BRITS History

The BRITs 1982

So we go from a Monday evening in 1977 to a Thursday evening at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.  So why did it take four years to get it back on the music industry’s radar?  Well, the reports from those who were there was that because of the TV domination, it took away from the event experience and the Music industry was keen to get its celebration evening back in the format they would enjoy.

So although no performance and no broadcast....it was renamed the British Record Industry Awards and has been an unbroken run of annual UK record industry award shows every since.  

The first in a series of “industry only” events took place at the Grosvenor House where the music business tucked into a £50 per head three course meal including wine and gave out prizes to those who had done best in the previous 12months (absolutely no point in trying to recap the previous four!).