27 OCTOBER
In Music History
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.
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.
1956 Clarence "Frogman" Henry releases "Ain't Got No Home."
1951 Kenneth "K.K." Downing (guitarist for Judas Priest) is born in West Bromwich, England.
1949 Garry Tallent (bass player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band) is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1949 Byron Allred (keyboardist for The Steve Miller Band) is born in Logan, Utah.
1945 Mark Ryan (bass guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger Service) is born.
1942 Country singer Lee Greenwood is born Melvin Lee Greenwood in Los Angeles, California, but grows up on a poultry farm in Sacramento.
1940 Fabulous Wailers guitarist and trumpeter John Greek is born.
1933 Pianist Floyd Cramer, a pioneer of the "Nashville Sound," is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, but would grow up in Huttig, Arkansas.
1924 Country/rock 'n roll singer Bonnie Lou is born Mary Jo Kath in Towanda, Illinois. Known for the 1955 hit "Daddy-O."
1782 Niccolò Paganini, composer and violin virtuoso, is born in Genoa (which was then part of an independent state, Republic of Genoa), Italy.
Springsteen Makes Covers Of Time And Newsweek
1975Bruce Springsteen appears on the covers of both Time and Newsweek amid acclaim for his third album, Born To Run.
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2015 Twitter discontinues Vine, the short-form video hosting service that launched the music careers of Shawn Mendes and "Lost Boy" singer Ruth B.More
2014 Taylor Swift issues 1989, her biggest-selling album. The first two singles are monster hits: "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space."More
2013 Lou Reed (frontman for The Velvet Underground) dies of liver disease in Southampton, New York, at age 71.
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.
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.More
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.
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.
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.
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