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Brothers Johnson – Stomp / Let’s Swing (A&M).Blondie – Atomic / Die Young Stay Pretty (Chrysalis).Bauhaus – Dark Entries / untitled (4AD UK).Another Pretty Face – Whatever Happened To The West / Goodbye 1970s (Virgin UK).Other winners include John Williams, Emmylou Harris, Muddy Waters, Oscar Peterson, Weather Report, Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan The Doobie Brothers win record of the year with What a Fool Believes and the album of the year goes to Billy Joel and 52nd Street. The 22nd Grammy Awards are held in Los Angeles.Louise Talma’s Variations on 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird premiered in Philadelphia.John Cage’s Improvisation III for four or more musicians with cassette recordings premiered in New York.Queen have the Billboard number one single for the first of four weeks with Crazy Little Thing Called Love.Siegfried Matthus’s Hyperion-Fragmente premiered in Berlin.Steve Reich’s Variations for winds, strings and keyboards for chamber ensemble premiered in New York.Bon Scott (33) dies in London of acute alcohol poisoning.Regina Spektor born (Moscow) Russian-American singer, songwriter, keyboard player.Throbbing Gristle record the album Heathen Earth live in the studio in one 50 minute take.Conor Oberst born (Omaha, NE) American rock singer, guitarist, songwriter.Decca Records is taken over by Polygram.Kalevi Aho’s Symphony No.6 premiered in Helsinki.Lejaren Hiller’s An Apotheosis for Archæopteryx for piccolo and berimbau premiered in Buffalo.Mauricio Kagel’s Die Erschöpfung der Welt premiered in Stuttgart.The Specials have the UK number one single for the first of two weeks with The Special AKA Live EP.Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s Cinque Sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti premiered in Toronto.Split Enz – True Colours (Mushroom Australia).Art Bears – Winter Songs (Recommended UK).Split Enz – I Got You / Double Happy (Mushroom).Specials – Too Much Too Young EP (2 Tone UK).Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Refugee / It’s Rainin’ Again (MCA).New Age Steppers – Fade Away / London Underground – Learn A Language (On-U Sound UK).Mo-Dettes – White Mice / Masochistic Opposite (Mode UK).John Foxx – Underpass / Film 1 (Virgin UK).Elvis Costello – I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down / Girls Talk (F-Beat UK).John Cale – Mercenaries / Rose Garden Funeral Of Sores (IRS).John Adams’s Common Tones in Simple Time for orchestra premiered in San Francisco.Professor Longhair (61) dies in New Orleans following a heart attack.Witold Lutoslawski’s Novelette for orchestra premiered in Washington, DC.
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Brian Fallonborn (Red Bank, NJ) American rock singer, songwriter, guitarist.The Specials play their first US show at the Hurrah club, New York.Paul McCartney is released from a Japanese prison and deported.William Schuman’s Three Colloquies for horn and orchestra premiered in New York.The Pretenders have the UK number one album for the first of four weeks with The Pretenders and the UK number one single for the first of two weeks with Brass in Pocket.Pink Floyd have the Billboard number one album for the first of fifteen weeks with The Wall.Michael Jackson has the Billboard number one single for the first of four weeks with Rock with You.Roger Sessions’s Symphony no.9 premiered in Syracuse, NY.Alan Hovhaness’s Symphony No.34 premiered in New York.Peter Sculthorpe’s Cantares for guitars and string quartet premiered in Sydney.Paul McCartney gaoled for nine days in Tokyo after being convicted of marijuana possession.Bohuslav Martinu’s ‘mechanical ballet’ The Amazing Flight premiered on Czech radio.Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers sentenced to three months in gaol for heroin possession.Officially suicide, but there remains some doubt. Larry Williams (44) dies in his Los Angeles home from a gunshot wound to the head.Witold Lutoslawski’s Epitaph for oboe and piano premiered in London.Amos Milburn (52) dies in Houston, TX following a stroke.