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Events
January 7 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London
January 14 - Paul McCartney releases Снова в СССР exclusively in Russia. Bootleg copies sell for as much as $1,000 in the United States
January 14 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London
January 23 - James Brown is sentenced in Georgia to 6 years in jail in connection with a police chase through two different states
January 25 - Madonna files for divorce from Sean Penn after three-and-a-half years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
January - Phil Keaggy and Randy Stonehill form the "Keaggy/Stonehill Band" for a one time tour that pays tribute to 1960s artists like The Beatles. Tim Chandler plays bass for the band and David Raven plays drums.
January 28 - Genesis '88 stage large-scale illegal Acid House (from strength to strength) party in London
February 6 - King Tubby Jamaican dub music master, was shot and killed by unknown persons outside his home in Duhaney Park, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio, probably in a robbery attempt.
February 12 - Tiny Tim launches an unsuccessful campaign to be the mayor of New York City.
February - Roy Orbison joins Elvis Presley as the only singers to ever simultaneously have two Top 5 albums on the Billboard Charts
February 17 - Whitesnake's David Coverdale marries Tawny Kitaen
Alice Cooper completes his return with the album Trash. It becomes one of the best selling albums of the year.
March 6 - Smokey Robinson's autobiography Inside My Life is published. Dream Theater releases their first studio album When Dream and Day Unite
March 21 - Madonna's "Like a Prayer" music video attracts criticism for its use of Catholic iconography and for the use of cross burning imagery, but also garnered praise for its interpretation of discrimination, rape, and faith. Pepsi drops Madonna as a spokesperson out of fear the video will cause religious groups to boycott the company.
April - Three young men attempt to mug record producer and author Reed Arvin. Reed, being a rather large man, was able to go home with his money. The three young men were forced to return to their homes empty handed and nursing a few bruises.
April 9 - The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman announces that he's getting married to 19 year old Mandy Smith, whom he's dated for 6 years.
April 12 Garth Brooks debut album released, it'll reach the top of the Country charts and make top 20 in the American pop charts.
April 28 - Jon Bon Jovi marries his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
May 1 - California jewelry store employees call the police reporting a suspicious person hanging around their store. The person turned out to be Michael Jackson shopping in disguise
May - The first issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope is published
June 13 British-born singer Sonia made her debut Disco hit "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" went straight #1 in her native home country in the UK charts after She was sign PWL Records and team up with Stock Aitken Waterman.
July 9 - All four original members of the Monkees reunite in Los Angeles for a concert performance at the Universal Amphitheater. The following day the quartet attend an induction ceremony at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where they receive a star.
August 11 - 12 - Moscow Music Peace Festival held in the Soviet Union. The event was put together by Doc McGhee and the Make a Wish Foundation to expose the Russian people to western culture, promote international cooperation in fighting the drug war, and promote peace. The event came to epitomize the fall of the Soviet Union and the height of pop metal. Headlined by Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Cinderella, and the Scorpions.
August 31 - The Rolling Stones open their Steel Wheels North American tour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
September 14 - Madonna and Sean Penn's divorce is granted.
December 12 - Genesis '88 stage large-scale illegal Acid House (the fight goes on) party in London
December 17 - Gloria Mills "Millie" Chapman is born as the second child of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Amy's 1991 hit "Baby Baby" was dedicated to her.
December 24 - Genesis '88 and Biology parties stage illegal Acid House party in Slough UK
December 31 - Genesis '88 and Biology parties stage biggest Acid House (FREE) party (Future Power People) of the night in Slough Panasonic building (15,000 people), which was later joined by Sunrise/Back to the Future after their event was stopped by police.
Bands formed
Blind Melon
Café Tacuba
Cap'n Jazz
Chainsaw Kittens
The Chemical Brothers
The Cranberries
Blur
Codeine
Denki Groove
FireHouse
Flipper's Guitar
Fuel
Funkdoobiest
Ghetto Concept
Guttermouth
Jerky Boys
Green Day
Leftover Salmon
Luna Sea
Main Source
Marilyn Manson
Monster Magnet
Morphine
Pavement
Rainbow Butt Monkeys (Finger Eleven)
Rascalz
the pillows
Therapy?
Therion
Toadies
Ulceration (Fear Factory)
Bands disbanded
The Monkees
New Edition (reformed in 1996)
Operation Ivy
Wall of Voodoo
Bands reformed
Cluster
The Plasmatics
Luv'
Albums released
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5643 Song EP (EP) - Anal Cunt
88 Song E.P. (EP) - Anal Cunt
Psycho Café - Bang Tango
Mr. Music Head - Adrian Belew
Realm of Chaos - Slaves to Darkness - Bolt Thrower
Dig? - Bill Bruford
Rite Time - Can
Waking Hours - Del Amitri
- Crass
Best Wishes - Cro-Mags
Live ED - Étienne Daho
Tragedy Again - D.I.
DC Talk - dc Talk
Breakin' Through the BS - Bo Diddley
Living Legend - Bo Diddley
Liebe ist... - Die Flippers
Lotosblume - Die Flippers
Thrash Zone - D.R.I.
Sumiran Karle (Bhajan) - Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta
Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
All That Jazz - Ella Fitzgerald
On Fire - Galaxie 500
Hallelujah - Happy Mondays
Desert Wind - Ofra Haza
Modern - Hijokaidan
The Healer - John Lee Hooker
Enter the Realm - Iced Earth (demo EP)
At Peace - Jade Warrior
Jaya - Jaya
Bulletproof Heart - Grace Jones
West Textures - Robert Earl Keen
Night of Rage - Kraut
Western Shadows - Carole Laure
Piretos tou erota - Vicky Leandros
Godhead - Lowlife
Powertrip - Ludichrist (final album)
Drowning in Limbo - Lydia Lunch
Rasta Souvenir - Manu Dibango
No More Blues - Susannah McCorkle
Ozma - Melvins
Devil's Night Out - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
All Aboard the Mind Train - The Modern Art
Face of Despair - Mortal Sin
Shine - Mother Love Bone
Helter Stupid - Negativland
Once We Were Scum, Now We Are God - No (band)
Wrong - NoMeansNo
Get Yer Jujus Out - Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band
The Offspring - The Offspring
Energy - Operation Ivy
Sittin' Pretty - The Pastels
A Word from the Wise - Pennywise (EP)
Record Collectors - Poison Idea
Suck on This - Primus (live debut)
Fight The Power...Live! - Public Enemy (live, released on VHS)
The Good News and The Bad News - The Rainmakers
Blow - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
The Symphony Sessions - Red Rider
Riders go Commercial - Riders in the Sky
Something Inside So Strong Kenny Rogers
Hard Volume - Rollins Band
The Later Years - Roxy Music
Samiam - Samiam
Early Music - Santana
Buzz Factory - Screaming Trees
Century Flower - Shelleyan Orphan
Bound by the Beauty - Jane Siberry
Blood, Sweat & No Tears - Sick of it All
Street Fighting Years - Simple Minds
Cyborgs Revisited - Simply Saucer
Tweez - Slint
11 - The Smithereens
Agent Orange - Sodom
Nights Like This - Stacey Q.
Love Among the Cannibals - Starship
Surprise - Syd Straw
Special - The Temptations
Up to Here - The Tragically Hip
Different - Thomas Anders
A Bead to a Small Mouth - Various artists
Absolute - various artists
Dum-Dum - The Vaselines
Some Disenchanted Evening - The Verlaines
3 - Violent Femmes
Liberation - Bunny Wailer
Prime 5 - Ween
Niki Nana - Yanni
Broadway the Hard Way - Frank Zappa
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 - Frank Zappa
Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions
in the charts of 1989.
| # |
Artist |
Title |
Year |
Country |
Chart Entries
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| 1 |
Madonna |
Like a Prayer |
1989 |
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UK 1 - Mar 1989, US BB 1 - Mar 1989, US CashBox 1 of 1989, Sweden 1 - Mar 1989, Switzerland 1 - Mar 1989, Norway 1 - Mar 1989, Poland 1 - Apr 1989, Éire 1 - Mar 1989, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1989, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Sep 1989, Holland 2 - Mar 1989, Austria 2 - Apr 1989, Australia 2 of 1989, Germany 2 - Mar 1989, France 4 - Mar 1989, Italy 5 of 1989, POP 5 of 1989, RYM 13 of 1989, US BB 14 of 1989, Scrobulate 33 of pop, Europe 49 of the 1980s, Germany 96 of the 1980s, OzNet 161, Rolling Stone 300, Acclaimed 629 |
| 2 |
The Bangles |
Eternal Flame |
1989 |
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UK 1 - Feb 1989, US BB 1 - Feb 1989, Holland 1 - Mar 1989, Sweden 1 - Apr 1989, Norway 1 - May 1989, Australia 1 of 1989, Éire 1 - Apr 1989, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Oct 1989, Switzerland 2 - May 1989, Austria 3 - May 1989, Germany 5 - May 1989, US CashBox 7 of 1989, France 10 - Feb 1989, US BB 11 of 1989, POP 25 of 1989, Europe 27 of the 1980s, Scrobulate 70 of 80s, RYM 73 of 1989, OzNet 141, Germany 196 of the 1980s |
| 3 |
Phil Collins |
Another Day in Paradise |
1989 |
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US BB 1 - Nov 1989, Sweden 1 - Nov 1989, Switzerland 1 - Nov 1989, Norway 1 - Nov 1989, Poland 1 - Nov 1989, Germany 1 - Jan 1990, Grammy in 1990, UK 2 - Nov 1989, Holland 2 - Oct 1989, Austria 2 - Dec 1989, Italy 3 of 1990, France 9 - Nov 1989, POP 21 of 1989, Europe 60 of the 1980s, Scrobulate 67 of ballad, RYM 133 of 1989, Germany 195 of the 1990s, OzNet 214 |
| 4 |
Roxette |
The Look |
1989 |
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US BB 1 - Feb 1989, Sweden 1 - Jan 1989, Switzerland 1 - Apr 1989, Norway 1 - Mar 1989, Germany 1 - Apr 1989, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Nov 1989, Holland 2 - Mar 1989, Austria 2 - May 1989, Australia 3 of 1989, France 4 - Apr 1989, US CashBox 6 of 1989, UK 7 - Apr 1989, Poland 8 - Apr 1989, Italy 9 of 1989, US BB 21 of 1989, Germany 30 of the 1980s, POP 39 of 1989, RYM 94 of 1989, OzNet 567 |
| 5 |
The B52s |
Love Shack |
1989 |
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US BB 1 of 1989, Éire 1 - Mar 1990, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Jan 1990, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Mar 1990, POP 1 of 1989, UK 2 - Mar 1990, KROQ 2 of 1989, US BB 3 - Sep 1989, Party 3 of 2007, France 4 - Oct 1989, Australia 16 of 1990, Holland 18 - Dec 1989, Sweden 20 - Mar 1990, RYM 37 of 1989, Scrobulate 61 of 80s, TheQ 238, Rolling Stone 243, RIAA 243, OzNet 311, WXPN 498, Acclaimed 662 |
Top hits
"All She Wants Is" - Duran Duran
"Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins
"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)" - Soul II Soul
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