Events in Music
- Sep 2 "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 performances
- Sep 6 Musical "Peter Pan", starring Sandy Duncan, opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
- Sep 7 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Garden, New York
- Sep 14 The film "Quadrophenia", loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name, is released.
- Sep 18 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
- Sep 18 The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
Music Concert
Sep 19 No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band; Bonnie Raitt; Crosby, Stills & Nash: Jackson Browne; and The Doobie Brothers
- Sep 25 "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
Music History
Sep 27 Elton John, sick with flu, collapses in the Hollywood Universal Amphitheater
Music History
Sep 29 "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18
Birthdays in Music
- Sep 3 Tomo Miličević, Croatian-born American musician (30 Seconds to Mars), born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
- Sep 4 Pedro Camacho, Portuguese classical, religious, film and video game composer (Requiem to Inês de Castro), born in Funchal, Portugal
- Sep 4 Poo Bear [Jason Boyd], American songwriter and record producer (Justin Bieber; Lupe Fiasco; Mariah Carey; Zac Brown), born in New Haven Connecticut
- Sep 6 Foxy Brown [Inga Marchand], Trinidadian-American rapper (Ill Na Na, Broken Silence), born in NYC, New York
- Sep 10 Jacob Young, American actor (All My Children), and singer, born in Renton, Washington
- Sep 13 Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer (Hooverphonic), born in Heuvelland, Belgium
- Sep 17 Chuck Comeau, Canadian drummer (Simple Plan), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Sep 17 Flo Rida [Tramar Dillard], American rapper, born in Carol City, Florida
- Sep 22 Emilie Autumn {Liddell], American singer-songwriter, violinist, and harpsichordist (Fight Like A Girl), born in Los Angeles, California
- Sep 23 Red, rapper (Another Bad Creation), born in Los Angeles, California
- Sep 30 Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist, born in Thessaloniki, Greece
- Sep 30 Vince Chong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter and actor, born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Weddings in Music
Cat Stevens
Sep 9 British singer-songwriter Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) (31) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque, in London
Deaths in Music
- Sep 6 Ronald Binge, British composer (Elizabethan Serenade, Sailing By), dies at 69
- Sep 9 Solon Michaelides, Cypriot composer, and musicologist, dies at 73
- Sep 9 Wilbur Ware, American jazz double bassist (Riverside Records; Thelonious Monk; Sonny Rollins), included in photographer Art Kane's photo "A Great Day In Harlem", dies of emphysema at 56
- Sep 10 Stanyslav Lyudkevych, Ukranian composer, and musicologist, dies at 100
- Sep 14 Raymond Loucheur, French composer, dies at 80
- Sep 15 Tommy Leonetti [Tomaso Lionetti], American singer ("Free"), songwriter ("My City of Sydney"), and actor (Gomer Pyle, USMC), dies of cancer at 50
- Sep 17 Miloslav Kabeláč, Czech composer, dies at 71
- Sep 25 Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (Me tulemme taas, Rion yö), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 64
- Sep 26 Seymour Shifrin, American composer (Satires of Circumstance), dies at 53
- Sep 27 Gracie Fields, English music hall/vaudeville performer and actress (Queen of Hearts), dies at 81
- Sep 27 Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish songwriter and guitarist (Wings), dies at 26
