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Overview of the events of 1982 in British music
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This is a summary of
1982 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Events
20 January –
Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat thrown at him during a performance, mistaking it for a toy.
[1]
3 March –
The Barbican Arts Centre in London is opened by the Queen.
21 March – The Musical House that Max Built , a documentary about
Peter Maxwell Davies , is broadcast by
London Weekend Television , presented by
Melvyn Bragg .
26 April –
Rod Stewart is mugged in
Los Angeles, California . Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
10 May –
Topper Headon is sacked from
the Clash for his ongoing addiction to heroin, just a few days prior to the release of the band's
Combat Rock album. He is replaced by original Clash drummer
Terry Chimes .
15 May – "
A Little Peace " becomes the 500th UK number-one single.
26 May –
The Rolling Stones open their European tour in
Aberdeen, Scotland .
22 August – The first performance of Image, Reflection, Shadow , by Peter Maxwell Davies takes place at the
Lucerne Festival in Switzerland.
28 August –
Eric Burdon is arrested for cocaine possession after a show at the
Rockpalast in
Cologne .
[2]
22 September –
The Who begin their only formally announced "farewell" tour in
Washington, D.C.
30 October –
Paul Weller shocks fans, and his bandmates, by announcing that
the Jam are to disband, just prior to a short UK tour. "
Beat Surrender " would be the band's final single, and became their fourth and final UK number one.
5 November – First broadcast of
The Tube on
Channel 4 .
11 December – The Jam give their final performance together, at
Brighton Conference Centre , just before their split.
Charts
Number-one singles
"The Model"/"Computer Love" was the first single by a German artist to top the chart since its establishment 29 years earlier. By the end of 1982, there had been two further number ones by German artists, "Seven Tears" and "A Little Peace".
Number-one albums
Year-end charts
The tables below include sales between 1 January and 31 December 1982: the year-end charts reproduced in the issue of
Music Week dated 26 December 1982 and played on Radio 1 on 2 January 1983 only include sales figures up until 11 December 1982.
Best-selling singles
[4]
Best-selling albums
[5]
Notes:
^ Reached number 9 in 1981
^ Reached number 1 in 1981
^ Reached number 1 in 1981
Classical music
New works
Opera
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Music awards
BRIT Awards
The 1982
BRIT Awards winners were:
Births
11 January –
Ashley Taylor Dawson , singer (
allSTARS* )
16 January –
Preston , singer
10 March –
Jonathan Ansell , tenor (
G4 )
6 March - Sinead Shepard, Irish singer (
Six )
11 March - Kyle Anderson, Northern Irish singer (Six)
23 March - Emma O'Driscoll, Irish singer (Six) and TV presenter
7 April -
Kelli Young , singer (
Liberty X )
26 April –
Jon Lee , singer (
S Club 7 )
30 April -
Cleo Higgins , singer (
Cleopatra )
7 June –
Amy Nuttall , actress and opera singer
18 June - Haydon Eshun, singer (
Ultimate Kaos )
20 June –
Example , singer-songwriter, musician and rapper
30 June
17 July –
Natasha Hamilton , singer (
Atomic Kitten )
22 September –
Billie Piper , singer and actress
4 October –
YolanDa Brown , jazz saxophonist
14 December –
Anthony Way , chorister
date unknown –
Charlotte Bray , composer
Deaths
6 January –
Katherine Bacon , concert pianist, 85
12 January
18 January –
Alec Robertson , music critic, 89
30 January –
Stanley Holloway , actor, singer and monologist, 91
[6]
4 February –
Alex Harvey , rock singer and entertainer, 46 (heart attack)
[7]
20 March –
Roy Fox , American-born dance bandleader, 80
1 May –
William Primrose , violist, 77
[8]
6 May –
Rosamond Harding , music scholar, 84
12 May –
Humphrey Searle , composer, 66
[9]
24 May –
Richard Hall , composer, 78
16 June –
James Honeyman-Scott , guitarist of
The Pretenders , 25 (heart failure caused by cocaine intolerance)
[10]
25 June –
Alex Welsh , jazz musician, 52
[11]
29 June – Pipe Major
Donald MacLeod , bagpipe musician and composer, 65
4 July –
Maurice Blower , composer, 88
29 September –
A. L. Lloyd , folk song collector, 74
[12]
6 October –
Philip Green , film and TV composer and conductor, 71
8 October –
Erik Routley , hymn writer and composer, 64
16 October –
Rory McEwen , artist and musician, 50
29 October –
William Lloyd Webber , organist and composer, 68
[13]
1 November
13 November –
Chesney Allen , entertainer, 88
[14]
16 November –
Arthur Askey , entertainer, 82
[15]
5 December –
Caryl Brahms , musician and writer, 80
[16]
19 December –
Lawrance Collingwood , conductor, composer and record producer, 95
date unknown –
Bob Roberts , folk singer, 74/75
See also
References
^
Top 10 crazy music myths
^
"Foreign News Briefs" . UPI . Retrieved 6 October 2020 .
^
"The Official Top 50 best-selling songs of 1982" .
Official Charts .
^ Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Jones, Alan (1983). "The Top 100 UK Singles". Chart File Volume 2 . London, England: Virgin Books. pp. 80–81.
ISBN
0-907080-73-1 .
^ Rees; Lazell; Jones (1983). "The Top 100 UK Albums". pp. 82–83.
^ Midwinter, Eric.
"Holloway, Stanley Augustus (1890–1982)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, January 2011, accessed 21 April 2011 (subscription required)
^ Nick Talevski (1999).
The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries . Omnibus. p. 176.
ISBN
978-0-7119-7548-4 .
^
The Annual Obituary . St. Martin's. 1982. p. 206.
ISBN
978-0-312-03877-9 .
^ David Mason Greene; Constance Green (1985).
Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers . Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 1439.
ISBN
978-0-385-14278-6 .
^
"INTERVIEW / Ol' blue eyes is back", The Independent , 1 May 1994 . Accessed 11 March 2014
^ Ian Carr; Digby Fairweather; Brian Priestley; Chris Parker (1995).
Jazz: The Rough Guide . Rough Guides. p. 684.
ISBN
978-1-85828-137-7 .
^ Colin Larkin (2002).
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music . Virgin Books. p. 256.
ISBN
978-1-85227-937-0 .
^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997).
Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . A&C Black. p. 212.
ISBN
978-0-7201-2330-2 .
^
"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" . OUP. Retrieved 13 October 2013 .
^
Film Review . etc. 1983. p. 113.
ISBN
978-0-491-03012-0 .
^ Sherrin, Ned.
"Abrahams, Doris Caroline [Caryl Brahms] (1901–1982)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 September 2011 (subscription required)
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