February 7 - Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony for his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest and destroying a police station phone
February 14 - The Grateful Dead's Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia (born Jerome John Garcia), ( August 1, 1942 August 9, 1995) is famous as guitarist and primary singer of the psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead, though his extensive career involved many other projects. He has become one of the most inte marries Deborah Koons
February 23February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 311 days remaining, 312 in leap years. Events 1455 Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type. 1574 The 5th hol - The ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Las Vegas, NevadaAlternate meanings: Las Vegas (disambiguation). Highway 93 Interstate 215 Las Vegas is the largest city in Nevada and a major tourist destination. At the 2000 census, the city had a population of 478,434 making it the largest city in the state of Nevada.. Eddie Van HalenEdward Lodewijk Van Halen generally known as Eddie Van Halen (born January 26, 1955) is a classically-trained virtuoso pianist and founding member of the heavy metal band Van Halen, which would now be considered classic rock. He was born in Nijmegen, Neth, Chris IsaakChristopher Isaak (born June 26, 1956) is a U. indie rock, pop and rock and roll singer and songwriter. He signed a contract to Reprise Records in 1984 for his first album Silvertone''. He released his best-known song in 1990: "Wicked Game" from the album and B.B. King attend the event.
March 3March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). There are 303 days remaining. Events 1400-1899 1431 Eugenius IV becomes Pope. 1791 The United States Mint is created by the United States Congress. 1820 The United States - In ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after taking a combination of valium and champagne. Cobain would die on April 5.
March 5 - Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiberon, California home.
March 18 - Courtney Love calls the police fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, was suicidal. Police confiscate 4 guns and 25 boxes of ammo from Cobain's home. Cobain would kill himself on April 5.
April 25 - Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix in November of 1993
May 6 - Pearl Jam files a complaint against Ticketmaster with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business
May 10 - Weezer releases their debut album. The self-titled "blue" album goes multiplatinum. Tupac Shakur begins serving 15-days in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.
June 7 - Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three month's worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
August - Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76 year old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, Colombia with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciuda Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short and other artists, upset by this action, criticize the producer's decision during the show, including Billy Joel who takes extra time to perform his song, The River of Dreams, noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to record additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, with Jeff Lynne producing.