1982 in British music explained

This is a summary of 1982 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

Events

• 20 January – Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat thrown at him during a performance, mistaking it for a toy.^[1]
• 3 March – The Barbican Arts Centre in London is opened by the Queen.
• 21 March – The Musical House that Max Built, a documentary about Peter Maxwell Davies, is broadcast by London Weekend Television, presented by Melvyn Bragg.
• 26 April – Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
• 10 May – Topper Headon is sacked from the Clash for his ongoing addiction to heroin, just a few days prior to the release of the band's Combat Rock album. He is replaced by original Clash drummer Terry Chimes.
• 15 May – "A Little Peace" becomes the 500th UK number-one single.
• 26 May – The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Aberdeen, Scotland.
• 22 August – The first performance of Image, Reflection, Shadow, by Peter Maxwell Davies takes place at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland.
• 28 August – Eric Burdon is arrested for cocaine possession after a show at the Rockpalast in Cologne.^[2]
• 22 September – The Who begin their only formally announced "farewell" tour in Washington, D.C.
• 30 October – Paul Weller shocks fans, and his bandmates, by announcing that the Jam are to disband, just prior to a short UK tour. "Beat Surrender" would be the band's final single, and became their fourth and final UK number one.
• 5 November – First broadcast of The Tube on Channel 4.
• 11 December – The Jam give their final performance together, at Brighton Conference Centre, just before their split.

Charts

Number-one singles

Week Ending Date	Song	Artist(s)
2 January	"Don't You Want Me"	The Human League
9 January
16 January	"The Land of Make Believe"	Bucks Fizz
23 January
30 January	"Oh Julie"	Shakin' Stevens
6 February	"The Model"/"Computer Love"	Kraftwerk
13 February	"Town Called Malice"/"Precious"	The Jam
20 February
27 February
6 March	"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"	Tight Fit
13 March
20 March
27 March	"Seven Tears"	Goombay Dance Band
3 April
10 April
17 April	"My Camera Never Lies"	Bucks Fizz
24 April	"Ebony and Ivory"	Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
1 May
8 May
15 May	"A Little Peace"	Nicole
22 May
29 May	"House of Fun"	Madness
5 June
12 June	"Goody Two Shoes"	Adam Ant
19 June
26 June	"I've Never Been to Me"	Charlene
3 July	"Happy Talk"	Captain Sensible
10 July
17 July	"Fame"	Irene Cara
24 July
31 July
7 August	"Come on Eileen"	Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express^[3]
14 August
21 August
28 August
4 September	"Eye of the Tiger"	Survivor
11 September
18 September
25 September
2 October	"Pass the Dutchie"	Musical Youth
9 October
16 October
23 October	"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"	Culture Club
30 October
6 November
13 November	"I Don't Wanna Dance"	Eddy Grant
20 November
27 November
4 December	"Beat Surrender"	The Jam
11 December
18 December	"Save Your Love"	Renée and Renato
25 December

"The Model"/"Computer Love" was the first single by a German artist to top the chart since its establishment 29 years earlier. By the end of 1982, there had been two further number ones by German artists, "Seven Tears" and "A Little Peace".

Number-one albums

Issue Date	Song	Artist(s)
2 January	The Visitors	ABBA
9 January	Dare	The Human League
16 January
23 January
30 January	Love Songs	Barbra Streisand
6 February
13 February
20 February
27 February
6 March
13 March
20 March	The Gift	The Jam
27 March	Love Songs	Barbra Streisand
3 April
10 April	The Number of the Beast	Iron Maiden
17 April
24 April	1+9+8+2	Status Quo
1 May	Barry Live In Britain	Barry Manilow
8 May	Tug of War	Paul McCartney
15 May
22 May	Complete Madness	Madness
29 May
5 June	Avalon	Roxy Music
12 June	Complete Madness	Madness
19 June	Avalon	Roxy Music
26 June
3 July	The Lexicon of Love	ABC
10 July
17 July
24 July	Fame	Soundtrack
31 July
7 August	The Kids from "Fame"	The Kids from "Fame"
14 August
21 August
28 August
4 September
11 September
18 September
25 September
2 October	Love Over Gold	Dire Straits
9 October
16 October
23 October
30 October	The Kids from "Fame"	The Kids from "Fame"
6 November
13 November
20 November
27 November		ABBA
4 December	The John Lennon Collection	John Lennon
11 December
18 December
25 December

Year-end charts

The tables below include sales between 1 January and 31 December 1982: the year-end charts reproduced in the issue of Music Week dated 26 December 1982 and played on Radio 1 on 2 January 1983 only include sales figures up until 11 December 1982.

Best-selling singles

^[4]

scope=col		scope=col	Title	scope=col	Artist	scope=col	Peak position
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	1	"Come On Eileen"	Dexys Midnight Runners & the Emerald Express	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	2	"Fame"		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	3	"Eye of the Tiger"	Survivor	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	4	"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"	Tight Fit	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	5	"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"	Culture Club	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	6	"Pass the Dutchie"	Musical Youth	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	7	"I Don't Wanna Dance"		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	8	"Seven Tears"	Goombay Dance Band	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	9	"Ebony and Ivory"	and Stevie Wonder	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	10	"Town Called Malice"/"Precious"		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	11	"Golden Brown"		2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	12	"Mad World"	Tears for Fears	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	13	"Mickey"		2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	14	"Love Plus One"	Haircut One Hundred	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	15	"The Model"/"Computer Love"	Kraftwerk	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	16	"Oh Julie"		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	17	"Goody Two Shoes"		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	18	"Heartbreaker"		2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	19	"Only You"	Yazoo	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	20	"Don't Go"		3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	21	"Walking on Sunshine"	Rockers Revenge featuring Donnie Calvin	4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	22	"Zoom"	Fat Larry's Band	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	23	"Save Your Love"	Renée and Renato	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	24	"I Won't Let You Down"	PhD	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	25	"Just an Illusion"	Imagination	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	26	"Starmaker"		3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	27	"Hard to Say I'm Sorry"	Chicago	4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	28	"Abracadabra"	Steve Miller Band	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	29	"The Look of Love"	ABC	4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	30	"Centerfold"		3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	31	"House of Fun"	Madness	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	32	"The Land of Make Believe"	Bucks Fizz	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	33	"Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)"	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	34	"Young Guns (Go for It)"	Wham!	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	35	"Ain't No Pleasing You"	Chas & Dave	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	36	"Save a Prayer"	Duran Duran	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	37	"T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)"	Fun Boy Three with Bananarama	4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	38	"A Little Peace"	Nicole	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	39	"Hungry Like the Wolf"	Duran Duran	5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	40	"My Camera Never Lies"	Bucks Fizz	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	41	"It Started with a Kiss"	Hot Chocolate	5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	42	"Fantasy Island"	Tight Fit	5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	43	"Dead Ringer for Love"	Meat Loaf	5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	44	"Inside Out"	Odyssey	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	45	"Torch"	Soft Cell	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	46	"This Time (We'll Get It Right)"/"We'll Fly the Flag"	England World Cup Squad	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	47	"Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"	Soft Cell	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	48	"I've Never Been to Me"	Charlene	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	49	"Mirror Man"		2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	50	"Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag"	Pigbag	3

Best-selling albums

^[5]

scope=col		scope=col	Title	scope=col	Artist	scope=col	Peak position
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	1	Love Songs		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	2	The Kids from "Fame"		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	3	Complete Madness	Madness	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	4	The Lexicon of Love	ABC	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	5	Rio	Duran Duran	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	6	Love Over Gold	Dire Straits	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	7	Pelican West	Haircut One Hundred	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	8	Dare		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	9	Avalon	Roxy Music	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	10	The John Lennon Collection		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	11	Too Rye Ay	Dexys Midnight Runners	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	12	Pearls		2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	13	All for a Song		3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	14	Upstairs at Eric's	Yazoo	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	15	Tropical Gangsters	Kid Creole and the Coconuts	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	16	The Gift		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	17	Bat Out of Hell	Meat Loaf	12
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	18	Tug of War		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	19	The Number of the Beast	Iron Maiden	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	20	Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret	Soft Cell	5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	21	Friends	Shalamar	11
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	22	Chariots of Fire	Vangelis	6
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	23	Architecture & Morality	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	24	Love and Dancing	League Unlimited Orchestra	3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	25		ABBA	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	26	Barry Live in Britain		1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	27	Greatest Hits	Queen	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	28	Fame	Original Soundtrack	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	29	4	Foreigner	5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	30	The Kids from "Fame" Again		2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	31	Night Birds	Shakatak	4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	32	Love Songs		5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	33	Tin Drum	Japan	13
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	34	Action Trax	Various Artists	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	35	Asia	Asia	11
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	36	Heartbreaker		3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	37	Still Life		4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	38	Reflections	Various Artists	4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	39	Give Me Your Heart Tonight		3
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	40	Dead Ringer	Meat Loaf	7
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	41	Kissing to Be Clever	Culture Club	5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	42	Three Sides Live	Genesis	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	43	The Concert in Central Park	Simon & Garfunkel	6
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	44	Mirage	Fleetwood Mac	5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	45	Begin the Beguine		5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	46	1+9+8+2	Status Quo	1
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	47	From the Makers of...		4
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	48	Chart Beat/Chart Heat	Various Artists	2
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	49	Pearls II		5
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	50	In the Heat of the Night	Imagination	7

Notes:

Classical music

New works

• Peter Maxwell Davies – Image, Reflection, Shadow
• Alun Hoddinott – Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes for orchestra
• Michael Tippett – The Mask of Time (oratorio)

Opera

• Gavin Bryars – Medea

Film and Incidental music

• Michael Nyman – The Draughtsman's Contract directed by Peter Greenaway.

Musical theatre

• Anthony Burgess – Blooms of Dublin
• Geoffrey Burgon – Orpheus

Music awards

BRIT Awards

The 1982 BRIT Awards winners were:

• Best British producer: Martin Rushent
• Best classical recording: Gustav Mahler's – "Symphony No. 10"
• Best selling album: Adam and the Ants – "Kings of the Wild Frontier"
• British breakthrough act: The Human League
• British female solo artist: Randy Crawford
• British group: The Police
• British male solo artist: Cliff Richard
• Outstanding contribution: John Lennon

Births

• 11 January – Ashley Taylor Dawson, singer (allSTARS*)
• 16 January – Preston, singer
• 10 March – Jonathan Ansell, tenor (G4)
• 6 March - Sinead Shepard, Irish singer (Six)
• 11 March - Kyle Anderson, Northern Irish singer (Six)
• 23 March - Emma O'Driscoll, Irish singer (Six) and TV presenter
• 7 April - Kelli Young, singer (Liberty X)
• 26 April – Jon Lee, singer (S Club 7)
• 30 April - Cleo Higgins, singer (Cleopatra)
• 7 June – Amy Nuttall, actress and opera singer
• 18 June - Haydon Eshun, singer (Ultimate Kaos)
• 20 June – Example, singer-songwriter, musician and rapper
• 30 June
  • Andy Knowles, musician (Franz Ferdinand)
  • Ashley Walters, rapper and actor
• 17 July – Natasha Hamilton, singer (Atomic Kitten)
• 22 September – Billie Piper, singer and actress
• 4 October – YolanDa Brown, jazz saxophonist
• 14 December – Anthony Way, chorister
• date unknown – Charlotte Bray, composer

Deaths

• 6 January – Katherine Bacon, concert pianist, 85
• 12 January
  • Hervey Alan, operatic bass and voice teacher, 71
  • Dorothy Howell, pianist and composer, 83
• 18 January – Alec Robertson, music critic, 89
• 30 January – Stanley Holloway, actor, singer and monologist, 91^[6]
• 4 February – Alex Harvey, rock singer and entertainer, 46 (heart attack)^[7]
• 20 March – Roy Fox, American-born dance bandleader, 80
• 1 May – William Primrose, violist, 77^[8]
• 6 May – Rosamond Harding, music scholar, 84
• 12 May – Humphrey Searle, composer, 66^[9]
• 24 May – Richard Hall, composer, 78
• 16 June – James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist of The Pretenders, 25 (heart failure caused by cocaine intolerance)^[10]
• 25 June – Alex Welsh, jazz musician, 52^[11]
• 29 June – Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, bagpipe musician and composer, 65
• 4 July – Maurice Blower, composer, 88
• 29 September – A. L. Lloyd, folk song collector, 74^[12]
• 6 October – Philip Green, film and TV composer and conductor, 71
• 8 October – Erik Routley, hymn writer and composer, 64
• 16 October – Rory McEwen, artist and musician, 50
• 29 October – William Lloyd Webber, organist and composer, 68^[13]
• 1 November
  • Dorothy Gow, composer, 89
  • Leighton Lucas, composer, 79
• 13 November – Chesney Allen, entertainer, 88^[14]
• 16 November – Arthur Askey, entertainer, 82^[15]
• 5 December – Caryl Brahms, musician and writer, 80^[16]

Notes and References

1. http://www.upvenue.com/article/1437-top-10-crazy-music-myths.html Top 10 crazy music myths
2. Web site: Foreign News Briefs. UPI. 6 October 2020.
3. Web site: The Official Top 50 best-selling songs of 1982. Official Charts.
4. Book: Dafydd . Rees . Barry . Lazell . Alan . Jones . The Top 100 UK Singles . Chart File Volume 2 . Virgin Books . London, England . 80–81 . 1983 . 0-907080-73-1.
5. Rees; Lazell; Jones (1983). "The Top 100 UK Albums". pp. 82–83.
6. Midwinter, Eric. "Holloway, Stanley Augustus (1890–1982)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, January 2011, accessed 21 April 2011
7. Book: Nick Talevski. The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries. 1999. Omnibus. 978-0-7119-7548-4. 176.
8. Book: The Annual Obituary. 1982. St. Martin's. 978-0-312-03877-9. 206.
9. Book: David Mason Greene. Constance Green. Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. 1985. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.. 978-0-385-14278-6. 1439.
10. https://web.archive.org/web/20111019174121/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/interview--ol-blue-eyes-is-back-after-an-eightyear-gap--the-householder-years--the-pretenders-are-in-the-top-10-again-and-the-critics-good-books-geraldine-bedell-talks-to-chrissie-hynde-while-david-cavanagh-compares-the-new-album-with-the-old-ones-1432961.html "INTERVIEW / Ol' blue eyes is back", The Independent, 1 May 1994
11. Book: Ian Carr. Digby Fairweather. Brian Priestley. Chris Parker. Jazz: The Rough Guide. 1995. Rough Guides. 978-1-85828-137-7. 684.
12. Book: Colin Larkin. The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music. 2002. Virgin Books. 978-1-85227-937-0. 256.
13. Book: Maggie Humphreys. Robert Evans. Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. 1 January 1997. A&C Black. 978-0-7201-2330-2. 212.
14. Web site: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . OUP . 13 October 2013.
15. Book: Film Review. 1983. etc.. 978-0-491-03012-0. 113.
16. Sherrin, Ned. "Abrahams, Doris Caroline [Caryl Brahms (1901–1982)"], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 September 2011
    • 19 December – Lawrance Collingwood, conductor, composer and record producer, 95
    • date unknown – Bob Roberts, folk singer, 74/75

    See also

    • 1982 in British radio
    • 1982 in British television
    • 1982 in the United Kingdom
    • List of British films of 1982

    External links

    • BBC Radio 1's Chart Show
    • The Official Charts Company