27 MARCH
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1987 U2 play a rooftop concert in Los Angeles to film their video for "Where The Streets Have No Name." Thousands of onlookers gather and police order the band to stop playing.More
1986 Sammy Hagar makes his first appearance as Van Halen's lead singer when the group begin their tour in Louisiana.
1982 "Pac-Man Fever," a song about the arcade game that has America enthralled, cracks the Top 10, becoming the only song about a video game ever to do so.More
1970 Mariah Carey is born in Huntington, Long Island, New York.
1965 The Supremes' "Stop! In The Name Of Love" hits #1 in the US, making them the first act with four consecutive #1 singles on the Hot 100.
27 MARCH
In Music History
2022 Summer Of Soul, directed by Questlove of The Roots, wins the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The film features never-before-seen footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, including performances by Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson and Sly & the Family Stone.
2021 Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album, which debuted at #1 in America, logs its 10th week at the top, the most weeks for a debut chart-topper since Whitney Houston's self-titled album in 1987. In its fourth week at #1, Wallen was caught on camera using the N-word (addressed to his white friend) after a night of drinking, but instead of tanking the album when his music was pulled from radio stations, the controversy helped extend its run as fans bought and streamed it in support.
2020 Two weeks into the pandemic, Dua Lipa releases her disco-fied second album, Future Nostalgia, with the hits "Don't Start Now" and "Levitating." It earns her lots of new fans, including Elton John, who teams with her on "Cold Heart" the following year.
2013 Gordon Stoker of The Jordanaires dies at age 88.
2013 Crawdaddy magazine founder Paul Williams dies at age 64. Not to be confused with the singer/songwriter/actor Paul Williams, the subject of the 2011 documentary, Paul Williams Still Alive.
2011 Dionne Warwick is the fourth contestant fired by Donald Trump on season 11 of The Celebrity Apprentice.
2008 Trace Adkins is one of the finalists on Season 7 of The Celebrity Apprentice. He loses the battle to tabloid editor Piers Morgan.
2008 A jury convicts rapper Remy Ma of assault charges stemming from a shooting outside a Manhattan night club.
2008 The Los Angeles Times publishes — and later retracts — a story that Diddy had a hand in the shooting that killed Tupac Shakur. In the end, it is all fiction conjured by an imprisoned con man.
2007 Faustino Oramas of Buena Vista Social Club dies at age 95.
2006 Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion is designated as a National Historic Landmark.
2006 Pete Wells, guitarist in Rose Tattoo, dies of prostate cancer at age 59.
2005 Mexican singer Rigo Tovar dies at age 58.
2004 Prince kicks off his Musicology tour with a show in Reno, Nevada. The average ticket costs $61, which includes a copy of the Musicology album. These are counted as sales according to Billboard, so the album rises to #3 (his previous three albums failed to chart). The tour takes in $87.4 million, making it the highest-grossing of 2004.
2003 John Lennon's boyhood home in Liverpool is opened to the public.
Eric Clapton Marries George Harrison's Ex-Wife
1979Eric Clapton marries George Harrison's ex-wife Pattie, the subject of the song "Layla." Harrison attends the wedding and remains friends with Clapton.
Clapton and Boyd marry after a five-year courtship. Their coming together has been a tumultuous affair - Boyd is the ex-wife of Clapton's close friend George Harrison, and the three spent much of the late 1960s and early 1970s as the vertices of a love triangle which was largely played out in song: Harrison wrote "Something" about her, and she was also the muse for many of the tracks on Derek & the Dominos' Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) - including the title song, "Layla." Clapton's attempt to woo the still-married model through the record ended in rejection, and in his subsequent depression, he developed a heroin addiction. Harrison and Boyd eventually split in 1974, at which point Clapton was in rehab. After a brief fling with Ronnie Wood of the Faces, Boyd eventually ended up in Clapton's arms - with George Harrison's blessing. The wedding reception is held in Clapton's garden and is attended by Harrison, who brings along Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. John Lennon is not invited, apparently due to his issues obtaining a visa to live in the United States (although he later says he would have attended had he been asked). Some speculate that the snub has to do with Yoko Ono and fears that she will cause friction with the other former Beatles. McCartney, Harrison and Starr drunkenly jam together on Clapton's outdoor stage - the same venue where Harrison wrote "Here Comes The Sun." The event becomes an impromptu - though musically questionable - partial reunion of the Beatles as they play songs including "Get Back" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Other musicians to join the performance at various points include Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Bill Wyman, Elton John and various members of Cream and Wings. Despite the lengthy courtship, the newlyweds are not destined to stay together. After a brief separation in 1984, Boyd eventually files for divorce in 1988, citing Clapton's infidelity and alcoholism.
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