1995

Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan commits suicide by hanging at his home in summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He had found success as the composer of Snowbird (a hit for Anne Murray) and Put Your Hand In The Hand (a hit for Ocean) and other songs.

The 1992 album Wynonna by Wynonna Judd is certified quadruple-platinum by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.

Hootie And The Blowfish play at Nick's Fat City, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Cyndi Lauper appears at Teatro Ariston, Sanremo, Italy, Europe.

On their Far Beyond Touring The World tour, Pantera play at The Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Tour:

Suffering extreme head pains, R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry is carried from the stage during the show at Patinoire De Malley Auditorium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Europe, on their Monster world tour.

Green Day walk off with four trophies [Outstanding Album, Outstanding Group, Outstanding Bassist and Outstanding Drummer] at the 18th annual Bammie Awards in the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.

Radiohead release their second album, The Bends, in the UK on Parlophone Records. On the same day, they play at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton.

Dylan plays at the Otto Franke Halle, Aschaffenburg, Germany.

Bob Dylan plays the first of three nights at Brixton Academy, London, England, UK, Europe.

Music producer Paul Rothchild, dies of lung cancer, aged 59, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. In a long and acclaimed career he worked with The Doors, Janis Joplin, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and many others.

An audience member rushes the stage at a Jimmy Page/Robert Plant concert in The Palace, Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA, determined to stab the guitarist and thus end his 'Satanic' music. Two security guards who apprehend him are stabbed instead, but recover.

Bob Dylan plays the last of three nights at Brixton Academy, London, England, UK, Europe.

Larry Garner plays at The King's Hotel, Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK.

Fugazi play at Irving Plaza, New York City, USA.

Billy Swan plays at The Ropery, Deptford, Sunderland, England, UK.

Shakin' Stevens plays at Fairfield Hall, Croydon, England, UK.

10cc play at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.

The Crickets and Bobby Vee play at The Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, England, UK.

The Crickets and Bobby Vee play at The Swan Theatre, High Wycombe, England, UK.

The Crickets and Bobby Vee play at The Davenport Theatre, Stockport, England, UK.

After driving home from a gig in Great Yarmouth, jazz pianist and in-demand session player Mick Pyne dies of an unexpected internal haemorrhage in London, England, UK.

Madonna's 1969 Mercedes convertible is sold for $56,350 at a rock memorabilia auction at Sotheby's in New York City, USA.

The three-day-long Glastonbury Festival gets underway at Pilton, Somerset, England, UK. This 25th Anniversary event features The Cure, Oasis, Orbital, P J Harvey, Simple Minds and Portishead. Attendance: 80,000. Tickets: £65. Programme : £5. The festival was completely sold out within four weeks of the ticket release date. A Dance Tent was introduced, the first acts being Massive Attack, System 7 and Eat Static. Stone Roses pulled out a week before show-time and were replaced by Pulp.

Louise Dean of UK soul/dance trio Shiva is killed by an uninsured drunk driver as she crosses the street near her home in Linthwaite, England, UK, Europe. Her group had entered the UK Top 40 singles chart for the first time a month earlier with the song Working Out.

Robert Plant And Jimmy Page play the second of two nights at The Point, Dublin, Ireland, Europe, with special guests Big Country. On this night they play a second show, an 'Unplugged' performance at midnight at The River Club, Dublin.

Radiohead make a video for their latest single, Just, in London.

Radiohead release a new single, Just, on Parlophone Records in the UK.

Bobby DeBarge, who found success as a member of 80s Motown band DeBarge, dies aged 39 of AIDS in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

The first real-time software mp3 player, Winplay3, is released enabling music fans to encode and playback mp3 files on their home computers.

Oasis bass player Paul McGuigan abuptly quits the group, suffering from exhaustion. On the same day, INXS singer Michael Hutchence is fined £400 after he admits assaulting a photographer who snapped him with Bob Geldof 's wife, Paula Yates, at a hotel in Kent, England, UK, Europe.

America's Boring Institute selects Michael Jackson as America's most boring person for this year.

Tim McGraw spends the first of five weeks at No1 in the Billboard country singles chart in the USA with I Like It, I Love It.

On his Never-Ending Tour schedule, Bob Dylan plays concert No716, at Lee Civic Center, Fort Myers, Florida, USA.

After coming under intense fire for the explicit lyrics of rap artists on the Interscope Records label, Time Warner agrees to sell back its 50% share in the company.

While in Paris, France, Europe, Ozzy Osbourne does telephone interviews with The New York Post [Lisa Robinson], The East Coast Rocker [Dan Davis] and Cover Story [Phillip Zonkel].

Sleeper enter the UK singles chart with What Do I Do Now?, which will peak at No14 during a four-week run.

The legendary Wibbling Rivalry tapes, documenting a ruckus twixt brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis, are released by Fierce Panda Records.

Everclear play at Hades Haunted House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The Mayor of Ris Orangis, a suburb of Paris, France, Europe, declares today Rory Gallagher Day in honour of the Irish blues guitarist who died earlier this year. A street in the district is re-named L'Avenue Rory Gallagher to mark the occasion.

Country music singer Daron Norwood announces that he is quitting music because of his addiction to alcohol. He tells the Lubbock-Avalanche Journal that he has been taking 20 to 25 shots of Jack Daniels every night.

Relish, the debut album by Joan Osbourne is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.

Hardcore rapper Stretch, a close friend of Tupac Shakur, is shot and killed during a high-speed automobile chase in Queens. In the chase, Stretch is shot at least four times, before crashing his minivan at the corner of 112th Avenue and 209th Street in Queens Village just after 12:30 A.M.