1982

In 1982 there was:
==Art==
Kerze (Candle), a painting by Gerhard Richter
Protect Me From What I Want, a work by Jenny Holzer
Zeitgeist – Internationale Kunstausstellung Berlin
First issue of Les Cités obscures by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters
==Literature==
Fiction
*RanXerox in New York by Tanino Liberatore and Tamburini
*Virginie, Her Two Lives by John Hawkes
*Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover
*Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes
*Baltasar and Blimunda by Saramago
Non-fiction
*Invention of Hysteria by Georges Didi-Huberman
*Uncommon Places by Stephen Shore
Film
Feature films
*The Compleat Beatles by Patrick Montgomery
*Rock in Reykjavik by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
*Ebba the Movie by Johan Donner
*Koncert by Michał Tarkowski
*Entrée de secours by Jérôme de Missolz
*Prima Rock by Osvaldo Andéchaga
*Rough Cut and Ready Dubbed by Hasan Shah / Dom Shaw
*Personal Best by Robert Towne
*Rocky III by Sylvester Stallone
*Eccezzziunale... veramente by Carlo Vanzina
*Six Pack by Daniel Petrie
Sports documentary
*The French by William Klein
*La vie au bout des doigts by Jean-Paul Janssen
*Jouer sa vie by Gilles Carle / Camille Coudari
==Music==
The Roland TB-303 was a synthesizer/sequencer produced by the Roland Corporation in 1982 and 1983 that had a crucial role in the development of contemporary electronic music, but most of all on the acid house that would follow a couple of years later.
Dub in disco
"Thanks to You" and "Don't Make Me Wait" came out and started the whole dub thing in disco." Steven Harvey in Collusion magazine #5, 1983 [...]
Shep Pettibone: " [...] strangely enough, all these computer records started after "Thanks To You". It was kind of like that computer sound within a black vein.
Disco and electro
In 1982 NYC disco expanded its perimeters to include dub, electronics, jazz, Latin, afro, new wave - a cauldron capable of melting down any ingredient. Records by The Peech Boys, Sinnamon and D Train allied the Black R&B tradition with high-tech mix/electronics. The emergence of labels Tommy Boy and Streetwise under Arthur Baker and John Robie pushed the hard electronic/beat box edge to the fore. To turn on one of me city's three dance radio stations and hear a DJ mixing three records together at once seemed like an impossible dream of the avant garde infiltrating the market place. -- Steven Harvey
Compact disc launched
The compact disc was launched in 1982. The advantage of the CD is that it was digital, which helped prepare the MP3-P2P (Napster et all) revolution of the late nineties.
Singles
*One Hundred Years by The Cure
*Temptation by New Order
*The Passenger by Iggy Pop
*More Than This by Roxy Music
*Space Age Love Song by A Flock of Seagulls
*In Shreds by The Chameleons
*(Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult 
*Love My Way by Psychedelic Furs
*Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac
*Senses Working Overtime by XTC
*Uncertain Smile by The The
*Mad World by Tears for Fears
*Pale Shelter by Tears for Fears
*Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) by Simple Minds
*Subdivisions by Rush
*Town Called Malice/Precious by The Jam
*The Hanging Garden by The Cure
*The Man Who Sold the World by Midge Ure
*Eminence Front by The Who
*Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners & The Emerald Express
*Rock the Casbah by The Clash
*Don't Change by INXS
*Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson
*The Dreaming by Kate Bush
*The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
*Save a Prayer by Duran Duran
*Straight to Hell/Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash
*I Ran (So Far Away) by A Flock of Seagulls
*Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks
*Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders
*Eye in the Sky by The Alan Parsons Project
*Telegraph Road by Dire Straits
*Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden
*I Melt With You by Modern English
Let Me Have It All by Material
Number One by Patrice Rushen
Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop) Man Parrish
My Jamaican Guy by Grace Jones
Haven´t Been Funked Enough by Extra
In and Out by Willy Hutch
Ease Your Mind by Touchdown
Every Way But Loose by Plunky & the Oneness of Juju
You Brought the Sunshine by Clark Sisters
Key West by Kasso
Blue Monday by New Order
I Want To Thank You by Alicia Myers
Buffalo Gals by Malcolm McLaren
Cosmic Cars by Cybotron
Money's Too Tight (to Mention) by Valentine Brothers
Keep the Fire Burning by Gwen McCrae
Kick That Habit Man by Monte Cazazza
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Albums
Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Kakashi by Yasuaki Shimizu
One Down by Material
Juju Music by King Sunny Ade
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Births
January 18 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter
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Deaths
Patrick Dewaere
Georges Perec (1936 - 1982)
Patrick Cowley (1950 - 1982)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945 - 1982)
Jacques Tati (1908 - 1982)
Mario Praz (1896 – 1982)
Lester Bangs (1948 - 1982)
March 2 - Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
May 10 - Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
May 29 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)
December 19 - Dwight Macdonald, social critic, combative journalist and anarchist (b. 1906)
December 24 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)