THIS MONTH, JACKO PLAYS TO A SELL-OUT WEMBLEY STADIUM, THE UK SAYS HELLO TO TRACY CHAPMAN AND FISH WAVES GOODBYE TO MARILLION
STEVE O’BRIEN
THIS MONTH IN
6 Bob Dylan performs at the Frederick Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, supported by The Alarm.
9 Tracy Chapman begins a three-week run at No.1 on the UK Albums Chart with her eponymous debut LP.
12 Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson releases his self-titled debut solo record. Among the album’s contributors are Nick Laird-Clowes, Jeff Lynne, Christopher Cross and Terence Trent D’Arby.
18 Ike Turner is sentenced in Santa Monica to one year in jail for possessing and transporting cocaine. Police had stopped the one-time husband of Tina Turner in August 1987 for driving erratically and discovered six grams of cocaine in his car.
18 Former Velvet Underground collaborator Nico dies after suffering a heart attack while riding a bicycle on holiday with her son in Ibiza.
9 Cheap Trick hit the summit of the Billboard chart with The Flame, the group’s only US No.1 LP.
9 Glenn Medeiros goes to No.1 on the UK hit parade with the George Benson cover, Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You.
15 MTV in the US refuses to air the video for Neil Young’s latest release, This Note’s For You. In the clip, the hair of a Michael Jackson lookalike catches fire, which is then extinguished by ‘Whitney Houston’ pouring a can of Coke on the singer’s head.
23 Fish plays his last live date with Marillion at Craigtoun Country Park, St. Andrews in Scotland.
30 Steve Winwood kicks off a four-week run at No.1 on the US Singles Chart with Roll With It, a No.53 hit in the UK. Holland-Dozier-Holland are later credited with co-writing the song due to its resemblance to the Junior Walker track (I’m A) Roadrunner.
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