Editing 1990 in music (section)

===July–September===
*[[July 7]] – [[The Three Tenors]] give their first concert, at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.
*[[July 14]] – [[Jean Michel Jarre]]'s concert [[Paris la Defense]] attracts 2.5 million spectators.
*[[July 21]] – [[Roger Waters]] and numerous guest stars stage a performance of [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[The Wall]]'' in Berlin, Germany to commemorate the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]] eight months earlier. [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]], [[Cyndi Lauper]], [[Thomas Dolby]], [[Sinéad O'Connor]], [[The Band]] and [[Bryan Adams]] are among the performers.
*[[August 5]] – [[Madonna]] ends her controversial [[Blond Ambition Tour]] in Nice, France. The last date was aired live and broadcast on HBO in United States, and later released as Laser Disc only.
*[[August 13]] – [[Curtis Mayfield]] is paralyzed from the neck down in an accident at an outdoor concert in [[Flatbush, Brooklyn]], after stage lighting equipment collapses on top of him.
*[[August 19]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]] conducts his final performance at Tanglewood; he suffers a coughing fit in the middle of one piece which almost brings the concert to a premature end.
*[[August 22]] – [[James MacMillan]]'s symphonic piece ''[[The Confession of Isobel Gowdie]]'' premieres at [[The Proms]] in London.
*[[August 24]]
**A judge rules that [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Judas Priest]] is not responsible for the actions of two [[Nevada]] youths who shot themselves, one fatally, after listening to the band's music in December 1985.
**Irish singer [[Sinéad O'Connor]] sparks controversy when she refuses to play a concert at the [[Garden State Arts Center]] in New Jersey unless the venue refrains from its tradition of playing a recording of the [[American national anthem]] before the performance. O'Connor is heavily criticized and her music is dropped from a number of radio stations as a result.
*[[August 27]] – Guitarist [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] is killed in a helicopter crash following a concert at the [[Alpine Valley Music Theatre]] in [[East Troy, Wisconsin]]. He was 35.
*[[September 4]] – [[Walter Yetnikoff]] steps down after fifteen years as President of [[Sony Music Entertainment|CBS Records]].
*[[September 11]] – After a decade of performing in the Francophone world, [[Céline Dion]] makes her formal English-language debut in the United States with the release of her album ''[[Unison (Celine Dion album)|Unison]]''.
*[[September 26]] – The poorly received ''[[Cop Rock]]'' premieres on US television; it was TV's only musical police drama.