Events

January 8 - The U.S. Postal service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February of 1992.
January 12 - The original members of Cream reunite for a performance at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles, California
January 13 - Bobby Brown is arrested in Augusta, Georgia for simulating a sex act onstage.
February 10 - Oprah Winfrey interviews Michael Jackson during a prime time special. It is Jackson's first interview in 15 years.
February 14 - Harry Nilsson suffers a non fatal heart attack
March 4 - Patti LaBelle receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
April - Green Day signs a contract to Reprise Records
April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.
April 16 - Paul McCartney headlines a concert at the Hollywood Bowl to celebrate "Earth Day". Other performers included Ringo Starr, Steve Miller and Don Henley
April 21 - Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman marries Suzanne Accosta
April 17 - The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs marries screenwriter M. Jay Roach in Los Angeles, California
April 24 - Willie Nelson, John Cougar Mellencamp, Neil Young and more than 30 other artists perform at Farm Aid 6 in Ames, Iowa
April 29 - An animated version of Barry White appears on an episode of The Simpsons.
October 3 - Sinéad O'Connor stirs up controversy when she rips up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live\
November 19 - Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder was arrested in New Orleans on charges of public drunkenness after a bar room brawl.
The Wu-Tang Clan's musical career begins
Beck's musical career begins
Bush's musical career begins
Weezer's musical career begins
Michael Jackson denies child molestation charges in a four minute statement which is broadcast live on television.
Big Ass Truck form
Citizen King form
The Crystal Method form
Jimmy Eat World form
Nada Surf form
Oasis form in Manchester, England
Natalie Merchant leaves 10,000 Maniacs after being in the band for twelve years.

Albums released

Dirt - Alice In Chains
Breaking Things - All
Rise - Bad Brains
Recipe For Hate - Bad Religion
Flyswatter - Blink-182 (debut EP demo)
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Self-Titled - Candlebox
Both Sides - Phil Collins
Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
Coverdale Page - Coverdale Page
Near Death Experience - Cro-Mags
August and Everything After - Counting Crows (debut)
Live at the Royal Albert Hall - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Soul of a New Machine - Fear Factory (debut)
Mr. Machinery Operator - fIREHOSE
In on the Kill Taker - Fugazi
Superstar Car Wash - Goo Goo Dolls (first album in three years)
The Spagetti Incident - Guns 'N' Roses
Take Me As I Am - Faith Hill (debut)
Jerky Boys 1 - Jerky Boys (debut)
Nightcap - Jethro Tull
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Far Gone - Love Battery
Houdini - Melvins
Boces - Mercury Rev
Something for Joey - Mercury Rev
Gun Crazy - Mr. T Experience
Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew - Mudhoney
In Utero - Nirvana (final album)
White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean - NOFX
Don't Miss the Train - No Use for a Name
Igniton - The Offspring
Vs - Pearl Jam
Unknown Road - Pennywise
Rid of Me - PJ Harvey
4-Track Demos - PJ Harvey
Pablo Honey - Radiohead (debut)
Out the Shizzy - 7 Seconds
Smeared - Sloan
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements - Stereolab
The Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music - Stereolab
40 Oz. to Freedom - Sublime (debut)
Music - 311 (debut)
Undertow - Tool (debut full-length)
Zooropa - U2
Pop Smear - The Verve Pipe (debut full-length)
Pull - Winger

Top hits

"Bombtrack" - Rage Against the Machine
"Both Sides Of The Story" - Phil Collins
"Bullet In The Head" - Rage Against the Machine
"Creep" - Radiohead
"Cryin'" - Aerosmith
"Date Rape" - Sublime
"Deeper And Deeper" - Madonna
"Hey Jealousy" - Gin Blossoms
"I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" - Meatloaf
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" - The Proclaimers
"Killing In The Name" - Rage Against the Machine
"Man On The Moon" - R.E.M
"On the Sea" - Vertical Horizon
"Pets" - Porno for Pyros
"Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots
"Rooster" - Alice in Chains
"Sober" - Tool
"Two Princes" - The Spin Doctors
"The World Around Me" - King's X

Musical theater

Annie Warbucks off-Broadway production

Blood Brothers Broadway production

Cyrano Broadway production

Goodbye Girl Broadway production

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Broadway revival
Kiss of the Spiderwoman Broadway production
My Fair Lady Broadway revival
She Loves Me Broadway revival

Births

Deaths

March 28 - Buddy Red Bow (44), Lakota country and western singer
April 30 - Mick Ronson, guitarist, liver cancer
December 4 - Frank Zappa, American rock musician/composer
December 5 - Doug Hopkins, guitarist and songwriter for Gin Blossoms
June 5 - Harold Jenkins a.k.a Conway Twitty country rock singer