Year:1981

Bands Formed

 * Antisystem
 * Faith No More
 * Ministry

Singles Released

 * Ceremony New Order
 * Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads
 * Computer Love/The Model Kraftwerk
 * Ghost Town The Specials
 * That's Entertainment The Jam
 * Charlotte Sometimes The Cure
 * Radio Free Europe R.E.M.
 * Tainted Love Soft Cell
 * Souvenir Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
 * Spellbound Siouxsie & the Banshees
 * Vienna Ultravox
 * Quiet Life Japan
 * Sat in Your Lap Kate Bush
 * Reward The Teardrop Explodes
 * Eisbär Grau zone
 * Too Drunk to Fuck Dead Kennedys
 * Bette Davis Eyes Kim Carnes
 * Pretty in Pink The Psychedelic Furs
 * Let's Groove Earth, Wind & Fire
 * Stand & Deliver Adam and the Ants
 * Rapture Blondie
 * Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode
 * Happy Birthday Altered Images
 * The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum Fun Boy Three
 * Girls on Film Duran Duran
 * All Stood Still Ultravox
 * Europa and the Pirate Twins Thomas Dolby
 * Kids in America Kim Wilde
 * On the Beat B, B & Q Band
 * Hold On Tight Electric Light Orchestra
 * Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Haircut One Hundred
 * Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) Spandau Ballet
 * Slow Hand The Pointer Sisters
 * Angel of the Morning Juice Newton
 * Kiss On My List Hall & Oates
 * Lady (You Bring Me Up) Commodores
 * Japanese Boy Aneka
 * Muscle Bound/Glow Spandau Ballet
 * Going Back to My Roots Odyssey
 * Prince Charming Adam and the Ants
 * Plan B Dexys Midnight Runners
 * Einstein a Go-Go Landscape
 * Labelled With Love Squeeze
 * For Your Eyes Only Sheena Easton
 * Good Thing Going Sugar Minott
 * Thrown Away The Stranglers
 * This Little Girl Gary U.S. Bonds
 * Backfired Debbie Harry
 * How 'Bout Us Champaign
 * Jimmie Jones The Vapors
 * I Shot the Sheriff Light of the World
 * Aie a Mwana Bananarama
 * Can't Get Enough of You Eddy Grant
 * More Than Physical Bananarama
 * Endless Love Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
 * This Ole House Shakin' Stevens
 * Star Kiki Dee
 * Making Your Mind Up Bucks Fizz
 * Gangsters of the Groove Heatwave

Albums Released

 * April 29: Van Halen - Fair Warning
 * August: XTC - Live And More
 * September 18: XTC - 5 Senses

Other Events
===Classical music [ edit] ===
 * April 22 - First performance of Grave of Witold Lutosławski (version cello / piano;
 * October 31 - first performance of Symphony No. 4 of Per Nørgård .
 * ==Matches [ edit] ==

==Festivals [ Edit] ==
 * Eurovision


 * Pinkpop