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27 APRIL

In Music History

1999 Jazz trumpeter Al Hirt dies at age 76 of liver failure.

1994 Ace of Base's Jenny Berggren is attacked in her parents' home by Manuela Behrendt, a 21-year-old German "fan" wielding a hunting knife. After stabbing Berggren's mother in the hands during a scuffle, Behrendt is arrested and banned from returning to Sweden.

1994 San Francisco's legendary rock venue the Fillmore Auditorium reopens with performances by The Smashing Pumpkins and American Music Club.

1992 Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle and husband Morgan Mason have their first child in Los Angeles. They name the boy after his grandfather, actor James Mason.

1992 French composer Olivier Messiaen dies in Paris, France, at age 83.

1991 LeAnn Rimes, a pint-sized country music prodigy from Garland, Texas, competes as a junior vocalist on Star Search, where she wins the round singing the Marty Robbins classic "Don't Worry."More

1985 The Judds' "Girls' Night Out" goes to #1 Country, where it stays for one week. It's the second chart-topper from the duo's debut album, Why Not Me.

1984 Blues singer Arziel "Z.Z." Hill, known for the 1982 Down Home album that was a fixture on the soul album chart for nearly two years, dies at age 48 when a blood clot caused by a car accident months before spurs a heart attack.

1984 Patrick Stump, lead singer of Fall Out Boy, is born Patrick Martin Stumph in Evanston, Illinois. He grows up in nearby Glenview.

1982 John Osborne, the older of the Brothers Osborne, is born in Deale, Maryland.

1979 Stevie Wonder makes a surprise appearance at a Duke Ellington tribute concert held at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus. Wonder performs his Ellington encomium "Sir Duke" along with Ellington's "C-Jam Blues."

1974 Ray Stevens releases "The Streak."

1973 The Cream compilation Heavy Cream is released in the US.

1972 24-year-old Phil King, a former booking agent for Blue Oyster Cult, is murdered over a gambling debt, inspiring the band's song "Deadline."

1970 John Lennon's explicit "Bag One" lithographs are returned to the London Arts Gallery exhibition after a High Court judge rules them "unlikely to deprave or corrupt."