The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

" Southern Cross " is also a 1982 song by the classic rock group Crosby, Stills and Nash, written by Rick Curtis, Michael Curtis, and Stephen Stills.

Released in 1982, the song " Planet Rock " by DJ Afrika Bambaataa was the first hip-hop song to feature synthesizers.

In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, " Cat People ( Putting Out Fire )", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.

Pop vocalist Dan Fogelberg composed the song " Run for the Roses " which was released in time for the 1982 running of the race.

In an attempt to deflect the criticism, she self-deprecatingly donned a baglady costume at the 1982 Gridiron Dinner and sang " Second-Hand Clothes ", mimicking the song " Second-Hand Rose ".

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

* " Southern Cross " ( Crosby, Stills and Nash song ), 1982 song by Crosby, Stills, and Nash

The 1962 song " Little Boxes " by Malvina Reynolds lampoons the development of suburbia and its perceived bourgeois and conformist values, while the 1982 song Subdivisions by the Canadian band Rush also discusses suburbia.

* The John Renbourn Group album Live In America ( Flying Fish, 1982 ) includes a song entitled " Van Dieman's Land "

*" Words " ( F. R. David song ), 1982

** Prince's 1982 song " 1999 " is about " party like it's 1999.

* April 24 – German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 for Germany, with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.

* " Lyonesse " is a song, by Cornish folk composer Richard Gendall, which appears as the title track of the 1982 album by Brenda Wootton.

* " Fata morgana ", a 1982 song by Krypton from Formaţii Rock 7

* British musician Phil Collins titled his 1982 album after the song " Hello, I Must Be Going "

* 2024, a song from the 1982 album " Requiem " by Arthur Brown.

They released their first single, " Market Square Heroes ", in 1982, with the epic song " Grendel " on the B-side of the 12 " version.

The band's best performing single, and perhaps their most recognised and popular hit song, " Heat of the Moment ", climbed to No. 4 on the American Top 40 charts, having debuted on the AT40 on 1 May 1982, and spent a total of 12 weeks in there.

In June 1982, Jon Bon Jovi recorded a song called Runaway.

Iron Maiden recorded a song called " The Prisoner " on their 1982 album, The Number of the Beast.

Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.

Five years later, the duet would prove a worldwide seasonal hit, charting in the UK at number three on Christmas Day, 1982.

Key influences include Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force's " Planet Rock " ( 1982 ) and Shannon's " Let the Music Play ," the latter of which was a Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit as early as 1984.

Fairmount was hit very hard by the recession of 1980 – 1982, which brought the permanent loss of factory jobs and the failure of many farms.

Charlie Ahearn's independently released fiction film Wild Style ( Wild Style, 1983 ), the early PBS documentary Style Wars ( 1983 ), hit songs such as " The Message " and " Planet Rock " and their accompanying music videos ( both 1982 ) contributed to a growing interest outside New York in all aspects of hip hop.

On similar note, John Carpenter's The Thing ( 1982 ) was also a mix of horror and sci fi, however unlike Alien it was neither a box-office nor critical hit.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

* 1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.

On April 2, 1982, Paris was hit by an F4 tornado that destroyed more than 1, 500 homes, left ten people dead, 170 injured and 3, 000 homeless.

Good Trouble ( 1982 ) and Wheels Are Turnin ' ( 1984 ) were follow-up albums which also did well commercially, the former containing the hit singles " Keep the Fire Burnin '" ( U. S. # 7 ), " Sweet Time " ( U. S. # 26 ) and the un-ranked " The Key " and the latter containing the # 1 hit single " Can't Fight This Feeling " plus three more hits: " I Do ' Wanna Know " ( U. S. # 29 ), " One Lonely Night " ( U. S. # 19 ), " Live Every Moment " ( U. S. # 34 ) and the un-ranked " Break His Spell ".

It became a hit, charting at No. 7 in July 1982.

The last major hit of XTC's touring phase was " Senses Working Overtime ", the first single from their double album English Settlement ( February 1982 ) and their first top 10 hit in the UK.

The album, released in 1982, returned the band to the top of the US charts and also contained the top-5 hit " Hold Me ", co-written by Christine.

During the 1982 season, he hit. 302 and led the American League with 136 runs scored.

They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

On April 27, 1982, in Jackson's first game back at Yankee Stadium with the Angels, he broke out of a terrible season-starting slump to hit a home run off former teammate Ron Guidry.

A snippet of the chorus of " Alexander's Ragtime Band " can be heard toward the end of Taco's 1982 cover of " Puttin ' on the Ritz ", a number 4 hit in the United States.

Murphy was assassinated by a Provisional IRA hit squad early in the evening of Tuesday 16 November 1982 outside the back of his girlfriend's house in the Glencairn estate ( where four of the Butchers ' cut-throat victims had been dumped ).

The first video to be banned by MTV was Queen's 1982 hit " Body Language ".

While working for this ministry, Mullins wrote a song called " Sing Your Praise To The Lord " which was recorded by singer Amy Grant in 1982 and became an immediate hit on Christian Radio.