Events in Music in 1987

Jan 3 Aretha Franklin is the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Jan 21 B.B. King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi

Jan 21 Muddy Waters is inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"

Jan 21 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Coasters; Eddie Cochran; Bo Diddley; Aretha Franklin; Marvin Gaye; Bill Haley; B.B. King; Clyde McPhatter; Ricky Nelson; Roy Orbison; Carl Perkins; Smokey Robinson; Joe Turner; Muddy Waters; Jackie Wilson; Louis Jordan; T-Bone Walker; Hank Williams; Leonard Chess; Ahmet Ertegun; Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; and Jerry Wexler

Jan 26 14th American Music Awards: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama

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

Mar 9 U2 release their fifth album "The Joshua Tree" (Grammy for Best Album 1988)

Mar 24 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win

Apr 4 "Always & Forever" second studio album by Randy Travis (Billboard Album of the Year 1988)

Apr 6 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Randy Travis, and Reba McEntire win

May 16 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show

May 29 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains

Jul 13 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials

Jul 13 Kylie Minogue releases her debut single "Locomotion"

Jul 15 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence

Jul 21 Guns & Roses debut album "Appetite for Destruction" is released, and becomes the best-selling debut album of all time with more than 30 million copies sold

Jul 29 Ben & Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on new flavor: Cherry Garcia

Aug 16 Bon Jovi release their 3rd album "Slippery When Wet" (Billboard's top selling album of 1987)

Sep 11 4th MTV Video Music Awards: Peter Gabriel wins

Sep 19 Farm Aid III held in Lincoln, Nebraska; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, John Denver, and Joe Walsh

Sep 30 Roy Orbison and friends (including James Burton; Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and k.d. lang) film performance at the Ambassador Hotel's Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, California for Cinemax

Oct 6 "Faith" single released by George Michael (Billboard Song of the Year 1988)

Oct 12 George Harrison releases single "Got My Mind Set On You", becomes his third solo #1 hit, and the last chart-topper by any of the Beatles

Oct 27 Peter Shaffer's musical "Lettice & Lovage" premieres in London

Nov 5 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairytale musical "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC; runs for 764 performances, wins 3 Tony Awards and 5 Drama Desk Awards

Nov 13 Sonny & Cher perform together for the final time, singing "I Got You Babe" on 'Late Night with David Letterman' (NBC)

Nov 16 Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"

Dec 11 Martin Ritt's dramatic film "Nuts", starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfus premieres

Dec 22 Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx overdoses from heroin