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After MTV edits secenes of semi-naked girls fondling phallic crucifixes from his Hot In The City video, Billy Idol refuses to let the channel air it, claiming they have "eliminated every scrap of meaning".
The Red Hot Chili Peppers play at The Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
Doc McGhee, manager of Bon Jovi and Motley Crue, faces a possible five year stretch after pleading guilty to smuggling twenty tons of marijuana into the USA.
Michael Jackson buys Sycamore Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, California, USA, for a mere $28m. It will become world-famed as Neverland.
The R.I.A.A. certifies that the album Madonna has now notched up four million sales in the USA.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the second of three nights at the Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut.
Singer Carolyn Franklin dies of breast cancer in the home of her sister, Aretha Franklin, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
Poison release a new album, Open Up and Say...Ahh!, in the USA.
New Kids On The Block audition for US pop star Tiffany in her dressing room, and earn themselves the opening slot on her upcoming tour.
On a brief visit to New Orleans, Louisiana, Bruce Springsteen stops into the Maple Leaf Club and gets up on stage with local band Blues Department to play five songs. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Georgia, Roger McGuinn plays at The Uptown, where he is backed by a quartet of local musicians calling themselves The Southern Gentlemen. They are, in fact, R.E.M.
Bob Dylan releases the album Down In The Groove in the UK on CBS Records.
Nina Simone plays at The Dominion, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the acts playing at ProvinssiRock festival, Seinäjoki, Finland, Europe.
Singer-songwriter Nico plays her last live gig, at Berlin Planetarium, Berlin, Germany, Europe.
Squeeze play a free gig on Blackheath Common, London, England, UK, Europe.
Yngwie Malmsteen and Lita Ford play at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Hank Williams, Jr. plays at The World Music Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Motown Records is purchased by MCA for $61m.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays at the Olympic Stadium, Munich, Germany, to an audience of 72,000.
The estate of the late Roy Orbison files a lawsuit seeking $12m in unpaid royalties from Sony, owners of the star's globally successful Monument label recordings.
The album Appetite For Destruction by Guns N’Roses is certified as a double- platinum disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Brother Beyond enter the UK singles chart with The Harder I Try, produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman. It will peak at No2.
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Prince plays the sixth of seven non-consecutive nights at Wembley Arena, London, England, UK, Europe, on his Lovesexy tour.
Phish play the first of two nights at The Roma, Telluride, Colorado, USA.
David Lee Roth plays at Alpine Valley Music Theater, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, USA.
The Moody Blues play at Pine Knob Music Center, Clarkston, near Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Pink Floyd play at Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Def Leppard play at Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, San Jose, California, USA.
Pink Floyd's first of five shows at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, New York State, USA, is filmed for the live concert video A Delicate Sound of Thunder.
Neil Young And The Bluenotes play at The Cayuga County Fairground, Weedsport, New York State, USA.
Bob Dylan plays at The Olympic Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Slayer play at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Danzig.
Whitney Houston's record-breaking run of consecutive No1 singles in the USA is ended when her latest release, Love Will Save The Day, peaks at a disappointing No9.
Labi Siffre is interviewed by Johnny Black in The Nag's Head, Urchfont, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. The purpose of the interview is to create a new biography of Siffre for his record label.
The Proclaimers and Runrig play at the Greenbelt Arts Festival, Castle Ashby Park, England, UK, Europe.
Papa Dee Allen, drummer for 70s funky-rock band War dies of an aneurysm while playing at the Talk Of The Town, Vallejo, California, USA.
Country music star John Denver begins three days of medical evaluation and tests with NASA in Houston, Texas, USA, to determine his fitness to be launched into space aboard the Russian Mir Space Station. The Russian authorities had contacted numerous Americans, including scientists and politicians, offering the chance to go into space, and Denver was one of those who applied.
Blow Up play in the foyer at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Jane From Occupied Europe.
Lukas Graham Forchhammer is born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He will find success as leader of the band Lukas Graham.
Joan Armatrading plays the second of four nights at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK, Europe.
The album Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston is awarded a nine-times platinum disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the last of four nights at The Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland, to an audience of 17,470.
John Lennon enters the UK pop albums chart with the Imagine Film Soundtrack, which will peak at No64 during a six-week run.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the second of three nights at The Palace of Auburn Hills, Rochester, Minnesota, to an audience of 16,670.
Twenty two years after their last chart-topping single in the USA, Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys return to No1 with the single Kokomo.
Sub Pop records of Seattle, Washington, USA, is invoiced in the amount of $248 by Secord Printing of Redmond, Washington, for printing 1200 covers for the Nirvana debut album, Bleach.
Janet Bleyer, bass vocalist with The Chordettes, who scored pop hits in the 50s with Mr Sandman and Lollipop, dies of cancer in Black River, Michigan, USA.
A one-night supergroup is created at The Hard Rock Café in London, England, UK, Europe, when Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck play with the Jimi Hendrix Experience rhythm section of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell.
Zoe Kravitz is born, the child of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet in in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA. Her father will write the song Flowers For Zoe as a lullaby for his infant child who will grow up, like her mother, to be a successful actress.
Madonna is subpoenaed to testify against her soon-to-be divorced husband Sean Penn, at the Criminal Courts Building in Malibu, California, USA. Penn was arrested by a security guard as a stalker outside her Los Angeles estate in November 1987. Penn was charged with trespassing on her property, threatening to attack or kill her and also cut her hair.
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