1982 in music: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

See also: 1981 in music, other events of 1982, 1983 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music'

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.
• November 5 - First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
• 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

• Lexicon of Love - ABC
• Rock in A Hard Place - Aerosmith
• "Now and Forever" - Air Supply
• Metal on Metal - Anvil
• 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)
• Junkyard - The Birthday Party - final full-length album
• Damaged - Black Flag
• Live Evil - Black Sabbath
• The Hunter - Blondie (final album)
• The Distance - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
• The Dreaming - Kate Bush
• 16 - Chicago
• - Eric Clapton (Best of 1969-1979)
• Combat Rock - The Clash
• Computer Games - George Clinton
• Zipper Catches Skin - Alice Cooper
• 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
• The 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
• Wasted Youth - Girl
• There For No One To See - Grand Prix
• H2O - Daryl Hall & John Oates

• Three Lock Box - Sammy Hagar
• Oriental Beat - Hanoi Rocks
• Nona - Nona Hendryx
• Groovy Decay - Robyn Hitchcock
• The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
• Everything Falls Apart - Hüsker Dü
• Night and Day - Joe Jackson
• Thriller - Michael Jackson
• The Broadsword and the Beast - Jethro Tull
• Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel
• Jump Up! - Elton John
• Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
• Revelations - Killing Joke
• Beat - King Crimson
• Creatures of the Night - KISS
• One Vice At A Time - Krokus
• 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 - Mötley Crüe (debut re-release)
• Iron Fist Motörhead
• Dawn Patrol - Night Ranger
• Nugent - Ted Nugent
• Speak of the Devil - Ozzy Osbourne (Live)
• Bobbie Sue - The Oak Ridge Boys
• Death Wish II - Jimmy Page
• Pictures at Eleven - Robert Plant (former Led Zeppelin Vocalist's solo debut)
• Ghost in the Machine - The Police
• 1999 - Prince
• Forever Now - The Psychedelic Furs
• Straight Between the Eyes - Rainbow
• The Tunes of Two Cities - The Residents
• Chronic Town EP - R.E.M.
• Stink - The Refreshments
• Signals - Rush
• Blackout - Scorpions
• 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
• Ruff Cuts EP - Twisted Sister
• Under The Blade - Twisted Sister (debut album)
• Diver Down - Van Halen
• Black Metal - Venom
• Saints & Sinners - Whitesnake
• Original Musiquarium - Greatest Hits - Stevie Wonder
• Under the Big Black Sun - X
• English Settlement - XTC
• Upstairs at Eric's - Yaz
• Black Tiger - Y&T

• "867-5309 Jenny" - Tommy Tutone
• "Always On My Mind" - Willie Nelson
• "Believer" - Ozzy Osbourne]
• "Body Language" - Queen
• "Don't Talk To Strangers" - Rick Springfield
• "Electric Eye" - Judas Priest
• "Even the Nights are Better" - Air Supply
• "Eye In The Sky" - Alan Parsons Project
• "Flying High Again" - Ozzy Osbourne
• "Freeze Frame" - J. Geils Band
• "Gloria" - Laura Branigan
• "Gypsy" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash
• "Heart Attack" - Olivia Newton-John
• "Heat Of The Moment" - Asia
• "Hold Me" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Hungry Like The Wolf" - Duran Duran
• "Hurts So Good" - John Cougar
• "Invisible Sun" - The Police
• "Make A Move On Me" - Olivia Newton-John
• "The Message" - Grandmaster Flash
• "More Than Just The Two Of Us" - Sneaker
• "Open Arms" - Journey
• "Our Lips Are Sealed" - The Go-Gos
• "Over The Mountain" - Ozzy Osbourne
• "Planet Rock" - Afrika Bambaataa
• "Pressure" - Billy Joel
• "Quiero Ser" - Menudo
• "Rock The Casbah" - The Clash
• "Rosanna" - Toto
• "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
• "We Got The Beat" - The Go-Gos
• "You Can't Hurry Love" - Phil Collins
• "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" - Melissa Manchester
• "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest

• "Key Largo" w.m. Sonny Limbo & Bertie Higgins
• "Let's Go to the Movies" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the film version of the musical Annie
• "Sandy (Dumb Dog)" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the film version of the musical Annie
• "Sign!" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the film version of the musical Annie
• "Up Where We Belong"     w. Will Jennings m. Buffy Sainte-Marie & Jack Nitzsche
• "We Got Annie" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the film version of the musical Annie

• Mel Powell - String Quartet
• Tōru Takemitsu - Rain Coming for chamber orchestra
• Tōru Takemitsu - Rain Spell for flute, clarinet, harp, piano and vibraphone
• Jay Ungar - Ashokan Farewell

• Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) - Broadway production
• Little Shop of Horrors     off-Broadway production
• Nine      Broadway production
• Pirates Of Penzance     London revival
• Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (Saul Chaplin, Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer) - Broadway production

• 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

• Sweeney Todd

• August 28 - LeAnn Rimes

• January 17 - Tommy Tucker, songwriter
• February 17 - Thelonious Monk
• February 21 - Murray the K, disc jockey
• March 5 - John Belushi US entertainer of The Blues Brothers
• March 24 - Aileen Stanley, US singer
• April 2 - Sam Coslow, US songwriter and sometime singer
• April 9 - Jim Davidson, 79, Australian bandleader in Bowral, NSW
• May 1 - William Primrose, violist
• May 8 - Neil Bogart, 39, Owner of Casablanca Records, cancer
• May 15 - Joëlle, French singer, drug overdose
• July 9 - Wingy Manone, jazz trumpeter
• July 28 - Keith Green, gospel singer, plane crash
• September 1 - Clifford Curzon, pianist
• October 4 - Glenn Gould, pianist

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1982

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1982