October 27 Born –
Gary Chester (1924) – session drummer. Bonnie Lou (aka Mary Jo Kath, 1924) – Rockabilly/country singer (“Two Step, Side Step”). Floyd Cramer (1933) – pianist. 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. Gary Tallent (1949) – bassist for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. Kenneth “K.K.” Downing (1951) – guitarist for Judas Priest. Pete Dodd (1953) – guitarist for The Thompson Twins. Simon Le Bon (1958) – singer for Duran Duran. Scott Weiland (aka Scott Kline, 1967) – vocalist for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. Kelly Osbourne (1984) – actress/singer (“Changes”). 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. Terry Callier (2012) – cancer. Age 67. Folk singer/songwriter. October 27 album releases – Ten Years After – Ten Years After (1967) Johnny Winter – Second Winter (1969) Angel – Angel (1975) Bobby Womack – Safety Zone (1975) The Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bullocks Here’s The Sex Pistols (1977) UK Slade – Slade Alive Vol. Two (1978) Motörhead – Bomber (1979) Hawkwind – Levitation (1980) Ringo Starr – Stop And Smell The Roses (1981) U.S. Prince – 1999 (1982) Bob Dylan – Infidels (1983) Teddy Pendergrass – Heaven Only Knows (1983) Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion (1985) XTC – Skylarking (1986) Robbie Robertson – Robbie Robertson (1987) AC/DC – Live (1992) Neil Young – Harvest Moon (1992) Bob Dylan – Good As I Been To You (1992) Jefferson Airplane – Jefferson Airplane Loves You (1992) (box set) Michael Nesmith – …Tropical Campfires… (1992) Ayreon – The Final Experiment (1995) In Flames – Whoracle (1997) John Lennon – Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon (1997) The Afghan Whigs – 1965 (1998) Bryan Adams – On A Day Like Today (1998) Phish – The Story Of The Ghost (1998) Gov’t Mule – By A Thread (2009) Jack Johnson – En Concert (2009) Sting – …If On A Winter’s Night (2009) U.S. Stephen Stills – Live At Shepherd’s Bush (2009) R.E.M. – Live At The Olympia (2009) Spandau Ballet – Once More (2009) October 27 events – 1917 – 16-year old violinist Jascha Heifetz makes his heralded American stage debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. 1941 – Buddy Clark records “Everything I Love” for Okeh Records. 1952 – Willie Nelson marries his first wife, Martha Matthews. They stay married ten years. 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. 1957 – Alan Freed’s Biggest Show Of Stars ’57 tour stops at the Coliseum in Spokane, Washington, featuring Frankie Lymon, Eddie Cochran, LaVerne Baker, Buddy Knox, Clyde McPhatter, Paul Anka, Jimmy Bowen and The Rhythm Orchids, Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, The Crickets and The Drifters. 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” at Atlantic Studios in New York City. 1961 – Elvis Presley records “King Of The Whole Wide World,” “This Is Living” and “I Got Lucky” at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on the second and final day of sessions for the soundtrack of his film Kid Galahad. 1962 – Sonny James joins the Grand Ole Opry. 1964 – 31-year old Salvatore “Sonny” Bono, a studio 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 “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. 1968 – The second and final day of the San Francisco International Pop Festival takes place at the Alameda Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California, with performances by Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grass Roots, Deep Purple, Procol Harum, Canned Heat, and The Chambers Brothers. 1969 – Simon and Garfunkel record “Keep The Customer Satisfied” at Columbia Studios in New York City. 1969 – Ringo Starr begins recording his first solo album, Sentimental Journey: the first Beatle to record a solo album. 1970 – Charles Manson’s defense team announces their plans to call former Beatle John Lennon to the witness stand to explain the meaning of various Beatles songs. "We want John Lennon to testify. We feel he may want to explain the lyrics," a defense source tells the Associated Press. The defense also plans to call John Phillips and Mama Cass Elliott, who know Manson, to testify at the murder trial. 1973 – Mott The Hoople plays the Orpheum Theater in Boston with opening act Aerosmith. 1975 – Bruce Springsteen appears on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines. 1976 – Crystal Gayle records “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” at Jack’s Tracks in Nashville. 1979 – Elton John collapses during his show at Hollywood's Universal Amphitheatre and is hospitalized for "exhaustion." 1980 – Mark David Chapman buys a .38 caliber Charter Arms Special five-shot revolver for $169 from a gun store in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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. 1988 – Def Leppard plays the 236th and final date of their 15-month long Hysteria Tour at the Tacoma Dome in Washington. 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 music singer Lorrie Morgan marries her third husband, bus driver Brad Thompson. They stay married for two years. 1991 – Singer and sausage king Jimmy Dean marries his second wife, singer/songwriter Donna Meade. They remain married until his death in 2010. 1992 – Bo Diddley sues the estate of his former manager, now-deceased Martin Otelsberg, for $75,000 in misappropriated funds. 1995 – Singer Gloria Estefan performs for Pope John Paul II as part of a gala celebration of the pontiff's 50 years in the priesthood. She is the only performer ever personally invited by the Pope. 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. 1999 – At a press conference in Paris, France, Tina Turner announces her Twenty Four Seven Millennium Tour, and that it will be her final tour. In the evening, Tina performs a 25 minute show at the Buddha Bar in Paris. 2000 – Skiffle artist Lonnie Donegan receives an MBE medal from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. 2003 – On his 36th birthday, Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland is arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he crashes his car in Hollywood. 2005 – Paramount Pictures, distributor of rapper 50 Cent's new film Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, agrees to remove posters advertising the film after complaints from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich that they glorify gun violence. 2007 – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards marches with 5,000 campaigners walking through Chichester protesting against possible Sussex hospital cuts 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” before Game 5 of the World Series as a solo performer 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. 2009 – Singer Rihanna releases her single “Russian Roulette” as a digital download and CD single. 2010 – Country music 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. 2011 – The former manager of James Brown, David Cannon, is found guilty of breach of trust by a South Carolina judge and is sentenced to three year’s house arrest after being charged with over-paying himself to the tune of $7 million by Brown’s surviving family members. -- 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.
