In 1990, Queen ended their contract with Capitol and signed with Hollywood Records ; through the deal, Disney acquired the North American distribution rights to Queen’s catalogue for $10 million, and remains the group’s recorded-music rights owner and distributor in the US and Canada; the band retained ownership of the…
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After a period of time in New York City, Cave relocated to São Paulo, Brazil, shortly after the final tour for Tender Prey and, after successfully finishing drug rehabilitation, began experimenting with piano-driven ballads. The result of this post-rehabilitation period was 1990’s The Good Son . Featuring a sorrowful and…
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The members of Muse played in separate school bands during their time at Teignmouth Community College in the early 1990s. Guitarist Matt Bellamy successfully auditioned for drummer Dominic Howard ‘s band, Carnage Mayhem, becoming its singer and songwriter. They renamed the band Gothic Plague. They asked Chris Wolstenholme – at…
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On January 24, 1990, the band released ” Aku no Hana “, which became their first single to reach number one. The album Aku no Hana followed on February 1, and went much further into the dark and gothic image they had begun to explore on Taboo and which would…
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A 2-CD live album, Join Together , was released in 1990.
In the fall of 1990, Buck-Tick went back to the studio to work on their sixth studio album, Kurutta Taiyou . They spent 800 hours making it, much more than any of their previous albums. The difference was noticeable as the sound is much deeper and more sophisticated, using many…
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In 1990, the Who (Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Daltrey, Entwistle and Townsend attended the induction and performed with the house band, while Moon’s daughter Amanda attended to represent her father. The group have a…
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Paul Draper and Stove King met in the early 1990s, whilst working in the printing industry as photo retouchers for rival companies situated opposite each other on the same industrial park in Little Stanney on the outskirts of Chester . Through their shared love of David Bowie and 1980s new…
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Chad had previously played with “Floating Bear” formed whilst at Bangor University in 1990, where he had been studying French and Russian but was kicked off the course due to lack of effort.
In 1990, Reed and Cale released Songs for Drella , a song cycle about Andy Warhol, who had died in 1987. Though Morrison and Tucker had each worked with Reed and Cale since the Velvet Underground had broken up, Songs for Drella was the first time the pair had worked…
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