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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983. Specific locations 1983 in British music 1983 in Norwegian music Specific genres 1983 in country music 1983 in heavy metal music 1983 in hip hop music 1983 in jazz 1983 in pop Trends CDs become popular among classical music listeners. Events January–April January 1 ZTT Records is founded. The Merchant Ivory film Heat and Dust is released. On the soundtrack, composed by Zakir Hussain, Ivory is featured on tanpura with Hussain (who also appeared in the film) on tabla. January 2 – Michael Jackson released his iconic hit single "Billie Jean". January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization. In 1984 electronic terminals will be used in selected stores to gather sales information, and the old "sales diary" method will be gradually phased out over the next few years. February 2 – "Menudomania" comes to New York as 3,500 screaming girls crowd Kennedy Airport to catch a glimpse of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, who are playing six sold-out shows at the Felt Forum. February 4 – Karen Carpenter died at age 32 from heart failure due to complications from anorexia nervosa. February 11 – The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York. February 13 – Marvin Gaye performs "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the NBA All-Star Game. February 23 – The 25th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in Los Angeles, hosted by John Denver. Toto win both Album of the Year (for Toto IV) and Record of the Year (for "Rosanna"), while Willie Nelson's cover of "Always on My Mind" wins Song of the Year. Men at Work win Best New Artist. February 26 – Michael Jackson's Thriller album hits #1 on the US charts, the first of thirty-seven (non-consecutive) weeks it would spend there on its way to becoming the biggest-selling album of all time. February 28 – U2 release their 3rd album War which debuts at #1 in the UK and produces the band's first international hit single. March 2 – Compact discs go on sale in the United States. They had first been released in Japan the previous October. March 4 – Neil Young cancels the remainder of his tour after collapsing backstage in Louisville, Kentucky, after playing for seventy-five minutes. March 5 – Thompson Twins have their first chart success as "Love on Your Side" enters the Top 10 in the UK. March 26 Duran Duran enters the UK Singles Chart at number 1 with their first UK number 1 single "Is There Something I Should Know?". Tears for Fears debut album The Hurting reach number 1 on the UK Albums Chart. April 5 A Generative Theory of Tonal Music by Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff is published. US Interior Secretary James G. Watt causes controversy when he effectively bans the Beach Boys from a return performance at the Fourth of July festivities in Washington, announcing that Wayne Newton would perform instead. Watt claims that rock bands attract "the wrong element". That same week President Reagan, himself an avowed Beach Boys fan, presents Watt with a plaster foot with a hole in it. April 9 – David Bowie achieves his fourth UK number 1 single with "Let's Dance". April 11 – Dave Mustaine is fired from Metallica just as the band is set to begin recording its début album. He is replaced by Kirk Hammett. April 14 – David Bowie releases Let's Dance, his first album since parting ways with RCA Records and his fifteenth studio album overall. With its deliberate shift to mainstream dance-rock, it would become Bowie's biggest commercial success, at 10.7 million copies sold worldwide. Bowie, however, would experience a critical downturn for the next ten years as a result of his perceived obligation to continue appealing to fans of the album. April 18 – Ellen Taaffe Zwilich becomes the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. April 23 – French singer Corinne Hermès, representing Luxembourg, wins the 28th annual Eurovision Song Contest, held at Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle in Munich, with the song "Si la vie est cadeau". May–August May 16 Singer Anna Vissi marries composer Nikos Karvelas. The Motown 25 Special airs on NBC, celebrating a quarter century of Motown Records. Michael Jackson unveils his moonwalk dance move during a performance of "Billie Jean". May 28–June 4 – The second US Festival is held at Glen Helen Park in California. June 3 – American rock drummer Jim Gordon commits matricide during a schizophrenic episode. June 18–19 – Menudo make their second visit to New York. The band plays four shows at Madison Square Garden and all 80,000 tickets sell out within three days of going on sale. June 20 – Catalunya Ràdio begins broadcasting. July 1 – Chilean Band Los Prisioneros debut at the Miguel Leon Prado High School Song festival. They pretended to personify the rebellion of young Chileans leading to protests against Augusto Pinochet. July 6 – As a statement of protest against music piracy in the form of home taping, Jean-Michel Jarre releases only one pressing of his latest album "Music for Supermarkets", which is sold at an auction to a French real estate dealer for 69,000 francs (about US$8960). The auction is broadcast live on Radio Luxembourg which also plays the album in full for the first and only time. July 19 – Simon and Garfunkel begin their North American summer tour in Akron, Ohio. July 21 – Diana Ross performs a filmed concert in Central Park in heavy rain; eventually the storm forces her to postpone the rest of the concert until next day. July 25 – Metallica release their debut studio album, Kill 'Em All, since hailed as a groundbreaking release for the burgeoning thrash metal genre. July 29 – Friday Night Videos is broadcast for the first time on NBC. August 5 – David Crosby is sentenced by a judge in Dallas, Texas to five years in prison on drug and weapon possession charges. August 16 Johnny Ramone suffers a near-fatal head injury during a fight over a girl in front of his East Village apartment. Singer Paul Simon marries actress Carrie Fisher. August 20 – The Rolling Stones sign a new $28 million contract with CBS Records, the largest recording contract in history up to this time. September–December September – Bonnie Tyler releases the album Faster Than the Speed of Night in United States September 1 – Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of The Clash issue a press statement announcing Mick Jones has been fired from the group. September 4 – Phil Lynott performs his final show with Thin Lizzy in Nuremberg, Germany. September 18 – The members of Kiss show their faces without their makeup for the first time on MTV, simultaneous with the release of their album Lick It Up. September 20 – The first ARMS Charity Concert is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. November 12 – Duran Duran start their SING BLUE SILVER World Tour. The tour begins with sold-out shows in Australia November 26 – Quiet Riot's Metal Health album tops the US album charts, the first heavy metal album to hit #1 in America. December 2 T.... Discover the Tammy Laura Lynn Enz popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tammy Laura Lynn Enz books.