Editing 1982 in music (section)

== Deaths ==
*January – [[Sudhin Dasgupta]], music director, lyricist, and singer, 52
*[[January 16]] – [[Harald Agersnap]], Danish classical musician, 92
*[[January 17]] – [[Tommy Tucker (singer)|Tommy Tucker]], songwriter, 48 (carbon tetrachloride poisoning)
*[[January 19]] – [[Elis Regina]], Brazilian singer, 36 (drug/alcohol overdose)<ref>{{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Morricone, Ennio – Rich Kids|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NQ0KAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=MUZE|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|page=837}}</ref>
*[[January 30]]
**[[Stanley Holloway]], English actor and singer, 91
**[[Lightnin' Hopkins]], blues singer, 69
*[[February 4]] – [[Alex Harvey (musician)|Alex Harvey]], rock singer and guitarist, 46
*[[February 17]] – [[Thelonious Monk]], jazz pianist, 64
*[[February 18]] – [[Nathaniel Shilkret]], composer and musician, 92
*[[February 21]] – [[Murray the K]], disc jockey, 60
*[[February 25]] – [[Chao Yuen Ren]], composer, 89
*[[March 5]] – [[John Belushi]], entertainer of ''[[The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers]]'' fame, 33 (drug overdose)
*[[March 19]] – [[Randy Rhoads]], guitarist, 25 (plane crash)
*[[March 24]] – [[Aileen Stanley]], singer, 84 or 85
*[[March 26]] – [[Ferdinando Garimberti]], violin maker, 88
*[[March 29]] – [[Carl Orff]], German [[composer]], famous for the choral work ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]'', 86
*[[April 2]] – [[Sam Coslow]], songwriter and singer, 79
*[[April 30]] – [[Lester Bangs]], American music journalist, 33<ref>{{cite web |title = The Life and Work of Lester Bangs |work = The Guardian |url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/12/artsfeatures.music |date=April 12, 2002|access-date = July 31, 2014 |first = Nick |last = Kent}}</ref>
*[[May 1]] – [[William Primrose]], violist, 77
*[[May 5]] – [[Cal Tjader]], Latin jazz musician, 56
*[[May 8]] – [[Neil Bogart]], owner of [[Casablanca Records]], 39 (cancer)
*[[May 12]] – [[Humphrey Searle]], composer, 66
*[[May 13]] – [[Renzo Rossellini (composer)|Renzo Rossellini]], film composer, 74
*[[May 15]] – [[Joëlle Mogensen]], French singer, 29 (drug overdose)
*[[May 16]] – [[Adriano Correia de Oliveira]], Portuguese composer and singer, 40
*[[May 26]] – [[Nanny Larsén-Todsen]], operatic soprano, 97
*[[May 30]] – [[Leon René]], songwriter, 80
*[[June 15]] – [[Art Pepper]], jazz saxophonist, 56 (brain hemorrhage)
*[[June 16]] – [[James Honeyman-Scott]], guitarist, 25 (heart failure from cocaine use)
*[[July 8]] – [[Aino Seep]], Estonian singer and actress, 57
*[[July 9]] – [[Wingy Manone]], jazz trumpeter, 82
*[[July 10]] – [[Maria Jeritza]], operatic soprano, 96
*[[July 15]] – [[Bill Justis]], American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer, 55 (cancer)
*[[July 15]] – [[Lionel Daunais]], Canadian baritone and composer, 80
*[[July 22]] – [[Sonny Stitt]], jazz saxophonist, 58
*[[July 28]] – [[Keith Green]], gospel singer, 28 (plane crash)
*[[July 28]] – [[Nick Lucas]] Jazz Guitarist, Musician, 84
*[[August 13]] – [[Joe Tex]], Southern soul singer, 49
*[[August 25]] – [[Anna German]], Polish singer, 46<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hopetv.org/news/article/go/2013-05-27/going-where-the-people-are/|title=Going Where The People Are|last=Fowler-Kline|first=Fylvia|date=2013-05-27|website=[[Hope Channel]]|access-date=2020-09-25|archive-date=April 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419223451/https://www.hopetv.org/news/article/go/2013-05-27/going-where-the-people-are/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[September 1]] – [[Clifford Curzon]], pianist, 75
*[[September 12]] – [[Federico Moreno Torroba]], composer, 91
*[[September 14]] – [[Christian Ferras]], French violinist, 49 (suicide)
*[[September 17]] – [[Manos Loïzos]], Greek composer, 44
*[[September 23]] – [[Jimmy Wakely]], American Country-Western singer and actor, 68<ref>{{cite book|last1=Krampert|first1=Peter|title=The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica|date=2016|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=9781619115774|page=179|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&q=%22James+Clarence+Wakely%22&pg=PA179|access-date=25 December 2017|language=en}}</ref>
*[[September 29]] – [[A. L. Lloyd]], folk song collector, 74
*[[October 4]] – [[Glenn Gould]], pianist, 50 (stroke)
*[[October 16]]
**<!--October 16-->[[Jakov Gotovac]], composer and conductor, 87
**<!--October 16-->[[Mario del Monaco]], operatic tenor, 67
*[[October 21]] – [[Radka Toneff]], Norwegian jazz singer, 30
*[[October 29]] – [[William Lloyd Webber]], British organist and composer, 68
*[[November 16]] – [[Al Haig]], jazz pianist, 58
*[[December 2]] – [[David Blue (musician)|David Blue]], folk singer, 41
*[[December 8]] – [[Marty Robbins]], country singer, 57
*[[December 10]] – [[Roy Webb]], film composer, 94<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank N. Magill|title=Magill's Cinema Annual 1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LXAsctC3wasC|date=December 1983|publisher=Gale / Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-89356-402-5|page=554}}</ref>