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Categories: 1996

1996 in music

Contents

1 Events

2 Albums released

3 Top hits

4 Classical music

5 Opera

6 Musical theater

7 Musical films

8 Births

9 Deaths

10 Awards

10.1 Grammy Awards
10.2 Country Music Association Awards
10.3 Eurovision Song Contest
10.4 Mercury Music Prize

Events

January 16 - Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. U2 singer Bono was also on the plane, but neither singer was injured.
January 18 - Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson.
January 28 - Chris Isaak makes a guest appearance on the television show Friends.
January 29 - Garth Brooks refuses to accept his American Music Award for "Favorite Overall Artist". Brooks says that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did.
February 4 - Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob Pilatus is hospitalized when a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood, California. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car.
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 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 ends its 16th consecutive week at No. 1 with "One Sweet Day". It is the longest consecutive week stay at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history.
March 18 - The Sex Pistols announce that they are reuniting for a 20th anniversary tour.
March 28 - Phil Collins announces that he is leaving Genesis to focus on his solo career.
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 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 , & author Brennan Manning.
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 which was stolen from their home.
June - The Offspring records Ixnay On The Hombre, which will be a blockbuster album on February 4, 1997.
July - The Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chaimberland , is arrested for possession of a controlled substance. The remaining members of the Smashing Pumpkins fire Chaimberland because they said his "insidious battle with drugs and alcohol" had nearly ruined everything for the band.
September 7 - Gangster singing rapper Tupac Shakur was shot 4 times and was wounded at Las Vegas, Nevada after seeing the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon fight at the MGM Grand as they were leaving the hotel, obviously suggested that event was caused by the drive-by shooting. Tupac was taken into hospital.
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 died in hospital after his wounds with the Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand shooting.
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
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".
Dashboard Confessional forms
Linkin Park forms
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes forms
Orgy forms
Coal Chamber's career begins
Jay-Z's musical career begins
Poison reunites
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.
Amos's single "Caught a Lite Sneeze" becomes the first song offered as a free digital download by a major record label.

Albums released

Ayreon - Actual Fantasy
Elegy - Amorphis
Boys for Pele - Tori Amos
1977 - Ash
The Gray Race - Bad Religion
Odelay - Beck
The Beatles Anthology, volume 2 - The Beatles
Three Snakes & One Charm - The Black Crowes
The Great Escape - Blur
Fashion Nugget - Cake
Vile - Cannibal Corpse
Swansong - Carcass
Dance Into the Light - Phil Collins
Dusk... and Her Embrace - Cradle of Filth
None So Vile - Cryptopsy
Skunkworks - Bruce Dickinson
Death Threatz - MC Eith
Face to Face - Face To Face
Cat's Clause - The Germs
Frozen - Gridlock
Afterlife - The Godfathers
The Dark Saga - Iced Earth
Jerky Boys 3 - Jerky Boys
Life Is Peachy - Korn
As Good as Dead - Local H
Fever In Fever Out - Luscious Jackson
Louder Than Hell - Manowar
Load - Metallica
Irreligious - Moonspell
High/Low - Nada Surf
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Curb - Nickelback
Hesher - Nickelback
Beacon Street Collection - No Doubt
Ixnay on the Hombre - The Offspring
The Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera
Off Parole - Rappin 4-Tay
One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Republica - Republica
Greatest Hits - Poison
Da Villain in Black - MC Ren
Test for Echo - Rush
Roots - Sepultura
Call the Doctor - Sleater-Kinney
One Chord to Another - Sloan
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps (debut)
Tha Doggfather - Snoop Dogg
White Light, White Heat, White Trash - Social Distortion
Irresistible Bliss - Soul Coughing
Down on the Upside - Soundgarden
Wax Estatic - Sponge
Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab
Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots
Episode - Stratovarius
Sublime - Sublime
Regretfully Yours - Superdrag
Factory Showroom - They Might Be Giants
311 - 311
Ænima - Tool
All Eyez on Me - 2Pac
Supercharged Straight to Hell - The Turbo AC's
Best of, Volume 1 - Van Halen
Running on Ice - Vertical Horizon
Bad Hair Day - Weird Al Yankovic
Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson

Top hits

"Ironic" - Alanis Morissette
"Change the World" - Eric Clapton, written by Wayne Kirkpatrick, Gordon Kennedy and Tommy Sims , won a Grammy award for song of the year in 1997
"Free As A Bird" - The Beatles
"Wonderwall" - Oasis
"California Love" - 2Pac
"How Do U Want It" - 2Pac
"6th Avenue Heartache" - The Wallflowers
"If It Makes You Happy" - Sheryl Crow
"Aeroplane" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Give Me One Reason" - Tracy Chapman
"Macarena" - Los Del Rio
"Wash Away" - Vertical Horizon
"All Mixed Up" - 311
"Head Over Feet" - Alanis Morissette
"Down" - 311
"Can't Get You Off My Mind" - Lenny Kravitz
"I Want To Come Over" - Melissa Etheridge
"Professional Widow (Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)" - Tori Amos
"You Learn" - Alanis Morissette

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1996

Classical music

Mario Davidovsky - Quartetto No. 2 for oboe, violin, viola, violoncello
Juan Maria Solare - Diez Estudios Escénicos

Opera

Peter Maxwell Davies - The Doctor of Myddfai

Musical theater

Chicago (Kander and Ebb) - Broadway revival
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Stephen Sondheim) - Broadway revival
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change off-Broadway production
The King and I (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Broadway revival
Once upon a Mattress Broadway revival
Rent (Jonathan Larson) - Broadway production (originally off-Broadway}
State Fair Broadway production