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1982 in music |
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Events
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January 15 -
K.C. and the Sunshine Band's
Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured
in an automobile accident in
Miami, Florida.
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January 17 -
Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel
Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride
poisoning sustained while he was finishing
floors in his home
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January 20 -
Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a live
bat thrown at him during a performance.
Osbourne is hospitalized with
rabies.
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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.
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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.
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February 20 -
Pat Benatar marries her guitarist,
Neil Giraldo on the
Hawaiian island of
Maui
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March 4 -
Frank Zappa's son
Dweezil and daughter
Moon Unit form
Fred Zeppelin
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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
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March 18 -
Teddy Pendergrass is severely injured in
a car accident in
Philadelphia. Pendergrass' injuries
result in him being paralyzed from the waist
down
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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.
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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
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March 29 -
Stevie Wonder and
Paul McCartney release their single "Ebony
and Ivory", which will remain at #1 for
7 weeks
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March 31 -
The Doobie Brothers announce that they
are breaking up
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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
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April 26 -
Rod Stewart is mugged in
Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses
his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was
not hurt.
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August 17 - In
Langenhagen near
Hanover,
Germany began the first mass production
of the
compact disc.
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September 7 - The musical
Cats begins its 18 year run on
Broadway
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September 22 -
The Who begin their only
formally-announced "farewell" tour in
Washington, D.C.
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November 5 - First broadcast of The Tube
was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
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December 1 -
Thriller is released by
superstar
Michael Jackson and goes on to be
the greatest selling album of all time, with
104 million units sold worldwide
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compact discs appear in music stores in
Asia.
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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.
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Janet Jackson releases first recording
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Caution and
Plee Fresh begin recording; this is the
birth of a distinctively
Chicago sound in
hip hop music
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Lee Aaron's solo career begins
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Ronnie James Dio leaves
Black Sabbath for solo career
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Wendy O. Williams leaves the
Plasmatics for a solo career
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Chronological
Table of US and UK Number One Hit Singles
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Other significant
singles of the year
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Deaths
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January 17 -
Tommy Tucker, songwriter
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January 30 -
Stanley Holloway, English actor and
singer
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February 17 -
Thelonious Monk
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February 21 -
Murray the K,
disc jockey
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March 5 -
John Belushi US entertainer of
The Blues Brothers
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March 19 -
Randy Rhoads US guitarst
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March 24 -
Aileen Stanley, US singer
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March 29 -
Carl Orff,
German
composer, famous for the choral work
Carmina Burana
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April 2 -
Sam Coslow, US songwriter and sometime
singer
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April 9 -
Jim Davidson, 79, Australian bandleader
in
Bowral, NSW
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May 1 -
William Primrose, violist
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May 8 -
Neil Bogart, 39, Owner of
Casablanca Records, cancer
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May 15 -
Joëlle, French singer, drug overdose
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July 9 -
Wingy Manone, jazz trumpeter
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July 28 -
Keith Green, gospel singer, plane crash
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September 1 -
Clifford Curzon, pianist
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October 4 -
Glenn Gould, pianist
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October 16
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