Year:1982

Bands Formed

 * Faith No More
 * Chumbawamba
 * Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Violent Femmes

Singles Released

 * The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
 * Temptation (New Order song) New Order
 * Golden Brown The Stranglers
 * I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley mix) Donna Summer
 * Town Called Malice/Precious (edit) The Jam
 * Suspended in Gaffa Kate Bush
 * Someone Somewhere (in Summertime) Simple Minds
 * Atlantic City Bruce Springsteen
 * In Shreds The Chameleons
 * Shipbuilding   Robert Wyatt
 * More than This (Roxy Music song) Roxy Music
 * Mad World Tears for Fears
 * Uncertain Smile The The
 * One Hundred Years The Cure
 * Nightporter Japan
 * Avalon Roxy Music
 * Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love) Tears for Fears


 * Love Is a Stranger Eurythmics


 * Nowhere Girl B-Movie


 * Imagination Just an Illusion


 * Electric Avenue Eddy Grant
 * Truly
 * You Are

Albums Released

 * February 12: XTC - English Settlement
 * March: Andy Partridge - The Bull With The Golden Guts
 * March 29: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Other Events

 * XTC releases the Look Look video compilation.
 * ===Classical music [ edit] ===


 * March 3 : first performance of the Symphonic Study of Aarre Merikanto 1928
 * March 11 : First performance of mini-overture of Witold Lutosławski
 * March 25 : First performance of Nacht und Trompeten of Hans Abrahamsen
 * August 26 : First performance of Grave of Witold Lutosławski (string version)
 * August 28 : First performance of Symphony No. 4 by Leif Segerstam
 * September 29 : First performance of the Violin Concerto by Kalevi Aho
 * October 10 : First version of Hangman, hangman! Leonardo Balada
 * October 21 : First performance of Sardana Leonardo Balada
 * November 21 : First performance of the violin concerto by Leonardo Balada
 * November 24 : First performance of Quasi un paso doble Leonardo Balada
 * ==Matches [ edit] ==

==Festivals [ Edit] ==
 * Eurovision
 * Eurovision Young Musicians


 * Pinkpop