Timeline July 1982

Events in July 1982 10

• 1982 1982 FIFA World Cup The 24-Team Expansion Paolo Rossi led Italy to glory in a tournament that expanded to 24 teams. Winner: Italy.
• 1982 Jackson Browne releases Somebody's Baby Fast Times at Ridgemont High His last top-ten single.
• 1982 The Wall film -- Alan Parker directs The Wall film, directed by Alan Parker with animations by Gerald Scarfe, is released in July 1982. Bob Geldof plays Pink. The film is a hallucinatory experience -- minimal dialogue, extended animation sequences depicting war, fascism and psychological breakdown. 'Comfortably Numb,' 'Run Like Hell' and 'In the Flesh' are performed in context. The film is a critical and commercial success. Roger Ebert gives it four stars. It remains one of the most uncompromising mainstream films ever made and the definitive visual expression of Waters's conceptual vision.
• 1982 Wimbledon 1982 Men: Jimmy Connors · Women: Martina Navratilova Connors won aged 30 in an emotional comeback. Navratilova began her six-title run.
• 1982 Sharon Arden becomes Sharon Osbourne Osbourne married his manager Sharon Arden on 4 July 1982 in Hawaii. Sharon transformed his career, providing the organisational discipline and business acumen that Osbourne lacked entirely. Their tempestuous but enduring marriage -- surviving his addictions, infidelities and near-fatal overdoses -- would become one of rock's most famous partnerships. They had three children together: Aimee, Kelly and Jack.
• 1982 – present Philippe Gilbert Phil One of the few to win four of the five Monuments; 2012 World Champion.
• 1982 1982 World Cup winner -- Spain Baresi is called into the Italian squad for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. Italy win the tournament, defeating West Germany 3-1 in the final in Madrid. Baresi does not play -- Gaetano Scirea is preferred in his position -- but the experience of training alongside Scirea, the defender whose game most closely resembles his own, shapes his continued development. He is a World Cup winner at 22.
• 1982 Italy wins the 1982 FIFA World Cup Azzurri beat West Germany 3-1 in the final Italy defeated West Germany 3-1 in Madrid to win its third World Cup title. Paolo Rossi, the tournament's top scorer, capped a remarkable comeback from a match-fixing ban to lead the Italian squad.
• 1982 Peter Gabriel founds WOMAD World music festival The first World of Music, Arts and Dance festival.
• 1982 Stevie Ray Vaughan plays the Montreux Jazz Festival Booed and discovered Booed by part of the crowd — but David Bowie and Jackson Browne are listening.