October 27: Music Events
- Oct. 27, 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, composer and violin virtuoso, is born in Genoa (which was then part of an independent state, Republic of Genoa), Italy.
- Oct. 27, 1924 – Country/rock ‘n roll singer Bonnie Lou is born Mary Jo Kath in Towanda, Illinois. Known for the 1955 hit “Daddy-O.”
- Oct. 27, 1933 – Pianist Floyd Cramer, a pioneer of the “Nashville Sound,” is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, but would grow up in Huttig, Arkansas.
- Oct. 27, 1940 – Fabulous Wailers guitarist and trumpeter John Greek is born.
- Oct. 27, 1942 – Country singer Lee Greenwood is born Melvin Lee Greenwood in Los Angeles, California, but grows up on a poultry farm in Sacramento.
- Oct. 27, 1945 – Mark Ryan (bass guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger Service) is born.
- Oct. 27, 1949 – Byron Allred (keyboardist for The Steve Miller Band) is born in Logan, Utah.
- Oct. 27, 1949 – Garry Tallent (bass player for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band) is born in Detroit, Michigan.
- Oct. 27, 1951 – Kenneth “K.K.” Downing (guitarist for Judas Priest) is born in West Bromwich, England.
- Oct. 27, 1956 – Clarence “Frogman” Henry releases “Ain’t Got No Home.”
- Oct. 27, 1957 – Police in Oakland, California, inform Elvis Presley that he is not allowed to swivel his hips onstage in tonight’s performance at the Oakland Auditorium; Elvis responds by sarcastically wiggling only his little finger while singing. The cops film the show anyway, just in case.
- Oct. 27, 1958 – Simon Le Bon (lead singer for Duran Duran) is born near Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. He joins the band in 1980 as a replacement for Stephen Duffy – turning up for his audition in a pair of pink leopard print pants.
- Oct. 27, 1960 – Ben E. King records “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand by Me.”
- Oct. 27, 1960 – Tina Turner gives birth to Ronald Renelle Turner, her second child, while touring in Los Angeles. The father, Ike Turner, is not present at the birth.
- Oct. 27, 1962 – The Rolling Stones record their first demos in London at Curly Clayton Studios, recording covers of songs by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Bo Diddley. The demos get little interest when they shop them to record companies.
- Oct. 27, 1964 – Sonny (31-year-old Salvatore Bono) and Cher (18-year-old Cherilyn Sarkisian), exchange vows and wedding rings in their first home. Their publicity materials cite this as the day of their wedding, but the duo does not officially marry until 1969.
- Oct. 27, 1964 – The Supremes release “Come See About Me.”
- Oct. 27, 1967 – Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots is born Scott Richard Kline in San Jose, California. His parents divorce when he is two years old, and he becomes Scott Weiland after his mother marries Dave Weiland.
- Oct. 27, 1970 – Black Sabbath begin their first US tour.
- Oct. 27, 1972 – Eight months after releasing Music Of My Mind, the very prolific Stevie Wonder puts out Talking Book, an innovative album where he creates most of the sounds himself using a Clavinet and a custom-made synthesizer. Tracks include “Superstition” and “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life.”
- Oct. 27, 1973 – Gladys Knight and the Pips’ “Midnight Train To Georgia” hits #1 in America for the first of two weeks.
- Oct. 27, 1980 – Mark David Chapman buys a .38 revolver at a gun store in Honolulu for $169. On December 8, he uses it to kill John Lennon.
- Oct. 27, 1980 – Steve Took, original percussionist of T. Rex, dies in New Kensington, London, at age 31. Although he had taken drugs, his official cause of death was asphyxiation after inhaling a cocktail cherry.
- Oct. 27, 1982 – Prince releases his fifth album, 1999. It’s a breakthrough, selling well over 5 million copies worldwide, thanks to “Little Red Corvette” and the title track.
- Oct. 27, 1984 – Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon welcome baby girl Kelly Osbourne, born in Westminster, London.
- Oct. 27, 1986 – David Byrne, who has recently directed the movie True Stories (with a soundtrack by his band, Talking Heads), makes the cover of Time magazine under the headline “Rock’s Renaissance Man.”
- Oct. 27, 1990 – Bandleader Xavier Cugat dies of heart failure in Barcelona, Spain, at age 90.
- Oct. 27, 1991 – Country music singer Jimmy Dean, 62, marries his second wife, fellow country singer Donna Meade, 38. The two would stay married until Dean’s death in 2010.
- Oct. 27, 1991 – Country music singer Lorrie Morgan marries Brad Thompson, a tour bus driver for singer Clint Black. The two met when the singer toured with Black and Merle Haggard in 1990. Black, who married just one week earlier, serves as best man. Morgan and Thompson divorce in 1993.
- Oct. 27, 1992 – Bo Diddley sues the estate of his former manager, the now-deceased Martin Otelsberg, for $75,000 in misappropriated funds.
- Oct. 27, 1993 – Glenn Frey’s TV series South of Sunset makes its debut on CBS. Frey plays Cody McMahon, a security chief/bodyguard who starts a detective agency in Hollywood.
- Oct. 27, 1995 – Copycat debuts in US movie theaters. Harry Connick, Jr. plays a murderer who terrorizes Sigourney Weaver and mentors a budding serial killer in the psychological thriller. It’s quite a departure for the smooth singer of love songs.
- Oct. 27, 1998 – Lauryn Hill releases her first single as a solo artist, “Doo Wop (That Thing).”
- Oct. 27, 1998 – The first Now That’s What I Call Music! compilation CD is released in America, with 17 hits from the likes of Hanson (“MMMBop”), Spice Girls (“Say You’ll Be There”) and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (“Zoot Suit Riot”). Many more follow, typically three per year. The first 29 all go Platinum.
- Oct. 27, 1999 – Frank De Vol – known for his ’40s arrangements, namely “Nature Boy,” and compositions of TV themes for The Brady Bunch and My Three Sons – dies of congestive heart failure in Lafayette, California, at age 88.
- Oct. 27, 1999 – KoRn debut their new song “Falling Away From Me” on the season premiere of South Park, “Korn’s Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery.” The animated version of the band appears in the episode.
- Oct. 27, 1999 – Master P’s hoop dream comes to an end. The high-profile rapper, whose real name is Percy Miller, is waived by the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, failing to make the pro league for the second straight season. The year before, the Charlotte Hornets waived Miller just before the regular season began.
- Oct. 27, 2002 – Tom Dowd, who as an engineer and producer worked on classic albums for Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band, Aretha Franklin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Ray Charles, dies of emphysema at age 77.
- Oct. 27, 2005 – New York rappers Jay-Z and Nas end their longtime feud and promote peace on stage during New York radio station Power 105.1’s Power House concert at New Jersey’s Continental Airlines Arena.
- Oct. 27, 2005 – The family band Cherryholmes gets the entertainer of the year award at the 16th Annual International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, becoming the first act nominated for emerging artist and entertainer in the same year.
- Oct. 27, 2006 – Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth premieres her film Perfect Partner at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
- Oct. 27, 2007 – Led by the “Werewolves Of London”/”Sweet Home Alabama” mashup “All Summer Long,” Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus hits #1 in America, giving him his first chart-topping album.
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Country singer Brantley Gilbert releases his debut album, Modern Day Prodigal Son. It includes the song “My Kinda Party,” which becomes a hit for Jason Aldean the following year.
- Oct. 27, 2011 – MTV reboots Beavis and Butt-Head, which went off the air in 1997, for another season.
- Oct. 27, 2012 – Barbra Streisand’s album Release Me hits #7 in the US, making her the first artist to have multiple albums in the Top 10 during every decade from the 1960s to the 2010s (her 2011 album What Matters Most made #4). Streisand is the female artist with the most Top 10 charting albums in history.
- Oct. 27, 2013 – Fleetwood Mac cancels the remaining dates of their world tour after co-founder John McVie is diagnosed with cancer.
- Oct. 27, 2013 – Lou Reed (frontman for The Velvet Underground) dies of liver disease in Southampton, New York, at age 71.
- Oct. 27, 2014 – Taylor Swift issues 1989, her biggest-selling album. The first two singles are monster hits: “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space.”
- Oct. 27, 2015 – Twitter discontinues Vine, the short-form video hosting service that launched the music careers of Shawn Mendes and “Lost Boy” singer Ruth B.
October 27: Music: Albums released.
- Oct. 27, 1967 – Dusty Springfield, “Where Am I Going?”
- Oct. 27, 1967 – Ten Years After, “Ten Years After”
- Oct. 27, 1969 – Johnny Winter, “Second Winter”
- Oct. 27, 1971 – Ten Years After, “A Space In Time”
- Oct. 27, 1972 – Stevie Wonder, “Talking Book”
- Oct. 27, 1975 – Angel, “Angel”
- Oct. 27, 1975 – Bobby Womack, “Safety Zone”
- Oct. 27, 1978 – Slade, “Slade Alive, Vol. 2”
- Oct. 27, 1979 – Motörhead, “Bomber”
- Oct. 27, 1980 – Hawkwind, “Levitation”
- Oct. 27, 1981 – Ringo Starr, “Stop And Smell The Roses”
- Oct. 27, 1982 – Prince, “1999”
- Oct. 27, 1982 – George Harrison, “Gone Troppo”
- Oct. 27, 1983 – Teddy Pendergrass, “Heaven Only Knows”
- Oct. 27, 1983 – Bob Dylan, “Infidels”
- Oct. 27, 1985 – Celtic Frost, “To Mega Therion”
- Oct. 27, 1986 – XTC, “Skylarking [UK]”
- Oct. 27, 1987 – Robbie Robertson, “Robbie Robertson”
- Oct. 27, 1992 – Michael Nesmith, “Tropical Campfires”
- Oct. 27, 1992 – AC/DC, “Live”
- Oct. 27, 1992 – Bob Dylan, “Good As I Been To You”
- Oct. 27, 1992 – Jefferson Airplane, “Jefferson Airplane Loves You”
- Oct. 27, 1992 – Neil Young, “Harvest Moon”
- Oct. 27, 1995 – Ayreon, “The Final Experiment”
- Oct. 27, 1997 – John Lennon, “Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of JoHn Lennon”
- Oct. 27, 1997 – Simon & Garfunkel, “Old Friends”
- Oct. 27, 1998 – The Afghan Whigs, “1965”
- Oct. 27, 1998 – Cyndi Lauper, “Merry Christmas…Have A Nice Life”
- Oct. 27, 1998 – Phish, “The Story Of The Ghost”
- Oct. 27, 1998 – Bryan Adams, “On A Day Like Today”
- Oct. 27, 1998 – R.E.M., “Up”
- Oct. 27, 2000 – The Haunted, “Made Me Do It”
- Oct. 27, 2007 – John Mellencamp, “20th Century Masters: The Best Of John Mellencamp”
- Oct. 27, 2008 – Genesis, “Turn It On Again: The Hits – The Tour Collection”
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Gov’t Mule, “By A Thread”
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Jack Johnson, “En Concert”
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Carly Simon, “Never Been Gone”
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Spandau Ballet, “Once More”
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Stephen Stills, “Live At Shepherd’s Bush”
- Oct. 27, 2009 – R.E.M., “Live At The Olympia”
- Oct. 27, 2009 – Sting, “If On A Winter’s Night…”
- Oct. 27, 2014 – The Who, “The Who Hits 50!”
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