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1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990

Art and culture

Film

• Liquid Sky (1982) -
• Cafe Flesh (1982) -
• Eating Raoul (1982) -
• The Thing (1982)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) - Carl Reiner
• The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) - Peter Greenaway
• Querelle (1982) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott
• Tron (1982) - Steven Lisberger
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - Amy Heckerling
• Evil Dead (1982) - Sam Raimi
• Q (1982) - Larry Cohen

• Ranxerox in New York (1982) - Liberatore and Tamburini
  • Although the adventures of Tanino Liberatore's Rank Xerox had previously been published in various magazines in Italy (Frigidaire, Cannibale), France ( l'Echo des Savanes), US (Heavy Metal), the first hard cover Rank Xerox story (as it was then called by the authors) appeared in 1982 on Ed. Albin Michel.

Music

• The TB-303 was a synthesizer/sequencer produced by the Roland corporation in 1982 and 1983 that had a crucial role in the development of contemporary electronic music, but most of all on the acid house that would follow a couple of years later.

• Dub in disco
  • "Thanks to You and "Don't Make Me Wait" came out and started the whole dub thing in disco." Steven Harvey in Collusion magazine #5, 1983 [...]

• • Shep Pettibone: " [...] strangely enough, all these computer records started after "Thanks To You". It was kind of like that computer sound within a black vein.

• Disco and electro
  • In 1982 NYC disco expanded its perimeters to include dub, electronics, jazz, Latin, afro, new wave - a cauldron capable of melting down any ingredient. Records by The Peech Boys, Sinnamon and D Train allied the Black R&B tradition with high-tech mix/electronics. The emergence of labels Tommy Boy and Streetwise under Arthur Baker and John Robie pushed the hard electronic/beat box edge to the fore. To turn on one of me city's three dance radio stations and hear a DJ mixing three records together at once seemed like an impossible dream of the avant garde infiltrating the market place. -- Steven Harvey [...]

• Compact disco launched
  • The compact disc was launched in 1982. The advantage of the CD is that it was digital, which helped prepare the MP3-P2P (Napster et all) revolution of the late nineties.

Albums

• Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes

Singles

• Planet Rock (1982) - Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force
• Dirty Talk (1982) - Klein & MBO
• Together Forever (1982) - Exodus
• Don't Make Me Wait (1982) - Peech Boys

      1. Together Forever - Exodus
      2. Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait
      3. Grace Jones - Feel Up (Levan mix)
      4. Dinosaur L - Go Bang [Arthur Russell]
      5. Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk
      6. Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock [...]
      7. Michelle Wallace 'Jazzy Rhythm' Tee Scott
      8. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley's remix)
      9. Debbie Trusty - Searchin' for Some Lovin' [Nick Martinelli]
     10. Chemise - She Can't Love You
     11. Raw Silk 'Do It To The Music' [Nick Martinelli]
     12. Fonda Rae 'Over Like A Fat Rat' [Fonda Rae]
     13. Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
     14. Bo Kool - Love Money [Jazz-Funk]
     15. Carly Simon - Why
     16. Denroy Morgan - Happy Feeling
     17. Funk Fusion Band - Can You Feel It [Nick Martinelli]
     18. Rockers Revenge - Walking On Sunshine [Jamaica]
     19. Fat Larry's Band - Act Like You Know + Whatnauts
     20. Leon Ware - Why I Came To California
     21. Sinnamon - Thanks To You [Shep Pettibone]
     22. Montana Sextet Heavy Vibes [Montana]
     23. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (one of the very first 808s used for bass)
     24. Material - Let Me Have It All
     25. Patrice Rushen - Number One
     26. Heaven And Earth - I Really Love You
     27. Inner Life - Moment Of My Life
     28. Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)
     29. Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
     30. Extra - Haven´t Been Funked Enough
     31. Willy Hutch - In and Out
     32. Touchdown - Ease Your Mind
     33. Plunky & the Oneness of Juju - Every Way But Loose
     34. Clark Sisters - You Brought the Sunshine
     35. Kasso - Key West
     36. New Order - Blue Monday
     37. Alicia Myers - I Want To Thank You
     38. Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
     39. Cybotron - Cosmic Cars [Juan Atkins]
     40. Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even
     41. Valentine Brothers - Money's Too Tight (To Mention) 

Albums

• Thriller (1982) - Michael Jackson
• Inner Life - Inner Life
• One Down - Material
• Armagideon Time (1982) - Willie Williams
• King Sunny Ade - Juju

Births

• January 18 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter

Deaths

• Patrick Cowley (1950 - 1982)
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945 - 1982)
• Jacques Tati (1908 - 1982)
• Romy Schneider (1938 - 1982)
• Mario Praz (1896 – 1982)
• Lester Bangs (1948 - 1982)
• March 2 - Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
• May 10 - Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
• May 29 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)
• December 24 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)