- Sep 7 "I Want Her" single released by Keith Sweat (Billboard Song of the Year, 1988)
Video Music Awards
Sep 11 4th MTV Video Music Awards: Peter Gabriel wins (many times)
Farm Aid Concert
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 [1]
Big River
Sep 20 Roger Miller's musical "Big River", based on Mark Twain's 1884 novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater, NYC, after 1005 performances and 3 Tony Awards
TV Show Appearance
Sep 28 Gladys Knight and Smokey Robinson appear on TV game show "The $10,000 Pyramid"
#1 in the Charts
Sep 29 "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1
Roy Orbison and Friends
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
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