1995 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 18 - Jerry Garcia wrecks his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California. Garcia is not injured in the accident.
February 6 - Rapper Tupac Shakur is sentenced to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in prison on a sexual assault charge.
February 19 - Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee marries Bay Watch actress Pamela Anderson on a beach in Cancun. (The bride wore a white bikini.)
February 25 - Lyle Lovett has an accident while riding his motorcycle in Mexico, breaking his collarbone. The accident prevented Lovett from attending the Grammy Awards. (He ended up winning 2 awards)
March 1 - R.E.M drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a Switzerland concert after suffering a brain aneurysm, which requires immediate surgery
March 3 - R.E.M drummer Bill Berry undergoes successful brain surgery, following a brain aneurysm two days earlier in Switzerland.
March 17 - Madonna holds a premiere for her new Bedtime Stories video. The party is called the "world's biggest pajama party" due to the fact that the 1500 guests wear pj's and teddy bears.
March 25 - In New Zealand, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder is rescued after being carried 250 feet offshore by a riptide.
March 28 - Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts announced that they were separating after 21 months of marriage
March 31 - Selena is shot and killed by her former personal assistant and former fan club president, who had been fired for embezzlement.
April 29 - Tupac Shakur marries Keisha Morris inside the Clinton Correctional Facility. Shakur is serving a 4½ year jail term on sexual assault charges
May 5 - Guns n' Roses drummer Steven Adler is arraigned on a felony count of possession of heroin, in addition to two misdemeanor drug charges.
May - The 2nd EJCF was held in Basel. Next time was in 1998.
August - The First Tibetan Freedom Concert is organized by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys in Los Angeles. The proceeds from the ticket event go to the Millareppa Foundation, which exposes human rights violations in Tibet by the Chinese government. Artists appearing included The Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers and A Tribe Called Quest.
September 2 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
November 19 - Part One of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC. The first installment ends with the music video for "Free As A Bird", the first new Beatles recording since their break up in 1970.
November 20 - Part Two of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC. (Volume One of The Beatles Anthology CD series is also released on this day.)
November 21 - Part Three of The Beatles Anthology television mini-series airs on ABC.
Sam Phillips makes her motion picture debut in the Bruce Willis action film, Die Hard With a Vengeance. Phillips plays one of the main terrorists in the film.
3 members R.E.M, Bill Berry, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, fall ill to various illnesses while on the "Monster Tour". Berry suffered an aneurism which required immediate surgery, Stipe suffered a hiatal hernia and Mills underwent an appendectomy.
Nada Surf's career begins
Nada Surf recorded High/Low, which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
Phil Collins recorded Dance Into the Light, which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
Tool recorded Ænima, which will be a blockbuster album in 1996
MxPx releases Teenage Politics
The Offspring re-issues The Offspring (the 1989 album)
Lit performs for the first time
System of a Down form
The Ataris form
Days of the New form
Eve 6 form
Godsmack form
Nickelback form
Coal Chamber form
Winger disband
Alanis Morissette resurrects her dying music career with the album Jagged Little Pill
MP3 files start flourishing on the Internet