7.806
5.987
6.652
6.522
6.227
6.789
7.991
5.608
7.5
6.131
7.258
6.572
7.342
6.157
7.543
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This is a summary of 1983 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Events
8 January – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization and the BMRB manual diary method was ended. Electronic dataport machines were used in selected stores and Gallup would automatically dial up the terminals via telephone lines to gather the sales information.
10 February – John McCabe's Concerto for Orchestra is given its first performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.
14 May – The Symphony No 2 Summer Music by William Mathias is performed for the first time by the Liverpool Philharmonic Society
30 May – Elton John releases his album Too Low for Zero, marking the beginning of his mid-1980s comeback after several albums disappointed in sales.
31 May – Nigel Osborne's Sinfonia No 2 is performed for the first time by the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra.
3 June – The opera Raleigh's Dream by Iain Hamilton is performed for the first time in Durham, North Carolina
17 July – The Cello Concerto by Lennox Berkeley, composed in 1939, is performed for the first time in Manchester.
27 July – The Piano Concerto by Dominic Muldowney is performed for the first time in London.
20 August – The Rolling Stones sign a new $28 million contract with CBS Records, the largest recording contract in history up to this time.
1 September – Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of The Clash issue a press statement announcing that Mick Jones has been fired from the group.
20 September – The first ARMS Charity Concert is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
3 October – The first performance of the opera Marching Song by Benjamin Frankel, left in short score at the time of the composer's death ten years earlier, is broadcast by the BBC.
8 November – the first performance of Benjamin Britten's An American Overture (composed in 1941) by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle.
9 November – The Blue Guitar for solo guitar by Michael Tippett is performed for the first time, at the Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, California.
28 November – The first Now album is released.
15 December – The broadcast premiere of Elisabeth Lutyens’ Music for Orchestra 1V is given by the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Richard Hickox.
Charts
= Number one singles
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= Number one albums
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Year-end charts
Note: The year-end charts published in Music Week on 7 January 1984 only covered the period 4 January to 17 December 1983 – the BPI Year Book 1984 included the complete charts to the end of 1983.
= Best-selling singles
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= Best-selling albums
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Notes:
= New works
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David Bedford
Five Diversions, for two flutes
The Valley Sleeper, the Children, the Snakes and the Giant, for orchestra
Richard Rodney Bennett
Concerto for Wind Quintet
Guitar Sonata
Letters to Lindbergh, for female voices and piano duet
Memento, for flute and string orchestra
Seachange, for unaccompanied chorus
Michael Berkeley
Cello Concerto
Or Shall We Die, oratorio
Harrison Birtwistle
Deowa, for soprano and clarinet
Duets for Storab, for two flute
David Blake – Rise, Dove, for baritone and orchestra
Edward Cowie
Ancient Voices, for four voices
Missa Brevis
String Quartet No. 3, Creative Arts Quartet
String Quartet No. 4, Australia II
Gordon Crosse – Wave Songs, for cello and piano
Peter Maxwell Davies
Birthday Music for John, trio for flute, viola and cello
Into the Labyrinth, cantata
Sinfonietta Accademica, for chamber orchestra
Brian Ferneyhough – Adagissimo, for string quartet
Michael Finnissy
Australian Sea Shanties, for voices, recorders and piano
Ouraa, for ensemble (1982–83)
Soda Fountain, for voices and cymbals
Vaudeville, for mezzo, baritone and ensemble
Alun Hoddinott – Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes – arr. for brass quintet
Robin Holloway
Second Idyll for small orchestra
Serenade in E flat, for wind quintet and string quintet
Elizabeth Maconchy
L'Horloge, for soprano, clarinet and piano
Tribute, for violin and woodwinds
William Mathias
Alleluja! Christ is Risen!, anthem
Angelus, for women's voices
Horn Concerto
Let us Now Praise Famous Men, for chorus and orchestra
Missa Brevis
Organ Concerto
Symphony No. 2, Op.90 (Summer Music)
Tantum Ergo, for choir and organ
Violin Sonata No. 2
Dominic Muldowney
The Duration of Exile, for mezzo and ensemble
Piano Concerto
A Second Show, for contralto and ensemble
Paul Patterson – Mass of the Sea, for soli, chorus and orchestra
John Pickard – Nocturne in Black and Gold
Priaulx Rainier – Grand Duo for cello and piano
John Tavener
He Hath Entered the Heven, for unaccompanied trebles
To a Child Dancing in the Wind, for soprano, flute, harp and viola
Michael Tippett
Festal Brass with Blues, for brass ensemble
The Mask of Time (1980–83) for soli, chorus and orchestra
= Opera
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Oliver Knussen – Where the Wild Things Are
Musical films
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
The Pirates of Penzance, starring Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury
Births
18 January – Antony Brant, singer (V)
3 March – Katie White, singer (The Ting Tings)
8 May – Matt Willis, singer and musician (Busted)
16 May – Mince Fratelli, musician (The Fratellis)
23 May – Heidi Range, singer (Sugababes)
17 June – Lee Ryan, singer (Blue)
30 June
Cheryl Cole, singer (Girls Aloud)
Anton Gordon, singer (One True Voice)
Patrick Wolf, singer-songwriter
7 July – Aaron Buckingham, singer (V)
22 July – Jodi Albert, singer (Girl Thing)
18 August – Mika, singer
25 August – James Righton, musician (The Klaxons)
11 September – Matthew Halsall, jazz trumpeter and promoter
13 September – James Bourne, singer and musician (Busted), (Son of Dork)
14 September – Amy Winehouse, singer-songwriter
25 September – Hayden Powell, jazz trumpeter and composer
24 October – V V Brown, English singer-songwriter, model, and producer
26 October – Ant Scott-Lee, singer (3SL)
8 November – Mark Harle, singer (V)
Deaths
5 January – Amy Evans, operatic soprano, 98
6 January – Bernard Stevens, composer, 66
7 January – Edith Coates, operatic mezzo-soprano, 74
18 January – Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer, 69
28 January – Billy Fury, singer-songwriter, 42 (heart attack)
22 February – Sir Adrian Boult, conductor, 93
23 February – Herbert Howells, composer, 90
6 March – Howard McFarlane, jazz trumpeter, 89
8 March – Sir William Walton, composer, 80
23 March – David Wynne, composer, 82
14 April
Pete Farndon, bassist of the rock group the Pretenders, 30 (drug overdose)
Elisabeth Lutyens, composer, 76
17 April – Thomas L. Thomas, operatic baritone, 72
20 April – Sarah Makem, Northern Irish singer, 82
6 May – Pat Smythe, jazz pianist, 60
5 June – Anthony Lewis, musicologist, conductor and composer, 68
12 June – Ceinwen Rowlands, operatic soprano, 78
2 July – Jacqueline Townshend, violinist and pianist, 71
12 July – Chris Wood, founding member of Traffic, 39 (pneumonia)
16 July – David Ward, operatic bass, 61
31 August – Eve Taylor, music manager, 68
19 September – Peter Mooney, conductor, 68
24 September
Isobel Baillie, operatic soprano, 88
John Bee, theatre organist, 87
19 November – Tom Evans, bassist of the rock group Badfinger, 36 (suicide)
7 December – Norah Blaney, pianist, composer and music hall performer, 90
8 December – Monica Harrison, operatic soprano, 86
= Brit Awards
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The 1983 Brit Awards winners were:
Best British producer: Trevor Horn
Best classical recording: John Williams – Portrait
Best international artist: Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Best live act: U2
Best selling album: Barbra Streisand – Love Songs (also released as Memories in the U.S.)
British breakthrough act: Yazoo
British female solo artist: Kim Wilde
British group: Dire Straits
British male solo artist: Paul McCartney
British single: Dexys Midnight Runners – "Come On Eileen"
Life achievement award: Pete Townshend
Outstanding contribution: The Beatles
Special Award: Chris Wright
The Sony award for technical excellence: Paul McCartney
See also
1983 in British radio
1983 in British television
1983 in the United Kingdom
List of British films of 1983
References
External links
BBC Radio 1's Chart Show
The Official Charts Company
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
1983 in british music
1983 - YouTube Music
Volume 5, 1983 - British Music Society
8tracks radio | 1983 Music (25 songs) | free and music playlist
1983 Music Chart – 80s Mixed
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