In 1988, the Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , their first year of eligibility.
After the breakup of his gothic rock and metal band the Marked, singer and guitarist Billy Corgan left St. Petersburg, Florida and returned to his native city of Chicago, where he took a job in a record store and had the idea to start a band called the Smashing Pumpkins.…
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Watts left the group after working on just three songs on 1988’s Don’t Blow Your Top to start his own project, Pig .
Tender Prey , the dark, brooding 1988 follow-up, saw the arrival of American guitarist and The Gun Club stalwart Kid Congo Powers —Harvey made the transition to bass—and short-tenured German keyboardist Roland Wolf .
Recording of the album commenced at Hyde Street Studios with Kirk Hammett producing. At the same time in the adjacent Alpha and Omega Studios , Blue Öyster Cult were recording their Imaginos album. Blue Öyster Cult’s manager, producer, and lyricist, Sandy Pearlman , heard Biedermann’s playing and asked if he…
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Diesel and Dust peaked at No. 1 on the Australian albums charts for six weeks, No. 21 on the Billboard 200 charts in 1988, and No. 19 on the UK albums charts. ” Beds Are Burning ” was their biggest international hit single, peaking at No. 6 in Australia, and…
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The three Followill brothers (Matthew is their cousin) grew up in Oklahoma and Tennessee with their father, Ivan Leon Followill, a United Pentecostal Church preacher, and their mother, Betty-Ann. Nathan was born in Oklahoma, and Jared and Caleb were born in and around Memphis, Tennessee . Jared attended Mount Juliet…
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In January 1988, Jane’s Addiction went into the studio to record its major label debut and follow-up to Jane’s Addiction , Nothing’s Shocking . Warner Bros. gave Jane’s Addiction a list of producers to choose from, and the group chose Dave Jerden .
In 1988, with the Rolling Stones inactive, Richards released his first solo album, Talk Is Cheap , which reached No. 37 in the UK and No. 24 in the US.
Jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was recommended by a friend of Corgan’s. Chamberlin knew little of alternative music and immediately changed the sound of the nascent band. As Corgan recalled of the period, “We were completely into the sad-rock, Cure kind of thing. It took about two or three practices before…
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