February 27 Born – Dexter Gordon (1923) – Jazz saxophonist. Guy Mitchell (aka Albert Cernik, 1927) – singer. Chuck Glaser (1936) – Tompall & The Glaser Brothers. David Ackles (1937) – singer/songwriter. Carl Anderson (1945) – singer/actor (Jesus Christ Superstar). Eddie Gray (1948) – guitarist for Tommy James and The Shondells. Robert Balderrama (1950) – guitarist for ? and The Mysterians. Steve Harley (1951) – singer/songwriter for Cockney Rebel. Neal Schon (1954) – guitarist for Santana and Journey. Garry Christian (1955) – The Christians. Adrian Smith (1957) – guitarist for Iron Maiden. Johnny Van Zant (1960) – current singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Paul Humphreys (1960) – keyboardist for Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. Nasty Suicide (aka Jan Stenfors, 1963) – guitarist for Hanoi Rocks. Ewen Vernal (1964) – bassist for Deacon Blue. Chilli (aka Rozonda Thomas, 1971) – TLC. Josh Groban (1981) – singer/songwriter.
February 27 R.I.P. – Frankie Lymon (1968) – heroin overdose. Age 25. Marlena Davis (1993) – lung cancer. Age 48. The Orlons. Eddie Kirkland (2011) – car crash. Age 87. Blues guitarist/harmonica player/singer/songwriter. February 27 album releases – Elvis Presley – How Great Thou Art (1967) Village People – Macho Man (1978) Queen – The Works (1984) XTC – Oranges & Lemons (1989) Neil Young – Dead Man (Soundtrack) (1996) Bad Religion – The Gray Race (1996) Dave Matthews Band – Everyday (2001) February 27 events – 1957 – The live Latin music program, The Xavier Cougat Show, debuts on NBC-TV with Cougat’s wife, singer Abbe Lane. 1959 – Billy Grammer joins the Grand Ole Opry. 1959 – Steven Allen Lewis is born to Jerry Lee and his cousin/wife, Myra. The little boy will drown three years later in the family swimming pool. 1961 – Roy Orbison, along with Bob Moore's Orchestra and Chorus, records “Love Hurts” and “Running Scared” at RCA Studios in Nashville. 1962 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “Good Luck Charm” b/w “Anything That’s Part Of You.” 1964 – For the first time ever, all ten spots on the UK Top Ten are UK acts. 1965 – Del Shannon, Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders and Herman's Hermits play two shows on the first date of a 21 night, two shows a day UK package tour at Sheffield's City Hall. 1966 – The Supremes are the secret guests on What's My Line. 1966 – Petula Clark, Gary Lewis and The Playboys, Nancy Sinatra, and Blossom Seely all appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1967 – Pink Floyd records “Arnold Layne” at Sound Techniques in Chelsea. The song will become their first single. 1970 – Oklahoma City officials fine Jefferson Airplane $1,000 for using profanity onstage during their show. 1970 – Elvis Presley plays two shows at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, on the first of three nights, and six shows, at the venue. 1972 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Showgrounds in Sydney, Australia. 1972 – T. Rex performs at Carnegie Hall in New York City. 1976 – Mick Jagger is hospitalized in New York with a respiratory infection. 1977 – Keith Richards is arrested at the Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto for possession of heroin and cocaine. 1991 – James Brown is paroled from the Lower Savannah Work Center in South Carolina after only two years of a six-year sentence for a two- state police chase. 1995 – Céline Dion makes British music chart history by becoming the first artist in more than 30 years to have both the #1 album and #1 single for five straight weeks. 1997 – A light tower collapses and falls at Deep Purple’s concert at Estadio Santa Laura in Santiago, Chile, injuring 44 people and delaying the concert for 45 minutes. 1997 – Soul Train host Don Cornelius receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1997 – Singer Sade is arrested in Jamaica and charged with reckless driving. She alleges that the policeman who arrested her "wanted a bribe." 1997 – James Brown asks TV talk show hostess Rolanda White to marry him during the taping of one of her shows. She declines. 2000 – The two-night mini-documentary, The Beach Boys: An American Family, begins airing on ABC-TV. 2004 – A Wal-Mart employee in Aspen, Colorado, calls the police after seeing a man shopping with his face covered by a mask. Police arrive on the scene and identify the man as Michael Jackson, who is in town on vacation with his children. 2007 – Bobby Brown is sentenced to 55 days in jail over $19,000 in unpaid child support to Kim Ward, the mother of two of his children. 2007 – Pictures appear in UK newspapers of Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty throwing a left over marijuana joint into the penguin pen at the zoo in Burford, Oxfordshire, with his model girlfriend Kate Moss. 2009 – U2 performs four songs on the rooftop of the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
