1993 – Billy Joel started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘River Of Dreams.’ Joel claimed most of the music came to him in his sleep, hence the title. The singers second wife, one time model Christie Brinkley, painted the album cover which was later voted worst album cover of […]
1993 – Snoop Doggy Dogg was released on $1 million bail after being accused of being involved with the murder of a member of the By Yerself gang during a shooting in Los Angeles. He was acquitted of the charges in 1996.
1993 – 22-year-old Philip Woldemariam is shot in Los Angeles and rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg is charged with first-degree murder as an accomplice. Dogg’s bodyguard, McKinley Lee, is charged with first-degree murder. Lee and Dogg say the shooting was in self-defense after Woldemariam pulled a gun on the performer.
1993 – Duran Duran gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1993 – Country music singer Alan Jackson and his wife Denise have a child Alexandra Jane Jackson is the couple’s second girl.
1993 – Bernie Taupin, best known as the lyricist for Elton John (although he did release four solo albums of his own), marries Stephanie Haymes.
1993 – Santana kick off a tour with Bob Dylan supporting in Portland, Ore.
1993 – Michael Jackson’s people announce that the singer is negotiating to perform at two concerts in Beijing, China.
1993 – One of Paula Abdul’s former backup singers loses her suit, in which she claimed she sang most of the vocals on the 1988 hit album Forever Your Girl.
1993 – Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar turnover Jesse Tobias replaces Arik Marshall. Three months later Tobias would be supplanted by Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro. .
1993 – At a U2 concert in London, the band is joined onstage by author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie had been in hiding since a fatwa was declared against him by Iran.
1993 – Billy Joel is sued by songwriter Gary Zimmerman, who says Joel’s No. 3 “River of Dreams” sounds suspiciously like one of his own tunes. Zimmerman wants $10 million.
