Editing 1994 in music (section)

===January–February===
*[[January 19]] – [[Bryan Adams]] becomes the first major Western music star to perform in [[Vietnam]] since the end of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gerosa |first=Melina |url=https://ew.com/article/1994/02/04/bryan-adams-performs-vietnam/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108072811/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301004,00.html |url-status=live |archive-date=January 8, 2008 |title=Bryan Adams performs in Vietnam |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=1994-02-04 |access-date=2016-07-23}}</ref>
*[[January 21]]–[[February 5]] – The [[Big Day Out]] festival takes place, again expanding from the previous year's venues to include the [[Gold Coast, Queensland]] and [[Auckland]] in [[New Zealand]]. The festival is headlined by [[Soundgarden]], [[Ramones]] and [[Björk]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/every-big-day-out-line-up/11539046 |title=The definitive guide to every Big Day Out line-up ever |work=ABC |date=September 30, 2019 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |first=Dan |last=Condon |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804005504/https://www.abc.net.au/listen/doublej/music-reads/features/every-big-day-out-line-up/11539046 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[January 25]] – [[Alice in Chains]] release their ''[[Jar of Flies]]'' album which makes its US chart debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so.
*[[January 29]] – [[The Supremes]]' [[Mary Wilson (singer)|Mary Wilson]] is injured when her [[Jeep]] hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles, USA. Wilson's 14-year-old son is killed in the accident.
*[[February 1]] – [[Green Day]] release their breakthrough album ''[[Dookie (album)|Dookie]]'', ushering in the mid-1990s [[Punk rock|punk revival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1611344/green-days-dookie-15-years-later-still-a-genuine-punk-classic/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715072441/http://www.mtv.com/news/1611344/green-days-dookie-15-years-later-still-a-genuine-punk-classic/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |title=Green Day's Dookie: 15 Years Later, Still A Genuine Punk Classic |publisher=MTV |date=2009-05-13 |access-date=2016-07-23}}</ref> ''Dookie'' eventually achieves diamond certification.
*[[February 7]] – [[Blind Melon]]'s lead singer [[Shannon Hoon]] is forced to leave the [[American Music Award]]s ceremony because of his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/spadilla/sh/ |title=The Rock Cemetery: Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) |website=Perso.wanadoo.es |access-date=2016-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428210356/http://perso.wanadoo.es/spadilla/sh/ |archive-date=April 28, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – The three surviving members of [[The Beatles]] secretly reunite to begin recording additional music for a few of [[John Lennon]]'s old unfinished demos, presented to [[Paul McCartney]] by [[Yoko Ono]], with [[Jeff Lynne]] producing. The track, "[[Free As A Bird]]", is released as a single in late 1995 as part of the exhaustive [[Beatles Anthology]] project, reaching No. 2 in the UK and No. 6 in the United States.
*[[February 14]] – [[Grateful Dead]]'s [[Jerry Garcia]] marries Deborah Koons.<ref>{{cite book|title=Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead|last=Lesh|first=Phil|year=2005|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|isbn=0-316-00998-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/searchingforsoun00lesh}}</ref>
*[[February 23]] – [[Eddie Van Halen]], [[Chris Isaak]], and [[B.B. King]] attend the ground breaking ceremony for the [[Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas)|Hard Rock Hotel and Casino]] takes place in [[Paradise, Nevada]], USA.
*[[February 26]] – The [[Sanremo Music Festival 1994|Sanremo Music Festival]] ends with victory for [[Aleandro Baldi]] in the "Big Artists" category, for the song "Passerà".<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/02/27/vincono-baldi-bocelli.html | work = [[la Repubblica]] | language = it | access-date = 17 August 2011 | date = 27 February 1995 | author = Maria Pia Fusco | title = Vincono Baldi e Bocelli | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141129034006/http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/02/27/vincono-baldi-bocelli.html | archive-date = 29 November 2014 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>