1987 in music

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Years in music:	1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Centuries:	19th Century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990

See also:

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits on record
4 Other Singles
5 Published popular music
6 Classical music
7 Opera
8 Musical theater
9 Births
10 Deaths
11 Awards
12 Charts
- 12.1 List of No. 1 Hits
- 12.2 KROQ

[edit] Events

January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
January 16 - The Beastie Boys become the first act to be censored by American Bandstand.
January - Steve "Silk" Hurley's innovative "Jack Your Body" becomes the first house music record to top the UK singles chart.
February 6 - Sonny Bono announces his candidacy for mayor of Palm Springs, California
February 14–March 7 - Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer" is the #1 song. It would be 1987's Biggest hit song.
March 7 - The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released on Compact disc. Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US.
March 9 - Carole King is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City. The career that would end in an infamous appearance at The Brit awards and the burning of a million pounds began in Britain, as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu released their debut single, "All You Need Is Love". Their debut album, 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?), would follow in June.
March 13 - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Alice Cooper almost dies on stage when one of the props, the Gallows, malfunctions
March 13 - In the US, Bryan Adams "Heat of the Night" becomes the first single to be commercially released on cassette. Cassette singles become known as cassingles.
March 27 - Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 shoots a music video for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California
April 23 - Carole King sues the owner of her record company, Lou Adler, claiming that she is owed more than $400,000 in royalties. King also asks for rights to her old recordings.
June 27 - Whitney Houston's sophomore album Whitney becomes the first album by a female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200
September 25 - Matthew Garrison Chapman is born as the first child of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Lead Me On, Amy's 1988 album, is said to have been dedicated to Matt
October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart
October 12 - Twisted Sister breaks up
October 19 - Mötley Crüe release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
October 19 - English cellist, Jacqueline du Pre dies at the age of 42.
November 13 - Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman
December 23 - Nikki Sixx of the rock band Mötley Crüe suffered a lethal heroin overdose, but was revived shortly thereafter.
Social Distortion returns to record Prison Bound
Danzig's career begins
Jane's Addiction's career begins
Paul Oakenfold's career begins
Public Enemy's career begins
Tori Amos' career begins
Alice in Chains forms
Fugazi forms
Gin Blossoms forms
Mr. Big forms
Nirvana forms
Poster Children forms
Hüsker Dü breaks up
The Smiths break up
Wham! breaks up
Zebra breaks up
Winger signs to Atlantic Records
Kylie Minogue's recording career begins, when her cover version of the Little Eva hit The Loco-Motion spends seven weeks at number one in her native Australia and leads to a contract with UK based record producers Stock Aitken Waterman
Lynyrd Skynyrd refomates and now has Ronnie Van Zants little brother Johnny Van Zant as lead singer.