October 1988 in Music History

Events in Music

Oct 8 Finishing 741-week stay, Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" makes final appearance (of initial run) on Billboard 200 Albums chart

Oct 10 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K. T. Oslin win
Oct 13 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary festival
Oct 15 Amnesty International's "Human Rights Now!" Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oct 16 "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London

Oct 17 Traveling Wilburys release debut album "Volume 1", featuring the single "Handle With Care"; pseudonymous band members include Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty

Oct 22 Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden, NYC, for a record 26th time

Oct 2 Brittany Howard, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alabama Shakes), born in Athens, Alabama
Oct 3 ASAP Rocky [Rakim Mayers], American rapper (Long. Live. A$AP), born in New York City
Oct 4 Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer (Glee, Supergirl), born in Littleton, Colorado
Oct 5 Bahar Kızıl, German singer (Monrose), born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Oct 7 Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley), born in The Woodlands, Texas
Oct 10 Jodie Devos, Belgian operatic soprano, born in Libramont-Chevigny, Belgium
Oct 12 Calum Scott, British pop singer-songwriter ("You Are The Reason"), born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Oct 20 Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume), born in Yokohama, Japan

Oct 3 "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (20) weds musician Danny Keough (23) at the Church of Scientology; divorce in 1994

Oct 7 Billy Daniels, African-American jazz singer ("That Old Black Magic") and television pioneer (The Billy Daniels Show), dies of cancer at 73
Oct 8 Ernst Hermann Meyer, German composer, dies at 82
Oct 9 Cliff Gallup, American guitarist (Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps), dies of a heart attack at 58
Oct 15 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji [Leon Dudley Sorabji], Parsi-British pianist and composer (Opus clavicembalisticum), dies of heart failure at 96
Oct 19 Edward "Son" House, American delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Walking Blues"; "Preachin' The Blues"), dies of larynx cancer at 86
Oct 25 Johnnie Richardson, American R&B musician (Johnnie & Joe), dies at 53
Oct 26 Herman Strategier, Dutch organist, conductor, and composer (Rembrandt Cantata; Shadow Out of Time), dies at 76