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January 26 – Bear Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913) February 4 Jim Ameche, actor (b. 1915) Karen Carpenter, pop singer and drummer (b. 1950) February 12 – Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (b. 1887) February 25 – Tennessee Williams, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1911) March 3 – Peter Ivers, musician (b. 1946)
Every Breath You Take" by The Police (singer Sting pictured) was the number one song of 1983. Michael Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1983. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1983. [1] [2]
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1983. The longest running number-one single of 1983 is "Every Breath You Take" by the Police at eight weeks. That year, 9 acts reached number one for the first time: Toto, Patti Austin, James Ingram, Dexys Midnight Runners, Irene Cara, The Police, Eurythmics, Michael Sembello, and Bonnie Tyler.
Rank Title Studio(s) Actor(s) Director(s) Gross 1. Return of the Jedi: 20th Century Fox: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew and Frank Oz
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1983. A total of 96 singles hit the top-ten in 1983, an increase from 81 top-tens in the previous year. 16 singles reached number-one, while 8 songs reached a peak of number-two.
PBS's series The MacNeil/Lehrer Report becomes The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the first American network news program to expand from a half-hour to one hour in length. Tom Brokaw becomes the sole main anchor of the NBC Nightly News , ending a 17-month stint co-anchoring the broadcast with Roger Mudd .
UK 1 – May 1983, US BB 1 – July 1983, US BB 1 of 1983, Canada 1 – May 1983, Republic of Ireland 1 – June 1983, US CashBox 2 of 1983, Sweden (alt) 2 – June 1983, Norway 2 – June 1983, KROQ 3 of 1983, Poland 5 – June 1983, South Africa 5 of 1983, Netherlands 6 – May 1983, Switzerland 6 – July 1983, Austria 8 – August 1983 ...
American indie record labels SST Records, Twin/Tone Records, Touch and Go Records, and Dischord Records presided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominated the American underground scene to the more diverse styles of alternative rock that were emerging. [7] Minnesota bands Hüsker Dü and The Replacements were indicative of this ...