1989 in music

Events

March 3rd: First diffusion of the video clip Like has Prayer Madonna which upsets very whole America and compromises a contract of 5 million dollars with the firm Pepsi-Cola.
July 1st: first Love Parade with Berlin.
October 23rd: Birth of the radio Maxximum, first radio specialized in France.
November 11th: the service of Mstislav Rostropovitch sitted in front of the Berlin Wall becomes an international symbol of the fall of the wall.

Claudio Abbado becomes director of the Philharmonie of Berlin.

Principal albums of the year & EP

Eat the Heat - Accept
Pump - Aerosmith
Penikufesin (EP) - Carbuncle
No Control - Bad Religion
Mr. Music Head - Adrian Belew
Paul' S Shop - Beastie Boys
Megatop Phoenix - Big Audio Dynamites
Standard CD Thing - Big Drill Because
Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week! - Björk & The Sugarcubes
Headless Cross-country race - Black Sabbath
Key Files Black and white - Camper Van Beethoven
Free - Concrete Blonde
Heart Shaped World - Jackson Browne
Words for the Dying - John Cale
Sidewalk - Capercaillie
Spike - Elvis Costello
Oh Yes I Edge - David Crosby
Sonic Temple - The Cult
Disintegration - The Cleans
Wild! - Erasure
Drunk Truth and - Fishbone
Margin Walker (EP) - Fugazi
… Twice Shy - Great White
1,000 Hours (EP) - Green Day
The End off the Innocence - Gift Henley
Healer - John Lee Hooker
Heart Shaped World - Chris Isaak
Maiden England (1988 concert) - Iron Maiden
Rock'n'roll Island - Jethro Tull
Sleeping with the Past - Elton John
The Courtauld Talks - Killing Joke
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska - King' S X
Let Coils Rule - Lenny Kravitz
Enjoy Yourself - Kylie
Lick - Lemonheads
French KIS (EP) - Lil Louis
Like has Prayer - Madonna
crises of the heart - Jeanne Farmhouse
Flowers in the Dirt - Paul McCartney
The Mind has Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
Dr. Feelgood - Mötley Crüe
Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
Yellow Moon - The Neville Brothers
Technique - New Order
Bleach - Nirvana
Freedom - Neil Young
S&M Airlines - NOFX
Please return the heart (to which it belongs) - Noir Desire
The Offspring - The Offspring
The Years off Decay - Overkill
Doolittle - Pixies
Suck one This - Primus
Fight The Power… Live! (VHS, compilation in concert) - Public Enemy
The Miracle - Queen
Green - R.E.M.
Brain Drain - The Clean
Mother' S Milk - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Don' T Such has Soul - The Replacements
Searchlight - Runrig
Presto - Rush
Best off Rockers & Ballads - The Scorpions
Blood, Sweat & No Tears - Sick off it All
Street fighting years - Simple Minds
Skid Row - Skid Row
Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit… Already Considering - Suicidal Tendencies
The Seeds off Coils - Tears for Fears
Practice What You Preach - Teastament
The Great Radio Controversy - Tesla
Mind Bomb - The The
Lincoln - They Might Be Giants
Bread and Circus - Toad the Wet Sprocket
3 - Violent one Women
The Headless Children - W.A.S.P.
Ace Nasty Ace They Wanna Be - 2 Live Crew
Pacific 707 (EP) - 808 State

Successes of the year in France

Without Logic - Mylène Farmer
Helene - Roch Voisine
Like has Prayer - Madonna
Jour of snow Elsa
For you Arménie
Casser the voice - Patrick Bruel
Joue not - François Feldman and Joni Jamison
the sun gives - Laurent Voulzy
Swing the mood - Jive Bunny
I of which want has to coil - Texas
The mégamix - Boney M
the lambada - Kaoma
Maldon - Zouk Machine
She drives me crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

Births

August 2nd: Priscilla, singer of French variety

Death

January 4th: Phil Lynott, Thin Lizzy
March 4th: Manual Richard, The Band
March 31st: O' Kelly Isley, The Isley Brothers
October 16th: Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violonist

Rewards

Grammy Award S (the United States)

Brit Awards (the United Kingdom)

Price Juno (Canada)

Price Felix (Quebec)

List of the prizes winner of the Felix prices in 1989

Victories of the music (France)

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