1982 in music

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits on record
4 Published popular music
5 Musical theater
6 Musical films
7 Musical television
8 Births
9 Deaths
10 Awards

10.1 Grammy Awards
10.2 Country Music Association Awards
10.3 Eurovision Song Contest

Events

January 15 - K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida.
January 17 - Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home
January 20 - Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off of a live bat thrown at him during a performance. Osbourne is hospitalized with rabies.
January 21 - B.B. King donates his personal record collection, which includes nearly 7,000 rare blues records, to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
February 13 - A 300 pound gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone 2 week later in a dry river bed.
February 20 - Pat Benatar marries her guitarist, Neil Geraldo on the Hawaiian island of Maui
March 4 - Frank Zappa's son Dweezil and daughter Moon Unit form Fred Zeppelin
March 5 - Comedian and Blues Brother John Belushi is found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, California
March 18 - Teddy Pendergrass is severely injured in a car accident in Philadelphia. Pendergrass' injuries result in him being paralyzed from the waist down
March 19 - Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, Randy Rhoads is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida when the plane he's riding in buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house. The plane's pilot and a female passenger are also killed.
March 28 - In Los Angeles, California, David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine and carrying a concealed weapon
March 29 - Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release their single "Ebony and Ivory"
March 31 - The Doobie Brothers announce that they are breaking up
April 15 - Billy Joel is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Long Island, New York. Joel spends over a month in the hospital undergoing physical therapy for his hand.
April - Amy Grant marries Gary Chapman
April 26 - Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
August 17 - In Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany began the first mass production of the compact disc.
The first compact discs appear in music stores.
A benefit concert takes place in Downey, California to replace the guitars belonging to Daniel Amos which were stolen early in the year. Performers included Tom Howard, Mark Heard and Randy Stonehill.
Janet Jackson releases first recording
Caution and Plee Fresh begin recording; this is the birth of a distinctively Chicago sound in hip hop
Madonna's career begins
Metallica's career begins
Ronnie James Dio leaves Black Sabbath for solo career
The Smiths form
Pantera forms
Faith No More forms
Slayer forms
Violent Femmes forms
The Eagles break up
Wendy O. Williams leaves the Plasmatics for a solo career

Albums released

Lexicon of Love - ABC (band)
"Now and Forever" - Air Supply
Big Science - Laurie Anderson
Asia - Asia
Mesopotamia - The B-52's
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Rough Diamonds - Bad Company
How Could Hell Be Any Worse - Bad Religion (debut full-length)
Damaged - Black Flag
Live Evil - Black Sabbath
The Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
The Hunter - Blondie (final album)
The Distance - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Dreaming - Kate Bush
16 - Chicago
Timepieces: Best of Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton (Best of 1969-1979)
Combat Rock - The Clash
Computer Games - George Clinton
Hello, I Must Be Going - Phil Collins
Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
American Fool - John Cougar Mellencamp
Christ The Album - Crass
Pornography - The Cure
Milo Goes to College - The Descendents
Oh No!, It's Devo - Devo
Love Over Gold - Dire Straits
Fast Women & Slow Horses - Dr. Feelgood
Rio - Duran Duran
Nightfly - Donald Fagen
Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall
The Record - Fear
Mirage - Fleetwood Mac
Security - Peter Gabriel
Another Day/Another Dollar - Gang of Four
Songs of the Free - Gang of Four
Midnight Love - Marvin Gaye
H2O - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Nona - Nona Hendryx
Groovy Decay - Robyn Hitchcock
The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Dare - Human League
Everything Falls Apart - H�sker D�
Night and Day - Joe Jackson
Thriller - Michael Jackson
The Broadsword and the Beast - Jethro Tull
Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel
Jump Up - Elton John
Escape - Journey
Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
Revelations - Killing Joke
Beat - King Crimson
CODA - Led Zeppelin
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets
Business as Usual - Men at Work
In My Eyes - Minor Threat
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Bean Spill - Minuteman
Too Fast for Love - M�tley Cr�e (debut)
Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne & Blizzard of Ozz (final album with Randy Rhoads)
Speak of the Devil - Ozzy Osbourne (Live)
Death Wish II - Jimmy Page
Ghost in the Machine - The Police
1999 - Prince
Forever Now - The Psychedelic Furs
The Tunes of Two Cities - The Residents
Chronic Town EP - R.E.M
Stink - The Refreshments
Signals - Rush
Naked - Sex Gang Children
Alice - The Sister of Mercy
Sweets From a Stranger - Squeeze
Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion
Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth
Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
Shoot out the Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson
Hour Live - Toots & the Maytals
Toto IV - Toto
Diver Down - Van Halen
Original Musiquarium - Greatest Hits - Stevie Wonder
Under the Big Black Sun - X
English Settlement - XTC
Upstairs at Eric's - Yaz

Top hits on record

"Abracadabra" - Steve Miller Band
"Believer" - Ozzy Osbourne
"Centerfold" - J. Geils Band
"Don't You Want Me" - Human League
"Ebony and Ivory" - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
"Electric Eye" - Judas Priest
"Even the Nights are Better" - Air Supply
"Every Little Story She Does Is Magic" - The Police
"Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor
"Flying High Again" - Ozzy Osbourne
"Heat Of The Moment" - Asia
"Hungry Like The Wolf" - Duran Duran
"I Love Rock 'N Roll" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
"Invisible Sun" - The Police
"Jack & Diane" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"Maneater" - Hall & Oates
"The Message" - Grandmaster Flash
"Over The Mountain" - Ozzy Osbourne
"Planet Rock" - Afrika Bambaataa
"Pressure" - Billy Joel
"More Than Just The Two Of Us" - Sneaker
"Quiero Ser" - Menudo
"Rock The Casbah" - The Clash
"Shake It Up" - The Cars
"Since You're Gone" - The Cars
"Spirits In The Material World" - The Police
"Still They Ride" - Journey
"Sube A Mi Motora" - Menudo
"TV Party" - Black Flag
"Vacation" - The Go-Gos
"Valley Girl" - Frank Zappa
"Up Where We Belong" - Jennifer Warnes & Joe Cocker
"Who Can It Be?" - Men at Work
"You Can't Hurry Love" - Phil Collins
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest

Published popular music

"Key Largo" w.m. Sonny Limbo & Bertie Higgins
"Up Where We Belong" w. Will Jennings m. Buffy Sainte-Marie & Jack Nitzsche

Musical theater

Cats Broadway production
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Broadway production
Little Shop of Horrors off-Broadway production
Nine Broadway production
Pirates Of Penzance London revival
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Broadway production

Musical films

Annie
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
Grease 2
HMS Pinafore
Iolanthe
The Mikado
Patience
Pirates Of Penzance
Ruddigore
The Sorcerer
Victor/Victoria
The Yeomen Of The Guard

Musical television

Sweeney Todd

Births

August 28 - LeAnn Rimes

Deaths

January 17 - Tommy Tucker, songwriter
February 17 - Thelonious Monk
February 21 - Murray the K, disc jockey
March 5 John Belushi (The Blues Brothers) died in Hollywood of an accidental drug overdose.
May 8 - Neil Bogart, 39, Owner of Casablanca Records, cancer
July 28 - Keith Green, gospel singer, plane crash
October 4 - Glenn Gould