February 27

Births

1954: Neal Schon (Guitar for Santana & Journey)

1957: Adrian Smith (Guitar for Iron Maiden)

1960: Paul Humphreys (Vocals & Keyboards for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)

1960: Johnny Van Zant (Lead Vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd)

1971: Chilli (Rozonda Thomas) (Singer in TLC)

1981: Josh Groban (Singer)

Events

1959: Jerry Lee Lewis becomes the proud parent of his first child from his scandalous marriage to Myra Gale Brown. Steve Allen Lewis, named after the famed talk show host, (and good friend) would tragically drown in Lewis' pool just three years later.

1960: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles make their first ever TV appearance, singing "Shop Around" on ABC's American Bandstand.

1966: The Supremes are the "mystery guests" on tonight's episode of the CBS game show What's My Line?

1967: Pink Floyd recorded their first single 'Arnold Layne', with producer Joe Boyd at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea, England.

1970: Oklahoma City officials fine Jefferson Airplane $1,000 for using profanity onstage during their show.

1970: Elvis Presley plays his first-ever stadium gig with an afternoon show at the Texas Livestock Show that leaves him personally and professionally unfulfilled: the concert, held on a weekday, is sparsely attended, and the rotating stage in the Astrodome leaves him, in his own words, "singing to a cow." The evening show, however, would break all attendance records and restore Elvis' confidence in himself fully.

1974: Cher filed for divorce from Sonny Bono. Cher married Gregg Allman from The Allman Brothers band on 27th June 1975.

1977: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police wake Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from his sleep at the Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto, and charge him with illegal drug possession: 5 grams of cocaine, 22 grams of heroin, and assorted paraphernalia. Bail is set at $25,000.

1980: The last Grammies of the '70s are given out at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles: Record and Song of the Year both go to "What A Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers, while Billy Joel's 52nd Street album takes home Album and Male Pop Vocal. Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" wins for Best Disco Performance.

1990: Arista releases Alan Jackson's debut album, "Here In The Real World".

1990: Milli Vanilli's Rob Pilatus shared his perspective on life with Time magazine. In the interview he said, "Musically, we're more talented than any Bob Dylan or Paul McCartney. Mick Jagger can't produce a sound. I'm the new Elvis."

1991: James Brown is released from at the Lower Savannah Work Center in South Carolina after serving two years of a six-year sentence. He'd been arrested in 1989 after a notorious two-state high-speed police chase. Six years later to the day, on the set of the syndicated tslk show Rolonda, James suddenly proposes marriage to host Rolonda Watts, whom he is not involved with.