The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ".

In 1983, he was invited to record a session on the John Peel BBC Radio show with his band, performing six poems, which was his first professional engagement.

Art in America was the first known rock band featuring a pedal harp to appear on a major record label, and released only one record, in 1983.

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in Washington, D. C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983.

Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its last show on September 23, 1983, with go-go band Trouble Funk and the Big Boys, ending with " Last Song ", which was the original title of " Salad Days ".

In 1983, the band changed management from Coffman to Doug Thaler and Doc McGhee.

The band toured the world extensively in 1983.

** Madness ( Madness album ), 1983 release by the band

The band's 1983 hit " Blue Monday ", the best-selling 12-inch single of all time, is one example of how the band transformed their sound.

Power, Corruption & Lies, released in May 1983, was a synthesiser-based outing and a dramatic change in sound from Joy Division and the preceding album, although the band had been hinting at the increased use of technology during the music-making process for a number of years then, including their work as Joy Division.

* 1983 – Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese boy band singer ( KAT-TUN )

* Psyche ( band ), a dark synthpop music group ( formed 1983 )

* Phalanx ( album ), a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl

For their first gig, at Harris-Millis Cafeteria ( a location students fondly call " The Grundle ") at the University of Vermont on Dec. 2, 1983, the band was billed as " Blackwood Convention.

Hugh Syme, creator of graphics on many of Rush's albums, stated in a 1983 interview that the Starman " didn't begin as an identity factor for the band, it just got adopted.

Demands for the " classic " line-up of the band — Macainsh, Bob Starkie, Strachan, Strauks and Symons — to reform were successful and on 23 April 1983, they started the Living in the 80's Tour.

Asia Minor from Turkey released Between Flesh and Devine ( 1981 ), Bacamarte from Brazil released Depois Do Fim ( 1983 ) and Hungarian band Solaris released Marsbéli Krónikák ( Martian Chronicles ) ( 1984 ).

At the end of 1983, ARB's bassist was imprisoned, leaving the band with a problem for their forthcoming tour.

The Stems were an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 and were heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop.

The Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums between 1978 and 1983 before Sharkey announced his intention to leave the band in May 1983, citing musical differences as the reason for the break up.

The band embarked on their first tour of the U. S. in April 1983, joined by Bill Sullivan, a young security guard, as roadie, who approached the band after a show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

* Warrant ( German band ), a German speed metal band that formed in 1983

( A revised 2-port model was released in 1983, along with a game adapter that allowed gamers to play all 2600 games.

In 1983, Estağfurullah, Ne Haddimize was released.

While Capcom's first product was the coin-operated Little League from July 1983, its first real video game, the arcade title Vulgus, was released in May 1984.

The Asylum and Other Tales, a series of stand alone articles released in 1983, rated an overall 9 / 10 in Issue 47 of White Dwarf magazine.

The first licensed Call of Cthulhu 25mm gaming miniatures were sculpted by Andrew Chernack and released by Grenadier Models in boxed sets and blister packs in 1983.

* Class ( film ), a romantic comedy released in 1983

On March 2, 1983 CD players and discs ( 16 titles from CBS Records ) were released in the United States and other markets.

John Chowning's work on FM synthesis from the 1960s to the 1970s allowed much more efficient digital synthesis, eventually leading to the development of the affordable FM synthesis-based Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer, released in 1983.

Expansion Module # 3, the final hardware expansion module, was released in the summer of 1983.

It was released in March 1983 at $ 2995, considerably more affordable than the Canadian Hyperion.

In 1983, Jesse Saunders released what some consider the first house music track, " On & On.

Footage from the final show was released in 1983 for the film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Version 1 of BTNR188 ( DPNSS ) was issued in 1983 ; the last version of DPNSS to be released 6 in 1995 included compatibility with ISDN features released in V5.

The film premiered on October 15, 1981, and was released in 128 theaters on April 15, 1983.

The new album was edited down from double album to a single disc and released as Secret Messages in 1983.

Mamoru Oshii released his landmark Angel's Egg in 1983.

Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer were kidnapped in 1983 and released on a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders ( about 16 million Euros ).

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.

The second edition Gamma World boxed set ( with rules designed by Ward, Jaquet, and David James Ritchie ) was released in 1983.

In 1983, she released an album entitled Gloria Gaynor, in which she rejected disco for mid-tempo R & B and Pop style songs.

It was released in 1983 to mixed reviews.

The IBM 5161 Expansion Unit was released in early 1983.