Editing 1983 in music (section)

===May–August===
*[[May 16]]
**Singer [[Anna Vissi]] marries composer [[Nikos Karvelas]].
**The ''[[Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever|Motown 25 Special]]'' airs on NBC, celebrating a quarter century of Motown Records. Michael Jackson unveils his [[moonwalk (dance)|moonwalk]] dance move during a performance of "[[Billie Jean]]".
*[[May 28]] – [[June 4]] – The second [[US Festival]] is held at Glen Helen Park in California.
*[[June 3]] – American rock drummer [[Jim Gordon (musician)|Jim Gordon]] commits [[matricide]] during a [[schizophrenic]] episode.
*[[June 18]]–19 – [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]] make their second visit to New York. The band plays four shows at [[Madison Square Garden]] and all 80,000 tickets sell out within three days of going on sale.
*[[June 20]] – [[Catalunya Ràdio]] begins broadcasting.
*[[July 1]] – Chilean Band [[Los Prisioneros]] debut at the Miguel Leon Prado High School Song festival. They will come to personify the rebellion of young Chileans leading to protests against [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref name="Beyond 'Protest Song': Popular Music in Pinochet's Chile (1973-1990) By Daniel Party Ph.D.">{{cite book|editor1-last=Illiano|editor1-first=Roberto|editor2-last=Sala|editor2-first=Massimiliano|title=Music and dictatorship in Europe and Latin America|publisher=Brepols|location=Turnhout|isbn=978-2-503-52779-6|pages=671–684|url=https://sites.google.com/site/dparty/publications-1/beyondprotest|access-date=11 October 2014|year=2009}}</ref>
*[[July 6]] – As a statement of protest against [[music piracy]] in the form of [[home taping]], [[Jean-Michel Jarre]] releases only one pressing of his latest album "[[Music for Supermarkets]]", which is sold at an auction to a French real estate dealer for 69,000 francs (about US$8960). The auction is broadcast live on [[Radio Luxembourg]] which also plays the album in full for the first and only time.
*[[July 19]] – [[Simon and Garfunkel]] begin their North American summer tour in [[Akron, Ohio]].
*[[July 21]] – [[Diana Ross]] performs a filmed concert in [[Central Park]] in heavy rain; eventually the storm forces her to postpone the rest of the concert until next day.
*[[July 29]] – ''[[Friday Night Videos]]'' is broadcast for the first time on NBC.
*[[August 16]]
**<!--August 16-->[[Johnny Ramone]] suffers a near-fatal head injury during a fight over a girl in front of his East Village apartment.
**<!--August 16-->Singer [[Paul Simon]] marries actress [[Carrie Fisher]].
*[[August 20]] – The Rolling Stones sign a new $28 million contract with [[Sony Music Entertainment|CBS Records]], the largest recording contract in history up to this time.