2014 in music explained

This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2014 in music.

Albums released

See main article: List of 2014 albums.

Awards

Category/Organization	2014 MTV Video Music Awards August 24, 2014	2014 MTV Europe Music Awards November 9, 2014	American Music Awards of 2014 November 23, 2014	2015 Grammy Awards February 8, 2015	2015 Billboard Music Awards May 17, 2015
Best Album	N/A	N/A	N/A		1989 Taylor Swift
Best Song	N/A				"All About That Bass" Meghan Trainor
Best Video			N/A		"Shake It Off" Taylor Swift
Best Artist	N/A	N/A		Sam Smith	Taylor Swift
Best New Artist					Sam Smith

Bands formed

• Akdong Musician
• Antemasque
• American Wrestlers
• The Babe Rainbow
• Berry Good
• Cheat Codes
• FFS
• High4
• Hotshot
• LANY
• Lovelyz
• Lip Service
• Maddie & Tae
• Mamamoo
• Melody Day
• Missio
• No Devotion
• Oh Wonder
• Operation: Mindcrime
• Pale Waves
• Red Velvet
• Sonamoo
• Saint Asonia
• Sheer Mag
• Slaves
• Sofi Tukker
• Soul Glo
• Stereo Kicks
• Toheart
• Winner
• You+Me

Bands reformed

• American Football
• Atreyu
• Babes In Toyland
• Basement
• Breaking Benjamin
• Constantines
• Copeland
• Deep Dish
• Despised Icon
• Design the Skyline
• Erase Errata
• Failure
• Haste the Day
• L7
• The Libertines
• Luna
• The Matches
• Metro Station
• Midtown
• Mineral
• Nickel Creek
• OutKast
• Ride
• Saosin
• Sleater-Kinney
• Slowdive
• Trick Pony
• The Unicorns

Bands on hiatus

• As I Lay Dying
• Darkside
• Dredg
• Foxy Shazam
• Furthur
• The Wanted
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bands disbanded

• Abandon All Ships
• The Allman Brothers Band
• Anberlin
• As Blood Runs Black
• Austrian Death Machine
• Beady Eye
• Beastie Boys
• Beneath the Sky
• The Blackout
  • Bleeding Through Bomb the Music Industry!
• Brown Bird
• Camp Freddy
• Chimaira
• The Civil Wars
• Clipse
• Company of Thieves
• Crystal Castles
• Danity Kane
• The Dangerous Summer
• Eleventyseven
• For All Those Sleeping
• Guided by Voices
• HotCha
• Jethro Tull
• The Knife
• Lestat
• LFO
• The Luchagors
• Morning Parade
• The Move
• Orbital
• Nightmare Boyzzz
• Nachtmystium
• Pink Floyd
• The Rapture
• Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine
• Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
• Slaughterhouse
• Smith Westerns
• The Swellers
• Ten Second Epic
• There for Tomorrow
• Vista Chino
• Vivian Girls
• WC and the Maad Circle

Deaths

January

• 4 – Phil Everly (74), American musician (The Everly Brothers)
• 13 – Ronny Jordan (51), British guitarist.^[1]
• 18 – Dennis Frederiksen (62), American singer (Toto), (Survivor)
• 27 – Pete Seeger (94), American guitarist.^[2]

February

• 5 – Samantha Juste (69), English-American singer and television host.^[3]
• 8 – Finbarr Dwyer (67), Irish accordionist and fiddler.^[4]
• 16 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
• 17
  • Frank Wappat (84), British DJ and singer.^[5]
  • Bob Casale, (61), American guitarist and keyboardist (Devo).^[6]
• 23 – Chip Damiani, (68), American drummer (The Remains)
• 24 – Franny Beecher (92), American guitarist.^[7]
• 25
  • Paco de Lucía (66), Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.^[8]
  • Peter Callander (74), English songwriter and record producer.^[9]

March

• 5 – Dave Sampson (73), English singer.^[10]
• 6 – Marion Stein (Thorpe) (87), British pianist.^[11]

April

• 2 – Lyndsie Holland (75), English actress and singer.
• 7 – John Shirley-Quirk (83), British operatic bass-baritone.^[12]
• 16 – Stan Kelly-Bootle (84), British songwriter, author and computer engineer.^[13]
• 17 – Cheo Feliciano (78), Puerto Rican singer and composer (Joe Cuba Sextet)
• 18 – Brian Priestman (87), British conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).^[14]

May

• 13 – Akihiro Yokoyama (49), Japanese thrash metal bassist (United)^[15]
• 25 – Herb Jeffries (100), American singer and actor.^[16]

June

• 18 – Horace Silver (85), American jazz pianist.^[17]
• 21 – Jimmy C. Newman (86), country music singer.^[18]

July

• 3 – Jesse Anderson (73), American blues singer-songwriter and musician.^[19]
• 11 – Charlie Haden (76), American upright-bassist.^[20]
• 19 – Lionel Ferbos (103), American trumpeter.^[21]
• 24 – Christian Falk (52), Swedish record producer and musician.^[22]

August

• 1 – Michael Johns (35), Australian singer and American Idol contestant.^[23]
• 3 – Yvette Giraud (97), French singer and actress.^[24]
• 15 – Svein Nymo (61), Norwegian violinist and composer.^[25]
• 17 – Pierre Vassiliu (76), Swiss-born French singer.^[26]
• 19 – Kåre Kolberg (78), Norwegian composer.^[27]
• 23 – Inga Juuso (68), singer and actress.^[28]
• 24 – Aldo Donati (66), Italian singer, composer and television personality, (cerebral hemorrhage)^[29]
• 29
  • Jan Groth (68), Norwegian singer (Aunt Mary, Just 4 Fun), (cancer).^[30]
  • Peret (79), Spanish singer, guitarist and composer.^[31]

September

• 1 – Jimi Jamison (63), American singer (Survivor)
• 2 – Antonis Vardis (66), Greek composer and singer.^[32]
• 8
  • Magda Olivero (104), Italian soprano.^[33]
  • Gerald Wilson (96), American jazz trumpeter.^[34]
• 12 – Joe Sample (75), American pianist.^[35]
• 15 – Jackie Cain (86), American jazz singer (Jackie & Roy).^[36]
• 17 – George Hamilton IV (77), American country music singer.^[37]
• 18 – Kenny Wheeler (84), Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter and flugelhorn player.^[38]

October

• 1 – Lynsey de Paul (66), English singer
• 10 – Olav Dale (55), Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader.^[39]
• 16 – Tim Hauser (72), American jazz singer.^[40]
• 20 - Tyson Stevens (29), vocals, additional guitar, bass guitar in Arizona Post Hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids.
• 23 – Alvin Stardust (72), English singer
• 25 – Jack Bruce (71), Scottish bassist, composer and orchestra leader.^[41]

November

• 6 – Maggie Boyle (57), British folk singer and musician (cancer).^[42]
• 14 – Mike Burney (70), British jazz saxophonist.^[43]
• 15 – Cherry Wainer (79), South African-born British organist (Lord Rockingham's XI).^[44]
• 17
  • Jeff Fletcher (36), British guitarist (Northern Uproar).^[45]
  • Jimmy Ruffin (78), American soul singer
• 20 – Arthur Butterworth (91), English composer and conductor.^[46]
• 27 - Érick Bamy, 64, French singer and Johnny Hallyday's former backing vocalist from 1973 to 2000.

December

• 8 – Knut Nystedt (99), Norwegian composer.^[25]
• 12 – John Persen (73), Norwegian composer.^[47]
• 22 – Joe Cocker (70), English singer
• 24 – Buddy DeFranco (91), American jazz clarinetist.^[48]
• 31 – Michael Kennedy (88), English writer on music.

Musical films

• God Help the Girl
• Whiplash

See also

• Timeline of musical events
• Women in music

Notes and References

1. News: Ronny Jordan obituary . John . Fordham . . January 22, 2014 . February 10, 2016.
2. Web site: Pete Seeger, Champion of Folk Music and Social Change, Dies at 94 . Jon . Pareles . . January 28, 2014 . March 3, 2016.
3. News: Samantha Juste – obituary . The Daily Telegraph . February 10, 2014 . March 4, 2014.
4. Web site: The Death Has Occurred of Finbarr Dwyer . . February 8, 2014 . September 18, 2017.
5. News: Veteran BBC radio broadcaster Frank Wappat dies . BBC News . February 17, 2014 . February 17, 2014.
6. News: Bob Casale, co-founder of Devo, dies at 61 . Today . February 18, 2014 . February 7, 2024.
7. Web site: Franny Beecher, Guitarist for Bill Haley & the Comets, Dies at 92 . Dave . Lifton . UltimateClassicRock.com . February 25, 2014 . March 3, 2016.
8. Web site: Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia dies at 66 . Martyn . Strange . . February 26, 2014 . March 3, 2016.
9. Web site: Peter Callander | M Magazine : PRS for Music Online Magazine . M-magazine.co.uk . February 28, 2014 . February 10, 2016 . February 6, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160206210504/http://www.m-magazine.co.uk/news/peter-callander-obituary/ . dead .
10. News: Wilkinson. Lee. Dave Sampson. February 10, 2016. The Stage. March 8, 2014.
11. Web site: John Amis . Marion Thorpe obituary . The Guardian . March 7, 2014 . October 18, 2014.
12. Web site: Barry Millington . John Shirley-Quirk obituary . The Guardian . April 9, 2014 . October 18, 2014.
13. Web site: Liverpool singer-songwriter Stan Kelly has died. liverpoolecho Administrator. liverpoolecho. April 17, 2014 .
14. Web site: Brian Priestman, 87, former Denver Symphony conductor. April 18, 2014 .
15. Web site: May 14, 2014. UNITED、リーダーの横山明裕（Ba）が急逝. live. 激ロック. https://web.archive.org/web/20140517203522/http://gekirock.com:80/news/2014/05/united_yokoyama.php . May 17, 2014 .
16. Web site: Herb Jeffries, Pioneering Black Singing Cowboy of the Movies, Dies at 100 . Mike . Barnes . . May 25, 2014 . April 15, 2016.
17. Web site: Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead . Peter . Keepnews . . June 18, 2014 . April 15, 2016.
18. News: Flowers. Christina. Grand Ole Opry performer Jimmy C. Newman dies at 86. June 21, 2014. June 22, 2014. June 25, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140625043137/http://www.wsmv.com/story/25839488/legendary-grand-ole-opry-performer-jimmy-c-newman. dead.
19. News: Service to remember blues legend Jesse Anderson. Beccy. Tanner. July 12, 2014. The Wichita Eagle. September 2, 2020.
20. Web site: Charlie Haden Dead at 76 . Jeff . Tamarkin . . July 12, 2014 . April 15, 2016.
21. Web site: Legendary jazz trumpeter Lionel Ferbos dead at 103 . . July 19, 2014 . April 15, 2016.
22. News: Artisten Christian Falk död. sv . Svenska Dagbladet. July 24, 2014 . July 24, 2014.
23. Web site: 2014-11-19 . ‘American Idol’ Alum Michael Johns’ Cause of Death Revealed . 2024-03-01 . Billboard.
24. Web site: French singer Yvette Giraud, big in Japan, dies aged 97.
25. Web site: – Han var en gnistrende kraft . no . Sondre . Bjørdal . . December 9, 2014 . May 3, 2015.
26. http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2014/08/17/le-chanteur-pierre-vassiliu-est-mort_4472606_3382.html?bloc_actu Le chanteur Pierre Vassiliu est mort
27. News: Nekrolog: Kåre Kolberg . no . Åse . Hedstrøm . . August 26, 2014 . February 21, 2016.
28. News: Inga Juuso er død . no . Torkil . Emberland . Astrid Øvre . Helland . . August 23, 2014 . February 21, 2016.
29. Web site: Addio ad Aldo Donati, autore dell'inno storico della Lazio. August 24, 2014.
30. News: Sangeren Jan Groth er død . no . . August 27, 2014 . February 21, 2016.
31. http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/08/27/actualidad/1409136705_670558.html Muere a los 79 años el cantante Peret, padre de la rumba catalana
32. Web site: Prominent Greek Singer Antonis Vardis Passes Away - GreekReporter.com. Ioanna. Zikakou. September 2, 2014 .
33. Web site: Magda Olivero obituary . The Guardian . 20 March 2021 . en . 14 September 2014.
34. Web site: Gerald Wilson, Versatile Jazz Arranger, Is Dead at 96 . William . Yardley . . September 9, 2014 . April 15, 2016.
35. Web site: Joe Sample, Crusaders Pianist Who Went Electric, Dies at 75 . Peter . Keepnews . . September 12, 2014 . April 15, 2016.
36. News: Chawkins. Steve. Jackie Cain dies at 86; part of the jazz duo Jackie and Roy. April 1, 2023. Los Angeles Times. September 17, 2014.
37. News: Cooper. Peter. George Hamilton IV, 50-year Opry star, dies at age 77. September 17, 2014. The Tennessean. September 17, 2014.
38. Web site: Kenny Wheeler, Influential Sound in Jazz, Dies at 84 . Peter . Keepnews . . September 21, 2014 . April 16, 2016.
39. Web site: Til minne om Olav Dale . no . Vestnorsk.JazzINorge.no . October 14, 2014 . May 29, 2015.
40. Web site: Tim Hauser, the Founder of the Manhattan Transfer, Dies at 72 . Bruce . Weber . . October 17, 2014 . April 15, 2016.
41. Web site: Cream Bassist Jack Bruce Dead at 71 . Daniel . Kreps . . October 25, 2014 . March 3, 2016.
42. Web site: Maggie Boyle obituary. Derek. Schofield. November 10, 2014. The Guardian.
43. Web site: Mike Burney 1944–2014 R.I.P.. thejazzbreakfast. November 14, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129012338/http://thejazzbreakfast.com/2014/11/14/mike-burney-1944-2014-r-i-p/. November 29, 2014. dead.
44. Web site: Cherry Wainer – obituary.
45. News: Jeff Fletcher: Family pays tribute to Northern Uproar guitarist killed in Stockport horror crash. Manchester Evening News. November 17, 2014. November 18, 2014.
46. Web site: Death of Arthur Butterworth. November 20, 2014 .
47. Web site: John Persen er død . no . Marianne . Boine . . December 14, 2014 . May 3, 2015.
48. Web site: Buddy DeFranco, 91, Versatile Jazz Clarinetist, Dies at 91 . Charles . Strum . . December 24, 2014 . April 15, 2016.