![]() April 8 – The body of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found.Robin Williams later describes the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman." March 31 – Madonna on Late Show with David Letterman: Madonna appears on the Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines with her profanity-laced interview.The record-breaking tour supports their Division Bell album, with the band playing to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossing over £150,000,000 (US$186,952,500). March 30 – Pink Floyd embark on what would be their last world tour before their breakup.March 22 - Pantera releases Far Beyond Driven, which becomes the heaviest album to hit number 1 on the Billboard 200.Bassist Darryl Jones replaces Bill Wyman in The Rolling Stones.Police confiscate four guns and 25 boxes of ammo from Cobain's home. Courtney Love calls the police, fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, is suicidal.Its production had been delayed because of the launch of Selena's fashion clothing line and boutiques, and her "Selena Live!" tour in support of Live!. March 13 – Selena releases her final Spanish album Amor Prohibido. ![]() It would go on to sell over 3 million copies and be credited with helping bring industrial rock music into the mainstream. March 8 – Nine Inch Nails release their second studio album The Downward Spiral.The case was spurred by 2 Live Crew releasing a parody of the Roy Orbison hit " Oh, Pretty Woman" without a license from the publishing firm Acuff-Rose Music. rules that parody can qualify as fair use. March 7 – The United States Supreme Court decision Campbell v.March 5 – Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, California, home.March 3 – In Rome, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after overdosing on Rohypnol and champagne.Other artists criticize the producer's decision during the show, and Billy Joel takes extra time to perform his song, The River of Dreams, noting that he is wasting valuable air time. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short. Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Legend Award.The single version of " A Whole New World", performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, wins Song of the Year. The soundtrack from the 1992 film The Bodyguard wins Album of the Year, while its lead single, Whitney Houston's cover of " I Will Always Love You", wins Record of the Year. The 36th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in New York, hosted by Garry Shandling.Nirvana play their final concert, in Munich.Selena becomes the first Tejano music singer to win a Grammy Award.February 26 – The Sanremo Music Festival ends with victory for Aleandro Baldi in the "Big Artists" category, for the song "Passerà".King attend the ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Paradise, Nevada, USA. February 23 – Eddie Van Halen, Chris Isaak, and B.B.February 14 – Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons.The track, " Free As A Bird", is released as a single in late 1995 as part of the exhaustive Beatles Anthology project, reaching #2 in the UK and #6 in the United States. February 11 – The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to begin recording additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, presented to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono, with Jeff Lynne producing.Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone. February 7 – Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony because of his loud and disruptive behavior.Dookie eventually achieves diamond certification. February 1 – Green Day release their breakthrough album Dookie, ushering in the mid-1990s punk revival.Wilson's 14-year-old son is killed in the accident. January 29 – The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles, USA.1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so. January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which makes its US chart debut at No.The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones and Björk. January 21– February 5 – The Big Day Out festival takes place, again expanding from the previous year's venues to include the Gold Coast, Queensland and Auckland in New Zealand.January 19 – Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.Specific locations Įvents January–February Joan Jett performing at Bumbershoot 1994. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.
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