Editing 1981 in music (section)

===March===
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!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| style="text-align:center;"|2
| ''[[Intensities in 10 Cities]]'' ||  [[Ted Nugent]] || Live<ref name="RS #339">{{cite magazine|last1=Henke |first1=James |date=March 19, 1981 |title=Ted Nugent Gets Intense |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |publisher=Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. |issue=339 |pages=50 }}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"|6
| ''[[Journeys to Glory]]'' || [[Spandau Ballet]]||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|10
| ''[[There Goes the Neighborhood (album)|There Goes the Neighborhood]]'' || [[Joe Walsh]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|13
| ''[[Never Too Late (Status Quo album)|Never Too Late]]''  || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||-
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| ''[[We'll Bring the House Down]]'' || [[Slade]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|16
| ''[[Breaker (Accept album)|Breaker]]'' || [[Accept (band)|Accept]] ||-
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| ''[[Face Dances]]'' || [[The Who]] ||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[Time Tells No Lies]]'' || [[Praying Mantis (band)|Praying Mantis]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|26
| ''[[Fancy Free (The Oak Ridge Boys album)|Fancy Free]]'' || [[The Oak Ridge Boys]] ||-
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| ''[[The Dude (Quincy Jones album)|The Dude]]'' || [[Quincy Jones]] ||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''[[Carl Wilson (album)|Carl Wilson]]'' || [[Carl Wilson]] ||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|30
| ''[[Extended Play (Pretenders EP)|Extended Play]]'' || [[The Pretenders]] || EP
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| style="text-align:center;"|31
| ''[[Music for Stowaways]]'' || [[British Electric Foundation]] ||-
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| rowspan="19" style="text-align:center;" |?
| ''[[Chariots of Fire (album)|Chariots of Fire]]'' || [[Vangelis]] || Soundtrack
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| ''[[Dad Loves His Work]]'' || [[James Taylor]] ||-
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| ''[[Directions (Miles Davis album)|Directions]]'' || [[Miles Davis]] ||-
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| ''[[Sucking in the Seventies]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] || Compilation
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| ''Franke & The Knockouts'' || [[Franke and the Knockouts|Franke & The Knockouts]] ||-
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| ''[[Grand Slam (Isley Brothers album)|Grand Slam]]'' || [[The Isley Brothers]] ||-
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| ''[[Hardware (Krokus album)|Hardware]]'' || [[Krokus (band)|Krokus]] ||-
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| ''[[Honi Soit (album)|Honi Soit]]'' || [[John Cale]] ||-
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| ''[[Long Play Album]] aka Stars on Long Play''  || [[Stars on 45]] ||-
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| ''[[Magnets (album)|Magnets]]'' || [[The Vapors]] ||-
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| ''[[Nightwalker (Gino Vannelli album)|Nightwalker]]''  || [[Gino Vannelli]] ||-
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| ''No Fun After Midnight''  || [[A II Z]] || EP
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| ''[[Party 'Til You're Broke]]'' || [[Rufus (band)|Rufus]] ||-
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| ''[[Rock Away]]'' || [[Phoebe Snow]] ||-
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| ''[[Short Note (album)|Short Note]]'' || [[Matt Finish]] ||-
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| ''[[Solid Gold (album)|Solid Gold]]''  || [[Gang of Four (band)|Gang of Four]] ||-
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| ''[[Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Willie Nelson album)|Somewhere Over the Rainbow]]'' ||  [[Willie Nelson]] ||-
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| ''[[Waiata (album)|Waiata]]'' || [[Split Enz]] ||-
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| ''[[White Lace & Black Leather]]''  || [[Helix (band)|Helix]] ||-
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