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Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter by Iron Maiden reaches No1 in the UK singles chart.
I'm Your Baby Tonight by Whitney Houston is certified as a double-platinum album in the USA by the R.I.A.A.
The Source Featuring Candi Staton release You Got The Love on Positiva Records in the UK. The track is a re-mix based on the original version of the song, recorded by Staton in 1986 for a documentary about a grossly obese man.
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Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars, dies aged 82. He had suffered from Parkinson's Disease, and was found unconscious by his wife at their home in Fullerton, California, USA.
When rapper DJ Quik makes a reference to Los Angeles gang The Compton Crips, at a gig in the Jam Zone, Daly City, California, USA, 75 youths attack the stage, throwing bottles and chairs and shouting rival gang names.Michael Jackson escorts Madonna to the 63rd Annual Academy Awards Ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA, where she performs Sooner Or Later (I Always Get My Man) by Stephen Sondheim from the film Dick Tracy.
Bob Dylan releases a new single, Series Of Dreams/Seven Curses, in the USA on Columbia Records.
Whitney Houston opens the Welcome Home Heroes concert at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, by singing The Star Spangled Banner. The concert is filmed and will be released as Houston's first ever solo televised concert and DVD/video release.
The Sisters of Mercy play at The Citadel Center, Washington DC, USA, supported by Danielle Dax.
Per 'Dead' Ohlin, Swedish vocalist of black/death metal bands Mayhem and Morbid, finally lives up to his nickname by slitting his wrists and throat with a knife and then shoooting himself in the forehead with a shotgun, at home in Krakstad, Norawy, Europe. He leaves a brief suicide note, which apologizes for firing a gun indoors and begins, "Excuse the blood"...The Sisters of Mercy play at The Fieldhouse, Colorado University, Boulder, Colorado, USA, supported by Danielle Dax.
The Sisters of Mercy play at Irvine Meadows, Laguna Hills, California, USA, supported by Danielle Dax.
Johnny Thunders, ex-New York Dolls and Heartbreakers, dies in room 37 of the St Peter's House Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, aged 38. The cause of death is reported as 'drug-related".
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On their Having long suffered from congestive heart failure, innovative and controversial jazz/boogie-woogie singer and songwriter Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson shoots himself in the head and dies, aged 74, in Brawley, California, USA.
Ozzy Osbourne is cleared in an Atlanta, Georgia, USA, court of "culpably exciting" a young fan to shoot himself by listening to Ozzy's 1986 song Suicide Solution.
MC Trouble, the first female rapper signed to Motown Records, dies in her sleep at the home of a friend in Los Angeles, California, USA. Having been born with epilepsy she required daily treatment to prevent seizures. Her death came while she was making her second LP.Legendary jazz tenor saxophonist Stan Getz dies of liver cancer, aged 64, in Malibu, California, USA.
The Grateful Dead play at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington DC., USA. Material from this show will be released on the 2001 compilation View From The Vault II.Manic Street Preachers spark a riot when they play at a somewhat delayed 'black tie' May Ball at Downing College, Cambridge, UK.
The Gathering of the Tribes tour, with a mixed-genres line-up featuring country-rocker Steve Earle, rappers EPMD and Yo-Yo, funk-rockers Fishbone, alternative-rockers Primus and British singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding plays at Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, California, USA.
When Richard Thompson plays at The Ritz, New York City, David Byrne of Talking Heads turns up to join him onstage for the first encore.
Alan Jackson reaches No1 on the Billboard Country singles chart in the USA with Don't Rock The Juk ebox the lead single from the album of the same name. The song will win the ASCAP award for Country Song of the Year in 1992.
Metallica hire Hammersmith Odeon, London, and The Apollo, Manchester, UK, to preview their eponymous new album for fans. The event is simply a playback, not a concert, accompanied by a 40 minute Metallica home movie.
Teenage Fanclub secure the first of fifteen UK singles chart entries with Star Sign on Creation Records, which will peak at No44.
Seventy-five year old wheelchair-bound actress and singer Martha Raye marries 42 year old Mark Harris in a quickie wedding in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Sierra Dawn Hull is born in Byrdstown, Tennessee, USA. She will find success as bluegrass singer, mandolinist and guitarist Sierra Hull.Bob Dylan plays in the Guitar Greats Festival in Seville, Spain, Europe. Other artists appearing include Keith Richards and Richard Thompson.
Carter Cornelius, leader of early 70s Florida-based soul band The Cornelius Brothers with Sister Rose, dies of a heart attack at home in Dania, Florida, USA.
Black or White by Michael Jackson enters the UK pop singles chart at No1, a position it will occupy for two weeks. On the same day it enters the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart at No35 - the week's highest new entry.
Paul McCartney's choral/orchestral work, Liverpool Oratorio, has its American premiere at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA.
Black Or White by Michael Jackson reaches No1 in the Pop Singles Chart in Sweden, Europe. It will remain at No1 for ten weeks.
Michael Jackson releases his fourth solo album, Dangerous. It will become the second Jackson record to debut at No1, selling 7m copies in the USA, and a further 25m worldwide. It will be the first album ever to spawn eight consecutive UK Top 20 hits.
Nirvana appear on UK tv show Tonight With Jonathan Ross. Their host announces that they will play Lithium, but they launch into the rather less viewer-friendly Territorial Pissings instead, then trash their gear.
Jazz trumpeter and bandleader King Kolax dies of Alzheimer's disease in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Jan |