Year:1987

Bands Formed

 * Army Of Lovers
 * Nirvana (band)

Singles Released

 * Just Like Heaven The Cure
 * True Faith New Order
 * Fairytale of New York The Pogues
 * Never Let Me Down Again Depeche Mode
 * Sign "☮" the Times Prince
 * Birthday The Sugarcubes
 * Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me The Smiths
 * What Have I Done to Deserve This? Pet Shop Boys
 * Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House
 * The One I Love R.E.M.
 * My Pal God
 * It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M.
 * Girlfriend in a Coma The Smiths
 * Shine On The House of Love
 * Rent Pet Shop Boys
 * Paid in Full (Eric B. & Rakim song) Eric B. & Rakim
 * Can't Hardly Wait The Replacements
 * April Skies The Jesus and Mary Chain
 * Dear God XTC
 * Alex Chilton (song) The Replacements
 * Heaven Is A Place On Earth
 * Bad
 * I Just Can't Stop Loving You
 * At This Moment
 * Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
 * Don't Dream It's Over
 * The Lady In Red
 * Stranger Than Love Mark Stewart

Albums Released

 * July 22: XTC - The Compact XTC
 * August: The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot
 * September: Joy Division - The Peel Sessions
 * September 11: The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Chips From The Chocolate Fireball
 * November: Andy Partridge - Jules Verne's Sketchbook
 * December 14: Johnny Japes And His Jesticles - Bags Of Fun With Buster

Other Events

 * The album ' Faith 'by George Michael, the first number 1 was started at the end of this year's top 40 CDs . For the first time, the long-playing record and CD sales in a separate listed.
 * The grunge band Nirvana is established.
 * International breakthrough of Paolo Conte as a singer with the album with the single Plano Aqua Max.
 * The punk rock / pop rock band Green Day is established. Until 1990, the band known as Sweet Children .
 * ===Classical music [ edit] ===


 * January 9 : First performance of Persistèncias of Leonardo Balada
 * May 7 : first public version of Genesis of Aarre Merikanto
 * June 11 : First performance of Fanfare for CUBE by Witold Lutosławski
 * September 17 : first performance of Symphony V of Isang Yun
 * October 4 : First performance of fantasias sonoras of Leonardo Balada