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Overview of the events of 1982 in British music
This is a summary of 1982 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
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 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.
Number-one singles [ edit ]
"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 [ edit ]
Year-end charts [ edit ]
The tables below include sales between 1 January and 31 December 1982: the year-end charts reproduced in the issue of Music Week
Best-selling singles [ edit ]
[4]
Best-selling albums [ edit ]
[5]
Notes:
^ Reached number 9 in 1981
^ Reached number 1 in 1981
^ Reached number 1 in 1981
Classical music [ edit ]
New works [ edit ]
Film and Incidental music [ edit ]
Musical theatre [ edit ]
Music awards [ edit ]
BRIT Awards [ edit ]
The 1982 BRIT Awards winners were:
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
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 [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "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 ISBN 978-0-7119-7548-4
^ The Annual Obituary ISBN 978-0-312-03877-9
^ David Mason Greene; Constance Green (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers 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 ISBN 978-1-85828-137-7
^ Colin Larkin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music ISBN 978-1-85227-937-0
^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2
^ "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" . OUP. Retrieved 13 October 2013 .
^ Film Review 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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