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Record labels established in 1987

Events

January - Steve "Silk" Hurley's innovative "Jack Your Body" becomes the first house music record to top the UK singles chart.
January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
January 16 - The Beastie Boys become the first act to be censored by American Bandstand.
February 6 - Sonny Bono announces his candidacy for mayor of Palm Springs, California
February 14–March 7 - Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" is the #1 song. It would be 1987's biggest hit song.
March 7 - The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released on Compact disc. Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes are available in the US.
March 9
- U2 releases The Joshua Tree, an album that launches them into superstar status in the music world. The album would sell over 14 million copies worldwide in 1987 alone and would win the Grammy for "Album of the Year" (at the 1988 ceremony). U2 have two #1 hit songs from this album on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts.
- Carole King is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City .
- The career that would end in an infamous appearance at The Brit awards and the burning of a million pounds began in Britain, as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu release their debut single, "All You Need Is Love".
March 13
- Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- In the US, Bryan Adams' "Heat of the Night" becomes the first single to be commercially released on cassette. Cassette singles become known as cassingles.
March 27 - Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 shoots a music video for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California
April 23 - Carole King sues the owner of her record company, Lou Adler, claiming that she is owed more than $400,000 in royalties. King also asks for rights to her old recordings.
May 9 - Ireland's Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Brussels , Belgium , with the song "Hold Me Now", making him the first artist to win the contest twice. The song tops the charts in Ireland, and peaks at No. 2 in the UK.
June 14 - Madonna starts her Who's That Girl Tour in Osaka, Japan .
June 27 - Whitney Houston's second album Whitney becomes the first album by a female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200
July 21 - Guns N' Roses release their debut album Appetite for Destruction
August 3 - Def Leppard release their 4th studio album Hysteria
August 18 - Aerosmith release their comeback album Permanent Vacation, their first multi-platinum album in ten years
August 31 - Michael Jackson releases his second studio album after 1982's Thriller, Bad. The album would produce five number one singles in USA, a record which hasn't been broken yet.
September 6 - Madonna ends her Who's That Girl Tour in Florence , Italy .
September 12 - Michael Jackson starts the Bad World Tour, supporting his Bad album.
September 25 - Matthew Garrison Chapman is born as the first child of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Lead Me On, Amy's 1988 album, is said to have been dedicated to Matt
September 28 - Depeche Mode's 6th album Music for the Masses provides the band with mainstream success in the United States for the first time since Some Great Reward, and the new styles of music that appeared on the album and its predecessor Black Celebration formed the foundation for their 1990 breakthrough effort, Violator.
October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart. The publication day of new charts is moved from Tuesday to Sunday.
October 12 - Twisted Sister breaks up - they would not reunite until the end of the 1990s.
October 19 - Mötley Crüe release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
October 30 - George Michael releases his first solo studio album, Faith, which would win the Grammy Award for album of the year and sell 11 million copies in USA alone.
October 31 -The Zorros headline on the Halloween for the last ever show at the Crystal Ballroom, Saint Kilda Melbourne's premier Punk/ New Wave Venue. The Crystal Ballroom has seen almost ten years of intense Musical Evolution. The venue has Chandeliers, stained glass windows, paisley wallpaper and a tiled foyer.
November 13 - Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman
December 23 - Nikki Sixx of the rock band Mötley Crüe suffers a heroin overdose, but is revived shortly thereafter.
Social Distortion returns to record Prison Bound
Winger signs to Atlantic Records
Kylie Minogue's recording career begins, when her cover version of the Little Eva hit The Loco-Motion spends seven weeks at number one in her native Australia and leads to a contract with UK-based record producers Stock Aitken Waterman.
Lynyrd Skynyrd reform and now has Ronnie Van Zant's little brother Johnny Van Zant as lead singer.
The Smiths disband after guitarist and songwriter Johnny Marr leaves the band.
Andreas Kisser replaces Jairo Guedes in Sepultura.
Alice Cooper almost dies on stage when one of the props, the Gallows, malfunctions.

Bands formed

See Musical groups established in 1987

Bands Disbanded

Bands reformed

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Albums released

January

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
12	The House of Blue Light	Deep Purple	-
20	The Return of Bruno	Bruce Willis	Debut
26	Control: The Remixes	Janet Jackson	Europe; Remix
26	Yo! Bum Rush the Show	Public Enemy	-
?	Warehouse: Songs and Stories	Hüsker Dü	double album
?	Famous Blue Raincoat	Jennifer Warnes	US; Leonard Cohen covers LP

February

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Exposure	Exposé	-
	Midnight to Midnight	The Psychedelic Furs	UK
	The Cost of Loving	The Style Council	UK
17	Lee Aaron	Lee Aaron	-
23	The World Won't Listen	The Smiths	Compilation
?	Ready or Not	Lou Gramm	-
?	Up for a Bit with The Pastels	The Pastels	-

March

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Through the Looking Glass	Siouxsie & the Banshees	-
2	Trio	Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton	-
3	Criminal Minded	Boogie Down Productions	-
9	Wild Frontier	Gary Moore	-
	Men and Women	Simply Red	-
	The Joshua Tree	U2	-
17	Deathcrush	Mayhem	EP
19	Tribute	Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads	Live 1981
22	Among the Living	Anthrax	-
24	Into the Fire	Bryan Adams	-
30	The Circus	Erasure	UK
	Sign o' The Times	Prince	double album
	Louder Than Bombs	The Smiths	US, compilation
?	Locust Abortion Technician	Butthole Surfers	-
	Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1	Helloween	-
	Running in the Family	Level 42	-

April

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Solitude Standing	Suzanne Vega	-
4	Whitesnake	Whitesnake	US
4	Now That's What I Call Music 9 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
6	Electric	The Cult	-
13	Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town	Johnny Cash	-
	Tango in the Night	Fleetwood Mac	-
	F.L.M.	Mel and Kim	UK
16	The Perfect Prescription	Spacemen 3	-
17	Rock the House	DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince	-
21	Let Me Up	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	-
23	The Ultra-Violence	Death Angel	-
27	Never Let Me Down	David Bowie	-
?	Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile	Happy Mondays	-
	Out & Intake	Hawkwind	Compilation
	Tell No Tales	TNT	-

May

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
5
5	Pleased to Meet Me	The Replacements	-
11	Under the Sign of the Black Mark	Bathory	-
	Live in the City of Light	Simple Minds	Live
	It's Better To Travel	Swing Out Sister	-
15	Girls, Girls, Girls	Mötley Crüe	-
20	Beverly Hills Cop II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Various Artists	Soundtrack
25	Scream Bloody Gore	Death	-
25	Bad Animals	Heart	-
26	Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me	The Cure	-
29	Bring the Family	John Hiatt	-

June

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Let it Loose	Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine	-
6	Bad Animals	Heart	-
9	Contagious	Y&T	-
15	Abigail	King Diamond	-
15	Radio K.A.O.S.	Roger Waters	-
19	Sammy Hagar	Sammy Hagar	later re-titled I Never Said Goodbye
21	Pride	White Lion	-
	Priest...Live!	Judas Priest	Live
	Keel	Keel	-
	Wild in the Streets	Helix	-
25	Cleanse Fold and Manipulate	Skinny Puppy	-
22	Clutching at Straws	Marillion	-
29	Once Bitten...	Great White	-
29	Whitney	Whitney Houston	-
30	La Bamba soundtrack	Los Lobos et al.	Soundtrack
30	Life	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	-
?	Classics Live II	Aerosmith	Live
	Sold	Boy George	-
	1987	The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu	recalled over copyright violation claim
	Sister	Sonic Youth	-

July

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
6	In the Dark	The Grateful Dead	-
6	Echo & the Bunnymen	Echo & the Bunnymen	-
7	Touch	Laura Branigan	-
	Paid in Full	Eric B. & Rakim	-
	Faster Pussycat	Faster Pussycat	-
	Frehley's Comet	Ace Frehley	-
	The Legacy	Testament	-
10	One Way Home	The Hooters	-
13	Introducing the Hardline According to...	Terence Trent D'Arby	UK
21	Dream Evil	Dio	-
	Appetite for Destruction	Guns N' Roses	Debut
	Who's That Girl soundtrack	Madonna et al.	Soundtrack
22	Bigger and Deffer	LL Cool J	-
27	In My Tribe	10,000 Maniacs	-
	Within the Realm of a Dying Sun	Dead Can Dance	-
	Surveillance	Triumph	-
?	Recently	Joan Baez	-
	Strange Weather	Marianne Faithfull	-
	Scum	Napalm Death	-

August

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
3	Hysteria	Def Leppard	-
7	Hurricane Eyes	Loudness	Japan
10	Between The Lines	Five Star	-
17	Substance	New Order	-
18	Out of the Blue	Debbie Gibson	-
18	Permanent Vacation	Aerosmith	-
21	The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited	Metallica	Covers EP
21	Dirty Dancing soundtrack	Various Artists	Soundtrack
24	The Lonesome Jubilee	John Mellencamp	-
27	Sentimental Hygiene	Warren Zevon	-
31	Bad	Michael Jackson	-
?	Jane's Addiction	Jane's Addiction	Live
	Diesel and Dust	Midnight Oil	-
	White Fields	The Escape Club	-

September

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Document	R.E.M.	-
5	Rock You to Hell	Grim Reaper	Final album
	Perfect Timing	McAuley Schenker Group	-
	Rock 'n' Roll	Motörhead	-
7	Actually	Pet Shop Boys	-
7	Islands	Mike Oldfield	-
8	A Momentary Lapse of Reason	Pink Floyd	UK
	Go On...	Mr. Mister	-
	Hold Your Fire	Rush	-
9	Earth, Sun, Moon	Love and Rockets	-
11	Crest of a Knave	Jethro Tull	-
11	Together Again	The Temptations	-
14	Introduce Yourself	Faith No More	-
14	Primitive Cool	Mick Jagger	-
15	Halfway to Sanity	Ramones	-
	Tiffany	Tiffany	-
	All Systems Go	Donna Summer	-
16	Visual Lies	Lizzy Borden	-
17	London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2	Frank Zappa	-
18	Crazy Nights	KISS	-
21	Piledriver - The Wrestling Album II	World Wrestling Federation	-
22	Man of Colours	Icehouse	Australia
22	The Hunger	Michael Bolton	-
28	Music for the Masses	Depeche Mode	-
	Strangeways, Here We Come	The Smiths	-
	Big Generator	Yes	-
	Popped In Souled Out	Wet Wet Wet	UK
	Come On Pilgrim	Pixies	EP
29	The Uplift Mofo Party Plan	Red Hot Chili Peppers	-
?	Wow!	Bananarama	-
	Darklands	The Jesus and Mary Chain	-
	Poetic Champions Compose	Van Morrison	-
	Hall of the Mountain King	Savatage	-

October

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
5	Heaven on Earth	Belinda Carlisle	-
	Raise Your Fist and Yell	Alice Cooper	-
	Introducing the Hardline According to...	Terence Trent D'Arby	US
7	Pleasures of the Flesh	Exodus	-
9	Tunnel of Love	Bruce Springsteen	-
13	...Nothing Like the Sun	Sting	-
19	Kick	INXS	-
26	Live at Wembley	Meat Loaf	UK; Live
30	Faith	George Michael	-
30	Schizophrenia	Sepultura	-
?	Raising Fear	Armored Saint	EP
	Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll	Chuck Berry	Soundtrack
	Perfect Timing	McAuley Schenker Group	-
	Pop Goes the World	Men Without Hats	-
	Surfing With the Alien	Joe Satriani	-
	A Very Special Christmas	Various Artists	-

November

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Cloud Nine	George Harrison	-
	All the Best!	Paul McCartney	Greatest Hits
	Don't Let's Start	They Might Be Giants	EP
3	Cher	Cher	-
4	The Lion and the Cobra	Sinéad O'Connor	-
4	Rhyme Pays	Ice T	-
6	How Ya Like Me Now	Kool Moe Dee	-
	N.W.A. and the Posse	N.W.A.	Compilation "debut"
	Less Than Zero soundtrack	Various Artists	Soundtrack
	Characters	Stevie Wonder	-
7	Secrets of the Beehive	David Sylvian	-
7	Calm Before the Storm	Venom	-
9	Nightfall	Candlemass	-
9	Savage	Eurythmics	UK
13	Floodland	The Sisters of Mercy	-
16	Whenever You Need Somebody	Rick Astley	-
16	The Eternal Idol	Black Sabbath	-
17	Back for the Attack	Dokken	-
17	You Can Dance	Madonna	Remix
24	Make It Last Forever	Keith Sweat	-
26	Live...In the Raw	W.A.S.P.	Live
?	I'm the Man	Anthrax	EP
?	The Princess Bride Soundtrack	Mark Knopfler	Soundtrack

December

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Persecution Mania	Sodom	-
4	Inside Information	Foreigner	-
5	Now That's What I Call Music 10 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
14	You're Living All Over Me	Dinosaur Jr.	-
?	Sinitta!	Sinitta	UK
?	The Old Masters Box Three	Frank Zappa	Box Set

Release Date Unknown

Alphabet City - ABC
Menjaring Matahari - Ebiet G. Ade
Yesterday Started Tomorrow (EP) - Angry Samoans
Strength of Steel - Anvil
Jackomo - Little Annie Anxiety Bandez
Daddy's Highway - The Bats
Bennett/Berlin - Tony Bennett
Annihilate This Week (EP) - Black Flag
Wasted...Again - Black Flag
Career of Evil: The Metal Years - Blue Öyster Cult
Speed Metal Symphony - Cacophony
Secrets Of Synthesis - Wendy Carlos
King's Record Shop - Rosanne Cash
Brave Words - The Chills
VI - Circle Jerks
Saint Julian - Julian Cope
Dawn - Current 93
The Best Of Dalida, Vol. 2 - Dalida (compilation)
25 Years Celebration - The Dubliners
Silence - Stephan Eicher
The Blanton-Webster Years - Duke Ellington
Death Before Dishonour - The Exploited
Poem of the River - Felt
One Night Stand - Flamin' Groovies
Official Version - Front 242
The Initial Command - Front Line Assembly
State of Mind - Front Line Assembly
Tallulah - The Go-Betweens
2X4 - Guadalcanal Diary
Music to Strip By - Half Japanese
Bring the Family - John Hiatt
Get Close To My Love - Jennifer Holliday
Will Power - Joe Jackson
Live 1980/86 - Joe Jackson
Akwaba Beach - Mory Kanté
Too Late To Cry - Alison Krauss
Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
By the Light of the Moon - Los Lobos
Diminuendo - Lowlife
Lubricated Goat Plays the Devil's Music (debut) - Lubricated Goat
Immaculate Deception - Ludichrist
Mirador - Magnum
Swing Street - Barry Manilow
Fighting the World - Manowar
Richard Marx - Richard Marx
Huevos - Meat Puppets
Gluey Porch Treatments - The Melvins
Ballot Result - Minutemen
Post-Mersh Vol. 1 - Minutemen
Post-Mersh Vol. 2 - Minutemen
Stereoland - The Modern Art
Pool It! - The Monkees
Raindancing - Alison Moyet
Escape From Noise - Negativland
In Dreams: The Greatest Hits - Roy Orbison
Taking Over - Overkill
Signs of Life - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Maggots: The Record - Plasmatics
Buster Poindexter - Buster Poindexter
Right Now! - Pussy Galore
Life's a Bitch - Raven
Dancing with Strangers - Chris Rea
The Cowboy Way - Riders in the Sky
Saddle Pals - Riders in the Sky
Best of the West - Riders in the Sky
Kane Roberts - Kane Roberts (former Alice Cooper guitarist's solo debut)
Drive by Shooting (EP) - Henry Rollins
Hot Animal Machine - Henry Rollins
Life Time - Rollins Band
I Prefer The Moonlight - Kenny Rogers
Stinkfist - Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch
Live and Loud!! - Sham 69
The Walking - Jane Siberry
Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
Brenda K. Starr - Brenda K. Starr
Mark Stewart - Mark Stewart
The Cost of Loving - The Style Council
Join the Army - Suicidal Tendencies
Tribe - Bernie Taupin
Never Again - TexA.N.S.
Close to the Bone - Thompson Twins
Desire - Toyah
Bridge of Spies - T'Pau
Calenture - The Triffids
Love Is for Suckers - Twisted Sister (final album)
To the Power of Three - 3
Bird Dog - The Verlaines
Triumph And Agony - Warlock (final album)
Whitecross - Whitecross
Come as You Are - Peter Wolf
Live At The Ritz - Ronnie Wood & Bo Diddley
Starting Up - Roy Wood
Out of Silence - Yanni
The Young Gods - The Young Gods
3.V - Zebra
!!!Fuck You!!! - Overkill

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positionsin the charts of 1987.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Los Lobos	La Bamba	1987	UK 1 - Jul 1987, US BB 1 - Jul 1987, Switzerland 1 - Aug 1987, Italy 1 of 1987, Éire 1 - Jul 1987, New Zealand 1 for 7 weeks Aug 1987, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Apr 1988, Holland 2 - Aug 1987, Australia 2 of 1987, Austria 4 - Oct 1987, Norway 4 - Aug 1987, US BB 8 of 1987, POP 8 of 1987, Germany 9 - Aug 1987, US CashBox 11 of 1987, Sweden 12 - Aug 1987, Poland 17 - Sep 1987, South Africa 17 of 1987, Scrobulate 75 of Latin, KROQ 81 of 1987, RYM 116 of 1987, Party 227 of 1999, Acclaimed 2050
2	Rick Astley	Never Gonna Give You Up	1987	UK 1 - Aug 1987, US BB 1 - Jan 1988, Holland 1 - Sep 1987, France 1 - Aug 1987, Norway 1 - Oct 1987, Germany 1 - Sep 1987, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Feb 1988, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Jun 1988, South Africa 1 of 1988, US CashBox 2 of 1988, Switzerland 2 - Sep 1987, Sweden 3 - Sep 1987, Austria 4 - Nov 1987, Australia 5 of 1988, Italy 13 of 1987, US BB 34 of 1988, POP 61 of 1988, Germany 140 of the 1980s, OzNet 765
3	Whitney Houston	I Wanna Dance with Somebody	1987	UK 1 - May 1987, US BB 1 - May 1987, Holland 1 - May 1987, Switzerland 1 - May 1987, Norway 1 - May 1987, Germany 1 - May 1987, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Jun 1987, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Jan 1988, US CashBox 2 of 1987, Sweden 2 - May 1987, Austria 3 - Jun 1987, Poland 4 - Jun 1987, South Africa 4 of 1987, France 10 - Jun 1987, Italy 10 of 1987, Australia 11 of 1987, POP 22 of 1987, Germany 67 of the 1980s
4	The Pet Shop Boys	It's a Sin	1987	UK 1 - Jun 1987, Sweden 1 - Aug 1987, Austria 1 - Aug 1987, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1987, Norway 1 - Jul 1987, Poland 1 - Jul 1987, Germany 1 - Jul 1987, Éire 1 - Jul 1987, Holland 3 - Jul 1987, France 5 - Jun 1987, US BB 9 - Sep 1987, South Africa 18 of 1987, Italy 21 of 1987, KROQ 27 of 1987, RYM 34 of 1987, Germany 94 of the 1980s, Acclaimed 1308
5	U2	With or Without You	1987	US BB 1 - Apr 1987, Poland 1 - Mar 1987, Éire 1 - Apr 1987, Holland 2 - Mar 1987, UK 4 - Mar 1987, Sweden 5 - Apr 1987, Europe 5 of the 1980s, RYM 6 of 1987, Germany 7 - Apr 1987, KROQ 9 of 1987, Switzerland 10 - Apr 1987, POP 10 of 1987, US CashBox 12 of 1987, US BB 14 of 1987, Poland 14 of all time, Austria 15 - Jun 1987, Belgium 24 of all time, OzNet 44, TheQ 47, Scrobulate 93 of rock, WXPN 116, Rolling Stone 131, Party 168 of 2007, Acclaimed 309

Top hits on record

"Alone" - Heart
"Animal" - Def Leppard
"Angel" - Angela Winbush
"Angel" - Aerosmith
"At This Moment" - Billy Vera and the Beaters
"Back in the High Life Again" - Steve Winwood
"Bad" - Michael Jackson
"Ballerina Girl" - Lionel Richie
"Barcelona" - Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé
"Behind the Wheel" - Depeche Mode
"Big Love" - Fleetwood Mac
"Big Time" - Peter Gabriel
"Can't We Try" - Dan Hill and Vonda Shepard
"Casanova" - Levert
"Catch Me " - Pretty Poison
"Causing a Commotion" - Madonna
"C'est la ouate" - Caroline Loeb
"C'est la Vie" - Robbie Nevil
"Change of Heart" - Cyndi Lauper
"Cherry Bomb" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"Citizen Jane" - Bernie Taupin
"Come as You Are" - Peter Wolf
"Come Go with Me" - Exposé
"Control" - Janet Jackson (released in 1986)
"Criticize" - Alexander O'Neal
"Cross My Broken Heart" - The Jets
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" - Whitney Houston
"Doing It All for My Baby" - Huey Lewis and the News
"Don't Dream It's Over" - Crowded House
"Don't Disturb This Groove" - The System
"Don't Mean Nothing" - Richard Marx
"Don't Shed a Tear" - Paul Carrack
"Down To Earth" - Curiosity Killed the Cat (released in 1986)
"Dude " - Aerosmith
"Electric Blue" - Icehouse
"Electrica Salsa" - OFF
"Ella elle l'a" - France Gall
"Étienne" - Guesch Patti
"Every Little Kiss" - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" - Wang Chung (released in 1986)
"Everywhere" - Fleetwood Mac
"Faith" - George Michael
"The Game" - Echo & the Bunnymen
"Hazy Shade of Winter" - The Bangles
"Head to Toe" - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
"Heart and Soul" - T'Pau
"Heat of the Night" - Bryan Adams
"Here I Go Again" - Whitesnake
"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" - Belinda Carlisle
"Hold Me Now" - Johnny Logan
"Hysteria" - Def Leppard
"I Don't Think That Man Should Sleep Alone" - Ray Parker, Jr.
"I Get Weak" - Belinda Carlisle
"I Found Someone" - Cher
"I Heard a Rumour" - Bananarama
"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" - Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett
" Died in Your Arms" - Cutting Crew
"I Knew You Were Waiting for Me" - Aretha Franklin and George Michael
"I Know What I Like" - Huey Lewis and the News
"I Need Love" - LL Cool J
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2
"I Think We're Alone Now" - Tiffany
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody " - Whitney Houston
"I Want Your Sex" - George Michael
"Im Nin'Alu" - Ofra Haza
"In Too Deep" - Genesis
"Is This Love" - Whitesnake
"I'm No Angel" - Gregg Allman Band
"It Doesn't Have To Be This Way" - The Blow Monkeys
"It's the End of the World as We Know It " - R.E.M.
"Jacob's Ladder" - Huey Lewis and the News
"Joe le taxi" - Vanessa Paradis
"Just to See Her" - Smokey Robinson
"Keep Your Hands to Yourself" - The Georgia Satellites
"Kiss Him Goodbye" - The Nylons
"Là-bas" - Jean-Jacques Goldman and Sirima
"La Bamba" - Los Lobos
"La Isla Bonita" - Madonna
"Land of Confusion" - Genesis
"Lean on Me" - Club Nouveau
"Let's Go!" - Wang Chung
"Let Me Be the One" - Exposé
"Let's Wait Awhile" - Janet Jackson
"Lips Like Sugar" - Echo & the Bunnymen
"Little Lies" - Fleetwood Mac
"Livin' on a Prayer" - Bon Jovi (released in 1986)
"Looking for a New Love" - Jody Watley
"Lost in Emotion" - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
"Love Bites" - Def Leppard
"Love Will Find a Way" - Yes
"Love You Down" - Ready for the World
"Luka" - Suzanne Vega
"Mandolin Rain" - Bruce Hornsby and The Range
"Midnight Blue" - Lou Gramm
"Misfit" - Curiosity Killed the Cat (released in 1986)
"Mony Mony" - Billy Idol
"Mr. Manic and Sister Cool" - Shakatak
"Need You Tonight" - INXS
"New Sensation" - INXS
"Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley
"Never Let Me Down Again" - Depeche Mode
"No One In the World" - Anita Baker
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" - Starship
"Notorious" - Duran Duran
"One Heartbeat" - Smokey Robinson
"Only in My Dreams" - Debbie Gibson
"Open Your Heart" - Madonna (released in 1986)
"Ordinary Day" - Curiosity Killed the Cat
"Out of the Blue" - Debbie Gibson
"Paper in Fire" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"People Are Strange" - Echo & the Bunnymen
"The Pleasure Principle" - Janet Jackson
"Point of No Return" - Exposé
"Pour Some Sugar on Me" - Def Leppard
"The Power of Love" - Laura Branigan
"Rag Doll" - Aerosmith
"Respect Yourself" - Bruce Willis
"Rock Steady" - The Whispers
"Rocket" - Def Leppard
"Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
"Sans contrefaçon" - Mylène Farmer
"Shake You Down" - Gregory Abbott
"Shake Your Love" - Debbie Gibson
"Shakedown" - Bob Seger
"Someday" - Glass Tiger
"Songbird" - Kenny G
"Something So Strong" - Crowded House
"Somewhere Out There" - Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
"Stone Love" - Kool & the Gang
"Strangelove" - Depeche Mode
"Surrender" - Swing Out Sister
"Sweet Child o' Mine" - Guns 'n' Roses
"The Final Countdown" - Europe
"The Finer Things" - Steve Winwood
"The Lady in Red" - Chris DeBurgh
"The One I love" - R.E.M.
"The Way It Is" - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
"True Blue" - Madonna
"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" - Genesis
"Touch Me " - Samantha Fox
"Touch of Grey" - Grateful Dead
"Tristana" - Mylène Farmer
"Twilight World" - Swing Out Sister
"U Got the Look" - Prince and Sheena Easton
"Une autre histoire" - Gérard Blanc
"Victory" - Kool & the Gang
"Wait" - White Lion
"Wanted Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi (released in 1986)
"Walking Down Your Street" - The Bangles
"War" - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
"Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns 'n' Roses
"We're Ready" - Boston
"What's Going On" - Cyndi Lauper
"Where the Streets Have No Name" - U2
"Who Found Who?" - Jellybean featuring Elisa Fiorillo
"Who Will You Run To?" - Heart
"Who's That Girl" - Madonna
"Will You Still Love Me?" - Chicago
"Wonderful Life" - Black
"You're the Voice" - John Farnham
"With or Without You" - U2
"You Got It All" - The Jets
"You Keep Me Hanging On" - Kim Wilde

Other Singles

"Shattered Glass" - Laura Branigan
"Somebody Save Me" - Cinderella
"Freedom" - Alice Cooper
"Why Can't I Be You?" - The Cure
"Just Like Heaven" - The Cure
"Pour en arriver là" - Dalida
"Les hommes de ma vie" - Dalida
"Midnight Blue" - Lou Gramm
"Bring Him Back Home" - Hugh Masekela
"Beds Are Burning" - Midnight Oil
"True Faith" - New Order
"In The Dutch Mountains" - The Nits
"Pressure Down" - John Collits
"We Connect"- Stacey Q.
"Free" - Stryper
"Something inside so strong" - Labi Siffre
"China in Your Hand" - T'Pau
"Hot Love" - Twisted Sister
"Sugar Free" - WaWaNee

Published popular music

"Last midnight" w.m. Stephen Sondheim
"Children Will Listen" w.m. Stephen Sondheim
Rhythm Is Gonna Get You w.m. Gloria Estefan & E. E. Garcia
"The Time Of My Life" w.m. Franke Previte, Donald Markowitz & John DeNicola

Classical music

Mario Davidovsky - Quartetto for flute, violin, viola and violoncello
Philip Feeney - Mémoire Imaginaire (ballet)
Lorenzo Ferrero
- Ostinato
- Non parto, non resto
Malcolm Forsyth - Songs from the Qu'appelle Valley
Nicholas Maw - Odyssey
Juan Maria Solare - Doce variaciones 1987 (for piano)
Joan Tower - Fanfare for the uncommon woman no 1

Opera

John Adams - Nixon in China
Friedrich Cerha - Der Rattenfänger (The Pied Piper)
Michael Nyman - Vital Statistics
Judith Weir - A Night at the Chinese Opera

Musical theater

Anything Goes - Broadway - revival
Bless the Bride - West End revival
Cabaret (Kander and Ebb) - Broadway revival
Dreamgirls - Broadway revival
Into the Woods - Broadway production
Les Misérables - Broadway production
Oil City Symphony - Broadway production
Phantom of the Opera - Broadway production
Starlight Express (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe) - Broadway production

Most Critically Acclaimed Songs of 1987

This info is taken from Acclaimed Music.

Songs

1. "Sweet Child O' Mine", Guns N' Roses
2. "Sign 'O' the Times", Prince
3. "Bring the Noise", Public Enemy
4. "Pump Up the Volume", M/A/R/R/S
5. "With or Without You", U2
6. "It's the End of the World As We Know It", R.E.M.
7. "Just Like Heaven", The Cure
8. "Rebel Without a Pause", Public Enemy
9. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", U2
10. "Paid in Full", Eric B. & Rakim

Births

January 12 - Sunday The Grace, Korean pop singer
January 27 - Katy Rose
January 27 - Ashley Perez Moza
February 7 - Kerli Kõiv, Estonian singer and songwriter
February 10 - Choi Si Won, Korean actor and pop singer
February 12 - O'Ryan
February 24 - Kim Kyu Jong, Korean pop singer
March 9 - Bow Wow, American Hip-Hop artist
March 26 - YUI, Japanese pop singer
April 3 - Park Jung Min, Korean pop singer
April 9 - Jesse McCartney, American singer and actor
April 10 - Hayley Westenra, soprano singer
April 11 - Joss Stone, soul singer-songwriter
April 30 - Nikki Webster, pop singer
June 16 - Diana DeGarmo, American Idol contestant
June 21 - Kim Ryeo Wook, Korean pop singer
July 1 - Yoga Lin, Taiwanese pop singer, One Million Star, Season 1 winner
July 6 - Kate Nash, English pop singer
August 21 - Kim Ki Bum, Korean actor and pop singer
September 26 - Rosie Munter, Swedish vocalist and dancer
September 28 - Hilary Duff, American singer and actress
September 28 - Chloe Hanslip, violinist
October 17 - Stephanie The Grace, Korean pop singer
November 30 - Dougie Poynter, bassist, McFLY
December 7 - Aaron Carter, pop singer
December 18 - ayaka, Japanese pop singer
December 27 - Yui Okada, Japanese pop singer

Deaths

January 6 - Jaidev, Bollywood composer
January 10 - Marion Hutton, singer and actress
January 15 - Ray Bolger, Wizard of Oz actor (cancer)
January 30 – Harold Loeffelmacher, musician and bandleader (Six Fat Dutchmen), 81
February 2 - Spike Hughes, jazz musician, composer and journalist
February 4 - Liberace, US pianist
February 8 - Tony Destra, drummer, 32 (car accident)
February 18 - Dmitri Kabalevsky, composer
February 23 - Zeca Afonso, folk musician
February 24 - Jim Connors, radio DJ, 46 (car crash)
March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor, singer, dancer and comedian
March 15 - Don Gant, singer/songwriter, record producer
March 20 - Rita Streich, coloratura soprano
March 21
- Dean Paul Martin, singer and actor, 35 (plane crash)
- Robert Preston, star of The Music Man, Mame, etc.
March 28 - Maria von Trapp, subject of The Sound of Music
March 29 - Felix Prohaska, conductor
April 2 - Buddy Rich, jazz drummer, 69 (brain tumor)
April 7 - Maxine Sullivan, US singer
April 17 - Carlton Barrett, reggae drummer (The Wailers), 36 (murdered)
May 2 - Larry Clinton, US bandleader and songwriter
May 3 - Dalida, singer, 54 (suicide)
May 4 - Paul Butterfield, 44 (drug overdose)
May 14 - Rita Hayworth, dancer and film star
May 24 - Hermione Gingold, actress and singer
May 29 - Phyllis Tate, avant-garde composer
June 3 - Andrés Segovia, guitar virtuoso
June 18 - Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter & bandleader
June 21 - Abram Chasins, pianist and composer
June 22
- Fred Astaire, dancer, actor and singer
- Frank Rehak, jazz trombonist
June 25 - Boudleaux Bryant, Hall of Fame songwriter
July 1 - Snakefinger, guitarist, 38 (heart attack)
July 7 - Tibor Frešo, composer, 69
July 15 - Pete King, drummer (After The Fire, BAP), 28 (testicular cancer)
August 12 - Sally Long, Ziegfeld Follies star
August 14 - Vincent Persichetti, composer
September 3 - Morton Feldman, composer
September 11 - Peter Tosh, reggae musician, 42 (shot and killed in a house invasion/robbery)
September 21- Jaco Pastorius, jazz bassist, 35 (brain damage resulting from fight)
September 23 - Bob Fosse, dancer, choreographer and director of musicals, 60 (heart attack)
October 13 - Kishore Kumar, singer, actor, filmmaker, writer, musician and composer
October 19 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist, 42 (multiple sclerosis)
October 28 - Woody Herman, US bandleader
November 12 - Cornelis Vreeswijk, Swedish singer-songwriter, 50 (liver cancer)
November 22 - Verna Arvey, librettist and pianist
December 5 - Pappy Daily, country music entrepreneur and record producer
December 10 - Jascha Heifetz, violinist
December 18 - Conny Plank, record producer
December 21 - John Spence, Ska musician, 18 (suicide)
December 22 - Luca Prodan, rock musician, 34 (cirrhosis of the liver)
date unknown
- Emani Sankara Sastry, Veena player and composer
- Allen Jones, record producer
- Gabor Rejto, cellist

Awards

The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame : 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, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters, and Jackie Wilson

Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards of 1987

Country Music Association Awards

Gary P. Blueyes Walker - CMA Air Personality of the Year / KYKX

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1987

Glenn Gould Prize

R. Murray Schafer (laureate)

Charts

List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1987

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