1981 in music
Events
- February 9th: died of the rocker Bill Halley
- May 11th: death of Bob Marley
- In France, Jack Lang organizes the first festival of the Musique the June 21st.
- August 5th: First of cartoon film Metal howling (film) .
- September 15th: Reopening of the Studio 54 with New York.
- September 19th: Concert with Central Park (New York) for Simon and Garfunkel in front of more than 400.000 spectators.
- October 29th: disappearance of Georges Brassens
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First disc of the D.J Grandmaster Flash, the Rap Adventures Off The Whels Off Steel .
- Creation of the group of heavy metal & thrash metal Metallica.
Principal albums of the year
French-speaking people
- Puppet 81 - Barbara
- the adventurer - Indo-China
- Postcard - Francis Cabrel
- I like Regarder the Girls - Patrick Coutin
- Poèmes Rock'n'roll - Charlélie Couture
- the Return of Gerard Lambert - Renaud
- lakes of Connemara - Michel Sardou
- Ground of the alive ones - Bed year dud vew - Alan Stivell
- Dernières beacons (before change) - Hubert-Felix Thiéfaine
- Jean-Jacques Goldman - Jean-Jacques Goldman
- the Return of Gerard Lambert - Renaud
English-speaking
- Wild-Eyed Southern Servant boys - .38 Special
- The Visitors - ABBA
- Breaker - Accept
- For Those Butt to Rock - AC/DC
- Hardware Heavy - Anvil
- Drop Out With The Barracudas - The Barracudas
- Wha' PEN? - Happy The
- Precious Time - Stalemate Benatar
- Red - Black Uhuru
- The Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
- Autoamerican - Bleached
- Dedication - Gary U.S. Jumps
- My Life in the Bush off Ghosts - David Byrne & Brian Eno
- Honi is - John Cale
- Made in America - The Carpenters
- Been worth Face - Phil Collins
- Special Forces - Alice Cooper
- Trust - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- Psychedelic Jungle - The Cramps 1981 LP
- Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places - Creole Kid And The Coconuts
- Playin' My Thang - Steve Cropper
- Ales STI gut - D.A.F
- Stand For Decibels - The Db' S
- Speak and Spell - Depeche Mode
- High “Dry - Def Leppard
- Breaking the Chains - Dokken
- Duran Duran - Duran Duran
- Shot off Coils - Bob Dylan
- Time - Electric Light Orchestrated
- Musta Notta Gotta Lotta - Joe Ely
- In the Garden - Eurythmics
- Punks not Dead - The Exploited
- 4 - Foreigner
- The Electric Spanking off War Babies - Funkadelic
- Handful Off Earth - Dick Gaughan
- Beauty And The Happy - The Go-Go' S
- Fire Off Coils - Gun Club
- Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
- Standing Hampton - Sammy Hagar
- Bangkok shocks, Saigobn Shakes… Hanoi Rocks - Hanoi Rocks
- Somewhere in England - George Harrison
- White Laces & Black Leather - Helix
- The Right To Be Italian - Holly And The Italians
- Dare - Human League
- Killers - Iron Maiden
- Maiden Japan EP - Iron Maiden
- Freeze Frame - J. Geils Band
- Escape Artist - Garland Jeffreys
- I Coils Rock' Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
- Young stag Comes The Night - David Johansen
- The Fox Album - Elton John
- Captured - Journey (live)
- Escape - Journey
- Not off Entry - Judas Priest
- Discipline - King Crimson
- Give The People What They Want - The Kinks
- Music From The Elder - KIS
- Kix - Kix
- Hardware - Krokus
- Computer World - Kraftwerk
- El Rayo-X - David Lindley
- Get Lucky - Loverboy
- Chances Are - Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Quiero Ser - Menudo
- Death-blow - Mink De Ville
- Too Fast for Coils - Mötley Crüe
- No Sleep Till' Hammersmith - Motörhead
- M.S.G. II - The Michael Schenker Group
- One Night At Budokan - The Michael Schenker Group
- The Michael Schenker Group (album) - The Michael Schenker Group
- Place Without has Postcard - Midnight Oil
- Minor Threat and In My Eyes - Minor Threat
- Fiyo One The Bayou - The Neville Brothers
- Movement - New Order
- Physical - Olivia Newton-John
- Bella Gave - Stevie Nicks
- Intensities In Ten Cities - Ted Nugent
- Great gonzos: the Best Off Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
- Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Servant boys
- Blizzard Off Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
- Diary off has Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
- Hard Promised - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
- has off Collection Great Dance Songs - Pink Floyd
- The Plimsouls - The Plimsouls
- Ghost in the Machine - The Police
- II - The Pretenders
- Controversy - Prince
- Talk, Talk, Talk - Psychedelic Furs
- Flowers off Lovesong - Public Image Ltd.
- Quarterflash - Quarterflash
- Difficult to Cure - Rainbow
- Pleasant Dreams - The Clean
- Rock Till You Drop - Raven
- Sorry My, Forgot To Take Out The Trash - The Replacements
- Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
- Basement Slaps (The Rubinoos) - The Rubinoos
- Recovery - Runrig
- Moving Pictures - Rush
- Greatest Hits (Mitch Ryder & Wheels Strait) - Mitch Ryder And The Strait Wheels
- Monkey Puzzle - The Saints
- Shock Tactics - Samson
- Denim And Leather - Saxon
- Not-Stop Erotic Caberet - Software Concealment
- Reach Up And Touch The Sky - Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes
- East Side Story - Squeeze
- Don' T Say No - Billy Squier
- Stray Cats - The Stray Cats
- Gonna Ball - The Stray Cats
- Syl Sylvain And The Teardrops - Syl Sylvain And The Teardrops
- Funland - Bram Tchaikovski
- Burning Blue Drunk - The
- The Time - The Time
- Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
- Turn Back - Louse
- Black Bottom - The Troggs
- October - U2
- Present Arms - Ub 40
- Positive Touch - The Undertones
- Dream Sequence - The Unknowns
- Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
- Fair Warning - Van Halen
- Welcome to Hell - Venom
- King Bee - Muddy Toilets
- Like an' Get It - Whitesnake
- Number The Brave - Wishbone Ash (RU #61)
- Face Dances - The Who
- Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde
- Wild Gift - X
- Claro That If - Yello
- Earthshaker - Y&T
Successes of the year in France
- lakes of Connemara - Michel Sardou
- For the pleasure - Herbert Léonard
- Confidence for confidence - Jean Schulteiss
- Bamboo - Alain Chamfort
- dance of the ducks - J.J. Insipid Lionel
- to grey - Face
- Kids in America - Kim Wilde
- Tainted Coils - Soft Concealment
- Betty Davis eyes - Kim Carnes
- Hell' S Bells - AC/DC
- the Adventurer - Indo-China
- Dyslexique - Buzy
Births
- January 2nd: Jamelia, British singer
- January 20th: Alicia Keys,
- March 9th: Chad Gilbert, member of the group New Found Glory
- November 17th: Sarah Harding, member of the British group Girls Aloud
- November 20th: Kimberley Walsh, member of the British group Girls Aloud
- December 2nd: Britney Spears, American singer
- December 13rd: Amy Lee, singer of the Gothic group of metal Evanescence
Death
- January 2nd: David Lynch, The Platters
- January 23rd: Samuel To bore
- January 25th: Adele Astaire, actress, dancer and American singer
- January 29th: Cozy Sticks, American beater, 73 years
- February 6th: Hugo Montenegro, type-setter, 55 years
- February 9th: Bill Halley, 56 years
- February 15th: Mike Bloomfield, guitarist of American blues-rock'n'roll, 39 years
- February 22nd: Kermit Chandler, Sheppards, 38 years
- April 5th: Bob Hite, Canned Heat, 38 years
- April 7th: Kit Lambert, ex-manager of The Who
- May 11th: Bob Marley, 36 years
- May 25th: Roy Brown
- July 16th: Harry Chapin, 39 years
- August 18th: Robert Russell Bennett, type-setter and arranger
- August 26th: Lee Hays, The Weavers, 67 years
- September 15th: Chick Bullock, American singer
- October 15th: Elsie Randolph, actress and British singer
- October 15th: Jud Strunk, 45 years
- October 29th: Georges Brassens author, type-setter, interprets
- November 27th: Burbot Lenya, actress and American singer
- December 9th: Sony Til, American singer of the group of The Orioles, 56 years
- December 13rd: Cornelius Cardew, type-setter of avant-garde
- December 13rd: Pigmeat Markman, singer of Rythm' Blues.
- December 27th: Hoagland Howard Carmichael, singer, pianist and American writer 82 years
Rewards
- X
Grammy Award S (the United States)
- X
Brit Awards (the United Kingdom)
- X
Price Juno (Canada)
- X
Price Felix
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Third Official reception of the ADISQ: Daniel Lavoie and Diane Such is the interpreters masculine and female of the year. Martine St-Clearly is the Revelation of the year.
See too
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