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• 1982 in music (UK)

• list of 'years in music'

Events

• January 15 – K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey
  Harry Wayne Casey
  
  Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is most famous for his group, KC and the Sunshine Band and as a producer of several hits for other artists....
   is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida
  Miami, Florida
  
  Miami is a global city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the most populous county in Florida....
  .
• January 17 – Tommy Tucker
  Tommy Tucker
  
  ----Tommy Tucker was an United States blues singer-songwriter and pianist. He was born in Springfield, Ohio, Ohio. He is best known for the 1964 chart-topper song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers", that went to number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart....
  , writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home
• January 20 – Ozzy Osbourne
  Ozzy Osbourne
  
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
   bites the head off a live bat thrown at him during a performance.
• January 21 – B. B. King
  B. B. King
  
  B. B. King is an United States blues guitarist and singer-songwriter known for his expressive singing and inimitable guitar playing. As Komara has written, "King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." Critic...
   donates his personal record collection, which includes nearly 7,000 rare blues records, to the University of Mississippi
  University of Mississippi
  
  The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a state university , co-education research university located in Oxford, Mississippi, Mississippi....
  's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
• February 13 – A 300 pound (136 kg) gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  
  Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
   singer Ronnie Van Zant
  Ronnie Van Zant
  
  Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of 38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant and current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant....
   is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida
  Orange Park, Florida
  
  Orange Park is a town in Clay County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 9,081 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2004 estimates, the town had grown to 9,243....
   cemetery. Police found the gravestone 2 weeks later in a dry river bed.
• February 20 – Pat Benatar
  Pat Benatar
  
  Pat Benatar is a four-time Grammy Award-winning United States singer best known for hit songs like "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"....
   marries her guitarist, Neil Giraldo
  Pat Benatar
  
  Pat Benatar is a four-time Grammy Award-winning United States singer best known for hit songs like "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"....
   on the Hawaiian island of Maui
  Maui
  
  The island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles and is the List of islands of the United States by area....
  
• March 4 – Frank Zappa
  Frank Zappa
  
  Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  's son Dweezil
  Dweezil Zappa
  
  Dweezil Zappa is an American Rock music guitarist....
   and daughter Moon Unit
  Moon Unit Zappa
  
  Moon Unit Zappa is an American actress, musician and author. She goes by the name Moon Zappa; "Unit" is her middle name....
   form Fred Zeppelin
  Fred Zeppelin
  
  Fred Zeppelin is a tribute band to Led Zeppelin based in the original band's heartland of the West Midlands of England. Drummer Steve 'Blackie' Black also heads Midland talent agency and music organisation Moby Music- named after Led Zeppelin's drum solo "Moby Dick "....
  
• March 5 – Comedian and Blues Brother
  The Blues Brothers
  
  The Blues Brothers are a Grammy Award-nominated United States blues music and soul music Revivalist artist founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a Saturday Night Live musical sketches on Saturday Night Live....
   John Belushi
  John Belushi
  
  John Adam Belushi was an United States comedian, actor and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers ....
   is found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel
  Chateau Marmont Hotel
  
  The Chateau Marmont is a hotel at 8221 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California built in 1927 and modeled loosely after the Ch?teau d'Amboise in France's Loire Valley....
   in Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  
• March 18 – Teddy Pendergrass
  Teddy Pendergrass
  
  Theodore "Teddy" DeReese Pendergrass, Sr. is an United States Rhythm and blues/Soul music singer and songwriter. Pendergrass is also known as Teddy P, TP, or Teddy Bear....
   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
  Ozzy Osbourne
  
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
  's lead guitarist, Randy Rhoads
  Randy Rhoads
  
  Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an United States Heavy metal music guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. Despite his short career, he is cited as an influence by many contemporary heavy metal guitarists....
   is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida
  Leesburg, Florida
  
  Leesburg is a city in Lake County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 15,956 at the 2000 census. As of 2005, the population recorded by the U.S....
   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
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  , David Crosby
  David Crosby
  
  David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an United States guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young which is sometimes augmented with Neil Young, and CPR ....
   is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine
  Cocaine
  
  Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
   and carrying a concealed weapon
• March 29 – Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  
  Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
   and Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
   release their single "Ebony and Ivory
  Ebony and Ivory
  
  "Ebony and Ivory" is a 1982 Hot 100 number-one hits of 1982 single by Paul McCartney, performed with Stevie Wonder. It was released on March 29 of that year....
  ", which will remain at #1 for 7 weeks
• March 31 – The Doobie Brothers
  The Doobie Brothers
  
  The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
   announce that they are breaking up
• April 15 – Billy Joel
  Billy Joel
  
  William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
   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 26 – Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
   is mugged in Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  . Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
• May 26 – The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
   open their European tour in Aberdeen, Scotland.
• June 19 - Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  
  Amy Lee Grant is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her contemporary Christian music....
   marries Gary Chapman
  Gary Chapman (musician)
  
  Gary Chapman is a Contemporary music Christian music singer-songwriter and former television talk show Presenter....
  .
• August 17 – In Langenhagen
  Langenhagen
  
  Langenhagen is a Germany city in the Hanover district of Lower Saxony....
   near Hanover
  Hanover
  
  Hanover or Hannover#Definitions , on the river Leine, is the capital city of the Federal states of Germany of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the House of Hanover, in their dignities as the dukes of Brunswick-L?neburg ....
  , Germany began the first mass production of the compact disc
  Compact Disc
  
  A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store Data , originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since October 1982, remains the standard physical medium for sale of commercial Sound recording and reproduction to the present day....
  .
• August 28 - Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  
  Eric Victor Burdon is best known as a founding member and singer of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and his multi-racial project the Funk rock band War ....
   getting arrested after a show at the Rockpalast
  Rockpalast
  
  Rockpalast is a Germany music television show that broadcasts live on German television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk . Rockpalast, which translates to English as Rock Palace, started in 1974 and continues to this day....
   in Cologne
  Cologne
  
  Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
  
• September 7 – The musical Cats
  Cats (musical)
  
  Cats is a Musical theatre composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard, 'Memory '....
   begins its 18 year run on Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
  
• September 22 – The Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
   begin their only formally-announced "farewell" tour in Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  
  Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
  
• November 5 – First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
• November
• Most successful group of the 1970s Abba
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
   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
  Sena Jurinac
  
  Sena Jurinac is an operatic soprano, now retired, born in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Her father was a Croats doctor, her mother Viennese....
   appears on stage for the last time, with the Vienna State Opera
  Vienna State Opera
  
  The Vienna State Opera is an opera house - and opera company - with a history dating back to the mid 19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria....
  .
• December 1 – Thriller
  Thriller (album)
  
  Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall ....
   is released by superstar Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  
  Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
   and goes on to be greatest selling album of all time, with 104 million units sold worldwide
• The first compact disc
  Compact Disc
  
  A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store Data , originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since October 1982, remains the standard physical medium for sale of commercial Sound recording and reproduction to the present day....
  s appear in music stores in Asia.
• A benefit concert
  Benefit concert
  
  A benefit concert is a concert, show or gala featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable organization purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis....
   takes place in Downey, California
  Downey, California
  
  Downey is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States, 21 km southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 107,323....
   to replace the guitars belonging to Daniel Amos
  Daniel Amos
  
  Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars....
   which were stolen early in the year. Performers included Tom Howard
  Tom Howard (musician)
  
  Tom Howard is an United States pianist, musical Arrangement and orchestral Conducting.In 1983, Howard helped the rock band Daniel Amos form the Alarma! Records label....
  , Mark Heard
  Mark Heard
  
  John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia.Mark Heard released 16 records in his lifetime, and produced and performed with many other artists as well, such as Sam Phillips , Pierce Pettis, Phil Keaggy, Vigilantes of Love, Peter Buck of R.E.M....
   and Randy Stonehill
  Randy Stonehill
  
  Randy Stonehill is an United States singer/songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the so-called "fathers of contemporary Christian music." His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but he has assayed other styles, with various albums focused on new wave music, pop rock, roots rock, and children's mus...
  .
• Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  's recording career begins when she signs to both Warner Bros. Records
  Warner Bros. Records
  
  Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
   and Sire Records
  Sire Records
  
  Sire Records is an United States record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records...
  .
• Caution and Plee Fresh begin recording; this is the birth of a distinctively Chicago sound in hip hop music
  Hip hop music
  
  Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
  .
• Lee Aaron
  Lee Aaron
  
  Lee Aaron is a Canada Rock music and jazz singer. She had several hits with titles such as "Metal Queen", "Whatcha Do to my Body", and "Sex with Love"....
  's solo career begins.
• Ronnie James Dio
  Ronnie James Dio
  
  Ronnie James Dio , is an American heavy metal music vocalist and singer-songwriter who has performed with Elf , Rainbow , Black Sabbath, and his own band Dio....
   leaves Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
   for solo career.
• Wendy O. Williams
  Wendy O. Williams
  
  Wendy Orlean Williams , better known as Wendy O. Williams, was the lead singer for the Punk rock band the Plasmatics, whose stage theatrics included blowing up equipment, near nudity and chainsaw guitars....
   leaves the Plasmatics
  Plasmatics
  
  The Plasmatics were an American Punk rock band formed by Yale University graduate and radical anti-artist Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos as part of an assault on American popular culture....
   for a solo career.

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1982

Bands disbanded

• ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
   (retired)
• Adam and the Ants
  Adam and the Ants
  
  Adam and the Ants were a New Romantic band during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were one of the bands at the time that marked the transition from the 70s punk rock era to the New Wave music/post-punk era....
  
• Bad Company
  Bad Company
  
  Bad Company are an England hard rock Supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free , Mott the Hoople , and King Crimson . Bad Company was managed by Peter Grant , who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success....
   (they reform in 1986)
• Blondie
  Blondie (band)
  
  Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
   (they reform in 1997)
• The Doobie Brothers
  The Doobie Brothers
  
  The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
   (they reform in 1988)
• Eagles
  Eagles
  
  The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
   (they reform in 1994)
• Hotel
  Hotel (band)
  
  The band Hotel was a power pop group formed in Birmingham, Alabama in 1973 and disbanded in 1982. Although they had a strong regional following and were loaded top to bottom with highly-talented musicians, due to changing musical tastes and lackluster promotion, they failed to achieve stardom....
  
• The Jam
  The Jam
  
  The Jam were an English Rock music band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore neatly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes and incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock influences rather than rejecting them, placing...
  
• The Only Ones
  The Only Ones
  
  The Only Ones are an England rock and roll band. They were initially active in the late 1970s and were associated with punk rock, yet straddled the musical territory in between punk rock, power pop and hard rock, with noticeable influences from psychedelia....
  
• Average White Band (they reform in 1989)
• Japan
  Japan (band)
  
  Japan were a United Kingdom pop/rock group, formed in 1974 in Lewisham, southeast London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s/early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement ....
  
• The Skids
  The Skids
  
  The Skids were an art-punk/punk rock and New Wave music band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, founded in 1977 by Stuart Adamson , William Simpson , Thomas Kellichan and Richard Jobson ....
  
• The Wild Swans
  The Wild Swans
  
  "The Wild Swans" is a fairy tale by Denmark poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her brothers from a spell cast by a wicked queen....
   (they reform in 1985)

Albums released

• Thriller
  Thriller (album)
  
  Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall ....
  – Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  
  Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
   (greatest selling album of all time)
• Age To Age
  Age to Age
  
  Age to Age is the sixth album by Contemporary Christian music singer Amy Grant, released in 1982 .Age to Age was Amy Grant's breakthrough album, finally earning her serious recognition within the Contemporary Christian music community as it ushered her into stardom....
   – Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  
  Amy Lee Grant is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her contemporary Christian music....
  
• Album - Generic Flipper
  Album - Generic Flipper
  
  Album - Generic Flipper is the debut album by the San Francisco band Flipper . Many fans say it is the band's finest release, and it is definitely their most acclaimed release....
   – Flipper
  Flipper (band)
  
  Flipper is an influential punk rock band formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1979, continuing in often erratic fashion until the mid-1990s, then reuniting in 2005....
  
• All Four One
  All Four One
  
  All Four One is the third studio album by the New Wave music band The Motels, released in 1982. The album felt like the 'fourth album' to the band, as it is mostly a re-recording of an unreleased album entitled Apocalypso....
   – The Motels
  The Motels
  
  The Motels were a New Wave music band from the Los Angeles, California area best known for "Only the Lonely " and "Suddenly Last Summer ", each of which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and 1983, respectively....
  
• Ambient 4: On Land – Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
  
• American Fool
  American Fool
  
  American Fool is the sixth album by John Cougar, now known by his real name of John Mellencamp, released in 1982 . This was Mellencamp's last album to be released under the name John Cougar....
   – John Cougar Mellencamp
• Another Day/Another Dollar
  Another Day/Another Dollar
  
  Another Day/Another Dollar is a 12" vinyl EP by Gang of Four , released in 1982 in the US, by EMI/Warner Brothers Records. The release is a compilation of material previously unreleased in the US....
   – Gang of Four
  Gang of Four (band)
  
  Gang of Four are an England post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King , guitarist Andy Gill , bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham....
  
• The Anvil
  The Anvil
  
  The Anvil may refer to:* Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler.* El Yunque , a Mexican secret society* North Carolina Anvil, an alternative weekly newspaper...
   – Visage
  Visage
  
  Visage are a British Pop Music band. Formed in 1978, the band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s....
  
• Are You Ready
  Are You Ready
  
  Are You Ready is a 2005 album by Blue Rodeo whose first single was "Rena"....
   – Bucks Fizz
  Bucks Fizz
  
  Bucks Fizz or Buck's Fizz may refer to:* Buck's Fizz , an alcoholic mixed drink* Bucks Fizz , a UK pop group which won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest...
  
• Asia
  Asia (album)
  
  Asia is the debut album by the progressive rock band Asia , released in 1982.The album reached #1 in the U.S. on the Billboard 200 charts, and according to Billboard was the best-selling album in the United States for the year 1982....
   – Asia
  Asia (band)
  
  Asia is a Rock music group formed in 1981. The band was labelled a supergroup and included former members of veteran progressive rock bands Yes , King Crimson, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Uriah Heep , UK , Roxy Music, Wishbone Ash and The Buggles....
  
• Avalon
  Avalon (album)
  
  Avalon, released in 1982, was Roxy Music's eighth studio album. Recorded in 1981-82 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, it is generally regarded as the culmination of the smoother, more adult-oriented sound of the band's later work....
   – Roxy Music
  Roxy Music
  
  Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson ....
  
• Back from Samoa
  Back from Samoa
  
  Back from Samoa is the second album by the United States punk rock band Angry Samoans. It was released in 1982 ....
   – Angry Samoans
  Angry Samoans
  
  The Angry Samoans are an American punk band in the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk. Formed in August 1978 in Los Angeles, California by early 70's rock writer Mike Saunders and his brother lead guitarist Kevin Eric Saunders, along with co-conspirator Gregg Turner and original recruits bassist Todd Homer and...
  
• Bad Brains
  Bad Brains (album)
  
  Bad Brains is the first full-length studio album recorded by Bad Brains. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has been quoted as saying that this album is "the best punk/hardcore album of all time"....
   – Bad Brains
  Bad Brains
  
  Bad Brains are an American hardcore punk/roots reggae band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as being among the pioneers of the genre, though the band's members objected to the term "hardcore" to describe their music....
  
• Barry Live in Britain
  Barry Live in Britain
  
  Live in Britain is the eleventh album released by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London in January 1982....
   – Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  
  Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  
• Bean-Spill
  Bean-Spill
  
  Bean-Spill is the third extended-play single and fourth release overall by American hardcore punk band The Minutemen .Continuing their prolific ways - and their belief that their records served as promotional flyers for their live shows - the band recorded a new five-song EP using the same methodology - one night's recording and mixing...
   (EP) – The Minutemen
• Beasts (EP) - Sex Gang Children
  Sex Gang Children
  
  Sex Gang Children were an early gothic rock group that formed in the early 1980s in England. Although the group only released one official studio album, they remain one of the more well-known bands out of the early Batcave scene....
  
• Beat
  Beat (King Crimson album)
  
  Beat is an album by the British rock band King Crimson, released in 1982.Its title is partly inspired by the writings of the beat generation:...
   – King Crimson
  King Crimson
  
  King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
  
• Beautiful Vision
  Beautiful Vision
  
  Beautiful Vision is an album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter/musician Van Morrison, released in January 1982 through Elektra Records/Asylum Records....
   – Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  
  George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
  
• Before a Word Is Said – Gowen
  Alan Gowen
  
  Alan Gowen was a jazz fusion/progressive rock keyboardist, best known for his work in Gilgamesh and National Health.Gowen joined Assagai in 1971 before going on to found Sunship in 1972 with Jamie Muir and Laurie Baker ....
  , Miller
  Phil Miller
  
  Phil Miller is an England progressive rock/jazz guitarist who was part of the Canterbury scene. He was a member of the musical band Delivery , Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Short Wave and has since worked in solo projects and in his band In Cahoots, which he founded in 1982 with Richard Sinclair, Elton Dean, Pet...
  , Sinclair
  Richard Sinclair
  
  Richard S. Sinclair is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene....
  , Tomkins
  Trevor Tomkins
  
  Trevor Ramsey Tomkins is an England jazz drummer best known for his work in a number of British bands in the 1970s, including Gilgamesh .His recorded several albums with pianist Michael Garrick in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  
• Big Science
  Big Science (album)
  
  Big Science is the 1982 debut album by avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and the first of a 7-album deal she signed with Warner Bros. Records....
   – Laurie Anderson
  Laurie Anderson
  
  Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles....
  
• Black Metal
  Black Metal (album)
  
  Black Metal is the second album by the England band Venom . It was released in 1982 and is considered a major influence on the thrash metal, death metal and black metal scenes that emerged in the 1980s and early 1990s....
   – Venom
  Venom (band)
  
  Venom are an English extreme metal band, formed in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne.Considered a seminal influence for thrash metal and coming to prominence towards the end of the 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal', Venom have found little mainstream success or critical acclaim, but are widely regarded as highly influential, particularly for thei...
  
• Black Tiger
  Black Tiger (album)
  
  Black Tiger is an album by Y&T. Recorded at Ridge Farm, in Dorking, County of Surrey, England, it was released in 1982 on A&M Records....
   – Y&T
  Y&T
  
  Y&T is an United States hard rock/Heavy metal music formed in 1974. They hail from the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band released two studio albums on London Records as Yesterday & Today in the 1970s, before shortening their name to Y&T and releasing several albums on A&M Records beginning in 1981, as well as albums on Geffen...
  
• Blackout
  Blackout (Scorpions album)
  
  Blackout is the eighth studio album by the Germany Heavy metal music band Scorpions , released in 1982.Lead vocalist Klaus Meine had to undergo surgery on his vocal folds during the writing of the album and it was uncertain whether he would be able to record it....
   – Scorpions
  Scorpions (band)
  
  Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
  
• The Blue Mask
  The Blue Mask
  
  The Blue Mask is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter Lou Reed. It was the first album released after Reed left Arista and returned to RCA....
   – Lou Reed
  Lou Reed
  
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
  
• Bobbie Sue
  Bobbie Sue
  
  Bobbie Sue was the 7th album by the Oak Ridge Boys. It was released on February 10, 1982. It's title song was a #1 country chart hit and a #12 hit on the Hot 100 singles chart as well....
   – The Oak Ridge Boys
  The Oak Ridge Boys
  
  The Oak Ridge Boys are a country music and gospel music group that is based in the United States. The group was founded in 1945 as the Oak Ridge Quartet....
  
• Branigan
  Branigan
  
  Branigan is the first album by singer Laura Branigan, released in 1982 . Although the album's first single, "All Night With Me," was not a big hit on the charts, its second single, "Gloria ," made the singer a star....
   – Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  
  Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
  
• The Broadsword and the Beast – Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  
  Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  
• A Broken Frame
  A Broken Frame
  
  A Broken Frame is the second studio album by the British synthpop band Depeche Mode, released in 1982. The album was written entirely by Martin Gore and recorded after the departure of Vince Clarke, who had left the band to form Yazoo with singer Alison Moyet....
   – Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  
  Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
  
• Business as Usual
  Business as Usual
  
  Business as Usual is the debut album of Australian band Men at Work, released in December 1981 in Australia and August 1982 in the US. The Australian release of the album included a black and white cover design, whereas overseas releases had the same design but in a yellow and black color scheme....
   – Men at Work
  Men at Work
  
  Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock music band which achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a #1 album and single simultaneously in the United States ....
   (US)
• Chicago 16
  Chicago 16
  
  Chicago 16 is the sixteenth album by United States rock music band Chicago and was released in 1982. The album marks the beginning of a new era for Chicago....
   – Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  
  Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  
• Choose Your Masques
  Choose Your Masques
  
  Choose Your Masques is a 1982 studio album by Hawkwind. Reached #29 in the UK album charts....
   – Hawkwind
  Hawkwind
  
  Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
  
• Chris Rea
  Chris Rea (album)
  
  Chris Rea is a self-titled album by Chris Rea, released in 1982....
   – Chris Rea
  Chris Rea
  
  Christopher Anton Rea is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, recognisable for his distinctive, raspy voice. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide....
  
• Christ – The Album
  Christ – The Album
  
  'Christ - The Album' is Crass' fourth album, released in 1982. It was released as a boxed set double vinyl LP package, including one disk of new studio material and another, entitled Well Forked.....
   – Crass
  Crass
  
  Crass were an English punk band, formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, lifestylism, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularized the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism....
  
• Chronic Town
  Chronic Town
  
  Chronic Town is the debut Extended play by the United States alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1982 on I.R.S. Records. Chronic Town is the first illustration of R.E.M.'s signature musical style: jangling guitars, chords played in arpeggio, murmured vocals, and oblique lyrics....
   (EP) – R.E.M.
• Church of Hawkwind
  Church of Hawkwind
  
  Church of Hawkwind is a 1982 studio album by Hawkwind released under the name Church of Hawkwind. The name change reflects the fact that this was a musical departure for the band, being a more experimental electronic offering rather than the usual heavy rock that the band were known for at the time....
   – Hawkwind
  Hawkwind
  
  Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
  
• Circus Animals
  Cold Chisel (album)
  
  Cold Chisel was the self-titled debut album of Australian Pub rock band Cold Chisel, released in April 1978....
   – Cold Chisel
  Cold Chisel
  
  Cold Chisel were a rock band from Adelaide, Australia. They are regarded as the canonical example of Australian Pub rock , with a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and they are acknowledged as one of the most popular and successful Australian groups of the period, although this success and acclaim was almost completely restricted...
  
• Coda
  Coda (album)
  
  Coda is a studio album by England rock music band Led Zeppelin, released in 1982 in music. This collection of outtakes from various sessions during Led Zeppelin's twelve-year career was released two years after the group had officially disbanded following the death of drummer John Bonham....
   – Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
  
• Comeback
  Comeback (album)
  
  Comeback is a Rock music album by Eric Burdon released in 1982, during the Comeback project. It was the studio album to the film. Live tracks during this sessions were released later on compilations....
   - Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  
  Eric Victor Burdon is best known as a founding member and singer of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and his multi-racial project the Funk rock band War ....
  
• Combat Rock
  Combat Rock
  
  Combat Rock is a 1982 album released by The Clash. It was the last album to feature the classic line-up before Mick Jones was sacked and Topper Headon was kicked out for his heroin addiction....
   – The Clash
  The Clash
  
  The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  
• Complete Madness
  Complete Madness
  
  Complete Madness is the first greatest hits album by ska/pop group Madness . It was released in 1982 and included Madness' biggest hits from their first three studio albums and all the stand-alone singles....
   – Madness
  Madness (band)
  
  Madness are an English Pop music/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years....
   (greatest hits)
• Computer Games
  Computer Games (album)
  
  Computer Games is a 1982 album by legendary funk musician George Clinton , released on Capitol Records. Though technically Clinton's first "solo" album, the record featured most of the same personnel who had appeared on recent albums by Parliament and Funkadelic, both formally disbanded by Clinton in 1981....
   – George Clinton
  George Clinton (funk musician)
  
  George Clinton is an United States musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the musical bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and is a solo funk artist as of 1981....
  
• Creatures of the Night
  Creatures of the Night
  
  Creatures of the Night is a 1982 album from United States hard rock/Heavy metal music band Kiss . It is the band's 10th studio album and the last for Casablanca Records, the only label the group had ever recorded for up to that point....
   – Kiss
  KISS (band)
  
  Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
  
• Dawn Patrol
  Dawn patrol
  
  Dawn patrol may refer to:In film, television, and radio:* The Dawn Patrol , a 1930 World War I film starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr...
   – Night Ranger
  Night Ranger
  
  Night Ranger is an United States hard rock band from San Francisco, California that gained significant popularity during the 1980s with a series of successful albums and singles....
  
• Death Wish II
  Death Wish II (album)
  
  Death Wish II is a soundtrack album by Jimmy Page, released by Swan Song Records on 15 February, 1982 to accompany the film Death Wish II....
   – Jimmy Page
  Jimmy Page
  
  James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
  
• The Distance
  The Distance (album)
  
  The Distance is thirteenth album by United States rock and roll band Bob Seger, released in 1982 ....
   – Bob Seger
  Bob Seger
  
  Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
   and the Silver Bullet Band
• Diver Down
  Diver Down
  
  Diver Down is the fifth album by United States hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1982 in music. According to , it spent 65 weeks on the US album charts and had, by 1998, sold 4 million copies in the United States....
   – Van Halen
  Van Halen
  
  Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
  
• Donna Summer
  Donna Summer
  
  Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
   – Donna Summer
  Donna Summer
  
  Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
  
• The Dreaming
  The Dreaming (album)
  
  The Dreaming is the fourth album by the British singer Kate Bush. Following Bush's production assistance on Lionheart , and her Record producer of Never for Ever with Jon Kelly and John L Walters, The Dreaming was the first album Bush produced on her own....
   – Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  
  Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
  
• D.S. al Coda – National Health
  National Health
  
  National Health was a progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band included members of Dave Stewart 's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh , the band also included guitarists Phil Miller and Phil Lee and bassist Mont Campbell as original members....
  
• Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  
  Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is the second compilation album by the Eagles. It features many of their biggest hits not on Their Greatest Hits , including "Hotel California ", which is one of the Eagles's biggest hits....
   – Eagles
  Eagles
  
  The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
  
• The Early Tapes/Strategy
  Strategy (album)
  
  ?The Early Tapes aka Strategy, is the second album released by the British pop musical group Level 42. Some tracks of the album is recorded in 1980, before the release of the first album named Level 42 , until in the minor label: Elite Records....
   – Level 42
  Level 42
  
  Level 42 is an England pop rock and jazz-funk music band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high-calibre musicianship - especially that of Mark King , whose percussive Slapping guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits....
  
• Eddie Murphy
  Eddie Murphy (album)
  
  Eddie Murphy was Eddie Murphy's first album. The song Boogie in Your Butt was arguably the album's greatest success, spawning numerous YouTube parody videos....
   – Eddie Murphy
  Eddie Murphy
  
  Bold text'Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy is an United States actor, film director, Film producer, comedian and "singer". Murphy ranks as the highest grossing film star in history, having a total of 37 films to date, his films grossing over $3.4 billion in the US alone, averaging $104 million per film....
   (Debut)
• Electric Rendezvous
  Electric Rendezvous
  
  Electric Rendezvous is an album by Italian-American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist Al Di Meola released in 1982. It features Flamenco guitarist Paco de Luc?a who also recorded Friday Night in San Francisco with Di Meola....
  - Al Di Meola
  Al Di Meola
  
  Al Di Meola is an Italian American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist.Di Meola grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and attended Bergenfield High School....
  
• English Settlement
  English Settlement
  
  English Settlement is an XTC album released on February 12 1982. The album reached No. 5 on the UK album chart, No. 48 on the Billboard 200 album charts, No.1 on the Progressive Media Radio Album charts and No....
  – XTC
  XTC
  
  XTC were a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. Though the band enjoyed some significant chart success , they are more known for their long-standing critical success than for making hit records....
  
• Enter K
  Enter K
  
  Enter K is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on the Na?ve Records label in Oct 1982. The label was owned and operated by Gordian Troeller, the former manager of Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator....
  – Peter Hammill
  Peter Hammill
  
  Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is a singer-songwriter, and a founding member of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano....
  
• Everything Falls Apart
  Everything Falls Apart
  
  Everything Falls Apart is H?sker D?'s first studio album, as their full-length debut, Land Speed Record , was recorded live. Earliest pressings, which included a lyric sheet, are of greatest interest to collectors, but later pressings without the lyric sheet are also worth seeking....
  – Hüsker Dü
  Hüsker Dü
  
  H?sker D? was an United States punk rock band formed in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist Bob Mould, bass guitar Greg Norton, and drummer Grant Hart....
  
• …Famous Last Words… – Supertramp
  Supertramp
  
  Supertramp were a United Kingdom progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer ", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song"....
  
• Fantastic
  Fantastic (album)
  
  Fantastic was the debut album by British pop duo Wham!. Released on July 9, 1983, it reached #1 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland charts....
  – Wham!
  WHAM!
  
  Wham! was a pop music band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. It was briefly known in the United States as Wham!-UK because of a naming conflict with another band....
  
• Fast Women & Slow Horses – Dr. Feelgood
  Dr. Feelgood (band)
  
  Dr. Feelgood are a United Kingdom pub rock musical band, which was formed in mid 1971. The name of the band, Dr. Feelgood, is slang for heroin, or for physicians who are prepared to overprescribe drugs....
  
• Five Miles Out
  Five Miles Out
  
  Five Miles Out is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was his seventh album of original material, and was released in 1982 , at a time when his music was moving away from large-scale symphonic pieces towards a more accessible pop style....
  – Mike Oldfield
  Mike Oldfield
  
  Mike Oldfield is an England multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk music, ethnic or world music, European classical music, electronic music, New Age music and more recently dance music....
  
• Flex Your Head
  Flex Your Head
  
  Flex Your Head is a punk rock compilation album. It was originally released in January 1982, and was re-released on CD in August 1995. A Remaster CD version was released in 2002....
  – Various Artists
• Flieg' Vogel flieg – Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Forever Now
  Forever Now
  
  Forever Now is the third album by The Psychedelic Furs. Roger Morris and Duncan Kilburn having left the band, the foursome were augmented by producer Todd Rundgren's house horn section and Flo & Eddie....
   – The Psychedelic Furs
• Forging Ahead
  Forging Ahead
  
  Forging Ahead is the fourth album by Bad Manners from the year 1982. It was the group's last album on Magnet Records. The picture sleeve to the right, is of the American edition of the album that was released two years later in 1984, with a slightly different track list to the official UK issue....
   – Bad Manners
  Bad Manners
  
  Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
  
• Friend or Foe
  Friend or Foe (album)
  
  Friend or Foe was the first solo album by Adam Ant, released after Adam & the Ants disbanded in early 1982. Friend or Foe also became Adam Ant's most successful solo album giving him the hit song "Goody Two-Shoes " which peaked at #1 on the UK charts, and at #12 in the USA; along with the innovative video, this made him a crossover...
   – Adam Ant
  Adam Ant
  
  Adam Ant is an English musician, who gained popularity as the lead singer of 1980s New Wave music/post-punk group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist....
  
• Gap Band IV
  Gap Band IV
  
  Gap Band IV is an album by The Gap Band, released in 1982 on Total Experience Records. The album was later reissued on CD by Mercury Records, Total Experience's parent company at the time....
   – The Gap Band
• Garista
  Garista
  
  Garista is a music album of recordings by the United Kingdom avant-garde music group, Zoviet France, who, when it was recorded, identified themselves as :$OVIET:FRANCE:....
   – :$OVIET:FRANCE:
  Zoviet France
  
  Zoviet France is a prolific music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music also falls into the ambient music category....
  
• Garlands
  Garlands
  
  Garlands is the 1982 debut album of Cocteau Twins. It is the only album with original bassist Will Heggie and his chugging basslines give the album a distinctive sound....
   – Cocteau Twins
  Cocteau Twins
  
  Cocteau Twins was a Scottish band active from 1979 to 1997....
  
• The Getaway
  The Getaway (album)
  
  The Getaway is singer Chris de Burgh's 6th original album, released on A&M Records in 1982. The album was spearheaded by the United States hit, "Don't Pay the Ferryman", a strangely upbeat, mythology-tinged ballad that evokes images of the Death ....
   – Chris de Burgh
  Chris de Burgh
  
  Chris de Burgh is an Irish-based musician and singer-songwriter who holds British nationality . A musician who writes a variety of mixed instrumental material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Ireland, Britain and the United States with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red "....
  
• Get Nervous – Pat Benatar
  Pat Benatar
  
  Pat Benatar is a four-time Grammy Award-winning United States singer best known for hit songs like "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"....
  
• The Gift
  The Gift (The Jam album)
  
  The Gift was the final studio album by The Jam. Released on March 12, 1982, it reached #1 on the British charts. Clocking in at 32:17 minutes, the album received a mixed reception from critics and fans....
   – The Jam
  The Jam
  
  The Jam were an English Rock music band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore neatly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes and incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock influences rather than rejecting them, placing...
  
• Going Where the Lonely Go
  Going Where the Lonely Go
  
  Going Where the Lonely Go is an album by United States recording artist Merle Haggard, released in 1982. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard charts Hot Country Albums chart....
   - Merle Haggard
  Merle Haggard
  
  Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
  
• Groovy Decay
  Groovy Decay
  
  Groovy Decay was the second solo album by Robyn Hitchcock, released in 1982. His backing band for the record featured Sara Lee of Gang of Four on bass and Anthony Thistlethwaite of the Waterboys on sax....
   – Robyn Hitchcock
  Robyn Hitchcock
  
  Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....
  
• The Great Twenty-Eight
  The Great Twenty-Eight
  
  The Great Twenty-Eight is a greatest hits album by classic rock and roller Chuck Berry, released in 1982. In 2003, the album was ranked number 21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
   – Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• H₂O
  H2O (album)
  
  H2O is the title of the first album released by H2O . It was released on June 25, 1996. The CD was recorded and mixed in 3 days....
   – Daryl Hall
  Daryl Hall
  
  Daryl Franklin Hohl known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American singer and songwriter best known as half of the music duo Hall & Oates ....
   & John Oates
  John Oates
  
  John William Oates is an United States musician and record producer best known as the mustachioed half of the successful Rock music and Soul music duo Hall & Oates....
  
• Hello, I Must Be Going!
  Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)
  
  Hello, I Must Be Going! is the second studio album by England singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was originally released November 1, 1982 and a Compact disc version released in 1988....
   – Phil Collins
  Phil Collins
  
  Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
  
• Here Comes the Night – Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  
  Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  
• Hex Enduction Hour
  Hex Enduction Hour
  
  Hex Enduction Hour is a 1982 album by The Fall . It showcased a new two-drummer lineup, and the most accessible music they had yet produced....
   – The Fall
• The High and the Mighty
  The High and the Mighty
  
  The High and the Mighty may refer to:* The High and the Mighty , a novel by Ernest K. Gann** The High and the Mighty , a film based on the novel...
   – Donnie Iris
  Donnie Iris
  
  Donnie Iris is an United States rock musician known for his work with The Jaggerz and Wild Cherry during the 1970s, and for his solo albums during the 1980s....
  
• Homotopy to Marie
  Homotopy to Marie
  
  Homotopy To Marie is the fifth album by Nurse With Wound, released in 1982.Although Nurse With Wound had generated considerable interest across their preceding releases, Steven Stapleton has asserted to author David Keenan that Homotopy To Marie should be considered the first "real" NWW album....
   – Nurse With Wound
  Nurse with Wound
  
  Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for United Kingdom musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak....
  
• Hot Space
  Hot Space
  
  Hot Space is an album by England rock band Queen , released in 1982 . Marking a notable shift in direction from their earlier work, Queen employed many elements of disco, Pop Music, R&B and dance music on Hot Space, being partially influenced by the success of their 1980 hit "Another One Bites the Dust" ....
   – Queen
  Queen (band)
  
  Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
  
• Hour Live – Toots & the Maytals
• How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
  How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
  
  How Could Hell Be Any Worse? is the first full-length album released by influential punk rock band Bad Religion. It was financed by a $1,000 loan by guitarist Brett Gurewitz's father....
   – Bad Religion
  Bad Religion
  
  Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
   (debut full-length)
• Humans Only
  Humans Only
  
  Humans Only is the fourth full-length album by the United States electronic band Earthstar . It was their third and final release for Hamburg, Germany based Sky Records....
   – Earthstar
  Earthstar (band)
  
  Earthstar was an electronic music group originally from Utica, New York , New York, in the United States. Earthstar was encouraged by Krautrock/Kosmische Musik/electronic music artist, composer, and producer Klaus Schulze to relocate to Germany where they were signed by Sky Records....
  
• The Hunter – Blondie
  Blondie (band)
  
  Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
  
• I, Assassin
  I, Assassin
  
  I, Assassin is the sixth studio album by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan. Released in 1982, it reached no.8 on the UK Album Charts charts....
   – Gary Numan
  Gary Numan
  
  Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars "....
  
• I Paralyze
  I Paralyze
  
  I Paralyze is the eighteenth album by United States singer-actress Cher, released on May 28 1982 by Columbia Records. This album, like other several predecessors, was a commercial failure, failed to chart....
   – Cher
  Cher
  
  Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
  
• Identity Crisis
  Identity Crisis (Sweet album)
  
  Identity Crisis is a 1982 in music album by Sweet ....
   – Sweet
  Sweet (band)
  
  Sweet were a popular 1970s United Kingdom glam rock band ....
   (final album)
• ...If I Die, I Die – Virgin Prunes
• Imperial Bedroom
  Imperial Bedroom
  
  Imperial Bedroom is a 1982 album by Elvis Costello. It was the second Costello album, following Almost Blue, not produced by Nick Lowe, the production duties handled by erstwhile The Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick....
   – Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• In the Name of Love
  In The Name Of Love
  
  'In the Name of Love' is the first Thompson Twins album released in the United States of America. The album was released in 1982 on Arista Records and comprises eight of the eleven tracks from their second album, Set , plus two of the singles from their debut album, A Product of ......
   – Thompson Twins
  Thompson Twins
  
  The Thompson Twins were a Great Britain Pop music group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the United States and around the globe....
  
• Iron Fist
  Iron Fist (album)
  
  Iron Fist is the fifth album by the United Kingdom Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead. Released on 17 April, 1982, it peaked at #6 on the United Kingdom album charts....
   – Motörhead
  Motörhead
  
  Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
  
• It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
  It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
  
  It's Alright is the sixth solo album by Yoko Ono, and her second release after the death of husband John Lennon. As a variation of a theme concerning its predecessor, the back cover features a transparent image of Lennon in a then-contemprary photo of Yoko and Sean, depicted in Central Park....
   – Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  
  , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
  
• It's Hard
  It's Hard
  
  It's Hard is the tenth studio album by the England Rock music band The Who. It is the last Who album to feature bassist John Entwistle and drummer Kenney Jones....
   – The Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  
• The John Lennon Collection
  The John Lennon Collection
  
  The John Lennon Collection is a retrospective compilation album of John Lennon's solo music, released in 1982 by Parlophone Records, through EMI and by Geffen Records in the United States....
   – John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  
• Jinx
  Jinx
  
  A jinx, in popular superstition and folklore, is:* A sort of curse placed on a person that makes them prey to large numbers of minor misfortunes and other forms of bad luck;...
   - Rory Gallagher
  Rory Gallagher
  
  Rory Gallagher was an Irish ethnicity blues/Rock and roll guitarist. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, he grew up in Cork City in the south of the country....
  
• Junkyard
  Junkyard (album)
  
  Junkyard is a 1982 album by The Birthday Party .The album was recorded with Tony Cohen at Armstrong's Audio Visual Studios in Melbourne, Australia in December 1981 and January 1982....
   – The Birthday Party
  The Birthday Party (band)
  
  The Birthday Party was an Australian post-punk group, active from 1977 to 1983.Despite being championed by John Peel, The Birthday Party found little commercial success during their career....
   (final album)
• Kansuigyo – Miyuki Nakajima
  Miyuki Nakajima
  
  is a Japanese people vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter who is often compared with Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 35 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and those sales have been estimated more than 21 million copies....
  
• Keep On Doing
  Keep on Doing
  
  Keep On Doing is a 1982 album by The Roches....
   – The Roches
  The Roches
  
  The Roches are a female vocal group of three songwriters Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey,known for their unusual and rich harmony, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances....
  
• Kenny G
  Kenny G (album)
  
  Kenny G is the debut album by Kenny G by 1982 in music....
   – Kenny G
  Kenny G
  
  Kenneth Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is a Grammy winning American saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986....
   (debut)
• A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
  A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
  
  A Kiss in the Dreamhouse is the fifth studio album released by Siouxsie & the Banshees and was issued by Polydor Records in the UK in 1982. The album belongs to what critics and fans refer to as the Banshees' "experimental" phase, as it contains chimes, strings, synthesizers, and many vocal overdubs....
   – Siouxsie And The Banshees
• Kissing to Be Clever
  Kissing to Be Clever
  
  Kissing to Be Clever is the debut album by New Wave music music ensemble Culture Club, released in 1982 in music. It was anchored by the international hit "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", which with its sunny reggae tones and neo-torch song vocals, remains one of Culture Club's signature songs....
   – Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• La Folie
  La Folie
  
  La Folie is a Communes of France in the Calvados Departments of France in the Basse-Normandie Regions of France in northern France.Its postal code is 14710....
   – The Stranglers
  The Stranglers
  
  The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  
• Langkah Berikutnya (and then Tokoh-Tokoh) – Ebiet G. Ade
  Ebiet G. Ade
  
  Ebiet G. Ade is an Indonesian singer and songwriter close to the suppressed society. His musical touch has influenced Indonesian pop music. His lyrics are made by himself, he never collaborates with other musicians to arrange the lyrics, but he can collaborate with them to arrange his musical arrangement....
  
• The Lee Aaron Project
  The Lee Aaron Project
  
  The Lee Aaron Project is an album by Lee Aaron, released on November 13, 1982 .After joining the band Lee Aaron in 1979, Karen Lynn Greening eventually adopted the band's name as hers, moving from background vocals to lead....
   – Lee Aaron
  Lee Aaron
  
  Lee Aaron is a Canada Rock music and jazz singer. She had several hits with titles such as "Metal Queen", "Whatcha Do to my Body", and "Sex with Love"....
  
• Leichenschrei
  Leichenschrei
  
  Leichenschrei is the second album by the band SPK . It was released in 1982 on Thermidor Records in the United States and in 1983 on the band's own Side Effects label in the United Kingdom....
   – SPK
  SPK (band)
  
  SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer....
  
• Lexicon of Love – ABC
• Lionel Richie
  Lionel Richie (album)
  
  Lionel Richie is the debut solo album by R&B singer Lionel Richie. It was released in 1982 on Motown Records. The first single, "Truly", topped the Billboard Hot 100....
   - Lionel Richie
  Lionel Richie
  
  Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
  
• Live Evil
  Live Evil
  
  Live Evil, released in 1982 and in January 1983 in the UK, is the first "official" live album by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, the previously released Live at Last not having been sanctioned by the band....
   – Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  
• Living My Life
  Living My Life
  
  Living My Life is the 993-page autobiography of Lithuanian-born anarchist Emma Goldman, published in two volumes in 1931 and 1934 . Goldman wrote it in Saint-Tropez, France, following her disillusionment with the Bolshevik role in the October revolution....
   – Grace Jones
  Grace Jones
  
  Grace Jones is a Jamaican?United States singer, Model , and actor....
  
• Love over Gold
  Love over Gold
  
  Love over Gold is the fourth album by United Kingdom Rock band Dire Straits....
   – Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  
• Love Will Turn You Around
  Love Will Turn You Around
  
  Love Will Turn You Around is the title of a Kenny Rogers album released in 1982.The title cut was the debut single and charted well, reaching #1 on the U.S....
   – Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  
  Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
  
• Meat Puppets
  Meat Puppets (album)
  
  Meat Puppets is the first LP by the Meat Puppets. The album is unlike any of their later, and more well-known, releases due to its hardcore punk sound....
   – Meat Puppets
  Meat Puppets
  
  The Meat Puppets are an United States Rock music band formed in January 1980, in the "Sunnyslope" neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris Kirkwood , and Derrick Bostrom ....
   (debut)
• Mesopotamia – The B-52's
  The B-52's
  
  The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
  
• Metal on Metal – Anvil
  Anvil (band)
  
  Anvil are a Canadian Heavy Metal music band.The roots of Anvil began in April 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, when high school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner began playing music together....
  
• Miami
  Miami (Gun Club album)
  
  Miami is the second album by punk blues group The Gun Club, released in 1982.Debbie Harry appears as a backing singer on various tracks on the album under the pseudonym "D.H....
   – The Gun Club
• Midnight Love
  Midnight Love
  
  Midnight Love is the final studio album recorded and issued by United States soul music singer Marvin Gaye and was the singer's first release from Columbia Records months after leaving his longtime label, Motown Records....
   – Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Gaye
  
  Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
  
• Milo Goes to College
  Milo Goes to College
  
  Milo Goes to College is the 1982 release by the punk rock band Descendents . It was released on New Alliance Records . Spin magazine magazine rated the album one of the top all time hardcore albums....
   – The Descendents
• Mirage
  Mirage (Fleetwood Mac album)
  
  Mirage is a 1982 album by Fleetwood Mac.Following a hiatus of over a year since the completion of the worldwide Tusk tour, the band then temporarily relocated to France to record the album, by which time both Nicks and Buckingham had each achieved solo success....
   – Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac
  
  Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  
• Mommy's Little Monster
  Mommy's Little Monster
  
  Mommy's Little Monster is the first album released by United States punk rock band Social Distortion, which was released in 1983 .The album was critically-acclaimed but was, however, not commercially successful....
   – Social Distortion
  Social Distortion
  
  Social Distortion is an United States rock music band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California, Orange County, California, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and Charlie Quintana ....
  
• Mondialement vôtre
  Mondialement vôtre
  
  Track listing* Confidences sur la fr?quence* Si el amor se acaba me voy* Danza* The great Gigi* Aghani, Aghani* Pour un homme* Am tag als der regen kam...
   – Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• Music for a New Society
  Music For A New Society
  
  Music for a New Society is an album by former Velvet Underground member John Cale. It was released in August 1982 on Island Records. It went in stark contrast with his previous few albums, which were packed with as much avant-garde noise as could be afforded, as it contained very minimalist instrumentation and a great deal of sonic space....
   – John Cale
  John Cale
  
  John Davies Cale , better known as John Cale, is a Welsh people musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the rock & roll band The Velvet Underground....
  
• Naked – Sex Gang Children
  Sex Gang Children
  
  Sex Gang Children were an early gothic rock group that formed in the early 1980s in England. Although the group only released one official studio album, they remain one of the more well-known bands out of the early Batcave scene....
  
• Nebraska
  Nebraska (album)
  
  Nebraska is the sixth album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1982 in music....
   – Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
  
• New Britain
  New Britain (album)
  
  New Britain is the sixth album by Whitehouse released in 1982 by Come Organisation....
   – Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  
  Whitehouse were an England Power_electronics band formed in 1980....
  
• New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
  New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
  
  New Gold Dream is the fifth studio album by Scottish people rock band Simple Minds. Its release in 1982 was a turning point for the band, when critical and popular success in the UK and Europe intersected....
   – Simple Minds
  Simple Minds
  
  Simple Minds are a rock music band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and critically praised work....
  
• Night and Day
  Night and Day (album)
  
  Night and Day is Joe Jackson 's fifth album, released in 1982. The title is from a Cole Porter song, and the album reflects a transition to a more sophisticated level of songwriting....
   – Joe Jackson
  Joe Jackson (musician)
  
  Joe Jackson is an England musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, described as a unique and critically acclaimed recording artist, whose five Grammy Award nominations span 1979 to 2001....
  
• The Nightfly
  The Nightfly
  
  The Nightfly is the first solo album by Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen, released in 1982 in music. It was one of the first fully digital recordings of popular music....
   – Donald Fagen
  Donald Fagen
  
  Donald Jay Fagen is an United States musician and songwriter. He is co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the jazz-influenced Rock music musical ensemble Steely Dan....
  
• 1999
  1999 (album)
  
  1999 is the fifth album by Prince , released on October 27, 1982. It was his first top ten album on the Billboard 200 charts in the United States and became the fifth best-selling album of 1983....
   – Prince
• Nona – Nona Hendryx
  Nona Hendryx
  
  Nona Hendryx is an American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actor. Many articles mistakenly give her first name as Wynona, which her manager, Vicki Wickham, has verified to be incorrect....
  
• Nothing Can Stop Us
  Nothing Can Stop Us
  
  Nothing Can Stop Us is a compilation album by Robert Wyatt released in 1982.Consisting of tracks released as singles and B-sides during the late 1970s and early 80s, it is often considered as part of the run of Wyatt solo albums, although it only contains one Wyatt composition ....
   – Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt
  
  Robert Wyatt is an England musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge....
  
• Nothing to Fear
  Nothing to Fear
  
  Nothing to Fear is the second album by Oingo Boingo, released in 1982 on A&M Records....
   – Oingo Boingo
  Oingo Boingo
  
  Oingo Boingo was an United States New Wave music band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts....
  
• Now and Forever
  Now and Forever (Air Supply album)
  
  Now and Forever is the seventh studio album by Australian soft rock band Air Supply, released in 1982. It was the band's last platinum album in America, and their last album to continue the band's successful popularity, peaking at #25 on US charts....
   – Air Supply
  Air Supply
  
  Air Supply are a soft rock duo who had a succession of hits worldwide through the late 1970s and early 1980s. It consists of British guitarist and Singing Graham Russell and Australian lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock ....
  
• Now Then...
  Now Then...
  
  Now Then... is the fourth album by Stiff Little Fingers, released in 1982 ....
   – Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers
  
  Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
  
• Nugent
  Nugent (album)
  
  Nugent is the eighth studio album released by Ted Nugent in 1982....
   – Ted Nugent
  Ted Nugent
  
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an United States hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes....
  
• The Number of the Beast
  The Number of the Beast (album)
  
  The Number of the Beast is the third studio album by British heavy metal music band Iron Maiden. The album was released on March 29, 1982 through EMI....
   – Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  
  Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
  
• Nylon Curtain – Billy Joel
  Billy Joel
  
  William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  
• Offene Türen
  Offene Türen
  
  Offene T?ren is the ninth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, best known for his work with Cluster , Harmonia , and Aquarello....
   – Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Oh, No! It's Devo
  Oh, No! It's Devo
  
  Oh, No! It's Devo is the fifth studio album by Devo. By the time of its 1982 release, Devo were a fully-fledged synth-pop act. Most of the music on Oh, No! was created by electronic means which gave it a much different sound to, for example, their 1978 debut Question: Are We Not Men? Answer: We Are Devo!, which relied more on guit...
   – Devo
  Devo
  
  Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
  
• On Land
  On Land
  
  Ambient 4/On Land is an album by the United Kingdom Ambient music musician Brian Eno. It was the final edition in Eno?s ambient series, which began in 1978 with Music for Airports....
   – Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
  
• 1+9+8+2
  1+9+8+2
  
  1+9+8+2 was an album by rock band Status Quo, and was released in 1982. It was the first to include new drummer Pete Kircher, who had recently replaced John Coghlan, and also the first to credit keyboard player Andy Bown as a full member of the band; on the previous few releases he had merely been listed as a guest musician although he ha...
   – Status Quo
  Status Quo
  
  Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
  
• One to One – Carole King
  Carole King
  
  Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
  
• The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away
  The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away
  
  The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away is a 1982 album by Bootsy Collins, released by Warner Bros. Records. It would be the last album that Bootsy Collins would record for the label....
   - Bootsy Collins
  Bootsy Collins
  
  William "Bootsy" Collins is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins' driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk....
  
• One Vice at a Time
  One Vice at a Time
  
  One Vice at a Time is Krokus ' sixth album, released in 1982 on Arista Records. It became a gold album inCanada and Switzerland, and was the first album to feature Mark Kohler on rhythm guitar....
   – Krokus
  Krokus (band)
  
  Krokus is a hard rock/heavy metal music band from Switzerland.Krokus was founded in Solothurn in 1974 by bassist and guitarist Tommy Kiefer....
  
• Only Theatre of Pain
  Only Theatre of Pain
  
  Only Theatre of Pain was Christian Death's debut full-length album. Originally released by Frontier Records in 1982, this album is considered the harbinger of deathrock and American goth rock....
   – Christian Death
  Christian Death
  
  Christian Death is an United States deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1979. The band was fronted and founded by Rozz Williams and featured guitarist Rikk Agnew....
   (debut)
• Oriental Beat
  Oriental Beat
  
  Oriental Beat is the second studio album by the Finland glam punk band Hanoi Rocks, recorded in London and released in 1982. The artwork features the band covered in paint behind a glass panel with blue and red paint-pressed hand marks on it....
   – Hanoi Rocks
  Hanoi Rocks
  
  Hanoi Rocks is a Finland Rock music band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s. The band broke up in 1985 due largely to the death of their drummer....
  
• The Party's Over – Talk Talk
  Talk Talk
  
  Talk Talk were a popular British Rock music group that were active from 1981 to 1991. In mainstream circles, the group is most well known for their early synthpop singles, including the international hits "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life ", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It " and "Living in Another World"....
  
• Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel (IV Security)
  
  Peter Gabriel is the fourth album released by the United Kingdom progressive rock musician Peter Gabriel. This album was originally released as Gabriel?s fourth eponymous album, but was released in the United States of America as Security, Gabriel's first album with Geffen Records in the US and Canada....
   also known as Security – Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  
  Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  
• Pictures at Eleven
  Pictures at Eleven
  
  Pictures at Eleven is the debut solo album from former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. Genesis drummer Phil Collins played drums for six of the album's eight songs....
   – Robert Plant
  Robert Plant
  
  Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
   (former Led Zeppelin Vocalist's solo debut)
• Picture This
  Picture This
  
  Picture This may refer to:*Picture This , a song by Blondie from the album Parallel Lines*Picture This , a 1982 album by Huey Lewis and the News...
   – Huey Lewis & The News
  Huey Lewis & the News
  
  Huey Lewis and the News are a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States rock music band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 Top Ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock Charts....
  
• Plastic Surgery Disasters
  Plastic Surgery Disasters
  
  Plastic Surgery Disasters is the second album released by the Dead Kennedys. It has been reissued with the EP In God We Trust, Inc., which are the last eight tracks on the CD....
   - Dead Kennedys
  Dead Kennedys
  
  The Dead Kennedys were an United States punk band from the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk rock, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978....
  
• Pornography
  Pornography (album)
  
  Pornography is the fourth studio album by Great Britain band The Cure, originally released in 1982 and re-mastered and re-released in 2005. Recorded with the group on the brink of collapse, it represents the conclusion of the musical phase which began with Seventeen Seconds and Faith ....
   – The Cure
  The Cure
  
  The Cure are an English Rock music band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member....
  
• Power Play
  Power Play (album)
  
  Power Play is the tenth studio album by the Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble April Wine, released in 1982 ....
   – April Wine
• Prairie Serenade
  Prairie Serenade
  
  Prairie Serenade is a studio recording by the Western music band Riders in the Sky, released in 1982. It is available as a single CD....
   – Riders in the Sky
  Riders in the Sky
  
  Riders In The Sky is a Western swing and comedy group which began performing in 1977; their style also appeals to children, and they are sometimes considered a children's music....
  
• Private Audition
  Private Audition
  
  Private Audition is the sixth studio album, but seventh album overall, released by the hard rock band Heart , released in 1982. The album was on the U.S....
  – Heart
  Heart (band)
  
  Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  
• Psychopathia Sexualis
  Psychopathia Sexualis (album)
  
  Psychopathia Sexualis is the seventh album by Whitehouse released in 1982 by Come Organisation....
  – Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  
  Whitehouse were an England Power_electronics band formed in 1980....
  
• The Pursuit of Accidents
  The Pursuit of Accidents
  
  The Pursuit of Accidents is the third studio album released by the jazz/funk British musical group Level 42, in 1982. It was re-released in February 2007, this time with several live bonus tracks....
  – Level 42
  Level 42
  
  Level 42 is an England pop rock and jazz-funk music band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high-calibre musicianship - especially that of Mark King , whose percussive Slapping guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits....
  
• The Record
  The Record (album)
  
  The Record is the debut album by Los Angeles hardcore punk band Fear , released in 1982 in music...
  – Fear
  Fear (band)
  
  Fear is an American punk band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 1977 and is still a band today. Credited for helping to shape the sound and style of American hardcore punk, the band started out as part of the early California punk rock scene, and gained national prominence after an infamous 1981 performance on Saturday Night Live....
  
• Revelations – Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  
  Killing Joke are an England post-punk rock band formed in October, 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. However, several conflicting sources have stated that they formed in early 1979Related news articles:...
  
• Rio
  Rio (album)
  
  Rio is an album by Duran Duran, originally released worldwide on 10 May 1982, but re-released in November 1982 in the United States. It reached #2 in the UK and #1 in Australia....
  – Duran Duran
  Duran Duran
  
  Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
  
• The Rise & Fall
  The Rise & Fall
  
  The Rise & Fall is the fourth album by the Great Britain pop group Madness . This album saw Madness at their most experimental, exhibiting a range of musical styles including jazz, English music hall and Eastern influences....
  – Madness
  Madness (band)
  
  Madness are an English Pop music/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years....
  
• Rock in a Hard Place
  Rock in a Hard Place
  
  Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio album by United States hard rock band Aerosmith and was released in 1982. This is the only Aerosmith album to not feature Joe Perry....
  – Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  
  Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
  
• Room To Live
  Room to Live
  
  Room to Live, subtitled Undilutable Slang Truth!, is the sixth studio album by The Fall . First released September 27 1982, it was recorded as a quick follow-up to Hex Enduction Hour which had been released in March....
   – The Fall
• Rough Diamonds
  Rough Diamonds
  
  Rough Diamonds is the sixth album by rock band Bad Company released in August 1982.Rough Diamonds, like its predecessor, Desolation Angels, was recorded at Ridge Farm Studios in Surrey, England in late 1981 and early 1982 and engineered by Max Norman ....
   – Bad Company
  Bad Company
  
  Bad Company are an England hard rock Supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free , Mott the Hoople , and King Crimson . Bad Company was managed by Peter Grant , who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success....
  
• Ruff Cuts EP – Twisted Sister
  Twisted Sister
  
  Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
  
• Saints & Sinners
  Saints & Sinners (Whitesnake album)
  
  Saints & Sinners is the 1982 album by the British Rock music band Whitesnake. It is the sixth studio release from the band.Two of the tracks, "Crying in the Rain" and "Here I Go Again", were later revamped and re-recorded on their 1987 blockbuster album Whitesnake ....
   – Whitesnake
  Whitesnake
  
  Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
  
• Screaming Blue Murder
  Screaming Blue Murder (Girlschool album)
  
  Screaming Blue Murder was the third studio album by British heavy metal music band, Girlschool. It was released on Bronze Records in 1982, and featured one line-up change in bassist Ghislaine 'Gil' Weston, formerly of The Killjoys , replacing the recently-departed founder-member Enid Williams....
   – Girlschool
  Girlschool
  
  Girlschool are a long-running United Kingdom all-female Heavy metal music band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene.Though enjoying little commercial success beyond the early 1980s, they maintain a worldwide cult following and were inspirational for many succeeding female bands....
  
• Screaming for Vengeance
  Screaming for Vengeance
  
  Screaming for Vengeance is the 8th studio album by British heavy metal music band Judas Priest. The album featured a much more mainstream sound than previous albums....
   – Judas Priest
  Judas Priest
  
  Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
  
• Send Me A Lullaby
  Send Me A Lullaby
  
  Send Me a Lullaby was released in February 1982 in Australia on Missing Link Records and subsequently in the United Kingdom on Rough Trade Records, an independent music record label....
   – The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens
  
  The Go-Betweens were an internationally influential indie rock band from Australia, formed by guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan in Brisbane in 1977....
  
• Set
  Set (Thompson Twins album)
  
  Set is the second album recorded by English pop group Thompson Twins. Released in February 1982, it was the second album they recorded for their own "T Records" imprint, which was released by Arista Records/Hansa....
   – Thompson Twins
  Thompson Twins
  
  The Thompson Twins were a Great Britain Pop music group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the United States and around the globe....
  
• Shabooh Shoobah
  Shabooh Shoobah
  
  Shabooh Shoobah is Australian Rock music group INXS's third album....
   – INXS
  INXS
  
  INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
  
• Shoot Out the Lights
  Shoot Out the Lights
  
  Shoot Out the Lights, released in 1982, was the sixth and final album by the Great Britain husband-and-wife Rock music duo Richard and Linda Thompson....
   – Richard and Linda Thompson
• Signals
  Signals (album)
  
  Signals is the ninth studio album by the Canada rock music band Rush , released September 9, 1982.Signals was the follow-up to the successful Moving Pictures ....
   – Rush
  Rush (band)
  
  Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
  
• Silk Electric
  Silk Electric
  
  Silk Electric is a 1982 album released by United States R&B singer Diana Ross on the RCA Records label. The album is most notable for its iconic Andy Warhol-designed album cover of Ross and for the top ten single, "Muscles "....
   – Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  
  Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
  
• The Singles: The First Ten Years
  The Singles: The First Ten Years
  
  The Singles: The First Ten Years is a double compilation album by the Sweden pop group ABBA, released in 1982. It contained most of the band's hits singles from their ten years together as recording artists, and included two new tracks: "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack"....
   – ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
  
• The Sky's Gone Out
  The Sky's Gone Out
  
  The Sky's Gone Out is the third studio album by British gothic rock band Bauhaus , released in 1982 on Beggar's Banquet Records. The initial limited edition of the LP included the live album Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape as a bonus disc....
   – Bauhaus
  Bauhaus (band)
  
  Bauhaus were an England Rock music band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy , Daniel Ash , Kevin Haskins and David J ....
  
• Sleepwalking
  Sleepwalking (Gerry Rafferty album)
  
  Sleepwalking is the fifth studio album by Gerry Rafferty, released in 1982. It is the follow-up to the 1980 album Snakes and Ladders . It would be Rafferty's last album for six years....
   – Gerry Rafferty
  Gerry Rafferty
  
  Gerry Rafferty is a Scottish singer and songwriter. He is the son of a Scottish mother and an Irish father....
  
• Somewhere in Afrika
  Somewhere in Afrika
  
  Somewhere in Afrika is an album released in 1983 in music by Manfred Mann's Earth Band....
   – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
  Manfred Mann's Earth Band
  
  Manfred Mann's Earth Band is a jazz/rock group formed by Manfred Mann , in 1971 in music....
  
• Songs of the Free
  Songs of the Free
  
  Songs of the Free is the third studio album by Gang of Four . In 1996, Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings label issued it on compact disc, with two bonus tracks, and with a slightly changed song order , and mistitling "I Love a Man in a Uniform" as "I Love a Man in Uniform." EMI reissued the album on CD in 2008 with the original so...
   – Gang of Four
  Gang of Four (band)
  
  Gang of Four are an England post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King , guitarist Andy Gill , bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham....
  
• Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth (album)
  
  Sonic Youth is the debut EP by Sonic Youth. It was recorded in 1981 at Radio City Music Hall, New York City and released on Glenn Branca's Neutral Records label in 1982....
   – Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth
  
  Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
  
• Speak of the Devil – Ozzy Osbourne
  Ozzy Osbourne
  
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
   (Live)
• Spécial Dalida
  Spécial Dalida
  
  Track listing* Si la France* Jouez Bouzouki* Ensemble* Quand je n'aime plus je m'en vais* Comment l'oublier* Le jour o? la pluie viendra* Danza...
   – Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• Stand by Your Man
  Stand by Your Man (EP)
  
  Stand by Your Man is a 7 inch single Extended play by Lemmy of the British Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead and Wendy O. Williams of the American punk rock band Plasmatics, recorded and released in 1982....
   (EP) – Motörhead
  Motörhead
  
  Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
   & Girlschool
  Girlschool
  
  Girlschool are a long-running United Kingdom all-female Heavy metal music band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene.Though enjoying little commercial success beyond the early 1980s, they maintain a worldwide cult following and were inspirational for many succeeding female bands....
  
• Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium
  Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium
  
  Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I is a compilation album of R&B/Soul music musician Stevie Wonder's greatest hits from his 1970s albums, released on the Motown Records label in 1982....
   – Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  
  Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  
• Stink
  Stink (album)
  
  Stink is an Extended play by the band The Replacements, recorded at Blackberry Way, Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 13, 1982 and released on June 24, 1982 ....
   – The Replacements
  The Replacements
  
  The Replacements were an American rock music band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1979. The band was composed of guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars for most of their career....
  
• Straight Between the Eyes
  Straight Between the Eyes
  
  Straight Between the Eyes is the sixth LP released by Rainbow , released in 1982. A remastered CD reissue, with packaging duplicating the original vinyl release, was released in May 1999....
   – Rainbow
  Rainbow (band)
  
  Rainbow were a hard rock and Heavy metal music band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975 in music. In addition to Blackmore, the band originally consisted of former Elf members; lead singer Ronnie James Dio , keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, bassist Craig Gruber, and drummer Gary Driscoll....
  
• Sweets From a Stranger
  Sweets from a Stranger
  
  Sweets from a Stranger is the fifth studio album by the British New Wave music group Squeeze. Its surprisingly dark mood and what some perceived as relatively uninspired songwriting led to some of the band's least flattering reviews since their debut....
   – Squeeze
  Squeeze
  
  Squeeze are an England musical ensemble that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s....
  
• 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
  10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
  
  10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 is an album by Midnight Oil that was released in 1982 under the Columbia Records label. The lengthy name is often pronounced "ten-to-one" or "ten-nine-eight" by fans....
   - Midnight Oil
  Midnight Oil
  
  Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
  
• Tenebrae
  Tenebrae (soundtrack)
  
  Tenebrae is the soundtrack to Dario Argento's film of Tenebrae , first released as an album in 1982, and reissued most recently in 2004 with multiple bonus tracks....
   – Simonetti-Morante-Pignatelli (Goblin
  Goblin (band)
  
  Goblin are an Italian rock progressive rock band known for their soundtracks for Dario Argento films .They were initially named Cherry Five and were influenced by Genesis and King Crimson....
  )
• The Golden Age of Wireless
  The Golden Age of Wireless
  
  The Golden Age of Wireless is a 1982 album by Synthpop pioneer Thomas Dolby. The album is notable for containing the pop hit "She Blinded Me with Science" in its later resequencings ....
   – Thomas Dolby
  Thomas Dolby
  
  Thomas Dolby is an England musician and producer....
  
• Three Lock Box
  Three Lock Box
  
  Three Lock Box is a Sammy Hagar solo album, which features appearances by Loverboy's Mike Reno, Journey 's Jonathan Cain, and Mr. Mister's Richard Page ....
   – Sammy Hagar
  Sammy Hagar
  
  Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
  
• Three Sides Live
  Three Sides Live
  
  Three Sides Live is the third live album by United Kingdom band Genesis , released in 1982. It is also the title of its Three Sides Live ....
   – Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  
  Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  
• Time and Tide
  Time and Tide
  
  Time and Tide is a 1982 album by New Zealand New Wave music band Split Enz. "Dirty Creature" was the album's lead single, followed by "Six Months in a Leaky Boat"....
   – Split Enz
  Split Enz
  
  Split Enz was a successful New Zealand band during the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia and Canada during the early 1980s and built a cult following elsewhere....
  
• Time Pieces: Best of Eric Clapton
  Time Pieces: Best of Eric Clapton
  
  Time Pieces: Best of Eric Clapton is a greatest hits album by blues musician Eric Clapton. It was released in May 1982 with his smash hit singles except from No Reason to Cry and Another Ticket....
   – Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  
  Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
   (Best of 1969-1979)
• Too Fast for Love
  Too Fast for Love
  
  Too Fast for Love is the debut album of United States of America glam metal band M?tley Cr?e. Originally released Independent music on November 10, 1981, on the band's Leath?r Records Record label, the album was produced by Michael Wagener....
   – Mötley Crüe
  Mötley Crüe
  
  M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
   (debut re-release)
• Too-Rye-Ay
  Too-Rye-Ay
  
  Too-Rye-Ay is the second album by Dexys Midnight Runners, released in August, 1982 . The album is best known for the hit single "Come On Eileen"....
   – Dexys Midnight Runners
  Dexys Midnight Runners
  
  Dexys Midnight Runners are a United Kingdom pop music group with soul music influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s....
  
• Toto IV
  Toto IV
  
  Toto IV is the fourth studio album by United States pop rock band Toto . It was released in 1982 .The album was awarded with 6 Grammy Awards, including "Grammy Award for Record of the Year" for "Rosanna", "Grammy Award for Album of the Year" for Toto IV, and "Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical" for the band....
   – Toto
  Toto (band)
  
  Toto was an United States Rock music Rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the 1980s, beginning with the band's Toto , released in 1978, which immediately brought the band into the mainstream rock spectrum of the time....
  
• Tough – Kurtis Blow
  Kurtis Blow
  
  Curtis Walker , signed with Uncle Louie Music Group is better known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is one of the first commercially successful rapping and the first to sign with a major record label....
  
• Trance – Chris & Cosey
• Troops of Tomorrow
  Troops of Tomorrow
  
  Troops of Tomorrow is the second album by the punk rock band The Exploited, released in 1982 through Secret Records....
   – The Exploited
  The Exploited
  
  The Exploited are a Scotland punk band from the UK82, formed in 1979.They started out as an Oi! band, before transforming into a faster street punk and hardcore punk band....
  
• Tug of War
  Tug of war
  
  Tug of war, tug o' war, or tug war, also known as rope pulling, is a sport that directly puts two teams against each other in a test of strength....
   – Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  
• The Tunes of Two Cities
  The Tunes of Two Cities
  
  The Tunes of Two Cities is an album by The Residents, released in 1982. It is part two of the Mole Trilogy. Rather than forwarding the story of the battle between the Mole People and the Chubs, the record's concept is to display the differences between the two cultures through their music....
   – The Residents
  The Residents
  
  The Residents are an United States avant-garde music and visual arts group who have created over sixty albums, created numerous musical short films, designed three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs, and undertaken seven major world tours....
  
• TV Party
  TV Party (EP)
  
  TV Party was a extended play released by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag in July 1982 on SST Records. The sardonic lyrics of the lead track describe a group of friends who have nothing better to do than watch TV and have some beers....
   (EP) – Black Flag
  Black Flag (band)
  
  Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes....
  
• 2x45
  2x45
  
  2x45 is an album by Industrial music/post-punk band Cabaret Voltaire , released in 1982 and re-released on CD on The Grey Area in 1990....
   – Cabaret Voltaire
  Cabaret Voltaire
  
  Cabaret Voltaire may refer to:*Cabaret Voltaire , a Swiss cabaret founded in 1916, distinguished by the involvement of Dada artists*Cabaret Voltaire , a British industrial/techno musical group...
  
• 2XS
  2XS
  
  2XS is the thirteenth studio album by the Hard rock band Nazareth , released in 1982. The album includes the song "Dream On", which has become one of the band's biggest hits....
   – Nazareth
  Nazareth (band)
  
  Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
  
• Under the Big Black Sun
  Under the Big Black Sun
  
  Under the Big Black Sun is the third album by the American punk band X , and their major-label debut. It was released on Elektra Records in 1982, and reissued on Rhino Records in 2001 with bonus tracks....
   – X
• Under the Blade
  Under the Blade
  
  Under the Blade is the debut album by American heavy metal music band Twisted Sister, released on Secret Records on September 18, 1982. . The album was re-mixed & re-released on Atlantic Records on July 14, 1985....
   – Twisted Sister
  Twisted Sister
  
  Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
   (debut album)
• Underwater Kites – The Modern Art
  The Modern Art
  
  The Modern Art was a psychedelic rock band formed by Gary Ramon in the 1980s. It had a loose lineup that never played gigs but did see the release of two studio albums and a number of self-produced cassettes....
   (debut)
• Upstairs at Eric's
  Upstairs at Eric's
  
  Upstairs at Eric's is Yazoo 's first album produced by the band and E.C. Radcliffe with assistance from Daniel Miller . It reached # 2 in UK and # 92 in US....
   – Yazoo
  Yazoo (band)
  
  Yazoo are an England synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex, England. They had a number of top ten hits in the United Kingdom charts in the early 1980s....
  
• Vs – Mission of Burma
  Mission of Burma
  
  Mission of Burma is an United States post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. The band was formed by Roger Miller , Clint Conley , Peter Prescott and Martin Swope ....
  
• Walk Among Us
  Walk Among Us
  
  Walk Among Us was the eighth release from the United States horror punk band Misfits . The band's first full-length album to be released , it was originally co-released by Ruby Records and Slash Records as JRR804 in March 1982....
   - The Misfits
  The Misfits
  
  The Misfits are an American rock music band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk rock and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery....
  
• Wasted Youth – Girl
  Girl (band)
  
  Girl was an England Glam metal band. Their lead vocalist was Phil Lewis, who later sang for L.A. Guns, New Torpedos, Torme, Filthy Lucre, Liberators , and several other bands....
  
• What Time Is It? – The Time
  The Time (band)
  
  The Time is a funk and dance-pop musical ensemble formed in 1981. They are close Prince associates and arguably the most successful....
  
• White Eagle
  White Eagle (album)
  
  White Eagle is an album of electronic music released by Tangerine Dream in 1982. The title track was remixed and went on to become the theme music for a German TV series Tatort with a German title "Das M?dchen auf der Treppe"....
   – Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream
  
  Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
  
• The Winning Hand
  The Winning Hand
  
  The Winning Hand is a double album, released in December 1982, featuring Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Brenda Lee and Kris Kristofferson. The album consisted largely of unreleased tracks from their years with Monument Records ....
   – Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
  , Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  
  Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
  , Brenda Lee
  Brenda Lee
  
  Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
   & Dolly Parton
  Dolly Parton
  
  Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
  
• Wiped Out
  Wiped Out
  
  Wiped Out is the second full-length album by the band Raven , released in 1982 ....
   – Raven
  Raven (band)
  
  Raven are an England Heavy metal music band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They had a hit with the single "On and On", and refer to their music as "athletic rock"....
  
• Zapp II
  Zapp II
  
  Zapp II is the second album by Ohio P-Funk band Zapp . Released in 1982, the album became popular in funk for the singles "Dance Floor" , and "Doo Wa Ditty " ....
   – Zapp
  Zapp (band)
  
  Zapp is a soul music and funk band formed in 1978 by brothers Roger Troutman, Larry Troutman, Lester Troutman, Tony Troutman and Terry "Zapp" Troutman....
  
• Zipper Catches Skin
  Zipper Catches Skin
  
  Zipper Catches Skin is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1982 in music.It saw the return of Dick Wagner to Alice's band, but is generally not considered to be of the same standard as his previous work with Alice....
   – Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  
  Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...