1982
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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.
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
- Grace Jones - Feel Up (Levan mix)
- Dinosaur L - Go Bang [Arthur Russell]
- Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock [...]
- Michelle Wallace 'Jazzy Rhythm' Tee Scott
- Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley's remix)
- Debbie Trusty - Searchin' for Some Lovin' [Nick Martinelli]
- Chemise - She Can't Love You
- Raw Silk 'Do It To The Music' [Nick Martinelli]
- Fonda Rae 'Over Like A Fat Rat' [Fonda Rae]
- Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
- Bo Kool - Love Money [Jazz-Funk]
- Carly Simon - Why
- Denroy Morgan - Happy Feeling
- Funk Fusion Band - Can You Feel It [Nick Martinelli]
- Rockers Revenge - Walking On Sunshine [Jamaica]
- Fat Larry's Band - Act Like You Know + Whatnauts
- Leon Ware - Why I Came To California
- Sinnamon - Thanks To You [Shep Pettibone]
- Montana Sextet Heavy Vibes [Montana]
- Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (one of the very first 808s used for bass)
- Material - Let Me Have It All
- Patrice Rushen - Number One
- Heaven And Earth - I Really Love You
- Inner Life - Moment Of My Life
- Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)
- Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
- Extra - Haven´t Been Funked Enough
- Willy Hutch - In and Out
- Touchdown - Ease Your Mind
- Plunky & the Oneness of Juju - Every Way But Loose
- Clark Sisters - You Brought the Sunshine
- Kasso - Key West
- New Order - Blue Monday
- Alicia Myers - I Want To Thank You
- Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
- Cybotron - Cosmic Cars [Juan Atkins]
- Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even
- Valentine Brothers - Money's Too Tight (To Mention)
Albums
- Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
- 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)
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