Events in Music
Red
Oct 22 "Red" 4th studio album by Taylor Swift is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2012/2013)
Weddings in Music
Audra McDonald
Oct 6 Former "Private Practice" actress Audra McDonald (42) weds Broadway star Will Swenson (38) in Croton-on-Hudson, New York
Justin Timberlake & Jessica Biel
Oct 19 Grammy Award-winning singer Justin Timberlake (31) weds "Total Recall" actress Jessica Biel (30) at the Borgo Egnazia resort in Fasano, Italy
Deaths in Music
- Oct 2 Big Jim Sullivan [Tomkins], British session and touring rock guitarist, sitar, and banjo player, dies of heart disease and diabetes at 71
- Oct 3 (Kathryn) "Kathi" McDonald, American blues and rock singer (Ike & Tina Turner Revue; Big Brother & The Holding Company), and songwriter, dies at 64
- Oct 5 Edvard Mirzoyan, Armenian composer, dies at 91
- Oct 7 John Tchicai, Danish jazz saxophonist and composer (New York Art Quartet), dies at 76
- Oct 9 Theo Olof, German-Dutch violinist and concert master, dies at 88
- Oct 15 Axel Borup-Jørgensen, composer (Nordisk Sommerpastorale; Thalatta! Thalatta!), dies at 87
- Oct 18 David Spencer Ware, American free jazz saxophonist, dies at 62
- Oct 27 Hans Werner Henze, German composer, dies at 86
- Oct 27 Terry Callier, American soul, folk and jazz guitarist, and singer-songwriter ("What Color Is Love"), dies of cancer at 67
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