On this week’s Throwback Tuesday, we’re looking back at one of the better years in music history and the beginning of a new decade: 1990!
Here are some of the highlights.
January 21 – MTV’s Unplugged is broadcast for the first time, on cable television, with British band Squeeze.
March 28 – The Go-Go’s reunite to play a benefit concert for the California Environmental Protection Act.
April 4 – Gloria Estefan returns to Miami, Florida after undergoing back surgery following the March 20 accident.
August 5 – Madonna ends her controversial Blond Ambition Tour in Nice, France.
http://youtu.be/7ioOvvLtdxM
October 22 – Pearl Jam, then named “Mookie Blaylock”, play their first show as a band at the Off Ramp club in Seattle, Washington.
http://youtu.be/dDtsdNSCNuY
November 27 – “Vocal” group Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as “Girl You Know It’s True.” They later have their Grammy award revoked.