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See also:
1981 in music,
other events of 1982,
1983 in music and the
list of 'years in music'.
- 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 of 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 gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant[?] is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery. Police found the gravestone 2 week later in a dry river bed.
- February 20 - Pat Benatar[?] marries her guitarist, Neil Geraldo[?] 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[?]"
- 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.
- The first compact discs appear in music stores.
- 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
- Madonna's career begins
- Metallica's career begins
- Ronnie James Dio leaves Black Sabbath for solo career
- The Smiths form
- Pantera forms
- Faith No More forms
- Slayer forms
- Violent Femmes forms
- The Eagles break up
- Wendy O. Williams[?] leaves the Plasmatics for a solo career
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