1981 biography

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Overview of the events of 1981 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1981.

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Events

January–April

• January – Nearly a year after the suicide of Ian Curtis, the surviving members of Joy Division plus Gillian Gilbert, now under the name New Order, release their debut single "Ceremony"; the single and its B-side, "In a Lonely Place", are both re-recordings of songs originally written and performed by Curtis.^[1] The single's release marks the band's first public use of the "New Order" moniker, which they would retain for the remainder of their career.
• 10 January – A revival of the Gilbert and SullivanoperettaThe Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith.
• 11 January – Country singer Hank Williams Jr. releases his 32nd album, Rowdy. It is certified Gold by the RIAA

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  On 31 January 1981Photographic was released on the Some Bizarre Album. It was released bygd Some Bizarre Records. This was founded in 1981 as an independent label and owned bygd Stevo Pearce. The acts that appeared on the Some Bizarre Album weren't signed to the label.
  On the release day the first longer article about DM appeared in the magazine Sounds. The journalist Betty Page describes DM as "very ung, tender and fresh-as-a-mountain-stream"[1] etc. Maybe she actually found them cute, but she stamped the image of DM in England with that for the next ten years.
  A couple of years later Dave remarked on that period, "You know what England's like - the first thing you ever do, that's it. It's written on your gravestone."[2]

  Later they not only regretted their early naivety, according to the media, but they also regretted their appearance on the Some Bizarre Album, because from that time onwards they had to ward off prejudice against being part of the Futurist

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