See also: [edit] 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 a live bat thrown at him during a performance.
- 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 (136 kg) gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone 2 weeks later in a dry river bed.
- February 20 – Pat Benatar marries her guitarist, Neil Giraldo on the Hawaiian island of Maui
- February 27 - the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company gave its final performance at the Adelphi Theatre after more than 110 years.
- March 1 - 80's popstar Laura Branigan (d. 2004) releases her debut album, Branigan, featuring the mega hit single that launched her career and earned her a grammy nomination (Branigan's first of four), Gloria (Umberto Tozzi song). The Album certified gold and the single certified platinum.
- 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's 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", which will remain at #1 for 7 weeks
- 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 24 - Germany wins the 27th annual Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Harrogate Conference Centre, North Yorkshire, with the song "Ein bißchen Frieden", sung by 17-year-old singer Nicole. She also records the song in English as "A Little Peace", which becomes the 500th chart-topping single in the UK.
- April 26 – Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
- May 26 – The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Aberdeen, Scotland.
- June 19 - Amy Grant marries Gary Chapman.
- August 17 – In Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany began the first mass production of the compact disc.
- August 28 - Eric Burdon getting arrested after a show at the Rockpalast in Cologne
- September 7 – The musical Cats begins its 18 year run on Broadway
- September 22 – The Who begin their only formally-announced "farewell" tour in Washington, D.C.
- November 5 – First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
- November
- Most successful group of the 1970s Abba release their final two singles "Under Attack" followed by the re-release of 1977's "Thank You For The Music". But a split is never officially announced.
- Sena Jurinac appears on stage for the last time, with the Vienna State Opera.
- November 30 – Thriller is released by superstar Michael Jackson and goes on to be greatest selling album of all time, with 104 million units sold worldwide
- The first compact discs appear in music stores in Asia.
- 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.
- Madonna's recording career begins when she signs to both Warner Bros. Records and Sire Records.
- Caution and Plee Fresh begin recording; this is the birth of a distinctively Chicago sound in hip hop music.
- Lee Aaron's solo career begins.
- Ronnie James Dio leaves Black Sabbath for solo career.
- Wendy O. Williams leaves the Plasmatics for a solo career.
[edit] Bands formed [edit] Bands disbanded [edit] Albums released | | - Love Will Turn You Around – Kenny Rogers
- Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets (debut)
- Mesopotamia – The B-52's
- Metal on Metal – Anvil
- Miami – The Gun Club
- Midnight Love – Marvin Gaye
- Milo Goes to College – The Descendents
- Mirage – Fleetwood Mac
- Mondialement vôtre – Dalida
- Music for a New Society – John Cale
- Naked – Sex Gang Children
- Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen
- New Britain – Whitehouse
- New Directions - Tavares
- New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) – Simple Minds
- Night and Day – Joe Jackson
- The Nightfly – Donald Fagen
- 1999 – Prince
- No Stranger To Danger – Payolas
- Nona – Nona Hendryx
- Nothing Can Stop Us – Robert Wyatt
- Nothing to Fear – Oingo Boingo
- Now and Forever – Air Supply
- Now Then... – Stiff Little Fingers
- Nugent – Ted Nugent
- The Number of the Beast – Iron Maiden
- Nylon Curtain – Billy Joel
- Offene Türen – Hans-Joachim Roedelius
- Offering (Axe_album) – Axe (band)
- Oh, No! It's Devo – Devo
- On Land – Brian Eno
- One Night at Budokan - Michael Schenker Group
- 1+9+8+2 – Status Quo
- One to One – Carole King
- The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away - Bootsy Collins
- One Vice at a Time – Krokus
- Only Theatre of Pain – Christian Death (debut)
- Opus X – Chilliwack (band)
- Oriental Beat – Hanoi Rocks
- The Party's Over – Talk Talk
- Peter Gabriel also known as Security – Peter Gabriel
- Pictures at Eleven – Robert Plant (former Led Zeppelin Vocalist's solo debut)
- Picture This – Huey Lewis & The News
- Plastic Surgery Disasters - Dead Kennedys
- Pleasure Victim - Berlin
- Pornography – The Cure
- Power Play – April Wine
- Prairie Serenade – Riders in the Sky
- Private Audition – Heart
- Psychopathia Sexualis – Whitehouse
- The Pursuit of Accidents – Level 42
- The Record – Fear
- Revelations – Killing Joke
- Rio – Duran Duran
- The Rise & Fall – Madness
- Rock in a Hard Place – Aerosmith
- Room To Live – The Fall
- Rough Diamonds – Bad Company
- Ruff Cuts EP – Twisted Sister
- Saints & Sinners – Whitesnake
- Screaming Blue Murder – Girlschool
- Screaming for Vengeance – Judas Priest
- Send Me A Lullaby – The Go-Betweens
- Set – Thompson Twins
- Shabooh Shoobah – INXS
- Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch – Frank Zappa
- Shoot Out the Lights – Richard and Linda Thompson
- Showtime! – The J. Geils Band (live)
- Signals – Rush
- Silk Electric – Diana Ross
- The Singles: The First Ten Years – ABBA
- The Sky's Gone Out – Bauhaus
- Sleepwalking – Gerry Rafferty
- Somewhere in Afrika – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
- Songs of the Free – Gang of Four
- Sonic Youth – Sonic Youth
- Speak of the Devil – Ozzy Osbourne (Live)
- Spécial Dalida – Dalida
- Stand by Your Man (EP) – Motörhead & Girlschool
- Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium – Stevie Wonder
- Stink – The Replacements
- Straight Between the Eyes – Rainbow
- Sweets From a Stranger – Squeeze
- 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Midnight Oil
- Tenebrae – Simonetti-Morante-Pignatelli (Goblin)
- Three Lock Box – Sammy Hagar
- Three Sides Live – Genesis
- Thriller – Michael Jackson
- Time and Tide – Split Enz
- Time Pieces: Best of Eric Clapton – Eric Clapton (Best of 1969-1979)
- Too Fast for Love – Mötley Crüe (debut re-release)
- Too-Rye-Ay – Dexys Midnight Runners
- Toto IV – Toto
- Tough – Kurtis Blow
- Trance – Chris & Cosey
- Troops of Tomorrow – The Exploited
- Tug of War – Paul McCartney
- The Tunes of Two Cities – The Residents
- TV Party (EP) – Black Flag
- 2x45 – Cabaret Voltaire
- 2XS – Nazareth
- UB44 - UB40
- Under the Big Black Sun – X
- Under the Blade – Twisted Sister (debut album)
- Underwater Kites – The Modern Art (debut)
- Upstairs at Eric's – Yazoo
- Vs – Mission of Burma
- Walk Among Us - The Misfits
- Warrior Rock: Toyah on Tour – Toyah (live)
- Wasted Youth – Girl
- We Are...The League - Anti-Nowhere League
- What Time Is It? – The Time
- White Eagle – Tangerine Dream
- White Heat – Dusty Springfield
- Wild in the Streets – Circle Jerks
- The Winning Hand – Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Brenda Lee & Dolly Parton
- Wiped Out – Raven
- Word and Music (Parole et musique) - Pierre Schaeffer
- World Radio – Leo Sayer
- Zapp II – Zapp
- Zipper Catches Skin – Alice Cooper
| [edit] Biggest hit singles The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1982. | # | Artist | Title | Year | Country | Chart Entries | | 1 | Survivor | Eye of the Tiger | 1982 |  | UK 1 – Jul 1982, US BB 1 – Jun 1982, US CashBox 1 of 1982, Canada 1 – Jun 1982, Norway 1 – Aug 1982, Australia 1 of 1982, Éire 1 – Sep 1982, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Aug 1983, Holland 2 – Sep 1982, Austria 2 – Sep 1982, South Africa 2 of 1982, Sweden (alt) 5 – Aug 1982, Switzerland 6 – Aug 1982, US BB 7 of 1982, France 7 – Jan 1983, POP 7 of 1982, Germany 18 – Jan 1983, Scrobulate 20 of 80s, Italy 23 of 1982, Poland 24 – Jul 1982, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1982, Europe 46 of the 1980s, OzNet 82 | | 2 | Men at Work | Down Under | 1982 |  | UK 1 – Jan 1983, US BB 1 – Nov 1982, Canada 1 – Sep 1982, Switzerland 1 – Jun 1982, Poland 1 – Jan 1983, Éire 1 – Jan 1983, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Feb 1982, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Nov 1982, Holland 2 – Mar 1982, Norway 2 – Feb 1983, France 4 – Aug 1982, Sweden (alt) 6 – Feb 1983, US CashBox 8 of 1983, South Africa 8 of 1982, OzNet 8, Germany 10 – Mar 1983, POP 16 of 1983, US BB 21 of 1983, Australia 24 of 1982, Europe 36 of the 1980s, KROQ 70 of 1982, Scrobulate 83 of 80s, RYM 96 of 1981 | | 3 | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | I Love Rock 'n' Roll | 1982 | | US BB 1 – Feb 1982, Canada 1 – Jan 1982, Holland 1 – Apr 1982, Sweden (alt) 1 – Jun 1982, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Jun 1982, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Mar 1983, Poland 2 – May 1982, Switzerland 3 – Mar 1982, UK 4 – Apr 1982, POP 4 of 1982, US CashBox 5 of 1982, Austria 5 – May 1982, Germany 6 – Apr 1982, Australia 7 of 1982, South Africa 7 of 1982, US BB 8 of 1982, France 10 – Mar 1982, KROQ 71 of 1982, Party 80 of 1999, RIAA 177, Acclaimed 295, Germany 348 of the 1980s, TheQ 463, Rolling Stone 484 | | 4 | Dexys Midnight Runners | Come On Eileen | 1982 |  | UK 1 – Jul 1982, US BB 1 – Feb 1983, Canada 1 – Nov 1982, Switzerland 1 – Nov 1982, Éire 1 – Aug 1982, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Nov 1982, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Sep 1983, POP 2 of 1983, Holland 4 – Aug 1982, US BB 5 of 1983, France 5 – Jan 1983, Germany 5 – Jan 1983, Austria 9 – Nov 1982, RYM 11 of 1982, US CashBox 12 of 1983, Australia 12 of 1982, Scrobulate 15 of 80s, Party 36 of 2007, Virgin 85, OzNet 117, Germany 244 of the 1980s, Acclaimed 1040 | | 5 | The Human League | Don't You Want Me | 1982 | | UK 1 – Dec 1981, US BB 1 – Apr 1982, Norway 1 – Feb 1982, Éire 1 – Dec 1981, New Zealand 1 for 5 weeks May 1982, Canada 2 – Feb 1982, France 2 – Jan 1982, Sweden (alt) 3 – Feb 1982, Switzerland 4 – Mar 1982, Holland 5 – Jan 1982, KROQ 5 of 1982, US CashBox 6 of 1982, Germany 6 – Feb 1982, South Africa 16 of 1982, RYM 18 of 1981, US BB 21 of 1982, POP 28 of 1982, Italy 33 of 1982, Scrobulate 34 of 80s, Virgin 46, 93 in 2FM list, Acclaimed 175, OzNet 741 | [edit] Chronological Table of US and UK Number One Hit Singles [edit] Published popular music [edit] Musical television [edit] Births - January 14 - Caleb Followill, singer (Kings of Leon)
- January 18 – Quinn Allman, guitarist (The Used)
- January 29 - Adam Lambert, singer, stage actor, American Idol 8 finalist
- March 20 – Nick Wheeler (The All-American Rejects)
- April 24 - Kelly Clarkson, first American Idol winner
- April 26 – Jon Lee (S Club 7)
- June 14 - Lang Lang, pianist
- July 7 – Cassidy, rapper
- August 28 – LeAnn Rimes, singer
- September 22 – Billie Piper, singer and actress
- October 18 – Ne-Yo, R&B singer
- December 23 - Beatriz Luengo, singer, dancer and actress
- December 24 – Robert Carmine, vocalist (Rooney)
[edit] Deaths - January 16 - Harald Agersnap, Danish classical musician (b. 1889)
- January 17 – Tommy Tucker, songwriter (b. 1933) (carbon tetrachloride poisoning)
- January 30 – Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer (b. 1890)
- February 17 – Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist (b. 1917)
- February 21 – Murray the K, disc jockey (b. 1922)
- March 5 – John Belushi, entertainer of The Blues Brothers fame (b. 1949) (cocaine overdose)
- March 19 – Randy Rhoads, guitarist (b. 1956) (plane crash)
- March 24 – Aileen Stanley, singer (b. 1897)
- March 29 – Carl Orff, German composer, famous for the choral work Carmina Burana (b. 1895)
- April 2 – Sam Coslow, songwriter and sometime singer (b. 1902)
- May 1 – William Primrose, violist (b. 1904)
- May 8 – Neil Bogart, owner of Casablanca Records (b. 1943) (cancer)
- May 15 – Joëlle Mogensen, French singer (b. 1953) (drug overdose)
- May 16 – Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Portuguese composer and singer (b. 1942)
- June 15 – Art Pepper, jazz saxophonist (b. 1925) (brain haemorrhage)
- July 9 – Wingy Manone, jazz trumpeter
- July 28 – Keith Green, gospel singer (b. 1953) (plane crash)
- September 1 – Clifford Curzon, pianist (b. 1907)
- September 17 – Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
- October 4 – Glenn Gould, pianist (b. 1932) (stroke)
- October 16
- October 29 – William Lloyd Webber, British organist and composer (b. 1914)
- November 16 – Al Haig, jazz pianist (b. 1924)
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