Nederland High School
Class of 1982 - Reunions, Inc.

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Music of 1982

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Events
• January 15 - K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida.
• January 17 - Tommy Tucker, writer of "Hi Heel Sneakers", dies of carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home
• January 20 - Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a live bat thrown at him during a performance. Osbourne is hospitalized with rabies.
• January 21 - B.B. King donates his personal record collection, which includes nearly 7,000 rare blues records, to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
• February 13 - A 300 pound (136 kg) gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone 2 weeks later in a dry river bed.
• February 20 - Pat Benatar marries her guitarist, Neil Giraldo on the Hawaiian island of Maui
• March 4 - Frank Zappa's son Dweezil and daughter Moon Unit form Fred Zeppelin
• March 5 - Comedian and Blues Brother John Belushi is found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, California
• March 18 - Teddy Pendergrass is severely injured in a car accident in Philadelphia. Pendergrass' injuries result in him being paralyzed from the waist down
• March 19 - Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, Randy Rhoads is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida when the plane he's riding in buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house. The plane's pilot and a female passenger are also killed.
• March 28 - In Los Angeles, California, David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine and carrying a concealed weapon
• March 29 - Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release their single "Ebony and Ivory", which will remain at #1 for 7 weeks
• March 31 - The Doobie Brothers announce that they are breaking up
• April 15 - Billy Joel is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Long Island, New York. Joel spends over a month in the hospital undergoing physical therapy for his hand.
• April - Amy Grant marries Gary Chapman
• April 26 - Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
• August 17 - In Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany began the first mass production of the compact disc.
• September 7 - The musical Cats begins its 18 year run on Broadway
• September 22 - The Who begin their only formally-announced "farewell" tour in Washington, D.C.
• November 5 - First broadcast of The Tube was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
• December 1 - Thriller is released by superstar Michael Jackson and goes on to be the greatest selling album of all time, with 104 million units sold worldwide

Other Events
• The first compact discs appear in music stores in Asia.
• A benefit concert takes place in Downey, California to replace the guitars belonging to Daniel Amos which were stolen early in the year. Performers included Tom Howard, Mark Heard and Randy Stonehill.
• Janet Jackson releases first recording
• Caution and Plee Fresh begin recording; this is the birth of a distinctively Chicago sound in hip hop music
• Lee Aaron's solo career begins
• Ronnie James Dio leaves Black Sabbath for solo career
• Wendy O. Williams leaves the Plasmatics for a solo career

Bands Formed
• Cinderella (band)
• Culture Club
• The Smiths
• Seona Dancing
• Faith No More
• Napalm Death
• Armored Saint
• Skinny Puppy
• Nitzer Ebb
• Alien Sex Fiend
• The Pogues
• D.I.
• Soda Stereo
• a-Ha
• Beat Happening
• Big Black
• The Celibate Rifles
• Del Amitri
• Everything But The Girl
• James
• Kajagoogoo
• Public Enemy
• Flesh for Lulu
• Ratt
• Swans
• Suicidal Tendencies
• The Toasters
• They Might Be Giants
• X Japan

Bands Disbanded
• Adam And The Ants
• Bad Company (they reform in 1986)
• The Doobie Brothers (they reform in 1988)
• The Eagles (they reform in 1994)
• Hotel
• The Jam
• The Only Ones
• The Average White Band (they reform in 1989)
• The Teardrop Explodes
• Japan
• The Skids
• ABBA

Albums Released
• Thriller - Michael Jackson (greatest selling album of all time)
• A Kiss In The Dreamhouse - Siouxsie And The Banshees
• Age To Age - Amy Grant
• All Four One - The Motels
• American Fool - John Cougar Mellencamp
• Another Day/Another Dollar - Gang of Four
• The Anvil - Visage
• Asia - Asia
• Avalon - Roxy Music
• Bad Brains - Bad Brains
• Bean Spill - The Minutemen
• Beat - King Crimson
• Beautiful Vision - Van Morrison
• Before a Word is Said – Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins
• Big Science - Laurie Anderson
• Black Metal - Venom
• Black Tiger - Y&T
• Blackout - Scorpions
• The Blue Mask – Lou Reed
• Bobbie Sue - The Oak Ridge Boys
• Branigan - Laura Branigan
• The Broadsword and the Beast - Jethro Tull
• Business as Usual - Men at Work
• Chicago 16 - Chicago
• Christ The Album - Crass
• Chronic Town EP - R.E.M.
• Circus Animals - Cold Chisel
• Coda - Led Zeppelin
• Combat Rock - The Clash
• Complete Madness - Madness (greatest hits)
• Computer Games - George Clinton
• Creatures of the Night - KISS
• Damaged - Black Flag
• Dawn Patrol - Night Ranger
• Death Wish II - Jimmy Page
• The Distance - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
• Diver Down - Van Halen
• Donna Summer - Donna Summer
• The Dreaming - Kate Bush
• D.S. al Coda – National Health
• English Settlement - XTC
• Enter K – Peter Hammill
• Entrave et Etouffement - Entrave et Etouffement
• Everything Falls Apart - Hüsker Dü
• "…Famous Last Words…" – Supertramp
• Fast Women & Slow Horses - Dr. Feelgood
• Five Miles Out - Mike Oldfield
• Forever Now - The Psychedelic Furs
• Garlands - Cocteau Twins
• Get Nervous - Pat Benatar
• The Gift - The Jam
• Groovy Decay - Robyn Hitchcock
• H2O - Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Hello, I Must Be Going! - Phil Collins
• Hérésie - Virgin Prunes
• Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall
• The High and the Mighty - Donnie Iris
• Hot Space - Queen
• Hour Live - Toots & the Maytals
• How Could Hell Be Any Worse? - Bad Religion (debut full-length)
• The Hunter - Blondie (final studio album until early 1999)
• I Paralyze - Cher
• If I Die, I Die - Virgin Prunes
• Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• In My Eyes - Minor Threat
• Iron Fist - Motörhead
• It's Alright (I See Rainbows) - Yoko Ono
• It's Hard - The Who
• Junkyard - The Birthday Party (final album)
• Kansuigyo - Miyuki Nakajima
• Keep On Doing - The Roches
• Kissing to Be Clever - Culture Club
• Langkah Berikutnya (and then Tokoh-Tokoh) - Ebiet G. Ade
• Le Disque d'Or du Mundial '82 - Dalida (compilation)
• The Lee Aaron Project - Lee Aaron
• Leichenschrei - SPK
• Lexicon of Love - ABC
• Live Evil - Black Sabbath
• Living My Life - Grace Jones
• Love over Gold - Dire Straits
• Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers
• Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets (debut)
• Mesopotamia - The B-52's
• Metal on Metal - Anvil
• Midnight Love - Marvin Gaye
• Milo Goes to College - The Descendents
• Mirage - Fleetwood Mac
• Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion
• Mondialement Vôtre - Dalida
• Minor Threat - Minor Threat
• Music for a New Society – John Cale
• Naked - Sex Gang Children
• Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
• Night and Day - Joe Jackson
• The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
• Nona - Nona Hendryx
• Now and Forever - Air Supply
• Now Then... - Stiff Little Fingers
• Nugent - Ted Nugent
• The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
• Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel
• Oh No!, It's Devo - Devo
• On Land - Brian Eno
• One To One - Carole King
• One Vice At A Time - Krokus
• Only Theatre Of Pain - Christian Death (debut)
• Oriental Beat - Hanoi Rocks
• Original Musiquarium - Greatest Hits - Stevie Wonder
• Peter Gabriel also known as Security - Peter Gabriel
• Pictures at Eleven - Robert Plant (former Led Zeppelin Vocalist's solo debut)
• Pornography - The Cure
• Prairie Serenade - Riders in the Sky
• Private Audition - Heart
• The Record - Fear
• Revelations - Killing Joke
• Rio - Duran Duran
• The Rise & Fall - Madness
• Rock in a Hard Place - Aerosmith
• Rough Diamonds - Bad Company
• Ruff Cuts EP - Twisted Sister
• Saints & Sinners - Whitesnake
• Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
• Send Me A Lullaby - The Go-Betweens
• Shabooh Shoobah- Inxs
• Shoot out the Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson
• Signals - Rush
• Silk Electric - Diana Ross
• The Singles: The First Ten Years - ABBA
• The Sky's Gone Out – Bauhaus
• Somewhere in Afrika – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
• Songs of the Free - Gang of Four
• Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth
• Speak of the Devil - Ozzy Osbourne (Live)
• Spécial Dalida - Dalida
• Spirit Of Place - Goanna
• Stink - The Replacements
• Straight Between the Eyes - Rainbow
• Sweets From a Stranger - Squeeze
• There For No One To See - Grand Prix
• Tenebrae - Simonetti-Morante-Pignatelli (Goblin)
• Three Lock Box - Sammy Hagar
• Time and Tide - Split Enz
• Timepieces: Best of Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton (Best of 1969-1979)
• Too Fast for Love - Mötley Crüe (debut re-release)
• Too-Rye-Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners
• Toto IV - Toto
• Trance - Chris and Cosey
• Troops Of Tomorrow - The Exploited
• Tug of War - Paul McCartney
• The Tunes of Two Cities - The Residents
• Under the Big Black Sun - X
• Under The Blade - Twisted Sister (debut album)
• 1999 - Prince
• Underwater Kites - The Modern Art (debut)
• Upstairs at Eric's - Yazoo
• Vs - Mission of Burma
• Wasted Youth - Girl
• White Eagle – Tangerine Dream
• Zipper Catches Skin - Alice Cooper

Number One Singles and (Weeks at Number One)
• "Physical" - Olivia Newton-John (6 weeks in 1981 + 4 weeks in 1982) best selling single of the year
• "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" - Daryl Hall & John Oates (1)
• "Centerfold" - J. Geils Band (6)
• "I Love Rock 'N Roll" - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (7)
• "Chariots of Fire Theme" - Vangelis (1)
• "Ebony And Ivory" - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder (7)
• "Don't You Want Me" - Human League (3)
• "Eye Of The Tiger" - Survivor (6)
• "Abracadabra" - Steve Miller Band (2)
• "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" - Chicago (2)
• "Jack And Diane" - John Cougar (4)
• "Who Can It Be Now?" - Men at Work (1)
• "Up Where We Belong" - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (3)
• "Truly" - Lionel Richie (2)
• "Mickey" - Toni Basil (1)
• "Maneater" - Daryl Hall & John Oates (2 weeks in 1982 + 2 weeks in 1983)