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Everything about 1996 In Music totally explained
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.
Events
January
- January 8 - Madonna's stalker, Robert Hoskins is found guilty and convicted on five charges of assault, stalking, and threatening to kill the singer.
- January 16
- Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, Hemisphere Dancer, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. U2 singer Bono and Island Records executive, Chris Blackwell, were also on the plane. No-one was injured.
- At a pre-trial hearing, Tom Copland, the lawyer representing teenager Nicholaus McDonald, blames Silverchair's song "Israel's Son" for inspiring his client, together with fellow teenager Brian Bassett, to murder Bassett's parents and five-year-old brother in McCleary, Washington, USA.
- January 18 - Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson.
- January 25 - Madonna receives death threats from Argentine conservatives who are enraged and insulted that she's playing Eva Peron in Evita. After she arrives in Argentina, over 50 walls throughout the city have been spray-painted with the words: ¡Viva Evita! ¡Fuera Madonna! (Long Live Evita! Get Out, Madonna!).
- January 28 - Chris Isaak makes a guest appearance on the television show Friends.
- January 29
February
February 4 - Former Milli-Vanilli band member Rob Pilatus was hospitalized when a man hit him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood, California, USA. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car.
February 13 - Tupac Shakur released the first ever rap double album, All Eyez on Me. The album is one of the most influential albums in hip hop history. All Eyez on Me acieved platinum sales in just four hours and reached #1 on the Billboard 200 charts.
February 14 - The Artist Formerly Known As Prince marries backup singer Mayte Garcia.
February 20 - Snoop Doggy Dogg and his bodyguard are acquitted of first degree murder. The jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter charges and a mistrial is declared.
March
March 4 - The Beatles' second reunion song is released, as part of their first reunion since the band's breakup 26 years earlier. The song is a finished version of "Real Love", a John Lennon demo from 1980.
March 13 - Ramones fans riot in Buenos Aires, Argentina after waiting all night for concert tickets only to find out that the show had been sold out.
March 16 - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men end their 16th consecutive week at #1 in the American charts with "One Sweet Day". It is the longest consecutive week stay at #1 in the Billboard Hot 100's history.
March 18 - The Sex Pistols announce that they're reuniting for a 20th anniversary tour.
March 28 - Phil Collins announces that he's leaving Genesis to focus on his solo career.
April
April 3 - M.C. Hammer files for bankruptcy.
April 4 - The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia's widow, Deborah, scatter part of Garcia's ashes in the Ganges River in India.
April 15 - The remaining part of Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
April 16 - Madonna announces that she's four months pregnant by Carlos Leon, her then boyfriend and trainer.
April 24 - This Train, Rick Elias, Jimmy A, Phil Keaggy, Carolyn Arends, Third Day & Ashley Cleveland perform a tribute concert for Rich Mullins at Nashville's Cafe Milano. Speakers included Reunion Records executive Terry Hemmings, record producer Reed Arvin, disc jockey Jon Rivers, and author Brennan Manning.
April 28 - Oasis play the second of two gigs in Maine Road, home of Manchester City F.C., featured on the video "…There and Then".
May/June
The Galway Early Music Festival is launched in Ireland.
May 8 - In Los Angeles, California, a judge rules against Tommy Lee and wife, actress Pamela Anderson Lee, in their attempt to keep Penthouse magazine from publishing still photos taken from an X-rated home movie that was stolen from their home.
May 25 - Brad Nowell, lead singer of the band Sublime, is found dead of a heroin overdose in his San Francisco motel room.
June 21 - The Sex Pistols start their reunion tour in Lahti, Finland.
July
The Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, is arrested for possession of a controlled substance. The other band members fire him because they said his "insidious battle with drugs and alcohol" had nearly ruined everything for the band.
July 5 - Mark King solo album One Man is release
July 9 - "Wannabe", the best-selling single by any female pop group, is released in the UK by the Spice Girls.
July 11 - Robert Simpson's second string quintet premiered at the Cheltenham International Festival by the Maggini Quartet with Pal Banda, cellist.
July 29 - Jason Matthew Thirsk, bassist of the band Pennywise, dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
August
August 1 - MTV2 is launched.
August 6 - The Ramones play their last ever show at Lollapalooza.
August 10 and August 11 - Oasis plays at Knebworth, UK, for two consecutive nights in front of 250,000 people. It is considered the peak of the Britpop movement.
September
September 7 - Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot four times in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, while leaving the MGM Grand hotel after seeing the Mike Tyson versus Bruce Seldon boxing match, in what is apparently a drive-by shooting.
September 12 - Controversy follows The Eagles when the band dedicates "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party fundraiser held in Los Angeles.
September 13 - Tupac Shakur dies in hospital after his wounds from his September 7 shooting.
October
October 6 - Country singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw get married.
October 14 - Madonna's first child, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, is born in Los Angeles, California.
October 30 - Slash officially leaves Guns N' Roses.
October 31 - Slipknot releases their limited edition album Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat..
November
November 8 - After having first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the film Hype!, a documentary on the Seattle grunge scene, opens to general audiences
November 24 - Crowded House plays its final concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in Australia, in front of an audience of almost 100,000. Proceeds from this concert support the Sydney Children's Hospital.
December
December 7 - The Sex Pistols finish their reunion tour in Santiago, Chile.
December 16 - Max Cavalera leaves Sepultura because of Sepultura not renewing his wife, Gloria's, contract as manager.
Date unknown
House of Pain breaks up which leads to DJ Lethal joining Limp Bizkit.
Sheryl Crow's self titled album is banned from Wal-Mart stores because of the lyric "Watch out sister, watch out brother/watch our children while they kill each other/with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart Discount Stores".
The Monkees embark on their 30th Anniversary Reunion Tour.
Singer Tori Amos is sued when a man crashes his car after being distracted by a billboard advertising her album. The billboard featured a photo of Amos breastfeeding a piglet.
David Bowie's single "Telling Lies" becomes the first song offered as a free digital download by a major record label (Virgin Records).
Roberto Alagna marries Angela Gheorghiu.
Coal Chamber signs with Roadrunner Records and Mikey "Bug" Cox replaces John Tor.
Alice Cooper performs at Sammy Hagar's club, Cabo Wabo, in Mexico. It was recorded and released the next year as a live album.
The Proms in the Park event is launched in London, UK.
Bands formed
Ace Troubleshooter
Agalloch
Alabama Thunderpussyweed
Alkaline Trio
All Systems Go!
Arch Enemy
Belle and Sebastian
Chamberlain
Disturbed
Dressy Bessy
Engine Down
Fountains of Wayne
Good Charlotte
Godsmack
Hadag Nahash
The Haunted
Iceman
Lordi
Linkin Park
Mudvayne
Nightwish
Quarashi
Park Ave.
Puffy AmiYumi
Sanctus Real
Skillet
Slipknot
Sum 41
Switchfoot
Within Temptation
Matchbox Twenty
Zebrahead
Bands disbanded
Arrested Development
At The Gates
Belly
Carcass (they reform in 2007)
Cluster (they reform in 2007)
Crowded House (they reform in 2007)
Eric's Trip
Extreme
Heavenly
House of Pain
Jawbreaker
Jodeci (hiatus, until 2006)
The Kinks
Lush
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The Pogues
The Ramones
Ride
Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Stone Roses
Sublime
Take That (they reform in 2005)
Bands return
The Monkees
New Edition
Poison
Kiss
Devo
Supertramp
Patti Smith
Albums released
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Unknown Release Date
All the Pretty Little Horses - Current 93
A Man Amongst Men - Bo Diddley
Back in the Shootin' Match - Ace Troubleshooter
Black Earth - Arch Enemy
Brown - P.O.D.
Curb - Nickelback
Democracy (album) - Killing Joke
Earth - various artists
Essential Mental Nutrients - Social Deviantz
Garibaldi Guard! - U.S. Bombs
Hesher - Nickelback
Inquilaab - Junoon
Liebe ist... 3 - Die Flippers
Live Drug - Sun Dial
Lo Society - Loso
Neu! '72 Live in Dusseldorf - Neu!
Pale Yo - Kanpech
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