Pendergrass
  Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade...
  
  
• King Kobra III
  King Kobra III
  King Kobra III, released in 1988 on New Renaissance Records, was the first and last album by the Edwards, Michael-Phillips, Northrup, Hart and Appice line-up of King Kobra. The album featured a strong selection of 1980s style mainstream metal...
  
   – King Kobra
  King Kobra
  King Kobra is a glam metal group founded by drummer Carmine Appice after his tenure with Ozzy Osbourne in 1984. The band during the time of their first two albums included four relatively unknown musicians: vocalist Mark Free, guitarist David Michael-Philips, guitarist Mick Sweda, and bassist...
  
  
• Leprosy
  Leprosy (album)
  Leprosy is the second album by death metal band Death, released in 1988. Notably different in tone and quality from the 1987 debut, it is the first example of Scott Burns' work heard on many of the death metal and grindcore albums of that era...
  
   – Death
• Let It Bee
  Let It Bee
  Let It Bee is the debut album from alternative rock band Voice of the Beehive. Released in 1988 on London Records, the album earned positive reviews from music crititcs and was a success on U.S. college radio stations. In the UK, the album reached #13 on the album chart in its debut week ending 2...
  
   – Voice of the Beehive
  Voice of the Beehive
  Voice of the Beehive is an Anglo-American alternative pop rock band formed in London in 1986 by Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of The Four Preps singer, Bruce Belland.- Career :...
  
  
• The Light – Afrika Bambaataa
  Afrika Bambaataa
  Afrika Bambaataa is an American DJ from the South Bronx, New York who was instrumental in the early development of hip hop throughout the 1980s. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the three originators of break-beat deejaying, and is respectfully known as the "Grandfather" and the Amen Ra of Universal...
  
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• Lillian Axe – Lillian Axe
  Lillian Axe
  Lillian Axe is a hard rock band from New Orleans who write and perform music from acoustic ballads to full out heavy metal anthems. Four studio recordings were released before they disbanded in 1995...
  
  
• Live
  Live (Bad Brains album)
  Live is a live album from hardcore punk & reggae pioneers Bad Brains. It was recorded in early 1988 and features a complete set of blistering punk rock as well as a few funk selections from their most recent album at the time, the influential I Against I...
  
   – Bad Brains
  Bad Brains
  Bad Brains is an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of hardcore punk, though the band's members objected to this term to describe their music. They are also an adept reggae band, while later recordings featured elements of...
  
  
• The Live Album
  The Live Album
  The Live Album is an album by Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, recorded live at the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, TX and released in the United States in 1988) on Sugar Hill.-Track listing:...
  
   – Robert Earl Keen
  Robert Earl Keen
  Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,...
  
  
• The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD
  The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD
  The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD is a recording by Ween. It was released in 1988. The first side of this album features songs from a live show, while the second contains studio tracks. A majority of the records pressed are in possession of Dean Ween, although some copies were sold at concerts and given...
  
   – Ween
  Ween
  Ween is an American alternative rock group. They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween has a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music...
  
  
• Lovely – The Primitives
  The Primitives
  The Primitives are a British indie pop band from Coventry, best known for their 1988 international hit single "Crash".-Biography:The Primitives were part of the indie music scene of the mid-1980s alongside bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, the Soup...
  
  
• Lucille – Little Richard
  Little Richard
  Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...
  
  
• Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams (album)
  -Track listing:All songs written by Lucinda Williams except where noted.#"I Just Wanted to See You So Bad" – 2:25#"The Night's Too Long" – 4:15#"Abandoned" – 3:45#"Big Red Sun Blues" – 3:27#"Like a Rose" – 2:37#"Changed the Locks" – 3:39...
  
   – Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...
  
  

• Melissa Etheridge
  Melissa Etheridge (album)
  Melissa Etheridge is the self-titled debut album by singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge, released in 1988 .The album was re-released on 23 September 2003 as a two-CD remastered edition containing a bonus disc of ten tracks recorded live at the Roxy in Los Angeles and a five-track session from BBC...
  
   – Melissa Etheridge
  Melissa Etheridge
  Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals...
  
  
• My Nation Underground
  My Nation Underground
  My Nation Underground is the fourth solo album by Julian Cope. It produced three singles including "Charlotte Anne" ....
  
   – Julian Cope
  Julian Cope
  Julian Cope is a British rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator...
  
  
• New Light Through Old Windows
  New Light Through Old Windows
  New Light Through Old Windows is a 1988 album by Chris Rea. The album consists primarily of re-recordings of songs released on earlier Rea albums, as well as two new songs, "Working on It" New Light Through Old Windows is a 1988 album by Chris Rea. The album consists primarily of re-recordings of...
  
   – Chris Rea
  Chris Rea
  Chris Rea is an English singer-songwriter, recognisable for his distinctive, husky voice and slide guitar playing. The British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally...
  
  
• North and South
  North and South (album)
  North and South is the sixth studio album by Gerry Rafferty. It was Rafferty's first studio album in six years and reunited him with producer Hugh Murphy. The album got fair reviews from critics and fans. The album was released as an LP and CD in 1988...
  
   – Gerry Rafferty
  Gerry Rafferty
  Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty was a Scottish singer songwriter best known for his solo hits "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line", "Days Gone Down", "Night Owl", "Get It Right Next Time", and with the band Stealers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with You". Rafferty was born into a working-class family in...
  
  
• Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
  Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
  Nothing Exceeds Like Excess is the seventh full-length album by the band Raven, released in 1988. It is Raven's first album with their then-new drummer, Joe Hasselvander.-Track listing:*All songs by Gallagher, Gallagher, Hasselvander.#"Behemoth" – 1:05...
  
   – Raven
  Raven (band)
  Raven are an English heavy metal band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They had a hit with the single "On and On", and refer to their music as "athletic rock".-Formation:...
  
  
• Nothing Wrong
  Nothing Wrong
  Nothing Wrong, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's third album, released in 1988, was their first LP on major label Beggars Banquet off-shoot Situation Two in the UK; in the US it was released via Beggars Banquet/RCA. The US version included two bonus tracks, the UK single "Open Up" and B-Side "The Rise"...
  
   – Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
  Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
  Red Lorry Yellow Lorry are a rock band that were formed in Leeds, England in early 1981.- History :The band was formed by guitarist/songwriter Chris Reed and vocalist Mark Sweeney, along with bassist Steve Smith and drummer Mick Brown...
  
  
• O Melancolía – Silvio Rodríguez
  Silvio Rodríguez
  Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement.He is considered Cuba's best known folk singer and known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as Ojalá, Playa Girón, Unicornio and...
  
  
• Only Life – The Feelies
  The Feelies
  The Feelies are a rock band from Haledon, New Jersey. They formed in 1976 and disbanded in 1992 having released four albums. The band reunited in 2008 and most recently released an album in 2011....
  
  
• Outside the Gate
  Outside the Gate
  Outside the Gate is the seventh album by English post-punk group Killing Joke and is arguably the most controversial release among their fans....
  
   – Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England; other sources report the band formed in early 1979.Related news articles: Founding members Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker have been the only constant members.A key influence on industrial rock,...
  
  
• Pound For Pound – Anvil
  Anvil (band)
  Anvil is a Canadian heavy metal band comprising Steve "Lips" Kudlow , Robb Reiner , and Glenn Five...
  
  
• Power Metal
  Power Metal (album)
  Power Metal is the fourth studio album by heavy metal band Pantera, released in 1988 through Metal Magic Records. It is the first album to feature Phil Anselmo on vocals, as part of a line-up which would last until the band's split in 2003.-Background:...
  
   – Pantera
  Pantera
  Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...
  
  
• Prison Bound
  Prison Bound
  Prison Bound is the second studio album by Social Distortion, was released in 1988. This is the first album with bass guitarist John Maurer and drummer Christopher Reece...
  
   – Social Distortion
  Social Distortion
  Social Distortion is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and David Hidalgo, Jr...
  
  
• Prostitute
  Prostitute (Toyah album)
  Prostitute is Toyah Willcox's 1988 album. It is a concept album and highly experimental in nature, marking a considerable divergence from previous works. It is uncompromising in its style, containing no obviously "radio-friendly" tracks....
  
   – Toyah
  Toyah Willcox
  Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...
  
  
• Radio Free Albemuth
  Radio Free Albemuth (album)
  Radio Free Albemuth is the debut solo album by virtuoso bassist Stuart Hamm, released in 1988 on Relativity Records. Hamm demonstrates his ability on the bass guitar and is backed up by famous guitarists Allan Holdsworth and Joe Satriani....
  
   – Stuart Hamm
  Stuart Hamm
  Stuart "Stu" Hamm is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings.-Beginning career:...
  
  
• The Raw and the Cooked
  The Raw and the Cooked (album)
  The Raw & the Cooked is the second and final album by Fine Young Cannibals. A remixed version was also released as The Raw and the Remix. Selling over two million copies, The Raw & the Cooked included two US number one songs "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing"...
  
   – Fine Young Cannibals
  Fine Young Cannibals
  Fine Young Cannibals were a British band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984, by bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift...
  
  
• Read All About It
  Read All About It (album)
  Read All About It is the first studio album by Christian pop rock band Newsboys. It was released in 1988 by Refuge Records but later was re-issued by Star Song.-Track listing:# "I Got Your Number"-4:48# "Listen For The Shout"-3:24# "Lighthouse"-3:18...
  
   – Newsboys
  Newsboys
  Newsboys are a Christian pop rock band founded in 1985 in Mooloolaba, Australia. They have released 15 studio albums, six of which have been certified gold...
  
  
• Remote
  Remote (Hue & Cry album)
  Remote is the second studio album from Scottish pop group Hue & Cry. It was released in 1988, and re-released in 2008.-Track listing:# Ordinary Angel# Looking For Linda# Guy On The Wall# Violently# Dollar William# Under Neon...
  
   – Hue & Cry
• Rough Night in Jericho – Dreams So Real
  Dreams So Real
  Dreams So Real were an alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, who gained some national exposure in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They recorded three albums, including two releases on Arista Records.-History:...
  
  
• The Rumour
  The Rumour (album)
  Olivia Down Under is a compilation of music and clips from the album The Rumour released in 1989, featuring the singer Olivia Newton-John.-Product Description:...
  
   - Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
  
  
• Sam & Friends – Sam Hui
• Sinta – Asin
  Asin (band)
  Asin is a Pinoy folk and folk rock band from the Philippines. They started as a trio in the late 1970s, and was originally known as the Salt of the Earth]...
  
  
• 69 – A R Kane
  A R Kane
  A.R. Kane were a British dream pop duo consisting of Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala that formed in 1986. Their name was partially derived from their first names, the "A" in Alex and the "R" in Rudy. The duo hailed from East London...
  
  
• Sketsa Rembulan Emas – Ebiet G. Ade
  Ebiet G. Ade
  Ebiet G. Ade is an Indonesian singer and songwriter. His musical styles are pop, ballad and country. He has released 21 studio albums and 25 compilation albums.-Early life:...
  
  
• Soliloquy for Lilith
  Soliloquy for Lilith
  Soliloquy For Lilith is an album by Nurse With Wound.The album was recorded by Steven Stapleton and his wife Diana Rogerson in May 1988. The only sound source was a number of effects units which he had set up to operate in a feedback loop - there was no original input signal being processed, simply...
  
   – Nurse With Wound
  Nurse with Wound
  Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak...
  
  
• Sour Mash – Beasts of Bourbon
  Beasts of Bourbon
  Beasts of Bourbon was an Australian alternative rock band formed in 1983, with a line-up that has changed as the band splintered and reformed several times - Beginnings :...
  
  
• Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films - Various Artists
• STP Not LSD
  STP Not LSD
  -Track listing:#"I Lost " - 1:57 #"Wild Hog Rhyde" - 2:07 #"Laughing at Me" - 1:47 #"STP Not LSD" - 2:05...
  
   – Angry Samoans
  Angry Samoans
  The Angry Samoans are an American punk rock band in the first wave of American punk. Formed in August 1978 in Los Angeles, California by early 1970s rock writer "Metal" Mike Saunders and his sibling lead guitarist bonze blayk, along with co-conspirator Gregg Turner and original recruits bassist...
  
  
• Straight out the Jungle
  Straight Out the Jungle
  Straight out the Jungle is the debut album from hip hop group Jungle Brothers. The album marked the beginning of the Native Tongues collective, later featuring popular artists like De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and Black Sheep....
  
   – The Jungle Brothers
• Swastikas for Noddy
  Swastikas For Noddy
  Swastikas for Noddy is a 1988 album by English music group Current 93.The lineup for the recording was: David Tibet, Steven Stapleton, Jhon Balance, Rose McDowall, Boyd Rice, HÖH, Ian Read, Freya Aswynn, and Douglas P., Gary Carey and Bee....
  
   – Current 93
• "Them" – King Diamond
  King Diamond
  Kim Bendix Petersen , better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Grammy Award nominated Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his extensive vocal range, in particular his usage of falsetto. He is the lead vocalist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond...
  
  
• Today
  Today (Galaxie 500 album)
  Today is the debut album by American dream pop band Galaxie 500, released in 1988 on the independent label Aurora Records.-Track listing:All songs written by Galaxie 500 except as noted.# "Flowers" - 4:26# "Pictures" - 3:23# "Parking Lot" - 2:52...
  
   – Galaxie 500
  Galaxie 500
  Galaxie 500 was an American alternative rock band that formed in 1987 and split up in 1991 after releasing three albums.-History:Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time...
  
  
• Total Devo
  Total Devo
  Total Devo was the seventh studio album by American New Wave band Devo. It was released in 1988 . It was the first Devo album that was recorded without drummer Alan Myers, who was replaced by former Sparks drummer David Kendrick...
  
   – Devo
  Devo
  Devo is an American band formed in 1973 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band includes two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs and the Casales . The band had a #14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", and has maintained a cult...
  
  
• Train Above the City
  Train Above the City
  Train Above the City is the ninth and penultimate album by English alternative rock band Felt, released in 1988. It does not feature frontman Lawrence in any musical capacity, though he was responsible for naming the tracks...
  
   – Felt
  Felt (band)
  Felt were a 1980s British alternative rock band led by Lawrence, whose surname was never listed in any credits or press; the band's name was inspired by Tom Verlaine's emphasis of the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus"...
  
  
• Tucker
  Tucker (album)
  __notoc__Tucker is an album by Joe Jackson, released in November 1988 by A&M Records. It is the soundtrack for the Francis Ford Coppola film, Tucker: The Man and His Dream...
  
   – Joe Jackson
  Joe Jackson (musician)
  Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...
  
   (OST)
• Twice the Love – George Benson
  George Benson
  George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....
  
  
• Unity - Shinehead
  Shinehead
  Shinehead is an English-born Jamaican reggae singer/toaster/rapper.-Career:He began his music career by performing for different New York reggae dancehall sound systems in the 1980s, most notably Tony Screw's Downbeat The Ruler, based in The Bronx.His recording debut was in 1986 on the African...
  
  
• Volunteer
  Volunteer (album)
  Volunteer is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1988 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons# "Outside the Warehouse" - 4:13# "Wicked Tease" - 2:49# "Wallpaper" - 3:48# "Mr...
  
   – Sham 69
  Sham 69
  Sham 69 is an English punk band that formed in Hersham in 1976.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived...
  
  
• What Good Is Grief to a God?
  What Good Is Grief to a God?
  What Good Is Grief to a God? is D.I.'s third full-length studio album, which was released in 1988. Although the record did not sell very well, What Good Is Grief to a God? was anticipated by both music critics and fans as a result of the band's moderate success with their 1985 debut album, Ancient...
  
   – D.I.
• The Winter of '88
  The Winter of '88
  - Track listing :#"Close To Me"#"Rain"#"Stranger Blues"#"Ain't That Just Like A Woman"#"World of Contradictions"#"Lightning"#"Looking For Trouble"#"Show Me"#"Anything For Your Love"#"Look Away"#"Mother Earth"...
  
   - Johnny Winter
  Johnny Winter
  John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. Best known for his late 1960s and 1970s high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues legend Muddy Waters...
  
  
• Wyau – Datblygu
  Datblygu
  Datblygu was an experimental Welsh rock group in the 1980s and early to mid-1990s, now regarded as a catalyst of the new wave of Welsh rock in the early '80s.-History:...
  
  
• The Xenon Codex
  The Xenon Codex
  -External links:*...
  
   – Hawkwind
  Hawkwind
  Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....
  
  
• Yeah, Whatever
  Yeah, Whatever
  Yeah, Whatever is a 1988 album by electronica artist Moev.-Track listing:#"Yeah Whatever"#"Slide"#"Sentencing"#"Wanting"#"Crucify Me"#"Right hand"#"Open Mind"#"Capital Heaven"#"Yeah Whatever "#"Crucify Me "...
  
   – Moev
  Moev
  Founded in 1981 by Tom Ferris and Cal Stephenson, Moev is an electronic music group that recorded on Atlantic Records, Nettwerk Records, Go! Records and Cop International...
  
  
• You Must Be Certain of the Devil – Diamanda Galás
  Diamanda Galás
  Diamanda Galás is an American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, organist, performance artist and painter.Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls...
  
  
• You've Always Got the Blues – Kate Ceberano
  Kate Ceberano
  Kate Ceberano is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film...
  
  

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions
in the charts of 1988.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	Phil Collins Phil Collins Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....	A Groovy Kind of Love A Groovy Kind of Love "A Groovy Kind of Love" is a pop song written by Toni Wine and Carol Bayer for the Screen Gems music publishing company. It is heavily based on the Rondo movement of Sonatina in G major, op. 36 no. 5 by Muzio Clementi...	1988		UK 1 – Sep 1988, US BB 1 – Sep 1988, Holland 1 – Sep 1988, Switzerland 1 – Oct 1988, Poland 1 – Sep 1988, Éire 1 – Sep 1988, Norway 2 – Sep 1988, Italy 2 of 1988, Germany 3 – Jan 1989, Sweden 4 – Sep 1988, Austria 6 – Nov 1988, South Africa 11 of 1989, Australia 23 of 1988, US BB 26 of 1988, US CashBox 29 of 1988, POP 65 of 1988, Germany 103 of the 1980s, RYM 193 of 1988
2	Bobby McFerrin Bobby McFerrin Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...	Don't Worry Be Happy	1988		US BB 1 – Aug 1988, Austria 1 – Nov 1988, Germany 1 – Jan 1989, Australia 1 for 7 weeks May 1989, Grammy in 1988, UK 2 – Sep 1988, Holland 2 – Oct 1988, Switzerland 2 – Oct 1988, Norway 5 – Oct 1988, South Africa 5 of 1989, Sweden 13 – Oct 1988, Poland 13 – Sep 1988, POP 13 of 1988, Germany 23 of the 1980s, US CashBox 28 of 1988, Scrobulate 92 of happy, RYM 94 of 1988, Italy 97 of 1989, RIAA 301
3	Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....	Always On My Mind Always on My Mind "Always on My Mind" is an American country music song by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, originally recorded by Brenda Lee in 1972.Allmusic lists over 300 recorded releases of the song in versions by dozens of performers...	1988		UK 1 – Dec 1987 (13 weeks), Sweden 1 – Dec 1987 (8 weeks), Switzerland 1 – Jan 1988 (18 weeks), Poland 1 – Jan 1988 (20 weeks), Germany 1 – Jan 1988 (4 months), Canada RPM 1 for 2 weeks – May 1988, Europe 1 for 5 weeks – Jan 1988, Germany 1 for 6 weeks – Jan 1988, Austria 2 – Feb 1988 (5 weeks), Belgium 2 – Dec 1987 (11 weeks), Holland 3 – Dec 1987 (10 weeks), Norway 3 – Jan 1988 (10 weeks), US Billboard 4 – Mar 1988 (15 weeks), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Jan 1988), Germany Gold (certified by BMieV in 1988), South Africa 11 of 1988, Switzerland 15 of 1988, KROQ 18 of 1988, RYM 33 of 1987, POP 38 of 1988, Italy 58 of 1988, US Radio 69 of 1988 (peak 4 7 weeks), Germany 136 of the 1980s (peak 1 11 weeks)
4	Belinda Carlisle Belinda Carlisle Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...	Heaven is a Place On Earth Heaven is a Place on Earth "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" is the title of a song recorded by Belinda Carlisle, the lead singer of The Go-Go's. Written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, and interpolating the aria "Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße der Ruh'" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, it hit number one on the...	1988		UK 1 – Dec 1987, US BB 1 – Oct 1987, Sweden 1 – Jan 1988, Switzerland 1 – Jan 1988, Norway 1 – Jan 1988, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1988, Germany 4 – Jan 1988, South Africa 4 of 1988, Holland 7 – Jan 1988, Austria 10 – Mar 1988, Australia 10 of 1988, Poland 15 – Nov 1987, US BB 17 of 1987, Italy 31 of 1988, RYM 53 of 1987, POP 72 of 1987, Germany 344 of the 1980s
5	Enya Enya Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...	Orinoco Flow Orinoco Flow "Orinoco Flow " is a 1988 single written and recorded by Enya. It also featured on her second studio album, Watermark.-Background:...	1988		UK 1 – Oct 1988, Holland 1 – Nov 1988, Switzerland 1 – Nov 1988, Éire 1 – Oct 1988, Scrobulate 1 of new age, Poland 2 – Dec 1988, Germany 1 – Jan 1989, Sweden 1 – Nov 1988, Norway 1 – Nov 1988, Austria 1 – Dec 1988, France 1 – Oct 1988, RYM 18 of 1988, US BB 24 – Mar 1989, POP 34 of 1989, Germany 242 of the 1980s

U.S. Best Selling Singles

The following singles achieved the highest chart positions
in the U.S. of 1988.

Position	Song Title	Artist	Highest Position	weeks at #1
1	Faith Faith (George Michael song) "Faith" is a #1 song, written and performed by George Michael, released as a single on Columbia Records, from his 1987 Faith album. According to Billboard magazine, it was the top-selling single of the year in the United States in 1988....	George Michael George Michael George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...	1	4
2	Need You Tonight Need You Tonight "Need You Tonight" is the fourth song on INXS's 1987 album Kick as well as the first single from the album released worldwide. It is the only INXS single to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100...	INXS	1	1
3	Got My Mind Set On You Got My Mind Set on You "Got My Mind Set on You" is a song written by Rudy Clark and originally recorded by James Ray in 1962.It is best known for the cover version released by George Harrison in 1987.- George Harrison version :...	George Harrison George Harrison George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...	1	1
4	Never Gonna Give You Up Never Gonna Give You Up A group of London dance producers, called The Rickrollerz made a house music cover version of "Never Gonna Give You Up" on that day, and in honor of that event....	Rick Astley Rick Astley Richard Paul "Rick" Astley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality. He is known for his 1987 song, "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was a #1 hit single in 25 countries...	1	2
5	Sweet Child O' Mine Sweet Child O' Mine "Sweet Child o' Mine" is the third single by American rock band Guns N' Roses, and the third from their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction. Released on August 17, 1988, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the band's first and only number-one single in the U.S...	Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...	1	2

Top 5 selling albums of the year in the US

1. George Michael
   George Michael
   George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
   
    – Faith
   Faith (George Michael album)
   Faith is George Michael's first solo album, released in October 1987 via Columbia Records/Epic Records. The album has won several awards including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989. To date, the album has sold over 25 million copies worldwide, and received diamond certification from...
   
   
2. Soundtrack – Dirty Dancing
   Dirty Dancing
   Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach...
   
   
3. Def Leppard
   Def Leppard
   Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...
   
    – Hysteria
   Hysteria
   Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. People who are "hysterical" often lose self-control due to an overwhelming fear that may be caused by multiple events in one's past that involved some sort of severe conflict; the fear can be centered on a body part, or,...
   
   
4. Guns N' Roses
   Guns N' Roses
   Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
   
    – Appetite for Destruction
   Appetite for Destruction
   Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American rock band Guns N' Roses, released in July 1987 on Geffen Records. It was well-received by critics and topped the American Billboard 200 chart...
   
   
5. Michael Jackson
   Michael Jackson
   Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
   
    – Bad
   Bad (album)
   Bad is the seventh studio album by American songwriter and recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on August 31, 1987 by Epic/CBS Records, nearly five years after Jackson's previous studio album, Thriller, which went on to become the world's best-selling album...
   
   

Top hits

• "1-2-3" – Gloria Estefan
  Gloria Estefan
  Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
  
   & the Miami Sound Machine
• "A Little Respect
  A Little Respect
  American band Wheatus released the song in July 2001 as their second single from their debut album. The single peaked at number three in the United Kingdom, while reaching number 19 in Austria and number 41 in New Zealand.-Critical reception:...
  
  " – Erasure
  Erasure
  Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...
  
  
• "Acid Man" – Jolly Roger
• "Age Of Reason" – John Farnham
  John Farnham
  John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham , is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979, and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as...
  
  
• "All Fired Up
  All Fired Up
  All Fired Up is the second album by the hard rock band Fastway. It was released in 1984.-Track listing:# All Fired Up - 2:43# Misunderstood - 3:22# Steal the Show - 3:38# Station - 2:56# Non-Stop Love - 4:52# Hurtin' Me - 4:30# Tell Me - 3:50...
  
  " – Pat Benatar
  Pat Benatar
  Pat Benatar is an American singer and four-time Grammy winner. She had considerable commercial success particularly in the United States...
  
  
• "Angel of Harlem
  Angel of Harlem
  "Angel of Harlem" is the second single from U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum. It peaked at #9 on the UK Singles Chart, #8 on the Dutch Top 40, #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks...
  
  " – U2
  U2
  U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
  
  
• "Angel
  Angel (Aerosmith song)
  "Angel" is a song performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and professional songwriting collaborator Desmond Child...
  
  " – Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
  
  
• "Another Lover" – Giant Steps
  Giant Steps (band)
  Giant Steps was a dance pop duo from England, that consisted of vocalist Colin "Col" Campsie and bassist/keyboardist George McFarlane. They previously recorded as The Quick....
  
  
• "Any Love" – Luther Vandross
  Luther Vandross
  Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
  
  
• "Another Weekend" – Five Star
  Five Star
  Five Star are a British pop / R&B group, formed in 1983. Comprising siblings Stedman, Lorraine, Denise, Doris and Delroy Pearson, they were known for their flamboyant image, matching costumes and heavily choreographed dance routines...
  
  
• "Anything For You
  Anything for You (Gloria Estefan song)
  "Anything for You" is a popular song and ballad written by Gloria Estefan and sung by Estefan and Miami Sound Machine. The song appeared on their 1987 album, Let It Loose. "Anything for You" became a number-one song in the United States during the year 1988; it was the band's first...
  
  " – Gloria Estefan
  Gloria Estefan
  Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
  
  
• "Atmosphere
  Atmosphere (Joy Division song)
  "Atmosphere" is a song by the band Joy Division. It was originally released in 1980 as a France-only single under the title Licht und Blindheit with "Dead Souls" as the B-side....
  
  " – Joy Division
  Joy Division
  Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...
  
   (re-release)
• "Bad Medicine
  Bad Medicine (song)
  "Bad Medicine" is a number-one single by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Desmond Child. It was released in 1988 as the lead single from the band's album New Jersey...
  
  " – Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
  
  
• "Bass (How Low Can You Go)" – Simon Harris
  Simon Harris
  Simon Harris , is predominantly known as the owner and founder of the record label Music of Life and writer/producer of most of its extensive catalog of songs, although he is also an influential DJ, award winning producer, remixer of several Grammy Award winning artists and pioneer of electronic...
  
  
• "Bad Young Brother" – Derek B
  Derek B
  Derek Boland , better known by his stage name Derek B, was a British rapper. His most commercially successful releases were "Goodgroove" and "Bad Young Brother" in 1988.- Biography :...
  
  
• "Beat Dis
  Beat Dis
  "Beat Dis" is a track by British act Bomb the Bass, a studio production formed by producer Tim Simenon, from the act's album Into the Dragon. It, like other hits of the era such as "Pump Up the Volume" by M|A|R|R|S and "Theme from S'Express" by S'Express, largely consisted of samples.The single was...
  
  " – Bomb The Bass
  Bomb the Bass
  Bomb the Bass is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and producer, Tim Simenon. The band, which has evolved its style over the years, has been classed as electronic or dance....
  
  
• "Behind the Wheel
  Behind the Wheel
  "Behind the Wheel" is Depeche Mode's twentieth UK single, released on December 28, 1987, and the third single for the album Music for the Masses. Peaking at #21 in the UK charts, it hit #6 in West Germany....
  
  " – Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Better Be Home Soon
  Better Be Home Soon
  "Better Be Home Soon" is a 1988 song written by Neil Finn and performed by New Zealand/Australian band Crowded House. The song was released as a single in July 1988 by Capitol Records. It performed modestly on both the American and British charts, but managed to peak at number two on the...
  
  " – Crowded House
  Crowded House
  Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...
  
  
• "Big Fun" – Inner City
• "Blue Monday 1988
  Blue Monday (New Order song)
  "Blue Monday" is a single released in 1983 by British band New Order, and later remixed in 1988 and 1995. The song has been widely remixed and covered since its original release, and became a popular anthem in the dance club scene.-Background:...
  
  " – New Order
  New Order
  New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...
  
   (remix)
• "Born to Be My Baby
  Born to Be My Baby
  "Born to Be My Baby" is a song performed by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Desmond Child. It was released as the second single from their hugely successful album New Jersey in 1988...
  
  " – Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
  
  
• "Boys (Summertime Love)
  Boys (Summertime Love)
  "Boys " is a 1987 song performed by Italian singer Sabrina. It is the third single from her eponymous album and achieved a great success in many countries, including Spain, Switzerland, France and Italy, where it was a number-one single. It was Sabrina's first single to be released in the UK...
  
  " – Sabrina Salerno
  Sabrina Salerno
  Sabrina Salerno , also known in her singing career as Sabrina, is an Italian singer, television hostess, model, actress and record producer...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Breakfast in Bed
  Breakfast in Bed
  "Breakfast in Bed" is a soul–R&B song written by Muscle Shoals songwriters Eddie Hinton and Donnie Fritts for Dusty Springfield. It takes a knowing spin on the line "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", the title of a song which had previously been a number one hit for her in the UK...
  
  " – UB40
  UB40
  UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records.Their hit singles...
  
   featuring Chrissie Hynde
  Chrissie Hynde
  Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde is an US musician best known as the leader of the rock/new wave band the Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history.-Early life and career:Hynde is the daughter of a part-time...
  
  
• "Bring the Noise
  Bring the Noise
  "Bring the Noise" is a song by the hip hop group Public Enemy. It was included on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Less Than Zero and was also released as a single that year. It later became the first song on the group's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back...
  
  " – Public Enemy
• "Buffalo Stance
  Buffalo Stance
  "Buffalo Stance" is a 1988 song that peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart recorded by Neneh Cherry from her album Raw Like Sushi, produced by Tim Simenon and Mark Saunders.-History:...
  
  " – Neneh Cherry
  Neneh Cherry
  Neneh Mariann Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster...
  
  
• "Burn It Up" – Beatmasters
  Beatmasters
  The Beatmasters are a team of dance music songwriters, musicians and producers who were successful as artists in their own right in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s and then went on to produce and remix records for many other groups...
  
   featuring PP Arnold
• "Candle In The Wind" – Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
   (live)
• "Car Wash
  Car Wash (song)
  "Car Wash" is a 1976 soul music single by Rose Royce for MCA Records, the group's debut single and one of the most notable successes of the disco era. Written and produced by the band's main producer Norman Whitfield, "Car Wash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful...
  
  /Is It Love You're After" – Rose Royce
  Rose Royce
  Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B band. The group is best known for several hit singles including "Car Wash," "I Wanna Get Next to You," "Wishing on a Star", "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" and "I'm Going Down".-Career:...
  
   (re-release)
• "Cars And Girls
  Cars and Girls
  "Cars and Girls" is a single released by the British rock group Prefab Sprout in 1988. It was the first single taken from their album of that year, From Langley Park to Memphis. The single reached number 44 in the UK Singles Chart, and spent five weeks in that listing...
  
   – Prefab Sprout
  Prefab Sprout
  Prefab Sprout are an alternative English pop rock band from Witton Gilbert, County Durham, England who rose to fame during the 1980s. Eight of their albums have reached the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart, and one of their singles, "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", peaked at number seven in the UK...
  
  
• "Can You Party" – Royal House
  Todd Terry
  Todd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....
  
  
• "Catch My Fall" – Billy Idol
  Billy Idol
  William Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...
  
  
• "Chains of Love
  Chains of Love (Erasure song)
  "Chains of Love" is a song by British synthpop duo Erasure, released in May 1988 as their ninth single overall.The song was released by Mute Records as the second single from Erasure's third studio album The Innocents. In the United States, Sire Records released it as the first single...
  
  " – Erasure
  Erasure
  Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...
  
  
• "Check This Out" – LA Mix
• "Circle in the Sand
  Circle in the Sand
  "Circle in the Sand" is a song recorded by Belinda Carlisle and released in 1988 from her album Heaven on Earth.-Background and writing :"Circle in the Sand" was written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, who wrote many of Carlisle's hit singles in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s...
  
  " – Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...
  
  
• "Come Into My Life" – Joyce Sims
  Joyce Sims
  Joyce Sims is an American singer-songwriter. Her biggest hit single was "Come into My Life," which reached top-10 status in both the US Billboard R&B chart and the UK Singles Chart in 1987/8....
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Copperhead Road" – Steve Earle
  Steve Earle
  Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
  
  
• "Crash
  Crash (The Primitives song)
  "Crash" is a song written by The Primitives band members Paul Court, Steve Dullaghan and Tracy Spencer. The song was first recorded by The Primitives for their 1988 debut album Lovely. This version of the song was released as a single and a cassette in 1988 and peaked at number five on United...
  
  " – The Primitives
  The Primitives
  The Primitives are a British indie pop band from Coventry, best known for their 1988 international hit single "Crash".-Biography:The Primitives were part of the indie music scene of the mid-1980s alongside bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, the Soup...
  
  
• "Cross My Heart" – Eighth Wonder
  Eighth Wonder
  Eighth Wonder were a British pop band in the 1980s. They formed in 1983 and enjoyed major success in Japan and Italy between 1985 and 1987, before having hit singles in the UK and across Europe in 1988.-Early years:...
  
  
• "Cult of Personality
  Cult of Personality (song)
  "Cult of Personality" is a song by funk metal band Living Colour. It was the first single from their debut album, Vivid, released in 1988. "Cult of Personality" reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #9 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It also won the Grammy award for "Best Hard Rock...
  
  " – Living Colour
  Living Colour
  Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz, funk, neo-psychedelia, hard rock, and heavy metal...
  
  
• "Desire" – U2
  U2
  U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
  
  
• "Devil Inside
  Devil Inside (INXS song)
  "Devil Inside" is a song by Australian band INXS. The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence and is one of INXS's best known songs.It was released as a single in February 1988...
  
  " – INXS
• "Dignity
  Dignity (Deacon Blue song)
  "Dignity" is a song by Deacon Blue, which was the band's first official release. It is one of their most popular songs and is often played as the final song at concerts. "Dignity", particularly the original version, appears on almost every Deacon Blue compilation or greatest hits collection...
  
  " – Deacon Blue
  Deacon Blue
  Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop band formed in Glasgow during 1985. Their name was taken from the title of the Steely Dan song "Deacon Blues". The band consists of vocalist Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond....
  
  
• "Dirty Diana
  Dirty Diana
  "Dirty Diana" is a song by American songwriter and recording artist Michael Jackson that is featured on Jackson's seventh studio album, Bad. The song was released by Epic Records on April 18, 1988 as the fifth single from Bad. The song presented a harder rock sound similar to that of "Beat It" from...
  
  " – Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
  
• "Divine Emotions" – Narada Michael Walden
  Narada Michael Walden
  Narada Michael Walden is an American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards...
  
  
• "Doctorin the House" – Coldcut
  Coldcut
  Coldcut are an English dance music duo, comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.-1980s:In 1986, computer programmer Matt...
  
   featuring Yazz and the Plastic Population
  Yazz
  Yazz is a British pop singer, who remains best known for her successful 1988 dance track, "The Only Way Is Up". Some of her records were credited to Yazz & The Plastic Population...
  
  
• "Doctorin' the Tardis – The Timelords
  The KLF
  The KLF were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  
  
• "Domino Dancing
  Domino Dancing
  "Domino Dancing" is a song recorded by the British synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys which reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart. It was released as the lead single from their 1988 album, Introspective.-Song:...
  
  " – Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
  
  
• "Don't Believe the Hype
  Don't Believe the Hype
  "Don't Believe the Hype" is the second single of Public Enemy's second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The song's lyrics are mostly about the political issues that were current in the U.S. at the time of its release. "Don't Believe the Hype" charted at number 18 on the U.S....
  
  " – Public Enemy
• "Don't Blame It on that Girl / Wap-Bam-Boogie" – Matt Bianco
  Matt Bianco
  Matt Bianco is a UK band that was formed in 1983. They are mainly known for their success in the mid 1980s and their jazz, Latin-flavoured music....
  
  
• "Don't Make Me Wait/Megablast" – Bomb The Bass
  Bomb the Bass
  Bomb the Bass is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and producer, Tim Simenon. The band, which has evolved its style over the years, has been classed as electronic or dance....
  
  
• "Don't Worry, Be Happy
  Don't Worry, Be Happy
  "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a song by musician Bobby McFerrin. Released in September 1988, it became the first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. On the UK Singles Chart, the song reached number 2 during its fifth week on the chart...
  
  " – Bobby McFerrin
  Bobby McFerrin
  Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
  
  
• "Dreaming
  Dreaming (OMD song)
  "Dreaming" is a song by British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released in 1988 as a single from their compilation album, The Best of OMD...
  
  " – OMD
  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England...
  
  
• "Drop the Boy" – Bros
  Bros
  Bros were a British band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan...
  
  
• "Endless Summer Nights
  Endless Summer Nights
  "Endless Summer Nights" is a song written and performed by American pop-rock singer Richard Marx, and released in January 1988 as the third single from his eponymous debut album. The song peaked at number two on the U.S...
  
  " – Richard Marx
  Richard Marx
  Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
  
  
• "Everlasting
  Everlasting (song)
  "Everlasting" is BoA's 18th Japanese single and 4th Korean single. The leading track "Everlasting" is a ballad, and the B-side track, "Soundscape" is a mid-tempo song for Japanese version and "People say..." for the Korean version B-side track...
  
  " – Natalie Cole
  Natalie Cole
  Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
  
  
• "Everyday Is Like Sunday" – Morrissey
  Morrissey
  Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...
  
  
• "Every Rose Has Its Thorn
  Every Rose Has Its Thorn
  "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is a power ballad by American glam metal band Poison. It was released in 1988 as the third single from Poison's second album Open Up And Say... Ahh!. It is the band's only number-one hit in the U.S., reaching the top spot on Christmas Eve in 1988 for three weeks . It was...
  
  " – Poison
  Poison (band)
  Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,...
  
  
• "Everything Your Heart Desires
  Everything Your Heart Desires
  "Everything Your Heart Desires" is a 1988 song by pop music duo Hall & Oates. Released as the lead single from the Ooh Yeah! album, the song peaked at number three in the United States.-Release and reception:"Everything Your Heart Desires" entered the U.S...
  
  " – Hall & Oates
  Hall & Oates
  Hall & Oates are an American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates. They achieved their greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Both sing and play instruments. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul."...
  
  
• "Express Yourself
  Express Yourself (N.W.A song)
  "Express Yourself" is a song recorded by American hip hop group N.W.A. The song, off their 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, samples Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's song of the same name. Unlike most songs on the album and by N.W.A, the song is almost devoid of profanity and...
  
  " – N.W.A.
  N.W.A.
  N.W.A was an American hip hop group from Compton, California, widely considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap sub-genre....
  
   (released in 1990 in the UK)
• "Fake 88" – Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal is an American R&B singer. He is best-known for the songs "If You Were Here Tonight" and "Fake", and the duets with Cherrelle, "Saturday Love" and "Never Knew Love Like This".-Biography:...
  
   (remix)
• "Fast Car
  Fast Car
  "Fast Car" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. It was released as a single in April 1988 from her self-titled 1988 debut album Tracy Chapman...
  
  " – Tracy Chapman
  Tracy Chapman
  Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.-Biography:Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland,...
  
  
• "Fiesta
  Fiesta (The Pogues song)
  "Fiesta" is a single by The Pogues, featured on their 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God. It was written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan, based on a Spanish fairground melody Finer had picked up...
  
  " – The Pogues
  The Pogues
  The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before...
  
  
• "The Flame
  The Flame (Cheap Trick song)
  "The Flame" is a hit power ballad by Cheap Trick, released on July 25, 1988. The song was first offered to English singer Elkie Brooks, who turned it down. Written by Bob Mitchell and Nick Graham, the song was initially released on Cheap Trick's Lap of Luxury album...
  
  " – Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
  
  
• "Fine Time
  Fine Time
  "Fine Time" is a song by New Order released in 1988 and the first single from their 1989 album Technique. The B-side "Fine Line" is simply the A-side without Bernard Sumner's vocals....
  
  " – New Order
  New Order
  New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...
  
  
• "First Time
  First Time (Robin Beck song)
  "First Time" is singer Robin Beck's first significant chart hit, released in 1988. It was originally recorded for a Coca-Cola commercial the same year and subsequently released as a single...
  
  " – Robin Beck
  Robin Beck
  Robin Beck is an American singer. She topped the singles chart in the UK in 1988, and Germany in 1989 with her single "First Time", which had come to the public's attention via its use in a Coca-Cola commercial....
  
  
• "Follow the Leader" – Eric B. & Rakim
  Eric B. & Rakim
  Eric B. & Rakim were a hip-hop duo composed of DJ Eric Barrier and MC Rakim .Hailing from Long Island, New York, the pair are generally considered by hip hop enthusiasts to be one of the most influential and innovative groups in the genre...
  
  
• "Foolish Beat" – Debbie Gibson
• "Four Letter Word
  Four Letter Word
  "Four Letter Word" is the fourth single from the Kim Wilde album Close.It was released at the end of 1988 — the year that had seen Wilde release a best-selling album, have four international hits and support Michael Jackson on the European leg of his world tour."Four Letter Word" marked the first...
  
  " – Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...
  
  
• "Forever Young" – Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
  
  
• "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car
  Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car
  "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" is a number one single by singer Billy Ocean. Part of its popularity lay in its cutting-edge video, which featured cartoon mixed with live-action sequences. The song went to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Black Singles chart. It also...
  
  " – Billy Ocean
  Billy Ocean
  Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...
  
  
• "Girlfriend
  Girlfriend (Pebbles song)
  "Girlfriend" is a 1987 single from R&B singer Pebbles' self-titled debut album. Reaching number five on the Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, it was one of her biggest hits...
  
  " – Pebbles (released in 1987)
• "Give Me The Reason" – Luther Vandross
  Luther Vandross
  Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
  
  
• "Giving You the Best That I Got
  Giving You the Best That I Got (song)
  "Giving You the Best That I Got" is the title of a 1988 song by the American R&B / soul jazz singer Anita Baker. The song appears on Baker's album of the same name, which was released in the fall of that year...
  
  " – Anita Baker
  Anita Baker
  Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....
  
  
• "Got My Mind Set on You
  Got My Mind Set on You
  "Got My Mind Set on You" is a song written by Rudy Clark and originally recorded by James Ray in 1962.It is best known for the cover version released by George Harrison in 1987.- George Harrison version :...
  
  " – George Harrison
  George Harrison
  George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
  
  
• "Goodgroove" – Derek B
  Derek B
  Derek Boland , better known by his stage name Derek B, was a British rapper. His most commercially successful releases were "Goodgroove" and "Bad Young Brother" in 1988.- Biography :...
  
  
• "Good Life" – Inner City
• "Good Tradition
  Good Tradition
  "Good Tradition" is a song, written and originally recorded by Tanita Tikaram and released as the first single in 1988 from the album Ancient Heart.-Story:...
  
  " – Tanita Tikaram
  Tanita Tikaram
  Tanita Tikaram is a British pop/folk singer-songwriter, best known for the hits "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart...
  
  
• "Hands to Heaven
  Hands to Heaven
  "Hands to Heaven" is the title of a popular song released in 1987 and peaking on the charts in 1988 by the British pop group Breathe...
  
  " – Breathe
  Breathe (band)
  Breathe were a London based group formed in the early 1980s.-Career:Originally a larger, five-person band called Catch 22, all the members were actually childhood friends who went to Yateley School together in Hampshire where they lived. They later trimmed down to a quartet. Phill Harrison left to...
  
  
• "Happy Ever After" – Julia Fordham
  Julia Fordham
  Julia Fordham is a British singer-songwriter based in California. Her professional career started in the early 1980s, under the name "Jules Fordham", as a backing singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde.-Career:...
  
  
• "Heart
  Heart (Pet Shop Boys song)
  "Heart" is a song recorded by Pet Shop Boys which reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in April 1988 . This is also their last number 1 song to date...
  
  " – Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
  
  
• "Heat It Up" – Wee Papa Girl Rappers
  Wee Papa Girl Rappers
  Wee Papa Girl Rappers were a British female rap duo, who found chart success in the late 1980s. They were twin sisters Sandra and Samantha Lawrence.- Overview :...
  
   featuring Two Men & A Drum Machine
• "Heatseeker
  Heatseeker (song)
  "Heatseeker" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. The song appeared on their 1988 album Blow Up Your Video as the first track. The song was later on both Brian Johnson-era live albums; Live and Live: 2 CD Collector's Edition. The song was also released as a single in various formats, with...
  
  " – AC/DC
  AC/DC
  AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
  
  
• "Heaven is a Place on Earth
  Heaven is a Place on Earth
  "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" is the title of a song recorded by Belinda Carlisle, the lead singer of The Go-Go's. Written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, and interpolating the aria "Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße der Ruh'" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, it hit number one on the...
  
  " – Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Hey Manhattan!" – Prefab Sprout
  Prefab Sprout
  Prefab Sprout are an alternative English pop rock band from Witton Gilbert, County Durham, England who rose to fame during the 1980s. Eight of their albums have reached the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart, and one of their singles, "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", peaked at number seven in the UK...
  
  
• "Hey Mister Heartache
  Hey Mister Heartache
  "Hey Mister Heartache" is the first single from Close, the 1988 album by British singer Kim Wilde.Although only a minor hit in Wilde's native UK, it was a Top 20 success throughout Europe and marked the beginning of a very successful year for the star — during which she would have a best-selling...
  
  " – Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...
  
  
• "Hold On to the Nights
  Hold On to the Nights
  "Hold On to the Nights" is a power ballad and number-one hit for singer Richard Marx. This was the fourth and final single released from his self-titled debut album, and the first to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100.-Charts:...
  
  " – Richard Marx
  Richard Marx
  Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
  
  
• "Hole In My Heart" – Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...
  
  
• "Hot in the City
  Hot in the City
  "Hot in the City" is a 1982 song by Billy Idol, released on his self-titled album. It charted at #23 in the U.S. and #58 in the UK. A re-release of the song in the UK in 1988 reached #13.-Music video:...
  
  " – Billy Idol
  Billy Idol
  William Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...
  
  
• "House Arrest
  House Arrest (song)
  "House Arrest" is a hit single by British group Krush who hailed from Nottingham. It was believed that the vocalist Ruth Joy was Ann Saunderson however this has been proven to be incorrect...
  
   (The Beat Is Law)" – Krush
  Krush
  Krush were a UK dance music group, who had a crossover hit single with "House Arrest" in 1987.-Career:The group consisted of musicians Mark Gamble, Cassius Campbell and record producers Mark Brydon and Robert Gordon. Their second single "Walking On Sunshine" was a club hit in 1992, and peaked at...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Hungry Eyes
  Hungry Eyes
  "Hungry Eyes" is a song performed by Eric Carmen, and was featured in the film Dirty Dancing. The song was recorded at Beachwood Studios in Beachwood, OH in 1987. "Hungry Eyes" peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts in 1988...
  
  " – Eric Carmen
  Eric Carmen
  Eric Howard Carmen is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries , and then with his solo career, including hits such as "All By Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "She Did It",...
  
  
• "Hustle! (To the Music...)" – The Funky Worm
  The Funky Worm
  The Funky Worm was a British dance music studio project, assembled by a record producer, Mark Brydon. The group took its name from the hit Ohio Players song, "Funky Worm"....
  
  
• "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That" – Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  
• "I Don't Want to Live Without You
  I Don't Want to Live Without You
  "I Don't Want to Live Without You" is a song from 1988 by the rock-pop band Foreigner. It was included on their 1987 platinum album, Inside Information....
  
  " – Foreigner
  Foreigner (band)
  Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm...
  
  
• "I Don't Want to Talk About It
  I Don't Want to Talk About It
  "I Don't Want to Talk About It" is the name of a song written by Danny Whitten. Whitten's band, Crazy Horse released it as a track on their 1971 eponymous album....
  
  " – Everything but the Girl
  Everything but the Girl
  Everything but the Girl was a two-person English band, formed in Hull during 1981, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt . They are currently inactive although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may reform someday...
  
  
• "I Gave It Up (When I Fell In Love)" – Luther Vandross
  Luther Vandross
  Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
  
  
• "I Get Weak
  I Get Weak
  "I Get Weak" is a pop song written by Diane Warren and produced by Rick Nowels for Belinda Carlisle's second album Heaven on Earth. The song reached number 2 on the US Billboard Charts and number 10 in the UK in 1988.-Music video:...
  
  " – Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...
  
  
• "I Know You Got Soul" – Eric B. & Rakim
  Eric B. & Rakim
  Eric B. & Rakim were a hip-hop duo composed of DJ Eric Barrier and MC Rakim .Hailing from Long Island, New York, the pair are generally considered by hip hop enthusiasts to be one of the most influential and innovative groups in the genre...
  
  
• "I Hate Myself for Loving You
  I Hate Myself for Loving You
  "I Hate Myself for Loving You" is a 1988 song from Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and the first single from the album Up Your Alley. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, Jett's third single to reach the Top 10, but her first since "Crimson and Clover" in 1982...
  
  " – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
• "I Owe You Nothing" – Bros
  Bros
  Bros were a British band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan...
  
  
• "I Need You" – BVSMP
• "I Saw Him Standing There
  I Saw Him Standing There
  "I Saw Him Standing There" by Tiffany was a cover version of The Beatles' song "I Saw Her Standing There". She released it on her debut self-titled album, changing the lyrics to "him" instead of "her"....
  
   – Tiffany
• "I Should Be So Lucky
  I Should Be So Lucky
  "I Should Be So Lucky" is a pop-dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie .The song was released as the album's second single in December 1987...
  
  " – Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
  
  
• "I Want You Back" – Bananarama
  Bananarama
  Bananarama are an English female pop duo who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Rather than relying on a two part harmony, the duo generally sings in unison, as do their background vocalists. Although there have been line-up changes, the group enjoyed their most popular...
  
  
• "I Want Your Love" – Transvision Vamp
• "I'll Always Love You" – Taylor Dayne
  Taylor Dayne
  Taylor Dayne was born Leslie Wunderman on March 7, 1962 before later adopting her current stage name. She is an American pop vocalist, songwriter, and dance artist. Overall, she has had eighteen individual hit songs reach the top ten in Billboard magazine...
  
  
• "I'll Be There for You" – Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
  
  
• "I'll Be With You" – T'Pau
  T'Pau (band)
  T'Pau was a 1980s British Rock group led by singer Carol Decker. They had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe...
  
  
• "I'll House You" – Richie Rich meets The Jungle Brothers
  Jungle Brothers
  The Jungle Brothers are an American hip hop group that pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house-music producer. The group began performing in the mid-1980s and released its first album, Straight Out the Jungle, in July 1988...
  
  
• "I'm Not Scared" – Eighth Wonder
  Eighth Wonder
  Eighth Wonder were a British pop band in the 1980s. They formed in 1983 and enjoyed major success in Japan and Italy between 1985 and 1987, before having hit singles in the UK and across Europe in 1988.-Early years:...
  
  
• "I'm Real" – James Brown featuring Full Force
  Full Force
  Full Force is a group of R&B performers and producers from Brooklyn, New York, USA, calling itself the original hip hop vocal band.-Members:*B-Fine - drums and drum programming*Shy Shy - bass guitar...
  
  
• "I'm Too Scared" – Steven Dante
• "Im Nin'Alu
  Im Nin'Alu
  "Im Nin'alu" is a Hebrew poem by 17th-century Rabbi Shalom Shabazi that has been set to music and sung by Israeli singer Ofra Haza and others...
  
  " – Ofra Haza
  Ofra Haza
  Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer of Yemeni origin, an actress and international recording artist....
  
  
• "In My Dreams" – Will Downing
• "In The Air Tonight" – Phil Collins
  Phil Collins
  Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
  
   (remix)
• "Is This Love
  Is This Love (Whitesnake song)
  "Is This Love" is a song by the English hard rock band Whitesnake. The song is taken from their self-titled album, which released in 1987.The song was written by vocalist David Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes during the albums early writing process , but it was long rumored that the song had...
  
  " – Whitesnake
  Whitesnake
  Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...
  
  
• "It Must Have Been Love" – Magnum
  Magnum (band)
  Magnum are a British progressive rock band from Birmingham, England. Formed as a four piece by Tony Clarkin , Bob Catley , Kex Gorin and Bob Doyle in order to appear as the resident band at The Rum Runner night club Birmingham...
  
  
• "It Takes Two
  It Takes Two (Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock song)
  "It Takes Two" is a 1988 hip hop song by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock and produced by Teddy Riley that was later certified platinum. The song samples heavily from Lyn Collins' 1972 song "Think ", using multiple drum breaks, the well known "Woo! Yeah!" sample, as well as the lyric sung by Collins which...
  
  " – Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
• "Jack To The Sound Of The Underground" – Hithouse
  Peter Slaghuis
  Peter Slaghuis was a Dutch DJ, producer and remixer, whose work was mostly released under the name Hithouse ....
  
  
• "Joe le Taxi
  Joe le taxi
  "Joe le taxi" is a French song written by Franck Langolff and Étienne Roda-Gil for French singer Vanessa Paradis. It was later included in her debut album, M&J, which was released in 1988....
  
  " – Vanessa Paradis
  Vanessa Paradis
  Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French singer, model and actress. She became a child star at 14 with the worldwide success of her single "Joe le taxi"...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "John Skero Goes West" – John Skero
• "Johnny B. Goode
  Johnny B. Goode
  "Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock and roll song written and originally performed by American musician Chuck Berry. The song was a major hit among both black and white audiences peaking at #2 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song is one of Chuck Berry's...
  
  " – Judas Priest
  Judas Priest
  Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...
  
  
• "Jour de neige
  Jour de neige
  "Jour de neige" is a 1988 song recorded by the French artist Elsa Lunghini. Released on November 1988, this song was the third single from her debut album Elsa. As for the previous three singles, it had a great success in France, reaching number two....
  
  " – Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa , is a French singer and actress. She was a famous teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer ever to reach number one in the French charts with the single T'en va pas, and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade...
  
  
• "Just Like Paradise
  Just Like Paradise
  "Just Like Paradise" is a 1988 song by American rock singer David Lee Roth. Produced by Roth and guitarist Steve Vai, the song was released as the lead single from Roth's second solo album, 1988's Skyscraper...
  
  " – David Lee Roth
  David Lee Roth
  David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. Roth was ranked nineteenth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Singers of All Time....
  
  
• "Kokomo" – The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
  
  
• "Lead Me On" – Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...
  
  
• "Left to My Own Devices
  Left to My Own Devices
  "Left to My Own Devices" is a song recorded by Pet Shop Boys, released as the second single from their third studio album, Introspective. It was also the first track of the album. It is their 9th best selling-hit....
  
  " – Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
  
  
• "Look Away
  Look Away
  "Look Away" is the name of a 1989 #1 Billboard Hot 100 Chart hit written by Diane Warren. It was recorded by the band Chicago for their 1988 album Chicago 19, with Bill Champlin singing lead vocals. When released as a single that year, the song proved successful, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for...
  
  " – Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
  
  
• "Love Bites" – Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Love Changes (Everything)" – Climie Fisher
  Climie Fisher
  Climie Fisher were a UK pop duo formed by vocalist Simon Climie and former Naked Eyes keyboardist Rob Fisher...
  
   (remix/released in 1987)
• "Lucretia My Reflection" – Sisters of Mercy
  Sisters of Mercy
  The Religious Order of the Sisters of Mercy is an order of Catholic women founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831. , the order has about 10,000 members worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations....
  
  
• "Make It Real
  Make It Real
  "Make It Real" is a song by the American dance-pop sibling group, The Jets, released as a single from their album, Magic, in the spring of 1988 ....
  
  " – The Jets
• "Make Me Lose Control
  Make Me Lose Control (song)
  "Make Me Lose Control" is the title of a 1988 Billboard Hot 100 #3 hit single written and performed by the singer-songwriter Eric Carmen...
  
  " – Eric Carmen
  Eric Carmen
  Eric Howard Carmen is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries , and then with his solo career, including hits such as "All By Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "She Did It",...
  
  
• "Mary's Prayer" – Danny Wilson
  Danny Wilson (band)
  Danny Wilson were a New Wave group formed in Dundee, Scotland.-History:Having been initially formed in the early 80's performing under the names Perfect Strangers and then Dream Kitchen, brothers Gary Clark and Kit Clark formed a band with friend Ged Grimes in 1984, initially under the name...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Man in the Mirror
  Man in the Mirror
  "Man in the Mirror" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson and written and composed by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett. It peaked at number one in the United States when released as a single in January 1988 off his seventh solo album, Bad. It is one of Jackson's most critically acclaimed songs and...
  
  " – Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
  
• "Maybe (We Should Call It A Day)" – Hazel Dean
• "Mercedes Boy
  Mercedes Boy
  "Mercedes Boy" is a 1988 single by Pebbles from her self-titled debut album. It reached #2 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. It was performed on Soul Train where it was predicted to become a top ten hit. "Mercedes Boy" also peaked at number two for two weeks on...
  
  " – Pebbles
• "Mistletoe and Wine
  Mistletoe and Wine
  "Mistletoe and Wine" is a popular single by Cliff Richard.Written by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan, it was originally performed as part of the musical Scraps at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, London in 1976...
  
  " – Cliff Richard
  Cliff Richard
  Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
  
  
• "Monkey
  Monkey (song)
  "Monkey" is a US number-one hit song by George Michael. It was released as a single in 1988 and reached #1 on the US Hot 100 and #13 on the UK Singles Chart. "Monkey" debuted at #42 on 9 July 1988, reaching #1 for two weeks, beginning 27 August 1988....
  
  " – George Michael
  George Michael
  George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
  
  
• "Moonchild" – Fields of the Nephilim
  Fields of the Nephilim
  Fields of the Nephilim are an English gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Whisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright and drummer Alexander "Nod" Wright...
  
  
• "Mountain Song" – Jane's Addiction
  Jane's Addiction
  Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...
  
  
• "Mystify
  Mystify (song)
  "Mystify" is a song by Australian rock band INXS, and is the fifth single from their 1987 album Kick.The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence as part of the first sessions for "Kick"...
  
  " – INXS (released 1989 in the UK)
• "Need You Tonight
  Need You Tonight
  "Need You Tonight" is the fourth song on INXS's 1987 album Kick as well as the first single from the album released worldwide. It is the only INXS single to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " – INXS (released in 1987)
• "Never Gonna Give You Up
  Never Gonna Give You Up
  A group of London dance producers, called The Rickrollerz made a house music cover version of "Never Gonna Give You Up" on that day, and in honor of that event....
  
  " – Rick Astley
  Rick Astley
  Richard Paul "Rick" Astley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality. He is known for his 1987 song, "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was a #1 hit single in 25 countries...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Never Knew Love Like This" – Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal is an American R&B singer. He is best-known for the songs "If You Were Here Tonight" and "Fake", and the duets with Cherrelle, "Saturday Love" and "Never Knew Love Like This".-Biography:...
  
  
• "Never Tear Us Apart
  Never Tear Us Apart
  "Never Tear Us Apart" is a single released by Australian rock group INXS in August 1988. It was also included on the band's sixth studio album, Kick. The music was written by Andrew Farriss, who recorded a blues-style demo and gave it to Michael Hutchence...
  
  " – INXS
• "Never Trust a Stranger
  Never Trust a Stranger
  "Never Trust a Stranger" is the third single from Close, the sixth original album by Kim Wilde.Remixed from the original album track by producer Ricki Wilde, it was released as a single in the autumn of 1988 following the best-selling hit "You Came" and several European tour dates supporting...
  
  " – Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...
  
  
• "New Sensation
  New Sensation
  "New Sensation" is a song by the Australian rock group INXS. It was the third single from their 1987 album Kick. The music was written by Andrew Farriss and the lyrics by Michael Hutchence...
  
  " – INXS
• "Nothing But A Good Time" – Poison
  Poison (band)
  Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,...
  
  
• "Nothing Can Divide Us" – Jason Donovan
  Jason Donovan
  Jason Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989...
  
  
• "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You
  Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You
  "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" is a popular song by Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser. It was originally recorded by George Benson for his 1984 album 20/20....
  
  " – Glenn Medeiros
  Glenn Medeiros
  Glenn Alan Medeiros is a Hispanic Hawaiian singer and rapper who was a teenage star in the 1980s.-Biography:...
  
   (United Kingdom peak)
• "Nuit de folie
  Nuit de folie
  "Nuit de folie" is a 1988 popular song recorded by French pop duet Début de Soirée. It was their debut single from their album Jardins d'enfants and was released in June 1988. In France, it became the summer hit of the year, topping the chart for over two months...
  
  " – Début de Soirée
  Début de Soirée
  Début de Soirée was a French duet of pop music which had a huge success in 1988 with their song "Nuit de folie", number-one single in France.-History:...
  
  
• "On the edge of a broken heart" – Vixen
  Vixen (band)
  Vixen is an all-female American hard rock band which achieved some commercial success during the late 1980s and early 1990s as part of the Los Angeles, California glam metal scene.-Early years:...
  
  
• "One More Try
  One More Try (George Michael song)
  "One More Try" is a U.S. number-one hit song written and performed by George Michael and released by Epic Records in 1988 as the fourth single from Faith.-History:...
  
  " – George Michael
  George Michael
  George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
  
  
• "One
  One (Metallica song)
  "One" is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the third and final single from their fourth album ...And Justice for All. "One" was also the band's first Top 40 hit single, reaching number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " – Metallica
  Metallica
  Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
  
  
• "Orange Crush
  Orange Crush (song)
  "Orange Crush" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released as the first single from the band's sixth studio album, Green, in 1988...
  
  " – R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
  
   (released 1989 in the UK)
• "Orinoco Flow
  Orinoco Flow
  "Orinoco Flow " is a 1988 single written and recorded by Enya. It also featured on her second studio album, Watermark.-Background:...
  
  " – Enya
  Enya
  Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...
  
  
• "Pamela
  Pamela (song)
  "Pamela" is a pop rock song written by David Paich and Joseph Williams for the 1988 Toto album The Seventh One. It was the first single from the album, and it peaked at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart becoming their final US hit to date....
  
  " - Toto
  Toto (band)
  Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The group currently consists of Joseph Williams , David Paich , Steve Porcaro , Steve Lukather , Mike Porcaro , and Simon Phillips . Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard...
  
  
• "Paradise
  Paradise (Sade song)
  "Paradise" is a 1988 song by Sade. The single, from the album Stronger Than Pride, was Sade's most successful on the US R&B chart, peaking at number one for one week, and peaking at number sixteen on the Hot 100. "Paradise" was also a hit on the dance charts, where it peaked at number twenty-one...
  
  " – Sade
  Sade (band)
  Sade is a British smooth jazz band that formed in 1983, named for Nigerian lead singer Sade Adu. Their music features elements of R&B, soul, jazz, and soft rock....
  
  
• "Paradise City" – Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
  
  
• "Parents Just Don't Understand
  Parents Just Don't Understand
  "Parents Just Don't Understand" is the second single from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's second studio album, He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1989, one of only two songs to ever do so before the award was discontinued in 1991. It peaked at...
  
  " – DJ Jazzy Jeff
  DJ Jazzy Jeff
  Jeffrey Allen Townes , also known as DJ Jazzy Jeff or simply Jazz, is an American hip hop, R&B record producer, turntablist and actor. He is best known for his early career with Will Smith as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince...
  
   and the Fresh Prince
• "The Payback Mix" – James Brown
• "People Are Strange
  People Are Strange
  "People Are Strange" is a single released by The Doors in September 1967 from their second album Strange Days which was also released in September 1967. The single peaked at the #12 position of the U.S. Hot 100 chart and made it to the top ten in the Cash Box charts...
  
  " – Echo & the Bunnymen
  Echo & the Bunnymen
  Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk band, formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de Freitas had joined as the band's drummer, and their debut...
  
  
• "People Have the Power
  People Have the Power
  "People Have the Power" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith 1988 album Dream of Life...
  
  " – Patti Smith
  Patti Smith
  Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....
  
  
• "Piano in the Dark
  Piano in the Dark
  "Piano In The Dark" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Brenda Russell . It was the first single to be taken from Russell's 1988 album, Get Here.-Song Information:...
  
  " – Brenda Russell
  Brenda Russell
  Brenda Russell is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, dance, jazz and adult contemporary...
  
  
• "Pink Cadillac
  Pink Cadillac (song)
  "Pink Cadillac" is a humorous song by Bruce Springsteen which though a minor item in his canon of recorded music was a prominent concert number during Springsteen's 1984-85 Born in the U.S.A. Tour...
  
  " – Natalie Cole
  Natalie Cole
  Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
  
  
• "Pour Some Sugar on Me
  Pour Some Sugar on Me
  "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a song by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria. It reached number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " – Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
  Pourvu qu'elles soient douces
  "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" is a 1988 synthpop song by the French artist Mylène Farmer. Third single from her second studio album Ainsi soit je..., it was released on 12 September 1988. Very provocative, the song deals with sodomy and enjoys a very long music video which contains sexual and...
  
  " – Mylène Farmer
  Mylène Farmer
  Mylène Farmer, , born Marie-Hélène Jeanne Gautier, , , is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author....
  
  
• "Push It
  Push It (Salt-N-Pepa song)
  "Push It" is a song by the group Salt-N-Pepa, released as a single in 1986. It peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA...
  
  /Tramp" – Salt-N-Pepa
  Salt-N-Pepa
  Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
  
  
• "Put a Little Love in Your Heart
  Put a Little Love in Your Heart
  "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a song originally performed in 1968 by Jackie DeShannon, who composed it with her brother, Randy Myers, and Jimmy Holiday. In the USA, it was DeShannon's highest-charting hit, reaching #4 on the Hot 100 and #2 on the Adult Contemporary charts...
  
  " – Annie Lennox
  Annie Lennox
  Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
  
   & Al Green
  Al Green
  Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
  
  
• "Quelque chose dans mon cœur
  Quelque chose dans mon cœur
  "Quelque chose dans mon cœur" is a 1987 song recorded by the French artist Elsa Lunghini. Released on December 1987, this song was the first single from her debut album Elsa. It achieved a great success in France, reaching number two.-Background:The song was written by Georges Lunghini, Elsa's...
  
  " – Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa , is a French singer and actress. She was a famous teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer ever to reach number one in the French charts with the single T'en va pas, and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade...
  
  
• "Quelque part au Soleil" – Dalida (inédit)
• "Rag Doll
  Rag doll
  A rag doll is a children's toy. It is a cloth figure, a doll traditionally home-made from spare scraps of material. They are one of the most ancient children's toys in existence; the British Museum has a Roman rag doll, found in a child's grave dating from 300 BC.Rag dolls have featured in a...
  
  " – Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
  
  
• "Real Gone Kid
  Real Gone Kid
  "Real Gone Kid" is a song by the Scottish rock/pop band Deacon Blue. Rleased in 1988, it was the first single to from the band's second album When the World Knows Your Name which was released six months later. The single was the band's first top ten hit, reaching #8 in the UK Singles Chart...
  
  " – Deacon Blue
  Deacon Blue
  Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop band formed in Glasgow during 1985. Their name was taken from the title of the Steely Dan song "Deacon Blues". The band consists of vocalist Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond....
  
  
• "Revolution Baby" – Transvision Vamp
  Transvision Vamp
  Transvision Vamp were a British alternative rock group. Formed in 1986 by Nick Christian Sayer and Wendy James the band enjoyed chart success in the late 1980s...
  
  
• "Rise To The Occasion (Hip Hop Mix)" – Climie Fisher
  Climie Fisher
  Climie Fisher were a UK pop duo formed by vocalist Simon Climie and former Naked Eyes keyboardist Rob Fisher...
  
   (remix/released in 1987)
• "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
  Rockin' around the Christmas Tree
  "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958 on Decca 9-30776.-Background:...
  
  " – Mel
  Mel Smith
  Melvin Kenneth "Mel" Smith is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer, and actor. He is most famous for his work on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones.- Early life :Smith's father, Kenneth, was born...
  
   & Kim
  Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...
  
   (released December 1987)
• "Rok Da House" – The Beatmasters
  Beatmasters
  The Beatmasters are a team of dance music songwriters, musicians and producers who were successful as artists in their own right in the UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s and then went on to produce and remix records for many other groups...
  
   featuring The Cookie Crew (remix/released in 1987)
• "Roll With It
  Roll with It (Steve Winwood song)
  "Roll with It" is a song recorded by Steve Winwood for his album, Roll with It, released on Virgin Records. It was written by Winwood and songwriter Will Jennings....
  
  " – Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
  
  
• "Roses Are Red" – Mac Band featuring McCampbell Brothers
• "Run's House
  Run's House (song)
  "Run's House" is a single released by Run-D.M.C. from their fourth studio album Tougher Than Leather. It was released in 1988 through Profile Records and was produced and written by the group and Davy D. "Run's House" was the highest charting single from the album, making it to number ten on the...
  
  " – Run-D.M.C.
  Run-D.M.C.
  Run–D.M.C. was an American hip hop group from Hollis, in the Queens borough of New York City. Founded by Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, and Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell, the group is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture.Run–D.M.C...
  
  
• "Saved By Love" – Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...
  
  
• "I Say a Little Prayer
  I Say a Little Prayer
  "I Say a Little Prayer" is a song written by songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Dionne Warwick, originally peaking at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in December 1967.-Background:...
  
  " – Bomb The Bass
  Bomb the Bass
  Bomb the Bass is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and producer, Tim Simenon. The band, which has evolved its style over the years, has been classed as electronic or dance....
  
  
• "Seasons Change" – Exposé
• "Shaday" – Ofra Haza
• "Shake for the Sheik
  Shake for the Sheik
  "Shake for the Sheik" is a song by English pop-rock band The Escape Club, from their 1988 album Wild Wild West. Written by the band members and produced by Chris Kimsey, the song was released as the album's second single and reached number 28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in January...
  
  " – The Escape Club
  The Escape Club
  The Escape Club began in 1983 as an English pop rock band based in London. The band was composed of former Mad Shadows members' lead singer/rhythm guitarist Trevor Steel and guitarist John Holliday, along with former Expressos members bassist Johnnie Christo and drummer Milan Zekavica...
  
  
• "Shake Your Thang (It's Your Thing)" – Salt-N-Pepa
  Salt-N-Pepa
  Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
  
   featuring E.U.
  Experience Unlimited
  Experience Unlimited is a Washington, D.C.-based go-go band that enjoyed its height of popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s. Fronted by lead singer/bassist Gregory "Sugarbear" Eliot, the group has had a fluctuating membership over the years, but they have maintained a fairly loyal following...
  
  
• "Shattered Dreams
  Shattered Dreams
  In 2009, French singer Quentin Elias covered the song in a single released on-line at such retailers as iTunes and Amazon.com.Track listing# "Shattered Dreams" [Original Die For Me Mix]# "Shattered Dreams" [Deep & Dark Mix]...
  
  " – Johnny Hates Jazz
  Johnny Hates Jazz
  Johnny Hates Jazz is an Anglo-American Pop/Rock band, formed in 1986 by Clark Datchler , Mike Nocito , and Calvin Hayes...
  
   (USA release)
• "Ship Of Fools" – Erasure
  Erasure
  Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...
  
  
• "Sidewalking
  Sidewalking
  "Sidewalking" is a song by The Jesus and Mary Chain. It was released as a non-studio-album single in March 1988. It was included in the compilation album Barbed Wire Kisses which came out shortly after...
  
  " – The Jesus and Mary Chain
  The Jesus and Mary Chain
  The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride, Glasgow in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid...
  
  
• "Sign Your Name
  Sign Your Name
  "Sign Your Name" is the name of a famous song written and performed by Terence Trent D'Arby .Released in his 1987 album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, it was an international success, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in early 1988 and number four on the US...
  
  " – Terence Trent D'Arby (released in 1987)
• "Simply Irresistible
  Simply Irresistible
  Simply Irresistible is a 1999 American romantic comedy film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sean Patrick Flanery. It was directed by Mark Tarlov and was written by Judith Roberts. Simply Irresistible is notable as the last movie reviewed by film critic Gene Siskel...
  
  " – Robert Palmer
• "Smooth Criminal
  Smooth Criminal
  "Smooth Criminal" is the seventh single from Michael Jackson's 1987 Bad album. The song contains a fast-paced beat intertwined with Jackson's lyrics about a woman named Annie, who has been attacked in her apartment by a "smooth" assailant. It was released as a single on October 24, 1988 and peaked...
  
  " – Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
  
• "So Excellent / I Go! I Go!" – Kylie Mole
• "Stakker Humanoid
  Stakker Humanoid
  Stakker Humanoid is an acid house track by Humanoid released in 1988 by the London based label Westside Records.-History of the track:The project behind the track started out with Stakker, a collaborative project by the video artists Mark McClean and Colin Scott...
  
  " – Humanoid
  Brian Dougans
  Brian Dougans is one half of the British electronica group, The Future Sound of London.He is a "man of many thoughts and few words" almost always letting Cobain take the lead in interviews with them both...
  
  
• "Stand" – R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
  
  
• "Stand Up for Your Love Rights
  Stand Up for Your Love Rights
  "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" is a 1988 single performed by Yazz. The song was particularly successful in Ireland and the UK, where it was respectively #1 and #2.-Track listings:7"single# "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" — 4:21...
  
  " – Yazz
  Yazz
  Yazz is a British pop singer, who remains best known for her successful 1988 dance track, "The Only Way Is Up". Some of her records were credited to Yazz & The Plastic Population...
  
  
• "Stay on These Roads
  Stay on These Roads
  Stay on These Roads is the third full-length album by the rock band A-ha. It was released on 3 May 1988 through Warner Bros. Records.-Recording:...
  
  " – a-ha
  A-ha
  A-ha were a Norwegian pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. The band was founded by Morten Harket , Magne Furuholmen , and Pål Waaktaar...
  
  
• "Stop!" – Erasure
  Erasure
  Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...
  
  
• "Stop This Crazy Thing" – Coldcut
  Coldcut
  Coldcut are an English dance music duo, comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.-1980s:In 1986, computer programmer Matt...
  
   featuring Junior Reid
  Junior Reid
  Delroy "Junior" Reid is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician, best known for the songs "One Blood" and "Funny Man", as well as being the man that replaced Michael Rose as lead vocalist for Black Uhuru.-Biography:...
  
   & The Ahead Of Our Time Orchestra
• "Straight Outta Compton
  Straight Outta Compton
  The lyrics on the album were mainly written by Ice Cube and MC Ren. Critics of the album expressed their view that the record glamorized Black-on-Black crime, but the emcees stated that the group was simply showing the reality of living in the areas of Compton, California, and South Central Los...
  
  " – N.W.A.
  N.W.A.
  N.W.A was an American hip hop group from Compton, California, widely considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap sub-genre....
  
  
• "Stutter Rap ( No Sleep 'Til Bedtime )" – Morris Minor and the Majors
• "Superfly Guy" – S-Express
• "Suedehead
  Suedehead
  "Suedehead" was the debut solo single from Morrissey, released in February 1988.The single charted higher than any of the singles released by his former band The Smiths, reaching number five in the UK Singles Chart. It charted at #30 in The Netherlands and at #8 in New Zealand...
  
  " – Morrissey
  Morrissey
  Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...
  
  
• "Superstitious
  Superstitious (song)
  "Superstitious" is a 1988 single released by the Swedish heavy metal band Europe. It was the first single released from the album Out of This World. It charted at #31 in the Billboard Hot 100, #9 at the Mainstream Rock Tracks and #34 in the UK Singles Chart....
  
  " – Europe
  Europe (band)
  Europe is a Swedish rock band formed in Upplands Väsby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest, guitarist John Norum and drummer Tony Reno. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal and hard rock elements...
  
  
• "Sweet Child o' Mine
  Sweet Child O' Mine
  "Sweet Child o' Mine" is the third single by American rock band Guns N' Roses, and the third from their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction. Released on August 17, 1988, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the band's first and only number-one single in the U.S...
  
  " – Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
  
   (released in 1987)
• "Tell It to My Heart
  Tell It to My Heart
  "Tell It to My Heart" is a song recorded by dance-pop vocalist Taylor Dayne, released as her first single from her debut album of the same name in late 1987. The single was Dayne's first major exposure, and she soon became known for her up-tempo, dance-oriented music.-Background and writing:The...
  
  " – Taylor Dayne
  Taylor Dayne
  Taylor Dayne was born Leslie Wunderman on March 7, 1962 before later adopting her current stage name. She is an American pop vocalist, songwriter, and dance artist. Overall, she has had eighteen individual hit songs reach the top ten in Billboard magazine...
  
  
• "Tell Me True
  Tell Me True
  "Tell Me True" is a single by American country pop artist Juice Newton. Released in 1987, it was the second single from the album Emotion. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...
  
  " – Juice Newton
  Juice Newton
  Judith Kay "Juice" Newton is an American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist...
  
  
• "That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll
  That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll
  "That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll" is a song and a single by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. The song appeared on their 1988 album Blow Up Your Video as the second track. A live version of this song can be found on the band's live album, Live: 2 CD Collector's Edition...
  
  " – AC/DC
  AC/DC
  AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
  
  
• "The Blood That Moves The Body" – a-ha
  A-ha
  A-ha were a Norwegian pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. The band was founded by Morten Harket , Magne Furuholmen , and Pål Waaktaar...
  
  
• "The Great Commandment" – Camouflage
  Camouflage (band)
  Camouflage is a German New Wave trio consisting of Marcus Meyn, Heiko Maile and Oliver Kreyssig. Their only Billboard Hot 100 hit was "The Great Commandment" which climbed to #59 in 1988, though it did spend three weeks at #1 on the US dance chart...
  
  
• "The Jack That House Built" – Jack 'N' Chill (released in 1987)
• "The King Of Rock 'N' Roll
  The King of Rock 'N' Roll
  "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" is a single by the British rock group Prefab Sprout, released in 1988. It was the second single taken from their album of that year, From Langley Park to Memphis, and makes reference to a washed-up '50s star who is only remembered for his one-hit novelty song, which is...
  
   – Prefab Sprout
  Prefab Sprout
  Prefab Sprout are an alternative English pop rock band from Witton Gilbert, County Durham, England who rose to fame during the 1980s. Eight of their albums have reached the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart, and one of their singles, "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", peaked at number seven in the UK...
  
  
• "The Lover In Me
  The Lover in Me (Sheena Easton song)
  "The Lover in Me" is a 1988 single by pop singer Sheena Easton. It was one of her biggest hits in the US and became her first top 20 hit in the UK after an eight-year hiatus.-Background:The song was the first single off the album The Lover in Me...
  
  - Sheena Easton
  Sheena Easton
  Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...
  
  
• "The Lovers" – Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal is an American R&B singer. He is best-known for the songs "If You Were Here Tonight" and "Fake", and the duets with Cherrelle, "Saturday Love" and "Never Knew Love Like This".-Biography:...
  
  
• "The Only Way Is Up
  The Only Way Is Up
  "The Only Way Is Up" is a song written by George Jackson and Johnny Henderson and originally released 1980 as single by soul singer Otis Clay. In 1988, it became a chart-topping single for Yazz and the Plastic Population.-Yazz version:...
  
  " – Yazz and the Plastic Population
  Yazz
  Yazz is a British pop singer, who remains best known for her successful 1988 dance track, "The Only Way Is Up". Some of her records were credited to Yazz & The Plastic Population...
  
  
• "The Party" – Kraze
• "The Promise" – When in Rome
• "The Race" – Yello
  Yello
  Yello is a Swiss electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their singles "The Race" and "Oh Yeah", which feature a mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals, as does most of their music....
  
  
• "The Twist (Yo Twist)" – Fat Boys & Chubby Checker
• "There's More To Love" – Communards
  Communards
  The Communards were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War and France's defeat....
  
  
• "Theme from S-Express" – S-Express
• "This Brutal House" – Nitro Deluxe
• "This Is Your Life" – The Blow Monkeys
  The Blow Monkeys
  The Blow Monkeys are a British new wave band that formed in 1981 as a new wave-oriented act. The first single, "Live Today Love Tomorrow" was released in 1982. They subsequently recorded more commercial pop rock hit makers, and finally became a dance group, shortly before splitting up at the...
  
  
• "Tired of Getting Pushed Around" – Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet
• "Tougher Than The Rest" – Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
  
  
• "Together Forever" – Rick Astley
  Rick Astley
  Richard Paul "Rick" Astley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality. He is known for his 1987 song, "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was a #1 hit single in 25 countries...
  
  
• "Touched by the Hand of God
  Touched by the Hand of God
  "Touched by the Hand of God" was a single released by New Order in December 1987. The song had originally appeared on the soundtrack to the film Salvation! and the version released as a single was remixed by Arthur Baker. The B-side was a dub remix, titled "Touched by the Hand of Dub" and the...
  
  " – New Order
  New Order
  New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...
  
  
• "Twist in My Sobriety
  Twist in My Sobriety
  "Twist in My Sobriety" is a song written and recorded by Tanita Tikaram. Released as a single in 1988 from her debut album Ancient Heart, it was a top ten hit in many European countries, peaking at #2 in Austria and Germany, though it achieved only moderate success in the US and Australia.In 1996,...
  
  " – Tanita Tikaram
  Tanita Tikaram
  Tanita Tikaram is a British pop/folk singer-songwriter, best known for the hits "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart...
  
  
• "Twist and Shout
  Twist and Shout
  "Twist and Shout" is a song written by Phil Medley and Bert Russell. It was originally titled "Shake It Up, Baby" and recorded by the Top Notes and then covered by The Isley Brothers. It was covered by The Beatles with John Lennon on the lead vocals and originally released on their first album...
  
  " – Salt-N-Pepa
  Salt-N-Pepa
  Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
  
  
• "Two Hearts" – Cliff Richard
  Cliff Richard
  Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
  
  
• "Two Strong Hearts" – John Farnham
  John Farnham
  John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham , is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979, and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as...
  
  
• "Un Roman d'amitié (Friend You Give Me a Reason)
  Un Roman d'amitié
  "Un Roman d'amitié " is a 1988 song recorded by the French artist Elsa Lunghini and the United States singer Glenn Medeiros. The song was released as a single in the summer of 1988 and features on the self-titled LP Elsa....
  
  " – Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa , is a French singer and actress. She was a famous teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer ever to reach number one in the French charts with the single T'en va pas, and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade...
  
   and Glenn Medeiros
  Glenn Medeiros
  Glenn Alan Medeiros is a Hispanic Hawaiian singer and rapper who was a teenage star in the 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Waiting For A Star To Fall
  Waiting for a Star to Fall
  Waiting For a Star to Fall is a song released by the pop duo Boy Meets Girl in 1988. A worldwide hit, it became the duo's signature song.-Background:...
  
  " – Boy Meets Girl (released on December 10, 1988)
• "We Call it Acieeed!" – D Mob
  D Mob
  D Mob is one of the stage names used by British house music producer Dancin' Danny D .The 1988 UK hit "We Call It Acieed" hit #3 in the UK Singles Chart, and was one of a wave of acid house singles to enjoy success that year. The video was directed by Marek Budzynski...
  
   featuring Gary Haisman
  Gary Haisman
  Gary Haisman was a white male English singer/rapper who was one of three acts who scored a #1 chart topper on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart as a featured performer on D Mob's "A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit of That" album...
  
  
• "Wee Rule" – Wee Papa Girl Rappers
  Wee Papa Girl Rappers
  Wee Papa Girl Rappers were a British female rap duo, who found chart success in the late 1980s. They were twin sisters Sandra and Samantha Lawrence.- Overview :...
  
  
• "Welcome to the Jungle
  Welcome to the Jungle
  "Welcome to the Jungle" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on its 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction. It was released as the band's second single on October 3, 1987, and reached number #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number #24 on the UK Singles Chart...
  
  " – Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
  
    (released in 1987)
• "(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me" – Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal is an American R&B singer. He is best-known for the songs "If You Were Here Tonight" and "Fake", and the duets with Cherrelle, "Saturday Love" and "Never Knew Love Like This".-Biography:...
  
  
• "What You See Is What You Get" – Glen Goldsmith
• "Whats' On Your Mind (Pure Energy) – Information Society
  Information Society (band)
  Information Society is an American band originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, primarily consisting of Kurt Larson , Paul Robb, and James Cassidy; the latter two reconvened the band in 2006, initially with Christopher Anton as lead vocalist, then with Harland rejoining them as lead vocalist by...
  
  
• "What I Am
  What I Am
  "What I Am" is a song written by Edie Brickell and Kenny Withrow and recorded by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians for their debut album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars . It peaked at number thirty-one in the United Kingdom, while reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States...
  
  " – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
  Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
  Edie Brickell & New Bohemians is an alternative rock jam band that originated in Texas in the mid-1980s. The band is best known for their 1988 hit "What I Am" from the album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars. Their music contains elements of rock, folk, blues, and jazz...
  
   (released 1989 in the UK)
• "When We Was Fab
  When We Was Fab
  "When We Was Fab" is a song written by George Harrison and Jeff Lynne about the days of Beatlemania, when The Beatles were first referred to as the "Fab Four". The song appears as the sixth track on Harrison's 1987 album Cloud Nine and was later released as the second single from that album in...
  
  " – George Harrison
  George Harrison
  George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
  
  
• "When Will I Be Famous" – Bros
  Bros
  Bros were a British band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan...
  
  
• "When You Come
  When You Come
  "When You Come" is a song by rock group Crowded House and was released in August 1988 on Capitol Records as the second Australian single from their second album Temple of Low Men. The song peaked at #27 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Both B sides, "Something So Strong" and "Better Be Home Soon" were...
  
  " – Crowded House
  Crowded House
  Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...
  
  
• "When You Put Your Heart In It" – Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
  
  
• "Wild: Wild West!" – Escape Club
• "Wild World
  Wild World
  "Wild World" is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter Cat Stevens. It first appeared on his fourth album, Tea for the Tillerman, recorded and released in 1970 and, continuing the change in Stevens' sound, after leaving Deram Records and signing with Island Records...
  
  " – Maxi Priest
  Maxi Priest
  Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre as well as being one of the most...
  
  
• "Wishing Well
  Wishing Well
  "Wishing Well" is a song of Sananda Maitreya for the album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, and hit number one on both the Soul Singles Chart and the Billboard Hot 100 on ....
  
  " – Terence Trent D'Arby (released in 1987)
• "Yé ké yé ké
  Yé ké yé ké
  "Yé ké yé ké" is a 1987 song recorded by Guinean singer Mory Kanté. Released as a single from his album Akwaba Beach in 1988, the song became an international hit, which was one of Africa's best-ever selling hits as well as being a European number-one in 1988, making it the first ever African...
  
  " – Mory Kanté
  Mory Kanté
  Mory Kanté is a vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was born into one of Guinea's best known families of griot musicians...
  
  
• "You Are The One" – a-ha
  A-ha
  A-ha were a Norwegian pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. The band was founded by Morten Harket , Magne Furuholmen , and Pål Waaktaar...
  
  
• "You Came
  You Came
  "You Came" is the second single from the Kim Wilde album Close.The single became one of the biggest hits of her long career. Although it did not continue her US success, it topped charts throughout Europe and reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart....
  
  " – Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...
  
  
• "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart
  You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart
  "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart" is a song recorded by British pop duo Eurythmics. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, and appears on the duo's album Savage...
  
   – Eurythmics
  Eurythmics
  Eurythmics were a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, currently disbanded, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A...
  
  

Classical music

• Gerald Barry – Cheveux-de-frise
• Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
  
   – Sequenza XI
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...
  
   – Zeitgeist (Tableaux Vivants) for two amplified pianos
• Peter Maxwell Davies
  Peter Maxwell Davies
  Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...
  
   – oboe concerto, trumpet concerto no. 1 (from the Strathclyde Concertos)
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...
  
   – Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape
• Joël-François Durand
  Joël-François Durand
  Joël-François Durand is a French composer.-Biography:Born in Orléans, Durand studied mathematics, music education and piano in Paris, then composition with Brian Ferneyhough in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany , and at Stony Brook University, New York, with Arel and Semegen...
  
   – Die innere Grenze for string sextet
• Lorenzo Ferrero
  Lorenzo Ferrero
  Lorenzo Ferrero is a contemporary Italian composer with a predilection for opera, a librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and wrote over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo...
  
   – La cena delle beffe (incidental music)
• Michael Finnissy
  Michael Finnissy
  Michael Finnissy is an English composer and pianist. His music is characterised by the range of extremes often found in his work; opposing binary structures are found commonly, often seen as juxtaposing textures, register and tempi...
  
   – Red Earth for orchestra
• Henryk Górecki
  Henryk Górecki
  Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. In 1968, he joined the faculty and rose to provost before resigning in 1979. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during...
  
   – String Quartet No. 1, "Already it is Dusk"
• Stephen Hartke
  Stephen Hartke
  Stephen Paul Hartke is an American composer. He grew up in Manhattan, where his first piano teacher was Mary Miley, and has lived in California since the 1980s...
  
   – Pacific Rim Overture
• Vagn Holmboe
  Vagn Holmboe
  Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.-Life:At the age of 16, Holmboe began formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen. He studied under Knud Jeppesen and Finn Høffding...
  
   – Symphony No. 12, M. 338
• António Chagas Rosa
  António Chagas Rosa
  António Chagas Rosa is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music, considered one of the leading figures of contemporary musical writing of his generation....
  
   – Piano Sonata
• Bogusław Schaeffer – Concerto for Piano Duet and Orchestra
• Alfred Schnittke
  Alfred Schnittke
  Alfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...
  
   – Piano Quartet; Symphony No. 5/ Concerto Grosso No. 4; Concerto for Piano four hands and Orchestra; Klingende Buchstaben
• Peter Sculthorpe
  Peter Sculthorpe
  Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
  
   – Kakadu
• Philip Sparke
  Philip Sparke
  Philip Sparke is a British composer and musician. He is noted for his concert band and brass band music.- Music for Winds :* 1973/1976 Gaudium* 1975 The Prizewinners for Brass-Band* 1978/1995 Fantasy for Euphonium...
  
   – Concerto Grosso
• Tōru Takemitsu
  Toru Takemitsu
  was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...
  
   – Tree Line for chamber orchestra
• John Tavener
  John Tavener
  Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...
  
   – The Akathist of Thanksgiving
• Takashi Yoshimatsu
  Takashi Yoshimatsu
  is a contemporary Japanese composer of classical music. He is well known for composing the 2003 remake of Astro Boy.Takashi Yoshimatsu was born in Tokyo, Japan, and like Toru Takemitsu, the composer generally considered to be Japan's greatest in the western classical style, did not receive formal...
  
   – Concerto for Bassoon "Unicorn Circuit"

Opera

• Philip Glass
  Philip Glass
  Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
  
   – 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
  1000 Airplanes on the Roof
  1000 Airplanes on the Roof is a melodrama in one act by Philip Glass which featured text by David Henry Hwang and projections by Jerome Sirlin. It is described by Glass as "a science fiction music drama"....
  
  
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
  
   – Montag aus Licht
  Montag aus Licht
  Montag aus Licht is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, three acts, and a farewell, and was the third of seven to be composed for the opera cycle Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche...
  
   (La Scala, Milan, May 7)

Musical theater

• Bitter Sweet
  Bitter Sweet
  Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts written by Noël Coward and first produced in 1929 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. It ran for a very successful 967 performances....
  
   (Noel Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
  ) – London revival
• Chess
  Chess (musical)
  Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, formerly of ABBA, and with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story involves a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other;...
  
   (Tim Rice
  Tim Rice
  Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice is an British lyricist and author.An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus...
  
  , Benny Andersson
  Benny Andersson
  Göran Bror "Benny" Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...
  
   & Björn Ulvaeus
  Björn Ulvaeus
  Björn Kristian Ulvaeus is a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, writer, producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...
  
  ) – Broadway production
• The Phantom of the Opera
  The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
  The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...
  
   (Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
  
  ) – Broadway production
• Sarafina
  Sarafina
  Sarafina! is a South African musical by Mbongeni Ngema depicting students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to apartheid. It was also adapted into a 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Leleti Khumalo....
  
       Broadway production

Musical films

• Bird
• The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
• Imagine: John Lennon
  Imagine: John Lennon
  Imagine: John Lennon is a soundtrack album of popular music composed by John Lennon for the 1988 documentary film, Imagine: John Lennon...
  
  
• Moonwalker
  Moonwalker
  Moonwalker, also known as Michael Jackson: Moonwalker, is an American anthology film released in 1988 by singer Michael Jackson....
  
  
• Rattle and Hum
• Satisfaction
  Satisfaction (film)
  Satisfaction is a 1988 drama starring Justine Bateman and Liam Neeson. It is one of the few theatrical productions by both Aaron Spelling and NBC.-Plot:...
  
  
• Tapeheads
  Tapeheads
  Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman. The film stars John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Sam Moore, and Junior Walker. The movie was produced by Michael Nesmith, who is seen briefly in the film as a bottled water delivery man.-Plot:...
  
  
• Tougher Than Leather
  Tougher Than Leather (film)
  Tougher Than Leather is an American film released in 1988 and distributed by New Line Cinema. The film was directed by Rick Rubin and stars the hip-hop group Run–D.M.C. They created the movie to coincide with the release of their fourth studio album also titled Tougher Than Leather.-Plot:At the...
  
  

Births

• January 14
  • Jordy
    Jordy
    Jordy Claude Daniel Lemoine , known as Jordy, is a French singer and musician.-Biography:Jordy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest singer ever to have a #1 charted single. He achieved this feat at the age of four-and-a-half with the song "Dur dur d'être bébé !"...
    
    , French singer
  • Mikalah Gordon
    Mikalah Gordon
    Mikalah Analise Gordon is an American singer and eleventh-place finalist on the fourth season of American Idol. She was the second finalist eliminated on March 25, 2005.-Early life:...
    
    , American Idol
    American Idol
    American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
    
     contestant
• January 25 – Yasmien Kurdi
  Yasmien Kurdi
  'Yasmien Yuson Kurdi , is a Filipina-Chinese-Lebanese award-winning Filipina singer, songwriter and actress. She was one of the Final Four in the first season of StarStruck, a reality-based talent search show by GMA Network in the Philippines where she finished first runner up...
  
  , Fillipina pop singer
• February 3 – Cho Kyu Hyun
  Super Junior
  Super Junior is a South Korean boy band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, the group comprised a total of thirteen members at its peak, and was once claimed to be the world's largest boy band...
  
  , Korean pop singer
• February 7 – Ai Kago
  Ai Kago
  is a Japanese singer, actress, author and former Guinness World Record holder.At age 12, Kago won the 4th National Audition of Morning Musume held by Up-Front Works Agency in 2000, which led to her admission into the extremely popular idol group as a 4th generation member. In the same year, she...
  
  , Japanese pop singer
• February 18 – Shim Chang Min
  Max (singer)
  Shim Changmin also known as Max , Choikang Changmin in South Korea, Changmin in Japan, and Shen Changmin in China and Taiwan, is a Korean singer, songwriter and occasional actor best known as one-half of South Korean musical duo TVXQ...
  
  , Korean pop singer
• February 20 – Rihanna
  Rihanna
  Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
  
  , Barbadian pop singer
• February 23 – Ashley Cooper
  Ashley Cooper (singer)
  Ashley Cooper is a New Zealand Country singer and former contestant on the second series of New Zealand Idol. After being the fourth person to be eliminated out of the top ten on idol, she released her first single "I Want You", which debuted at nineteen and eventually peaked at number nine...
  
  , New Zealand pop singer
• February 27 – JD Natasha
  JD Natasha
  JD Natasha is a Latin Pop Musician.-Early life:JD Natasha was born to an Argentine father and a cuban American mother. She is the second of four children, sister of Jonathan Duenas , and grew up in Miami, Florida...
  
  , American Latin music artist
• February 28 – Milly Edwards, Australian Idol contestant
• March 2 – Nadine Samonte
  Nadine Samonte
  Nadine Samonte is a Filipina actress and commercial model. She played an Avenger from the first season of StarStruck....
  
  , German pop singer
• March 6 – Agnes Carlsson
  Agnes Carlsson
  Agnes Emilia Carlsson, also known mononymously as Agnes , is a Swedish recording artist. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series...
  
  , Swedish pop singer
• March 10 – Patrick Henry Hughes
  Patrick Henry Hughes
  Patrick Henry Hughes is an American multi-instrumental musician from Louisville, Kentucky who was born without eyes and unable to fully straighten his arms and legs, making him unable to walk.-Biography:...
  
  , American tenor and trumpeter
• April 6 – Raymond David Henriksen
  Raymond David Henriksen
  Raymond David Henriksen is a Norwegian actor, singer and former member of the boyband L8R. He grew up and still lives in Ellingsrudåsen, Oslo. He's now a member of the rap-duo "KeSera". They had a success with the song "Si Yeah"....
  
  , Norwegian singer
• April 24 – Natalie Zahra, Australian Idol contestant
• April 25 – Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton is an American actress, model and singer. She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before coming to wider renown in 2004, after playing the title role in the series Darcy's Wild Life and Sarah Borden...
  
  , American singer/actress
• April 29 – Younha
  Younha
  Younha , is a South Korean pop singer who first got her start in Japan, and continues to have success today in both countries....
  
  , Japanese & Korean pop singer
• May 2 – Guilherme Rodrigues
  Guilherme Rodrigues
  Guilherme Rodrigues is a Portuguese jazz musician.Rodrigues was born in Lisbon, the son of improvising violinist Ernesto Rodrigues, with whom he records and performs. He plays cello and pocket trumpet, and has been following a professional career in music since 1997...
  
  , Portuguese jazz musician
• May 5
  • Adele
    Adele (singer)
    Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008...
    
    , English singer
  • Brooke Hogan
    Brooke Hogan
    Brooke Ellen Bollea , better known by her stage name Brooke Hogan, is an American singer, actress, model, socialite, and television personality, and the oldest child of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan . She appeared on the reality-television series Hogan Knows Best, which focused on her family,...
    
    , American pop singer
  • Skye Sweetnam
    Skye Sweetnam
    Skye Alexandra Sweetnam is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and music video director. Skye first entered the mainstream in 2003 with the release of her debut single "Billy S." Over a year later, her debut album, Noise from the Basement, was released including the singles "Tangled Up in Me"...
    
    , Canadian pop singer
• May 13 – Casey Donovan
  Casey Donovan (singer)
  -Australian Idol :Donovan transferred to the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney's Surry Hills in 2004 and it was in this year that her stepfather encouraged her to audition for the second season of Australian Idol...
  
  , Australian Idol
  Australian Idol
  Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive...
  
   winner
• May 24 – Billy Gilman
  Billy Gilman
  William Wendell "Billy" Gilman III is an American country music artist. In 2000, at the age of 12, he debuted with the single "One Voice," a Top 20 hit on the Billboard country music charts and became the youngest singer to a Top 40 hit on the country music charts...
  
  , American country singer
• June 1 – Nami Tamaki
  Nami Tamaki
  is a Japanese pop singer. She has various commercial tie-ins with the anime and games industry, and has also performed in a stage musical and a movie. Her musical influences include American singers such as Britney Spears, Madonna, and Janet Jackson....
  
  , Japanese singer
• June 6 – Neha Kakkar, Indian pop singer
• June 12 – Dave Melillo
  Dave Melillo
  David Andrew Melillo is a Drive-Thru Records recording singer/songwriter as well as the former bassist for pop rock band Cute Is What We Aim For...
  
  , American singer-songwriter
• June 16 – Keshia Chante
  Keshia Chanté
  Keshia Chanté is a Canadian Juno Award-winning critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, model, and actress...
  
  , Canadian urban singer
• June 20 – May J.
  May J.
  , better known by her stage name May J., is a R&B and pop singer from Yokohama, Japan. Born to a mother of Iranian descent and to Japanese father, May J. made her major label debut under Sony Music Japan on July 12, 2006 with her first mini-album All My Girls.-Early life:May J. was born on June...
  
  , Japanese R&B singer
• June 22 – Miliyah Kato, Japanese R&B singer
• June 28 – Julian Waterfall Pollack
  Julian Waterfall Pollack
  Julian Waterfall Pollack is an American pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter associated with jazz, post-bop, and pop music...
  
  , jazz pianist and composer
• June 29 – Martina Šindlerová
  Martina Šindlerová
  Martina Šindlerová , also known as Martina Schindlerova, is a Slovak singer who rose to popularity after placing second qin Slovensko hľadá SuperStar, the Slovak version of Pop Idol, shown by STV.-Albums:...
  
  , Slovak pop singer
• July 2 – Amali Ward, Australian Idol contestant
• July 7 – Kaci Brown
  Kaci Brown
  Kaci Deanne Brown is an American pop and R&B singer. Born in Sulphur Springs, Texas, she moved with her family to Nashville at age 12 in 2001, initially with the intention of developing a career in country music. Instead, she chose a pop career and toured with the Backstreet Boys. At age 17, she...
  
  , American pop/R&B singer
• July 12 – Melissa O'Neil
  Melissa O'Neil
  Melissa Crystal O'Neil is a Canadian singer who was the winner of the third season of Canadian Idol in 2005. She was the first female winner and is the second youngest idol winner in the world, with the youngest being 2004 Australian Idol winner Casey Donovan...
  
  , Canadian Idol
  Canadian Idol
  Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...
  
   winner
• July 25 – Sarah Geronimo
  Sarah Gerónimo
  Sarah Asher Tua Geronimo is a Filipino recording artist, actress and dancer. Geronimo started her career appearing in children's variety shows such as Pen-pen de Sarapen, Ang TV and NEXT...
  
  , Fillipina pop singer
• August 2 – Brittany Hargest
  Brittany Hargest
  Brittany Lynne Hargest is a Christian singer and dancer best known for being a member of the Christian/pop group Jump5, which also featured her older brother Brandon Hargest.- Personal life :...
  
  , American pop singer
• August 14 – Shahd Barmada
  Shahd Barmada
  Shahd Barmada is a singer who rose to popularity around the world as the runner up of Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol...
  
  , Arabian Idol contestant
• August 27 – Alexa Vega
  Alexa Vega
  Alexa Ellesse Vega is an American actress, singer and pianist. She is best known for playing Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids film series and Shilo Wallace in the movie Repo! the Genetic Opera. In 2009, she starred as the title character Ruby Gallagher in the ABC Family series Ruby & The...
  
  , American pop singer
• August 31 – Megan McCauley, American pop singer
• September 6 – Gustav Schäfer, drummer of German band Tokio Hotel
  Tokio Hotel
  Tokio Hotel is a pop rock band from Germany, founded in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing...
  
  
• September 16 – Teddy Geiger
  Teddy Geiger
  -Singles:-Album appearances:-Television and movie appearances:-External links:****...
  
  , American singer-songwriter
• September 22 – Bethany Dillon
  Bethany Dillon
  Bethany Dillon is a Contemporary Christian music artist. She is now married to contemporary Christian recording artist Shane Barnard of Shane & Shane.-Childhood:...
  
  , American Christian-music artist
• September 30 – Jyongri
  Jyongri
  Jyongri is a Japanese pop singer of Korean ancestry currently signed with EMI Music Japan.- Background and early life :...
  
  , Japanese pop singer
• October 4 – Jessica Benson, American R&B singer
• October 11 – Knut Eirik Kokkin, Norwegian singer
• October 20 – Risa Niigaki
  Risa Niigaki
  is a fifth generation member and current leader of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined Morning Musume in 2001 along with Ai Takahashi, Asami Konno and Makoto Ogawa. She grew up in Yokohama after moving there at age six. As of 2009, she was the longest-serving sub-leader of Morning...
  
  , Japanese pop singer
• October 23 – Caleigh Peters
  Caleigh Peters
  Caleigh Anne Forsyth-Peters is a pop rock musician. Born in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of Jon Peters and producer Christine Forsyth-Peters. Caleigh graduated from the Archer School for Girls in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California in June 2007. She is the god-daughter of Barbra...
  
  , American pop singer
• November 10 – Chisaki Hama
  Chisaki Hama
  is a Japanese model, actress, and singer. She formerly used the stage name when she was with Snow Rabbits Productions. After Izumi returned to the modeling world in 2008, she used both 泉里果 and 泉里香 as stage names; both are pronounced "Izumi Rika"....
  
  , Japanese singer
• November 28 – Scarlett Pomers
  Scarlett Pomers
  Scarlett Noel Pomers is an American actress and singer/songwriter who works in television, film, theatre and music. Her most recognizable roles have been as Naomi Wildman on Star Trek: Voyager and Kira Hart on the television series Reba...
  
  , American singer/actress
• December 19 – Paulina Gretzky
  Paulina Gretzky
  Paulina Mary Jean Gretzky is an American model and pop singer. She is the eldest of Wayne Gretzky and Janet Jones's five children, the niece of Keith Gretzky and Brent Gretzky, and the granddaughter of Walter Gretzky.-Biography:...
  
  , American pop singer
• December 23 – Eri Kamei
  Eri Kamei
  was a member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined in late 2003 as a sixth generation member along with Miki Fujimoto, Sayumi Michishige, and Reina Tanaka. She graduated on December 15, 2010 in Yokohama Arena along with Junjun and Linlin....
  
  , Japanese pop singer
• December 26 – Veronika Eberle
  Veronika Eberle
  Veronika Eberle is a German violinist.Veronika Eberle has established a reputation as one of the most promising violin talents to emerge from Germany in recent years....
  
  , German violinist
• December 27 – Hayley Williams
  Hayley Williams
  Hayley Nichole Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist of the band Paramore.- Life and career :...
  
  , American singer (Paramore)
• December 30 – James Hall
  James Hall
  -Actors, Entertainment, Broadcasting:* James Hall , American actor* Jamie Hall , Canadian TV producer-Authors:* James Hall , American academic* James Baker Hall , American author...
  
  , British singer-songwriter
• December 31 – Holly Holyoake
  Holly Holyoake
  Holly Holyoake is a Welsh classical music singer from Duffryn, Newport, born 31 December 1988. A soprano, she has been likened to fellow Welsh performer Katherine Jenkins. Her career is following a similar path to Jenkins and she has performed before the Wales national rugby union team matches at...
  
  , soprano

Deaths

• January 3 - John Dopyera
  John Dopyera
  John Dopyera was a Slovak-American inventor and entrepreneur, and a maker of stringed instruments. His inventions include the resonator guitar and important contributions in the early development of the electric guitar....
  
  , stringed instrument maker, 94
• January 13 – Radamés Gnattali
  Radamés Gnattali
  Radamés Gnattali , was a Brazilian classical composer, conductor, orchestrator, and arranger.Radamés Gnattali was born in Porto Alegre, the son of Alessandro Gnattali and Adélia Fossati. Both his father and mother were musicians...
  
  , Brazilian composer, 81
• January 15 – Andy Gibb
  Andy Gibb
  Andy Gibb was an English singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of the family whose other male siblings formed the Bee Gees: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.-The early years:...
  
  , singer, 30 (myocarditis)
• January 19 – Evgeny Mravinsky
  Evgeny Mravinsky
  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky was a Russian/Soviet conductor.-Life and career:Mravinsky was born in Saint Petersburg. The soprano Yevgeniya Mravina was his aunt. His father died in 1918, and in that same year, he began to work backstage at the Mariinsky Theatre. He first studied biology at...
  
  , conductor
• February 9 – Kurt Herbert Adler
  Kurt Herbert Adler
  Kurt Herbert Adler was an Austrian-born American conductor and opera house director.Adler was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family. His work in the field of music led him to become the assistant to Arturo Toscanini at the Salzburg Festival in 1936 and he also worked in Italy...
  
  , conductor and opera administrator
• February 14 – Frederick Loewe, composer of musicals, 86
• February 16 – Jean Carignan
  Jean Carignan
  Jean Carignan, was a Canadian fiddler.Born in Lévis, Québec on December 7, 1916. He was a well-known fiddler from Quebec. Joseph Allard, Michael Coleman, and J. Scott Skinner are all brilliant traditional fiddlers whose music Carignan studied. Carignan was a friend of famous violinist and...
  
  , fiddler, 71
• February 24 - Memphis Slim
  Memphis Slim
  Memphis Slim was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other...
  
  , blues musician, 72
• February 27 – Gene de Paul
  Gene de Paul
  Gene de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II....
  
  , pianist and composer
• March 6 – Jeanne Aubert
  Jeanne Aubert
  Jeanne Aubert was a French singer and actress.Born Marguerite Perrinot in Paris, France to an aristocratic father and a former flower girl, she was pushed by her mother into showbusiness. At age five, she began performing on stage at the Théâtre du Châtelet...
  
  , singer and actress
• March 7 – Divine, singer and drag entertainer, 42 (heart failure)
• March 8 – Henryk Szeryng
  Henryk Szeryng
  Henryk Szeryng was a Polish violinist.-Early years:He was born in Żelazowa Wola, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy family....
  
  , violinist
• March 10 – William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth (composer)
  William Brocklesby Wordsworth was an English composer.Wordsworth was born in London. He studied harmony and counterpoint under George Oldroyd from 1921 to 1931, continuing his study with Donald Francis Tovey at Edinburgh University from 1934 to 1936...
  
  , Scottish composer
• March 15 – Frank Perkins
  Frank Perkins (composer)
  Frank S. Perkins was an American song composer best known for the song Stars Fell on Alabama ....
  
  , American song composer
• March 20 – Gil Evans
  Gil Evans
  Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
  
  , Canadian jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
• April 3 – Kai Ewans
  Kai Ewans
  Kai Peter Anthon Nielsen, better known as Kai Ewans was a Danish jazz reedist.Ewans played initially as a banjoist, but switched to saxophone in 1923 when he formed the Blues Jazz Band. The group disbanded in 1924, after which Ewans joined Valdemar Eiberg's ensemble from 1924-26...
  
  , Danish jazz musician
• April 7 – Cesar Bresgen
  Cesar Bresgen
  Cesar Bresgen was an Austrian composer.-Biography:He was born in Florence to Maria and August Bresgen, both artists. He spent his childhood in Zell am See, Munich, Prague, and Salzburg....
  
  , Austrian composer
• April 9
  • Brook Benton
    Brook Benton
    Brook Benton was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he scored hits such as "It's Just A Matter Of Time" and "Endlessly", many of which he co-wrote.He made a comeback in 1970...
    
    , 56 (complications of spinal meningitis)
  • David Prater, of Sam & Dave
    Sam & Dave
    Sam & Dave were an American soul and rhythm and blues duo who performed together from 1961 through 1981. The tenor voice was Samuel David Moore , and the baritone/tenor voice was Dave Prater .Sam & Dave are members of...
    
    , 50 (car accident)
• April 15 – Youri Egorov
  Youri Egorov
  Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov was a Soviet classical pianist.-Early years:Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conservatory from the age of 6 until age 17. One of his early teachers was Irina Dubinina, a former pupil of Yakov Zak ....
  
  , Soviet classical pianist, 33 (complications of AIDS)
• April 29 – James McCracken
  James McCracken
  James McCracken was an American operatic tenor. At the time of his death The New York Times stated that McCracken was "the most successful dramatic tenor yet produced by the United States and a pillar of the Metropolitan Opera during the 1960s and 1970s."-Biography:Born in Gary, Indiana,...
  
  , tenor
• May 1 – Claude Demetrius
  Claude Demetrius
  Claude Demetrius was an African American songwriter.Born in Bath, Maine, by his early twenties he was in New York City writing music for and/or with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Witherspoon and B.B. King. Demetrius wrote the 1945 musical comedy short film Open the Door, Richard...
  
  , songwriter
• May 10 – Ciaran Bourke
  Ciaran Bourke
  Ciarán Bourke was an Irish musician and one of the original founding members of the Irish folk band The Dubliners.-Early life:...
  
  , folk musician (The Dubliners), 53 (brain damage)
• May 13 – Chet Baker
  Chet Baker
  Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...
  
  , jazz musician, 58 (head injuries from fall)
• May 21 – Sammy Davis, Sr.
  Sammy Davis, Sr.
  Samuel George "Sammy" Davis, Sr. was an American dancer and the father of Sammy Davis, Jr..-Birth and Personal Life:...
  
  , vaudeville performer
• May 22 – Dennis Day
  Dennis Day
  Dennis Day born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an Irish-American singer and radio, television and film personality.-Early life:...
  
  , US singer
• June 22 - Jesse Ed Davis
  Jesse Ed Davis
  Jesse Edwin Davis was an American guitarist. He was well regarded as a session artist. His death in 1988 is attributed to a drug overdose.-Biography:...
  
  , guitarist, 43
• June 25 – Hillel Slovak
  Hillel Slovak
  Hillel Slovak ‏ was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers...
  
  , Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
  
  , guitarist, 26 (speedball overdose)
• July 2 – Eddie Vinson
  Eddie Vinson
  Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product.-Biography:Vinson was born in Houston, Texas...
  
  , jazz/blues musician
• July 18
  • Joly Braga Santos
    Joly Braga Santos
    José Manuel Joly Braga Santos, ComSE was a Portuguese composer and conductor, who was born and died in Lisbon. He wrote six symphonies.-Biography:...
    
    , Portuguese composer and conductor
  • Nico
    Nico
    Nico was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s...
    
    , German singer, 49 (brain haemorrhage)
• July 20 – Richard Holm
  Richard Holm (tenor)
  Richard Holm was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart, though he sang a wide range of roles.Born in Stuttgart, where he studied with Rudolf Ritter, he made his debut at the Kiel Opera House in 1937...
  
  , German operatic tenor
• August 8 – Félix Leclerc
  Félix Leclerc
  Félix Leclerc, was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and Québécois political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968...
  
  , folk singer
• August 9 – Giacinto Scelsi
  Giacinto Scelsi
  Giacinto Scelsi , Count of Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French....
  
  , composer
• August 14 – Roy Buchanan
  Roy Buchanan
  Roy Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan was a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career, and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still...
  
  , American guitarist, 48 (suicide)
• August 24
  • Kenneth Leighton
    Kenneth Leighton
    Kenneth Leighton was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include much Anglican church music, and many pieces for choir and for piano as well as concertos, symphonies, much chamber music and an opera. He wrote a well-known setting of the Coventry Carol...
    
    , English composer
  • Nat Stuckey
    Nat Stuckey
    Nathan Stuckey was an American country singer. He recorded for various labels between 1966 and 1978, charting in the top 10 of Hot Country Songs with "Sweet Thang", "Plastic Saddle", "Sweet Thang and Cisco" and "Take Time to Love Her"-Biography:Raised in Atlanta, Texas, in Cass County, Nat Stuckey...
    
    , American country singer
• August – Tenor Saw
  Tenor saw
  Tenor Saw was a prominent dancehall singer in the 1980s, and one of the most influential singers of the early digital reggae era...
  
  , dancehall artist, 22 (road accident)
• September 23 – Arwel Hughes
  Arwel Hughes
  Arwel Hughes OBE , was a Welsh orchestral conductor and composer.Hughes was born in Rhosllannerchrugog near Wrexham and was educated at Ruabon Grammar School and at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams and C. H. Kitson...
  
  , composer and conductor
• September 26 – Lord Melody
  Lord Melody
  Lord Melody was a popular calypsonian, best known for singles such as the self-deprecating "Boo Boo Man", "Shame & Scandal", "Jonah and the Bake", "Juanita" and "Rastaman Be Careful"...
  
  , calypso musician, 62
• October 7 – Billy Daniels
  Billy Daniels
  William Boone Daniels , better known as Billy Daniels, was a singer active in the United States and Europe from the mid-1930s to 1988, notable for his hit recording of "That Old Black Magic" and his pioneering performances on early 1950s television.Daniels was born in Jacksonville, Florida, where...
  
  , singer, 73
• October 15 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist, and writer.-Biography:...
  
  , British Parsi composer, music journalist and pianist
• October 18 – Sir Frederick Ashton
  Frederick Ashton
  Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton OM, CH, CBE was a leading international dancer and choreographer. He is most noted as the founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet in London, but also worked as a director and choreographer of opera, film and theatre revues.-Early life:Ashton was born at...
  
  , dancer and choreographer
• October 19 – Son House
  Son House
  Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music...
  
  , blues musician
• October 20 – Mogens Wöldike
  Mogens Wöldike
  Mogens Wöldike was a Danish conductor, choirmaster, organist, and scholar known for his interpretation of music from the Baroque and Classical periods. His son-in-law was the Haydn scholar Jens Peter Larsen.He studied under Carl Nielsen and Thomas Laub and graduated from Copenhagen University in...
  
  , Danish conductor
• November 13
  • Antal Doráti
    Antal Doráti
    Antal Doráti, KBE was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.-Biography:...
    
    , conductor
  • Jaromír Vejvoda
    Jaromír Vejvoda
    Jaromír Vejvoda was a Czech composer and the author of the "Beer Barrel Polka".-Life and work:...
    
    , Czech composer
• November 24 – Irmgard Seefried
  Irmgard Seefried
  Irmgard Seefried was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera and lieder.Maria Theresia Irmgard Seefried was born in Köngetried, near Mindelheim, Bavaria, Germany, the daughter of educated Austrian-born parents. She studied at Augsburg University before making her debut in Aachen as the...
  
  , operatic soprano, 69
• November 26 – Antonio Estévez
  Antonio Estévez
  Antonio Estévez Aponte , was a Venezuelan musician, composer, and conductor, and founder of the Central University of Venezuela Chorus.Estévez was born to Mariano Estévez and Carmen Aponte...
  
  , composer
• November 30 - Charlie Rouse
  Charlie Rouse
  Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by the collaboration for more than ten years with Thelonious Monk.- Biography :...
  
  , saxophonist, 64
• December 2 – Tata Giacobetti
  Tata Giacobetti
  Giovanni "Tata" Giacobetti was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a very famous Italian vocal quartet.-Biography:...
  
  , Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra
  Quartetto Cetra
  Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during the 1940s.The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and...
  
  )
• December 6 – Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
  
  , singer, 52 (heart attack)
• December 16 – Sylvester, R&B singer, disco performer, 41 (complications from AIDS)
• December 21 – Paul Avron Jeffreys, Cockney Rebel
• December 25 – Evgeny Golubev
  Evgeny Golubev
  Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev was a Russian Soviet composer.He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and his students included Alfred Schnittke, who studied with him from 1953 until 1958 and Michael L. Geller...
  
  , Russian composer

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way,...
  
  : The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
  
  , The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  , The Drifters
  The Drifters
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...
  
  , Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
  , and The Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
  .