Events in Music
- Apr 13 "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
Music History
Apr 16 David Lee Roth arrested in NYC for purchasing marijuana for $10
- Apr 18 "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
Album Release
Apr 20 Mercury Nashville Records releases "Shania Twain", the debut studio album by Shania Twain
Music Premiere
Apr 23 Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy" premieres in NYC
Farm Aid Concert
Apr 24 Farm Aid VI held in Ames, Iowa; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Arlo Guthrie, The Jayhawks, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Cash, Ricky Van Shelton, Marty Stuart, Martina McBride, Bruce Hornsby, Bryan Adams, Ringo Starr, and Dwight Yoakam [1]
Birthdays in Music
Chance the Rapper (29 years old)
Apr 16 American rapper and record producer (Acid Rap; Coloring Book), born in Chicago, Illinois
Weddings in Music
Deaths in Music
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
Apr 8 American contralto and celebrated singer (My Lord, What a Morning), dies of congestive heart failure at 96
- Apr 19 Blas Galindo, Mexican composer (A la Patria), dies at 83
- Apr 19 Steve Douglas [Kreisman], American session and touring saxophonist and flautist (Phil Spector; Duane Eddy; Beach Boys), dies of a heart attack at 54
- Apr 23 Daniel Jones, Welsh composer, dies at 80
- Apr 29 Mick Ronson, English rock guitarist (David Bowie's Spiders From Mars), and producer (Mott the Hoople; Lou Reed), dies of liver cancer at 46
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