Events in Music
Album Release
Oct 1 Marvin Gaye releases his last studio album "Midnight Love" featuring single "Sexual Healing"
Album Release
Oct 1 Warner Bros. Records releases "The Nightfly". the debut solo studio album by singer-songwriter keyboardist Donald Fagen of the band Steely Dan
- Oct 7 Musical "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway, NYC; runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000, wins 7 Tony and 1 Grammy Award
Country Music Association Awards
Oct 11 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson & Ricky Skaggs win
Music Single
Oct 29 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release single "The Girl is Mine"; peaks at # 2 in US, and #8 in UK
- Oct 31 Musical revue "Rock 'n Roll!: The First 5,000 Years" closes at St James Theatre. NYC, after 9 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Oct 1 Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish pop-dance singer, born in Kristinehamn, Sweden
- Oct 2 George Pettit, Canadian hardcore singer (Alexisonfire), born in Grimsby, Ontario
- Oct 6 William Butler, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
- Oct 7 Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist, born in Chongqing, China
- Oct 12 Émile Parisien, French jazz soprano and alto saxophonist, and composer, born in Cahors, France
- Oct 15 Paulini [Pauline Curuenavuli], Fijian-Australian singer, born in Suva, Fiji
- Oct 16 Vincy Chan, a Hong Kong-Singaporean Canto-pop singer ("My Memories are Not My Own"), born in Hong Kong
- Oct 22 Daniel M. Johnson "The Untouchable DJ Drastic", American DJ, music industry professional, and radio presenter
- Oct 25 Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer (at17), born in Hong Kong
- Oct 28 Mai Kuraki, Japanese pop and R&B singer-songwriter ("If I Believe"), born in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
- Oct 29 Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress (They Kiss Again), and pop singer ("You"), born in Yilan, Taiwan
- Oct 31 The Cheeky Girls [Gabriela and Monica Irimia], British-Romanian pop singers, born in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania
Weddings in Music
Robert Goulet
Oct 17 American singer and actor Robert Goulet (48) weds his Macedonian business partner and manager, artist, and writer Vera Novak in Las Vegas, Nevada
Deaths in Music
- Oct 4 Glenn Gould, Canadian classical pianist (Bach's Goldberg Variations) and broadcaster (Solitude Trilogy), dies after suffering a stroke at 50
- Oct 12 (Christiann) "Chris"Reumer, Dutch operatic tenor, dies at 73
- Oct 16 Jakov Gotovac, Croatian conductor and composer (Ero the Joker), dies at 87
- Oct 16 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67
- Oct 21 Radka Toneff, Norwegian jazz singer (It Don't Come Easy), dies of a drug overdose at 30
- Oct 23 Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist and composer, dies at 52
- Oct 30 Angelo Ephrikian, Armenian-Italian composer, dies at 69
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