1983 in music
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Albums released
- Restless and Wild - Accept
- Flick of the Switch - AC/DC
- No Parole From Rock & Roll - Alcatrazz
- Forged in Fire - Anvil
- Lesson Well Learned EP - Armored Saint (first release)
- High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera
- Into the Unknown - Bad Religion
- Live From Earth - Pat Benatar
- The Crossing - Big Country
- Live Evil - Black Sabbath
- Let's Dance - David Bowie
- Johnny 99 - Johnny Cash
- Hello, I Must Be Going! - Phil Collins
- Colour By Numbers - Culture Club
- Head over Heels - Cocteau Twins
- Punch the Clock - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- Da Da - Alice Cooper
- Yes Sir, I Will - Crass
- Japanese Whispers - The Cure
- Les p'tits mots - Dalida
- Ton prénom dans mon coeur - Dalida
- Canterbury - Diamond Head
- Pyromania - Def Leppard
- Construction Time Again - Depeche Mode
- Holy Diver - Dio
- Breaking the Chains - Dokken (major label debut), (rerelease)
- Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran
- Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T. (Drawings of Patient O. T.) - Einstürzende Neubauten
- Europe - Europe
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
- Touch - The Eurythmics
- Let's Start A War (Said Maggie One Day) - The Exploited
- Fastway - Fastway
- Out For Blood - Lita Ford (solo debut)
- What Funk? - Grand Funk Railroad
- Samurai - Grand Prix
- Ageless Medley EP - Amy Grant
- A Christmas Album - Amy Grant
- Heart to Heart - Merle Haggard
- Pancho & Lefty - Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson
- That's the Way Love Goes - Merle Haggard
- Rock 'n' Soul, Part 1 - Hall & Oates
- Back to the Mystery City - Hanoi Rocks
- Self-Destruction Blues Hanoi Rocks
- The Luxury Gap - Heaven 17
- No Rest For The Wicked - Helix
- Riding with the King - John Hiatt
- Feel My Soul - Jennifer Holliday
- Metal Circus - Hüsker Dü
- Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
- Night And Day - Joe Jackson
- Waylon & Company - Waylon Jennings
- Take It to the Limit - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
- Too Low for Zero - Elton John
- Shine On - George Jones
- Frontiers - Journey
- Pipes of Peace - Paul McCartney
- Lick It Up - KISS
- Headhunter - Krokus
- Madness - Madness
- Into Glory Ride - Manowar
- Script for a Jester's Tear - Marillion
- Confrontation - Bob Marley and the Wailers
- We Are One - Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
- Behind the Scene - Reba McEntire
- Business As Usual - Men At Work
- A Volar - Menudo
- Kill 'Em All - Metallica (debut)
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