1995 in music

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits
4 Musical theater
5 Musical films
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

8.1 Grammy Awards
8.2 Country Music Association Awards
8.3 Eurovision Song Contest

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 required 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

Albums released

Garbage - Garbage (their debut album)
Ballbreaker - AC/DC (their first album in five years)
Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
Stomp 442 - Anthrax
Die For The Government - Anti-Flag
Trailer - Ash
The Beatles Anthology, volume 1 - The Beatles
Deluxe - Better Than Ezra
Cheshire Cat - Blink-182
Kiss Your Ass Goodbye - Blue Meanies
These Days - Bon Jovi
Ragged Ass Road - Tom Cochrane
Nola - Down
Sparkle & Fade - Everclear
Flood - Everon
Insomniac - Green Day
It Matters to Me - Faith Hill
Cracked Rear View - Hootie & the Blowfish
Jerky Boys 2 - The Jerky Boys
Bad Habits - Colin James
Roots to Branches - Jethro Tull
Circus - Lenny Kravitz
Five Smokin' Tracks From Lit - Lit
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrissette
Teenage Politics - MxPx
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
(What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
The Offspring - The Offspring (a re-issue)
Smash - The Offspring
Ozzmosis - Ozzy Osbourne
Presidents of the United States of America - Presidents of the United States of America
Different Class - Pulp
The Bends - Radiohead
One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Weight - Rollins Band
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Mainliner (The Wreckage of the Past) - Social Distortion (a re-issue)
Let Your Dim Light Shine - Soul Asylum
The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
Jerky Boys: The Movie - Sountrack
Hanky Panky - The The
The Blue Album - 311
Undertow - Tool
19 Songs - The Unseen
Running on Ice - Vertical Horizon
Chocolate and Cheese - Ween

Top hits

"Geek Stink Breath" - Green Day
"Rock And Roll Is Dead" - Lenny Kravitz
"I'll Be There For You" - Rembrandts
"One Of Us" - Joan Osborne
"Carnival" - Natalie Merchant
"Only Wanna Be With You" - Hootie & the Blowfish
"Hook" - Blues Traveler
"Hand In My Pocket" - Alanis Morissette
"Wonderwall" - Oasis
"Roll To Me" - Del Amitri
"Breakfast At Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something
"Misery" - Soul Asylum
"Run-Around" - Blues Traveler
"Buddy Holly" - Weezer
"You Gotta Be" - Des'ree
"Take A Bow" - Madonna
"Fantasy" - Mariah Carey
"When I Come Around" - Green Day
"Don't Take It Personal" - Monica
"You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette
"Missing" - Everything But The Girl
"As I Lay Me Down" - Sophie B. Hawkins
"Today" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"Closer" - Nine Inch Nails
"Good" - Better Than Ezra
"You Are Not Alone" - Michael Jackson
"You'll See" - Madonna
"Baby" - Brandy

Musical theater

Hello Dolly Broadway revival
How to Succeed in Business Broadway revival
Victor/Victoria Broadway production

Musical films

Arabian Knight animated feature
Pocahontas animated feature

Births

Deaths

February 18 - Bob Stinson, The Replacements, complications caused by drug and alcohol abuse
February 23 - Melvin Franklin, The Temptations, brain seizure
March 26 - Eazy-E (31), AIDS
March 31 - Selena
April 14 - Burl Ives
August 9 - Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead
August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
August 23 - Dwayne Goettel, Skinny Puppy, drug overdose
Dean Martin
November 21 - Peter Grant, manager of The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, myocardial infarction

Awards

The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Martha and the Vandellas, Neil Young and Frank Zappa
Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Charles Wesley (writer of "Hark The Herald Angels Sing")