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leveland-based rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony vault Cto the top of the charts with some old-fashioned harmonizing on the album £. 1999 Eternal.

heir down-to-earth style oko Ono and Little Richard soulful pop songs make join a host of celebrities at THootie and the Blowfish popular Ythe opening of the glitzy Rock- favorites. Their debut album and-Roll Hall of Fame and Cracked Rear View sells over 5 Museum in Cleveland on million, and the group is named k r m n e World September 1. Best New Artist at the MTV ocker Melissa Etheridge follows top­ Music Awards in September. selling Yes, / Am with her fifth album, RYour Little Secret.

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Sixties icon Jerry Garcia, Brandy, whose self-titled The chart-topping movie guitarist of The Grateful Dead, platinum album and single “ I Beatlemania returns in 1995 with soundtrack Dangerous Minds Twenty-year-old Canadian dies of a heart attack on August Wanna Be Down” hit high on the ABC’s six-hour documentary The features Coolio’s rap anthem newcomer 9 at age 53. Garcia’s musical R&B charts, sweeps the first Beatles Anthology, the video “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the raises some eyebrows with her roots in blues, country and folk Soul Train Music Awards in releases of A Hard Day’s Night number-one single of the year up-front, aggressive lyrics and are apparent in hits like August. The 16-year-old singer and Help! and the album according to Billboard magazine. attitudes. Nevertheless, her “Truckin'.” Legions of wins Best New Artist, among collection Anthology, featuring album goes Deadheads mourn his passing. other awards. previously unreleased material. double platinum. he Chicago-based rock band Smashing Pumpkins release their epic double album Mellon Collie and the TInfinite Sadness to critical and public acclaim. ive dedicate their single “ ” to Lvictims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The rock band’s ariah Carey’s Daydream Throwing Copper album yields sells over 5 million copies, three hit singles; Billboard Music Mtaking number-one spot on the Awards names them Rock Artist Billboard album chart. Carey of the Year. performs with Boyz II Men on the hit single “One Sweet Day.”

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R.E.M.’s summer tour is Mark Hauser, LGI Ronnie Wright, LGI interrupted by medical » emergencies tor three of the 2 band's four members. The tour, S their first in five years, is | eventually completed with all I members in good health.

In October, David Bowie and Nine inch Nails wrap up the U.S. portion ot Bowie's world tour. At each show, Bowie and Trent Reznor's band play a set together. In December, Bowie tours Europe with Morrissey as his opening act.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers tone down their trademark bawdiness in their newest album, One Hot Minute.

ormer Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl plays a new Fsound as guitarist and lead singer in the Foo tlanta’s TLC is honored at the Fighters, an band that enjoys three for singles off their self-titled debut album in 1995. Aproviding two of the year's biggest hits. “ Creep” and “Waterfalls” both lead the Hot 100 singles charts for weeks.

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A hard-luck story turns into Selena, the 23-year-old Tejano overnight success in the case of music queen, is gunned down in Seal’s hit off the Batman Forever Canadian Shania Twain, born in Corpus Christi in March 1995 by movie soundtrack, “ Kiss From a poverty to an Irish mother and Success doesn’t mellow the style Yolanda Saldivar, former Rose,” is all over the summer an Ojibway Indian father. Twain’s of alternative rock band Green his album Fresh Horses, only president of her fan club. The playlists. The single propels the three musical acts in U.S. history 1995 hits include “Whose Bed Day, who release their anxiously July release of a collection of artist’s self-titled album to the Have Your Boots Been Under?,” awaited fourth album Insomniac, outsell country music icon Garth Selena’s hits, Dreaming o f You, double-platinum mark. “Any Man of Mine” and the title their fastest and darkest album Brooks: , the Eagles, sees some of the fastest sales in tune to her 3-million-selling to date. and . music history. album The Woman In Me.