27 JANUARY
In Music History
1970 Mark Trojanowski (Sister Hazel drummer) is born.
1968 Mike Patton (lead singer of Faith No More) is born in Eureka, California.
1962 Joey Dee and the Starliters' "Peppermint Twist" hits #1 for the first of three weeks.
1962 Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling In Love" is certified gold.
1961 Margo Timmins (lead vocalist of Cowboy Junkies) is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is one of six children, including brothers Michael and Peter, who become her bandmates.
1961 Gillian Gilbert (New Order keyboardist) is born in Whalley Range, Manchester, England.
1956 21-year-old Elvis Presley releases "Heartbreak Hotel," which becomes his first #1 hit in America.
1951 Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy drummer) is born in Dublin, Ireland.
1951 Seth Justman (The J. Geils Band keyboardist) is born in Washington, D.C.
1948 Kim Gardner (of Ashton, Gardner & Dyke) is born in Dulwich, London, England.
1946 Nedra Talley (of The Ronettes) is born in New York City.
1944 Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is born in Birmingham, England.
1944 Rocker Kevin Coyne is born in Derby, England.
1944 The Siege of Leningrad ends, a harsh military operation undertaken by Germany under Hitler's command to attempt to seize the Russian city. The Decemberists would later commemorate this event with their song "When The War Came."
1931 Rudi Maugeri (of The Crew-Cuts) is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Dixie Chicks Release Wide Open Spaces
1998The Dixie Chicks release their major-label debut, Wide Open Spaces. It's the country trio's first album with lead singer Natalie Maines.
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2015 Taylor Swift's Twitter and Instagram accounts are hacked, resulting in bogus tweets to her 51 million followers (the fourth-largest Twitter account). Swift takes to Tumblr, where she posts: "Hackers gonna hack hack hack hack hack." She also assures fans that no nude photos exist.
2014 Billy Joel begins his residency at Madison Square Garden, where he plays once a month as long as there is demand.More
2001 "Independent Women Part I" by Destiny's Child tops the US Hot 100 for the 11th consecutive week, a record for an all-girl group.
1991 With American troops fighting in the Gulf War, Whitney Houston does a stirring version of the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. Her performance is lip-synched, but so well received that it is released as a single, charting at #20. This version is re-released in 2001 following the September 11 attacks.
1990 Soundgarden become the first grunge band to make the Billboard albums chart when Louder Than Love shows up at #168 (Phil Collins is at #1 with ...But Seriously). It peaks at #108 in March.
1984 At the peak of his popularity, Michael Jackson films an ad for Pepsi that goes horribly wrong when some stray pyro sets his hair on fire.More
1984 The movie Silkwood opens in theaters. Cher is nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a worker at a plutonium processing plant.
1980 At the Gaumont theater in Southampton, England, AC/DC play their last show with Bon Scott. The electrifying frontman dies on February 19 after a night of excessive drinking.
1973 Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" hits #1 in America, where it stays for one week.
1962 With "The Twist" at #1 in America, two San Francisco DJs sell out the Cow Palace in San Francisco with a "Twist Party" headlined by Chubby Checker.More
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