Events in Music History in 1993

Jan 3 Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical "The Secret Garden", based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, starring Daisy Eagan and Mandy Patinkin, closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances and 3 Tony Awards

Jan 6 Bassist Bill Wyman announces he will leave the band the Rolling Stones

Jan 8 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale

Jan 19 Columbia Records releases "The Wheel", the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash. co-produced by Cash and future husband John Leventhal

Jan 21 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder

Feb 2 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to singer-songwriter Tom Waits for using his distinctive voice song style in radio advertisement

Feb 7 Carmen Electra releases her self-titled debut album, "Carmen Electra"

Feb 24 35th Grammy Awards: "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton wins

Mar 14 Herb Gardner's stage drama "Conversations with My Father", starring Judd Hirsch and Tony Shalhoub, closes at Royale Theatre, NYC, after 462 performances and a Tony Award

Mar 14 Revival of George Bernard Shaw's stage drama "Saint Joan" closes at the Lyceum Theater, NYC, after 49 performances

Mar 18 Wendy Wasserstein's stage play "The Sisters Rosensweig", starring Madeline Kahn, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC for 556 performances

Apr 16 David Lee Roth arrested in NYC for purchasing marijuana for $10

Apr 20 Mercury Nashville Records releases "Shania Twain", the debut studio album by Shania Twain

Apr 22 Pete Townshend's rock musical "The Who's Tommy" adapted for theatrical stage, opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 899 performances, winning 5 Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award

May 17 "Chattahoochee" single released by Alan Jackson (CMA Award Single of the Year & Billboard Song of the Year, 1993)

Jun 8 Drag queen RuPaul releases his debut album "Supermodel of the World"

Jun 21 Revival of Lerner and Loewe' musical "Camelot", with Robert Goulet as King Arthur, opens at Gershwin Theater, NYC; runs for 56 performances

Jun 22 Wilson Pickett pleads guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving

Jun 27 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton

Jul 5 Icelandic musician Björk releases her 1st solo album "Debut"

Aug 10 Columbia Records releases "River of Dreams", singer-songwriter Billy Joel's twelfth and final (unless he just changes his mind) studio album

Sep 1 Revival of Peter Shaffer's farce double-bill "White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 38 performances

Sep 2 10th MTV Video Music Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins

Sep 21 Melissa Etheridge releases her breakthrough second album "Yes I Am", featuring the single "I'm the Only One"

Oct 3 World music singer Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark

Oct 31 Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault

Nov 4 Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet

Nov 8 Arista Records releases David Bowie's 19th studio "The Buddha of Suburbia", based on the novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi, in the UK and Europe only; it is not released in US until nearly 2 years later

Nov 11 Krzysztof Penderecki conducts premiere of his revised version of "A Polish Requiem" in Stockholm, Sweden

Nov 23 "Doggystyle" debut album by Snoop Doggy Dogg is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)

Dec 8 4th Billboard Music Awards: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Soundtrack win

Dec 9 Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater, NYC; runs for 165 performances

Dec 28 Andrea Bocelli makes his classical debut singing at a concert at Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia, Italy

Dec 29 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment

Dec 31 Barbra Streisand performs her 1st public concert in 20 years before a sell-out crows of over 25,000 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada