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

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

Grammy Award S (the United States)

Brit Awards (the United Kingdom)

Price Juno (Canada)

Price Felix

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

Classification of the best record sales in France in 1981

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