Events in Music
- Apr 3 21st Eurovision Song Contest: Brotherhood of Man for United Kingdom wins singing "Save Your Kisses for Me" in The Hague
Music History
Apr 6 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen The Rolling Stones"
- Apr 18 30th Tony Awards: "Travesties" (play) & "A Chorus Line" (musical) win
Music History
Apr 20 George Harrison sings "The Lumberjack Song" with Monty Python in NYC
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 3 Drew Shirley, American Christian-rock guitarist (All Together Separate; Switchfoot, 2003-present), born in Key West, Florida
- Apr 6 Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician
- Apr 14 Christian Älvestam, Swedish heavy metal vocalist and musician (Scar Symmetry: Miseration), born in Sweden
- Apr 16 Kelli O'Hara, American stage actress and singer (The King and I), born in Elk City, Oklahoma
- Apr 16 Lukas Haas, American actor and musician (Witness, Inception), born in Los Angeles, California
- Apr 17 Monet Mazur, American actress and musician, born in Los Angeles, California
- Apr 18 Fayray [Minako Ōhashi], Japanese pop-jazz singer-songwriter (Taiyō no Gravity), born in Tokyo, Japan
- Apr 19 Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation), born in Tilburg, Netherlands
- Apr 23 Aaron Dessner, American songwriter, musician and producer (The National), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Apr 23 Bryce Dessner, American guitarist, songwriter (The National), orchestral and film score composer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Apr 26 José Pasillas, American drummer (Incubus - "Meglomaniac"; "Drive"), born in Calabasas, California
- Apr 27 Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer and composer, born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Apr 29 Jay Orpin, Swedish-Finnish pop composer and record producer, born in Stockholm, Sweden
- Apr 30 Amanda Palmer, American performance artist, pianist, singer, and lyricist (The Dresden Dolls), born in New York City
Weddings in Music
Deaths in Music
- Apr 1 Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
- Apr 1 Miroslav Ponc, Czech composer, dies at 73
- Apr 3 Maurice Johnstone, English brass band composer, dies at 75
- Apr 9 Akio Yashiro, Japanese composer, dies at 46
- Apr 9 Phil Ochs, American anti-war folk singer ("I Ain't Marching Anymore"; "Draft Dodger Rag"), commits suicide at 35
- Apr 22 Frutuoso de Lima Viana, Brazilian pianist & composer, dies at 79
- Apr 25 Alexander Brailowsky, Russian-French pianist (Chopin specialist), dies at 80
- Apr 29 Wilhelm Maler, German composer, dies at 73
- Apr 30 Edvard Fliflet Braein, Norwegian composer (Ut mot havet (Out To Sea); Anne Pedersdotter), dies at 51
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