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The 50 Best Albums of 1982
Looking back at 1982 in music, the headline is obvious: Thriller Sells A Bajillion Copies, Becomes World’s Biggest Album. But is it the year’s best album? Funny enough, Michael Jackson‘s sixth LP hardly even affected the charts that year — it snuck out in late November, just as Men at Work’s 1981 blockbuster, Business as Usual, began its commercial stranglehold in the U.S. Only one record on our list, Fleetwood Mac‘s chart-targeted Tusk follow-up, Mirage, hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. (Doesn’t it seem weird, looking back, that Prince‘s 1999 peaked at No. 9?) Lots of fascinating shit was happening in 1982, and you didn’t always find it on the radio. On our list, we included everything from early hip-hop (Grandmaster Flash) to horror-punk (Misfits) to lo-fi synth-pop (Solid Space). Revisit...
Bonnie Pointer, Pointer Sisters Singer, Dies at 69
Bonnie Pointer, a member of the popular ’70s R&B group the Pointer Sisters, has died, SPIN has confirmed. She was 69. No cause of death was revealed. “It is with great sadness that I have to announce to the fans of The Pointer Sisters that my sister, Bonnie died this morning. Our family is devastated, on behalf of my siblings and I and the entire Pointer family, we ask for your prayers at this time,” a statement from a rep read. “Bonnie was my best friend and we talked every day, we never had a fight in our life, I already miss her and I will see her again one day.” Born in Oakland, California in 1950, Pointer was one of the four sisters in the group. Along with her sister Anita, Bonnie co-wrote “Fairytale,” which became a top 20 hit for the group and earned them a Grammy for ...
