February 1987 in Music History

Events in Music

Feb 7 Madonna's "Open Your Heart" single goes #1

Feb 15 1982 Masters champion Craig Stadler is disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot

Feb 19 Musical revue "Stardust - The Mitchell Parish Musical", featuring songs of the Lithuanian-American lyricist, opens at Biltmore Theater, NYC; runs for 101 performances

Feb 24 29th Grammy Awards: "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood; "Graceland" by Paul Simon; and Bruce Hornsby win

Feb 26 1st release of Beatles on compact disc: "Please Please Me"; "With The Beatles"; "A Hard Day's Night"; and "Beatles For Sale" [1]

Feb 5 Darren Criss, American actor & singer-songwriter (Glee, The Assassination of Gianni Versace), born in San Francisco, California
Feb 10 Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior), born in Seoul, South Korea
Feb 14 Julia Savicheva, Russian singer, born in Kurgan, Russia
Feb 24 Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
Feb 24 Erica Corbo, American jazz and improv pianist (Space Whale Orchestra), and performance artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feb 25 Eva Avila, Canadian singer
Feb 26 Juliet Simms, American singer & songwriter (Automatic Loveletter), born in San Francisco, California
Feb 27 Cory Henry, American R&B/Soul singer-songwriter, pianist, Hammond B-3 organist, Harpejji and Moog player (Snarky Puppy), born in Brooklyn, New York City

Feb 4 American Emmy Award-winning pianist, showman (The Liberace Show), and actor (Batman -"Evil Chandell"), dies of AIDS-related pneumonia at 67

Feb 10 Raymond “Coco” Colignon, Belgian jazz pianist, organist, and bandleader, dies at 80
Feb 14 Bola Sete, Brazilian guitarist, dies at 63
Feb 15 Jimmy Holiday, American soul singer ("How Can I Forget"; Baby I Love You"), and songwriter ("Put A Little Love In Your Heart"), dies of heart failure at 42
Feb 15 Osmo Lindeman, Finnish jazz pianist, film score composer, pedagogue, and electronic music pioneer, dies at 57
Feb 16 Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (In the Fire), dies at 82
Feb 20 Adrian Cruft, British composer, dies at 66
Feb 20 Ivan Brkanović, Croatian composer (Triptych - Funeral Folk Rite), dies at 80
Feb 25 James Coco, American character actor (Only When I Laugh; Murder by Death), and singer (Man of La Mancha), dies of a heart attack at 56
Feb 28 Nora Kaye, American ballet dancer, and Broadway and film choreographer, dies of cancer at 67