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When Barbra Streisand plays at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Michael Jackson is in the audience, and receives a standing ovation from the audience simply for being there.
Oasis have their first wide public exposure when a live session by the band is broadcast by BBC Radio 1 deejay Steve Lamacq in the UK.
Internationally successful bandleader, vocalist, songwriter and nightclub entrepreneur Edmundo Ros gives his last public performance, at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, England, UK, Europe, leading the BBC Big Band with Strings.
Professor Haakan Borglund of Uppsala University in Lund, Sweden, Europe, claims the woman Michael Jackson has married is not really Lisa Marie Presley but a double.
Rod Stewart, Sting and Bryan Adams reach No1 in the US Top 40 singles chart with All For Love.
Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac marries Kim Anderson in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The third and most devastating of three ice storms, collectively
known as The Great Ice Storm of 1994, hits Maryland, USA. The area is declared a disaster zone, damages are estimated at near $100m and hospitals report 104 weather-related injuries in two days. The devastation will inspire bluesman Big Jack Johnson to record Ice Storm Blues Parts 1 and 2, chronicling the disaster.
Soul blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer Gary 'B.B.' Coleman dies aged 47 in Center, Texas, USA.
Jake Edwin Kennedy is born in Nottingham, UK. Hewill find success as indie singer-songwriter Jake Bugg.
In response to music trade adverts, the original five Spice Girls (with Michelle Stephenson rather than Baby Spice Emma Bunton) meet for the first time.
Christina Grimmie is born in Marlton, New Jersey, USA. She will find success as a contestant in Season 6 of tv series The Voice, but will be shot dead at the age of 22, while signing autographs for fans at a merchandise table outside The Plaza Live club in Orlando, Florida, USA.
English-born soul / neo-soul and R'n'B singer and songwriter
Ephraim Lewis dies dies after having apparently jumped from a fourth floor balcony in Los Angeles, California, USA. His death will be ruled as suicide, but some reports say that LAPD officers stunned him with a Taser after a hyperactive exchange, perhaps connected to his use of methamphetamine.
During their Exotic Tour, Depeche Mode play at Velodromo del Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile, South America.
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When The Jeff Healey Band plays the second of two nights at Grossman's Tavern, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the show is recorded and some tracks will be released on the album The Jeff Healey Band Live At Grossman's - 1994.
At the sixth annual World Music Awards in the Sporting Club, Monte Carlo, Monaco, Europe, Prince is given the Outstanding Contribution to the Music Industry Award and sings The Most Beautiful Girl In The World.
Bob
Dylan performs with The New Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at
The
Great Music Experience, an all-star show at Todai-ji Temple, Nara, Japan, Asia. The event, which also features Joni Mitchell, The Chieftains, Ry Cooder, Jon Bon Jovi, INXS, Wayne Shorter and
Richie Sambora is broadcast live in over 50 countries.
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Noted be-bop jazz trumpeter Red Rodney dies aged 66 of lung cancer in Boynton Beach, Florida, USA. He was a vital force in the bands of Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Charlie Parker, to name only a few.
Reggae vocalist and recording artist Gene Rondo dies of cancer in Hackney, London, UK.
Blues singer Little Caesar, best-remembered for his 1952 hit song Goodbye Baby, dies in California, USA.
Isaac Louis Benjamin dies in London, England, UK, Europe. As chairman of Pye Records in the UK, Benjamin had signed acts including The Searchers, The Kinks and Sandie Shaw.
On the second day of the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset, England, UK, five festival goers are shot by a crazed gunman.
Stevie Wonder joins Prince onstage to perform Maybe Your Baby at The Glam Slam, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
The first Sonoria Festival has its second of three days in Parco Aquatica, Milan, Italy, Europe. Artists appearing on this day are Bob Dylan, Big Country, Blur, Jimmy Cliff, The Nits, Ozric Tentacles, Paul Rodgers And Company, The Jeff Healey Band, Therapy?, Urban Dance Squad and Willy DeVille.
The first Sonoria Festival has its last of three days in Parco Aquatica, Milan, Italy, Europe. Artists appearing on this day are Peter Gabriel, Chris Rea, Dwight Yoakam, Remmy Ongala And Orchestre Super Matimila, Ara Ketu, The Archie Shepp Quartet, Juan Formell y Los Van Van, Keziah Jones, Khaled, and Pitura Freska.
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The Wonder Stuff announce the 'end' of their career with a 'final' gig at The Phoenix Festival in the UK.
Fragments of an object designated as Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 are colliding spectacularly with the planet Jupiter. This is the first collision of two solar system bodies ever to have been observed. The Cure's 1996 song Jupiter Crash is about a couple watching the crash from earth and the effect it has on them.
The Bob Gibson Class Reunion is held in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with the participation of Bob Gibson, Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris, John Brown, Dennis Locorriere, Oscar Brand, Ed McCurdy, Glenn Yarbrough, Shel Silverstein, Spanky McFarlane, Josh White, Jr and others.
The second day of the first-ever Tennants T In The Park festival is held in Hamilton, Glasgow, Scotland. Act appearing include Primal Scream, Del Amitri, Crowded House, The Saw Doctors, Teenage Fanclub, Grant Lee Buffalo, Aimee Mann, D:Ream, BMX Bandits and Oasis.
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley make public their secret marriage, which was conducted eleven weeks earlier in the Dominican Republic.
One louder, indeed. When Manowar play at the Music Halle, Hanover, Germany, Europe, they use ten tonnes of amplifiers to pump up a city-shaking 129.5 decibels of rock'n'roll, thus breaking their own record in the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest band on the planet.
Singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist and, in later life, a member of the Italian ParliamentDomenico Modugno dies of a heart attack, aged 66, on the island of Lampedusa, Sicily, Italy, Europe. He is perhaps best-remembered as the co-composer, with Franco Migliacci, of the international hit song Volare.
Oasis release their debut album, Definitely Maybe, on Creation Records in the UK.
R. Kelly marries 15 year old R'n'B vocalist Aaliyah at the Sheraton Gateway Suites in Rosemont. Believing the ceremony to be joke, Aailiyah plays along until, just a few hours later, she realizes she has been duped into a real, but illegal, marriage, complete with a faked certificate listing her age as 18. With the help of her family, the couple are soon separated and the marriage is annulled a few weeks later in Detroit, Illinois, USA.
Jazz trumpeter and bandleader Max Kaminsky dies at Castle Point, New York State, USA, on the day before his 86th birthday.
On his 63rd birthday, George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Roger McGuinn, Noel Paul Stookey, Mary Travers, Josh White, Jr., Peter Yarrow, Spanky McFarlane and Bob Gibson take part in a Bob Gibson Benefit Concert, to alleviate medical costs of Gibson's treatment for the debilitating condition Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.
Baby Come Back by Pato
Banton enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at
No1 during an eighteen-week run on the chart.
Prince flicks the switch at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, to launch VH1 in the UK. The first video to air is a Prince song, Dolphin.
Amelia Lily Oliver is born in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, UK. She will find success as singer Amelia Lily after several appearances on reality tv series The X-Factor.
Wilbert
Harrison, whose biggest hits were Kansas City and Let's Stick Together, dies of a stroke in a nursing home in Spencer, North Carolina, USA.
When The Rolling Stones play at Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami, Flordia, USA, they are joined onstage by Sheryl Crow.
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Pulp are photographed at Frank's Sandwich Bar, Addison Bridge Place, London W4, England, UK, Europe, for the cover of their single Common People.
Roy Estrada, former bassist with Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention and Little Feat, is convicted in Orange County, California, USA, of the felony offense of committing a lewd act with a child, and sentenced to six years in prison.
Bon Jovi marries actress Heather Locklear, in Paris, France, Europe. They will be divorced in 2007.
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