... and more October 27 birthdays – Gary Chester (1924) – session drummer. Bonnie Lou (aka Mary Jo Kath, 1924) – Rockabilly/country singer (“Two Step, Side Step”). Lee Greenwood (1942) – Country music singer. Mark Ryan (1945) – bassist for Quicksilver Messenger Service. Byron Allred (1948) – keyboardist with Steve Miller. Clifford Antone (1949) – club owner, founder of Antone's Records. Kenneth “K.K.” Downing (1951) – guitarist for Judas Priest. Pete Dodd (1953) – guitarist for The Thompson Twins. Scott Weiland (aka Scott Kline, 1967) – vocalist for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. Kelly Osbourne (1984)
October 27 R.I.P. – Jimmie Skinner (1979) – heart attack. Age 70. Country/bluegrass singer/ guitarist. Steve Peregrin Took (1980) – choked on a cocktail cherry. Age 31. Tyrannosaurus Rex. Xavier Cugat (1990) – heart failure. Age 90. Bandleader. Robert White (1994) – complications from open heart surgery. Age 57. Guitarist with the Funk Brothers. Frank De Vol (1999) – congestive heart failure. Age 88. Actor/composer/ arranger (“Nature Boy”). Tom Dowd (2002) – emphysema. Age 77. Engineer and producer. Lester Lanin (2004) – Age 97. World renowned dance bandleader. Mike Arnone (2005) – Age 63. The Duprees. October 27 album releases – Ten Years After – Ten Years After (1967) Johnny Winter – Second Winter (1969) The Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bullocks Here’s The Sex Pistols (1977) UK Prince – 1999 (1982) Bob Dylan – Infidels (1983) XTC – Skylarking (1986) AC/DC – Live (1992) Neil Young – Harvest Moon (1992) Gov’t Mule – By A Thread (2009) October 27 events – 1941 – Buddy Clark records “Everything I Love” for Okeh Records. 1952 – Willie Nelson marries his first wife, Martha Matthews. 1956 – Clarence “Frogman” Henry releases his single, “Troubles, Troubles” b/w “Ain’t Got No Home” on the Chess Records subsidiary, Argo Records. 1957 – Police in Oakland, California inform Elvis Presley that he is not allowed to swivel his hips onstage during his 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. 1957 – The Crickets release their single, “Oh Boy!” b/w “Not Fade Away” on Brunswick Records. 1957 – The Ed Sullivan Show hosts an ASCAP Tribute Show, featuring The Platters, Frances Farmer, Don Rondo, Jane Morgan, Joe Howard and others. 1960 – Tina Turner gives birth to her second child, Ronald Renelle Turner, while on tour in Los Angeles. Ike is not present at the birth. 1960 – Ben E. King records “Spanish Harlem” and Stand By Me.” 1961 – Elvis Presley records “This Is Living” and “King Of The Whole Wide World” for the Kid Galahad soundtrack. 1962 – Sonny James joins the Grand Ole Opry. 1964 – 31-year old Salvatore Philip Bono, an assistant to Phil Spector, "marries" his protégé, 18-year old Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre, in a Tijuana motel bathroom, exchanging rings and pledging their love, although no one is there to officiate the nuptials. The pair will make it official in 1969. 1964 – The Supremes release their single, “Come See About Me” b/w “You’re Gone, But Always In My Heart” and/or “Long Gone Lover.” 1965 – Peggy Lee records “Big Spender” at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. 1968 – Mary Hopkin, Gary Lewis and The Playboys, Ed Ames, and The Doodletown Pipers all appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1969 – Simon and Garfunkel record “Keep The Customer Satisfied.” 1969 – Ringo Starr begins recording his first solo album, Sentimental Journey: the first Beatle to record a solo album. 1973 – Mott The Hoople plays the Orpheum Theater in Boston with opening act Aerosmith. 1979 – Elton John collapses during his show at Hollywood's Universal Amphitheatre and is hospitalized for "exhaustion." 1980 – Mark David Chapman buys a .38 revolver in Honolulu. 1984 – Before their concert in Berkeley, California, The Grateful Dead allocate a specific area for fans to record their own bootlegs of the show. 1988 – U2’s movie, Rattle And Hum, premieres in Dublin, Ireland. 1989 – U2 bassist Adam Clayton is found guilty of drunk driving by a Dublin court. 1990 – Musical Youth member Michael Waite is sentenced to four years in jail for his part in a robbery. 1991 – Country singer Lorrie Morgan marries bus driver Brad Thompson. 1991 – Singer and sausage king Jimmy Dean marries his second wife, singer Donna Meade. 1992 – Bo Diddley sues the estate of his former manager, the now- deceased Martin Otelsberg, for $75,000 in misappropriated funds. 1997 – 34-year old John Hector is arrested and charged with criminal harassment in Toronto for obsessively pestering U2 bassist Adam Clayton. 1998 – Peggy Lee is hospitalized after having a stroke. 2000 – Skiffle artist Lonnie Donegan receives an MBE medal from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. 2003 – Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland is arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he crashes his car on his 36th birthday. 2005 – Paramount Pictures, the distributor of rapper 50 Cent's new film, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, said it would remove posters advertising the film after complaints from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich that they glorify gun violence. 2007 – Keith Richards marches with campaigners protesting against possible Sussex hospital cuts. The Stones guitarist joined 15,000 people for the walk through Chichester to oppose plans which could see St. Richard's Hospital downgraded. 2007 – Singer Róisín Murphy is hospitalized after she hits her face on a chair on stage while touring Russia, and damages her eye socket, forcing the cancellation of further tour dates. 2008 – John Oates sings “The Star-Spangled Banner” solo before Game 5 of the World Series when partner Daryl Hall comes down with the flu and can’t perform. 2009 – Eric Clapton is forced to drop out of the evening’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert to undergo gallstone surgery. 2010 – Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his producer wife Tish file for divorce after 17 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. They don’t go through with it and stay married.
