Events in Music
Music History
May 4 Angela Bowie reveals that ex-husband David Bowie slept with Mick Jagger
Music History
May 12 Nora Dunn and Sinéad O'Connor boycott "Saturday Night Live" to protest Andrew Dice Clay's hosting which was perceived as sexist; the show uses a time delay for the third time in its history
Television Finale
May 19 "Elvis" TV Drama about early life of Elvis Presley last airs on ABC
- May 20 "Truly Blessed" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 33 performances
Birthdays in Music
- May 25 Emmet Cohen, American jazz pianist, composer (Future Stride), bandleader, and Hammond B3 organ player, born in Miami, Florida
Weddings in Music
Patti Page
May 12 American singer Patti Page (62) weds Jerry Filiciotto
Deaths in Music
- May 2 William L. Dawson, American choir director, composer (Negro Folk Symphony), educator, and musicologist, dies at 90
- May 2 William Levi Dawson, American composer, choirmaster, and musicologist, dies at 90
- May 8 Luigi Nono, Italian avant-garde composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66
- May 9 Patrick Piggott, British pianist, composer, and musicologist (The Life & Music of John Field; The Innocent Diversion - Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen), dies at 74
- May 14 Andre Ameller, French double bassist (Paris Opéra, 1937-53), conductor, composer, and educator (École Nationale de Musique - Dijon, 1953-81), dies at 78
Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)
May 16 American vaudeville, stage, and screen dancer, singer ("The Candy Man"), actor (Ocean's 11), and Rat Pack member, dies of throat cancer at 64
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