1994 in music

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits
4 Classical music
5 Opera
6 Musical theater
7 Musical films
8 Births
9 Deaths
10 Awards

10.1 Grammy Awards
10.2 Country Music Association Awards
10.3 Eurovision Song Contest
10.4 Mercury Music Prize

Events

January 29 - The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her jeep hit a freeway median and flipped over just outside of Los Angeles, California. Wilson's 14-year old son was killed in the accident.
February 7 - Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony for his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest and destroying a police station phone
February 14 - The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons
February 23 - The ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Eddie Van Halen, Chris Isaak and B.B. King attend the event.
March 3 - In Italy, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after taking a combination of valium and champagne. Cobain would die on April 5.
March 5 - Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiberon, California home.
March 18 - Courtney Love calls the police fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, was suicidal. Police confiscate 4 guns and 25 boxes of ammo from Cobain's home. Cobain would kill himself on April 5.
March 18 - Bassist Darryl Jones replaces Bill Wyman in The Rolling Stones
March 31 - Madonna appears on The Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines for her foul mouthed, profanity laced interview. Robin Williams later described the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
April 5 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, commits suicide.
April 25 - Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix in November of 1993
April 26 - The legendary Fillmore club reopens in San Francisco, California.
April 26 - Grace Slick pleads guilty to pointing a shotgun at police officers on March 5.
May 6 - Pearl Jam files a complaint against Ticketmaster with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business
May 10 - Tupac Shakur begins serving 15-days in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.
June 7 - Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three month's worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
August - Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76 year old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, Colombia with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciuda Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short and other artists, upset by this action, criticize the producer's decision during the show, including Billy Joel who takes extra time to perform his song, The River of Dreams, noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
Ludacris moves to college
Woodstock '94
The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to record additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, with Jeff Lynne producing.