1995 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.

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Events

January–February

• January 1 – Mo Ostin steps down as chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group.
• January 8 – Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder hosts "Self-Pollution Radio", a four-and-a-half hour radio broadcast with live performances by Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and others. Any station with a satellite receiver could pick up and carry the program.
• January 10 – Michel Sardou begins a record-breaking run of 113 shows at the Paris Olympia.
• January 14 – Perry Farrell is arrested for cocaine possession, being under the influence and possession of a syringe at a Los Angeles hotel.
• January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident.
• January 20–February 5 – The Big Day Out festival takes place in Australia and New Zealand, headlined by Ministry, Primal Scream, Hole, The Cult and The Offspring. Originally, Oasis were also named in the lineup, but had to cancel their performance due to co-frontman Liam Gallagher losing his voice.
• January 27 – Live from the House of Blues premieres on TBS.
• February 1 – Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers band member Richey James Edwards goes missing after leaving the London Embassy Hotel, UK at 7 am.
• February 7 – Rapper Tupac Shakur is sentenced to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison on a sexual abuse charge. He is later released on appeal.
• February 12 – Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Taylor Kramer disappears from Highway 101, USA as he tried to get back home from the Los Angeles International Airport. He tried calling his family and 911 for help, but received none. His remains are found in 1999.
• February 14 – Richey Edwards' Vauxhall Cavalier is found abandoned in a service station on the Bristol side of the Severn Bridge in the UK, with evidence that he had been living in it. Although he was near a notorious suicide spot, there is still no evidence to suggest he committed suicide.
• February 19
• Roxette play to a crowd of 12,000 in Beijing, China, becoming the first Western band to be allowed to perform in the Workers' Indoor Arena for ten years.
• Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee marries Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson on a beach in Cancún, Mexico.
• February 25 – Lyle Lovett suffers a broken collarbone in an accident while riding his motorcycle in Mexico. The accident prevented Lovett from attending the Grammy Awards (he ended up winning two awards).
• February 27 – Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits is released, featuring four new songs recorded with a temporarily reunited E Street Band.
• February 28 – Traci Lords releases their debut studio album 1000 Fires.

March–April

• March 1
• R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a concert in Switzerland after suffering a brain aneurysm. He undergoes successful brain surgery two days later in Switzerland.
• The 37th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in Los Angeles, hosted by Paul Reiser. Bruce Springsteen won four awards, including Song of the Year for "Streets of Philadelphia", while Tony Bennett's MTV Unplugged live album wins Album of the Year and Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do" wins Record of the Year. Crow also wins Best New Artist.
• March 8 – Former Helloween drummer, Ingo Schwichtenberg, commits suicide by jumping under a subway train.
• March 13 – Radiohead album The Bends and Elastica album Elastica are released.
• March 14 – With the release of Me Against the World, Tupac Shakur became the first male solo artist to have a number one album on the American Billboard 200 chart while in prison. The album remained at the top of the charts for four weeks.
• March 25 – The Cult perform its last show in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, with Ian Astbury leaving the band. The Cult would reunite in April 1999.
• March 26 – Rapper Eric Lynn Wright, better known as Eazy-E, dies of complications from AIDS.
• March 28 – Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts announce their separation after 21 months of marriage.
• March 30 – Celine Dion releases D'eux, which goes on to be the most successful French-language album of all time.
• March 31
• Tejano singer Selena is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, her former personal assistant and former fan club president, who had recently been fired for embezzling money from the fan club. The event was called "Black Friday" by Hispanics worldwide.
• During a performance in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA, Jimmy Page narrowly escapes being stabbed by a man who rushes the stage with a knife. The man was tackled by security guards who were injured in the brawl.
• April 17 – Ed Rosenblatt replaces David Geffen as chairman and CEO of Geffen Records.
• April 22 – Janet Jackson ends her Janet World Tour in London, England after nearly two years of touring.
• April 29 – Tupac Shakur marries Keisha Morris inside the Clinton Correctional Facility, New York, USA. Shakur was serving a four-and-a-half year jail term on sexual assault charges. They would later divorce.

May–June

• May 5 – Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler is arraigned on a felony count of possession of heroin, in addition to two misdemeanor drug charges.
• May 13 – The 40th Eurovision Song Contest, held at Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, is won by Irish-Norwegian band Secret Garden, representing Norway with the song "Nocturne". This is the last competition with only one host until 2013.
• May 15 – Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland is arrested outside a motel in Pasadena, California, for possession of heroin and cocaine.
• May 19 – 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.
• June 1 – Alan Wilder leaves Depeche Mode.
• June 13 – Icelandic singer Björk releases Post, her critically acclaimed second album as a solo artist. The musically diverse album contained some of her most popular work to date, including "Army of Me", "Hyperballad", "I Miss You" and a Betty Hutton cover of "It's Oh So Quiet".
• June 20 – Michael Jackson released his first double-album ', which became the best-selling multiple-album of all time, with 35 million copies (70 million copies) sold worldwide.

• November 6
• Cher releases her first album in four years, It's A Man's World, her first original recording for Warner Music Group. The album would get its U.S. debut in June 1996.
• Queen releases their final studio album that includes contributions from all original members following Freddie Mercury's death four years earlier. It goes on to be a huge success, selling 20 million copies worldwide.
• November 11 – The 24th OTI Festival, held at in San Bernardino, Paraguay, is won by the song "", written by Alejandro Abad, and performed by Marcos Llunas representing Spain.
• November 21
• dc Talk release their 4th studio album Jesus Freak. It was a departure from their previous hip hop albums taking on a rap rock sound. It achieved the biggest 1st week sales for a Christian album selling more than 80,000 copies in its first week and entering the Billboard Top 200 at #16. It is known as one of the most important Christian albums of all time.
• The Offspring re-release their debut album (which originally appeared in 1989), on CD for the first time. This proves to be the band's final release on Epitaph Records; they leave Epitaph and sign with Columbia Records the next year.
• Enrique Iglesias releases his debut album, in Spanish. It tops the Latin album charts and would go on to win a Grammy and produce five No. 1 singles on Billboards Hot Latin Tracks chart.
• December 4 – The Beatles release "Free as a Bird" as their first new single in over 20 years.
• December 21 – Madonna is subpoenaed to testify on January 3, 1996, against her stalker, Robert Hoskins, at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles, California, USA. Hoskins was shot by a security guard outside her estate in Los Angeles in May 1995 for trespassing on her property and threatening to marry or kill her.
• December 31 – The twenty-fourth annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Brandy, Goo Goo Dolls, Kool & the Gang, Martin Page and The Rembrandts.

• In Flames hires Björn Gelotte & Anders Fridén.
• Three members of R.E.M., Bill Berry, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, fall ill while on the band's "Monster Tour". Berry suffers an aneurysm which required immediate surgery, Stipe suffers a hiatal hernia and Mills undergoes an appendectomy.
• Paul D'Amour leaves Tool.
• John Denver – The Wildlife Concert (US single: "For You")
• Kid 'n Play disbands.

• See

• See

• See

• 12 Before 9 - The Throes
• 12 Haunted Episodes - Graham Parker
• 25 Cents – The Flys
• 1979 – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – EP
• The Age of Electric – The Age of Electric
• Alien 4 – Hawkwind
• All That May Do My Rhyme - Roky Erickson
• Ask the Fish – Leftover Salmon
• Balaee Fi Zamany - Nawal El Zoghbi
• Bowery Electric - Bowery Electric
• The Breathing Shadow – Nightingale
• Caca Bonita (EP) – Papa Roach
• Can We Go Home Now – The Roches
• Carpet – Ceremonial Oath
• Carry the Day - Henry Threadgill
• Cha Cha Cha – EMF
• Company of Strangers – Bad Company
• Coughing Up a Storm – Frenzal Rhomb
• Dawn – Danger Danger
• Devil Dog Road - Liar
• Devil in the Details – Saigon Kick
• Dreamtime Wisdom, Modern Time Vision - Wirrinyga Band
• En Route – Moebius & Plank
• Evil Stig – Joan Jett and The Gits
• Exotica 2000 - Korla Pandit
• Five Ways of Disappearing – Kendra Smith
• Fly – Sarah Brightman
• Gainsbourgsion! - April March
• A Glorious Lethal Euphoria - The Mermen
• Gush – Lowlife
• Hank Plays Cliff – Hank Marvin
• Human – Gary Numan
• A Hundred Lovers – Timbuk3
• Hyderomastgroningem – Ruins
• حبك موت (I Love You Till Death) - Ahlam
• Intelligence - DJ Rap

• Lament – Rez Band
• Loituma - Loituma
• Looking Back – Toyah
• Ma Bassmahlak - Najwa Karam
• Nine Livez – Nine
• Obey – Brainbombs
• Ode to the Living Tree - Andrew Cyrille
• One Hour – Cluster
• Pain – Dub War
• Palabras - Omara Portuondo
• The Pastoral – Not Rustic – World of Their Greatest Hits – Country Teasers
• Project Infinity – Man or Astro-Man?
• The Remix Album – Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark
• Rock!!!!! – Violent Femmes
• Rockabilly Filly - Rosie Flores
• Savage Poetry – Edguy
• Scent of Attraction - Patra
• Shag Tobacco – Gavin Friday
• Shampoo or Nothing - Shampoo
• Smokin – Kid Jonny Lang
• Soapy Water and Mister Marmalade – Sham 69
• Some Call It Godcore - Half Man Half Biscuit
• Spanaway - Seaweed
• Spirit of the Moment – Live at the Village Vanguard - Joshua Redman Quartet
• Strange Cargo Hinterland – William Orbit
• Super Compact Disc - Masonna
• That's What Love Songs Often Do – Fig Dish
• To Love and Be Loved - Anne Clark
• The New Album - Shweta Shetty
• ...Until Now – Stir
• Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs - Elf Power
• The Very Best of The Blues Brothers – The Blues Brothers (compilation)
• Wave of Popular Feeling – Groundswell
• White Zone – Psychedelic Warriors (Hawkwind)
• The Zero State – Arthur Loves Plastic

1. Radiohead – The Bends
2. Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
3. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
4. Pulp – Different Class
5. Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
6. Björk – Post
7. GZA – Liquid Swords
8. Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith
9. P.J. Harvey – To Bring You My Love
10. Pavement – Wowee Zowee

• Osvaldas Balakauskas – Requiem
• Sally Beamish – Viola Concerto
• Luciano Berio – Sequenza XII
• Harrison Birtwistle – Panic (premiered at Last Night of the Proms)
• Elliott Carter – String Quartet No.5
• Mario Davidovsky – Violin Concertino
• Mario Davidovsky – Flashbacks for flute/piccolo/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, and percussion
• Frédéric Durieux – Départ for clarinet
• Ludovico Einaudi – Chatrang Overture
• Lorenzo Ferrero
• Seven Seconds, for clarinet, violin, and piano
• Shadow Lines, for flute and live electronics
• Philip Glass
• Saxophone Quartet
• String Sextet
• Melodies for saxophone
• Symphony No. 3, for string orchestra
• Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
• Andrew Glover – Fractured Vistas
• Simeon ten Holt
• Schaduw noch Prooi, for 2 pianos
• Eadem sed Aliter, for piano
• Houtaf Khoury
• Concerto for basset horn and orchestra
• Concerto for soprano saxophone, 6 percussionists and string orchestra
• Wojciech Kilar – How Will I Calm Myself, for voice and piano
• Ulrich Leyendecker – Violin Concerto
• Theo Loevendie – Piano Concerto
• Krzysztof Penderecki – Violin Concerto No. 2 Metamorphosen
• Karl Aage Rasmussen – Three Friends, for orchestra
• John Serry Sr. – Concerto For Free Bass Accordion, piano transcription #1
• Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Passacaglia Immaginaria
• Michael Tippett – The Rose Lake
• Malcolm Williamson – A Year of Birds

• Michael Easton – The Selfish Giant (for children)
• Stewart Wallace – Harvey Milk

• Dracula – opened on 13 October in Prague, starring Daniel Hůlka
• Hello, Dolly! – Broadway revival
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Broadway revival
• Kristina frÃ¥n DuvemÃ¥la – opened on 7 October in Malmö, Sweden
• Victor/Victoria – Broadway production opened at the Marquis Theatre and ran for 734 performances

• Akropol
• Arabian Knight – animated feature
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Empire Records
• '
• Monster Mash
• Pocahontas – animated feature
• The Show
• Whatever Will Be, Will Be
• Whisper of the Heart