May 27

Births

1932: Junior Parker (Blues Singer & Harmonica)

1935: Ramsey Lewis (Jazz Pianist)

1939: Don Williams (Country Singer & Songwriter)

1945: Bruce Cockburn (Singer / Songwriter)

1948: Pete Sears (Bass Guitar in Jefferson Starship)

1957: Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Dallion) (Vocals for Siouxsie And The Banshees)

1958: Neil Finn (Guitar & Vocals for Split Enz & Crowded House)

1966: Sean Kinney (Drummer for Alice In Chains)

1971: Lisa Left-Eye Lopes (Vocals for TLC)

1975: Andre 3000 (Andre Benjamin) (Rapper in Outkast)

1975: Jadakiss (Rapper)

Events

1957: Buddy Holly and the Crickets released their first single "That’ll Be The Day".

1957: Buddy Holly recorded the singles "Not Fade Away" & "Everyday".

1961: Johnny Cash guest stars on tonight's "The Deathly Quiet" episode of NBC-TV's little-remembered Henry Fonda Western The Deputy.

1962: At the Grammy Awards in New York, Andy Williams' "Moon River," from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, is named both Record and Song of the Year.

1964: Eleven schoolboys are suspended from a grammar school in Coventry, England, for showing up with Mick Jagger-style haircuts.

1966: The Exploding Plastic Inevitable show, featuring the Velvet Underground and the Mothers of Invention, plays its first gig on the West Coast, at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium.

1966: Before his concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Bob Dylan welcomes the Beatles again in his dressing room; Paul, anxious to impress the singer, plays him an early, electronic version of a track that would later become "Tomorrow Never Knows." "Oh, I get it, you don't want to be cute anymore," Dylan laughs, and leaves the room.

1967: Columbia and RCA announce plans to raise the price of long-playing LP (33 rpm) records one dollar to a high of $4.98.  It’s first increase since 1953.

1974: Lisa Marie Presley, then five, meets an 11-year-old Michael Jackson for the first time when Elvis brings her to the Jackson 5 show at the Sahara in Vegas.

1977: Declan McManus made his 'live' debut at the Nashville in London as Elvis Costello.

1977: The Sex Pistols single 'God Save The Queen' was released in the UK. Banned by TV and radio, high street shops and pressing plant workers refused to handle the record. It sold 200,000 copies in one week and peaked at No.2 on the UK charts behind Rod Stewart's 'I Don't Want to Talk About It'. There have been persistent rumors, (never confirmed or denied), that it was actually the biggest-selling single in the UK at the time, and the British Phonographic Industry conspired to keep it off the No.1 slot.

1983: The Smiths were at No.1 on the UK independent chart with their debut single 'Hand In Glove.'

1987: During a show in Rome's Flaminio Stadio, U2's sound system set off earthquake alarms in two neighborhoods.

1989: Celebrated anti-communist labor leader Lech Walesa presents Stevie Wonder with a "Badge of Solidarity" from his native Poland.

1989: For the first time since 1975, Chicago and the Beach Boys begin a joint headlining tour of the US, with Brian Wilson joining his old group on some of the dates.

1994: The Eagles reunite after 14 years, giving a two-and-a-half-hour performance in Burbank, CA, including two encores and a finale of "Desperado."

1997: Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was left with cuts and bruises after a scuffle with a youth at the Tower Thistle Hotel in east London. Members of the band had been drinking at the bar when the fight broke out.

1999: Lionel Richie and wife Diane Alexander become the proud parents of their first child, Miles Brockman.

2000: Paula Yates was awarded $680,000 in an out-of-court settlement from her boyfriend Michael Hutchence fortune. The INXS singer Hutchence was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney in 1997 aged 37.

2004: The Bee Gees are made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace; Maurice's son Adam accepts on behalf of his father, who'd just died six months earlier.

2007: Saatchi & Saatchi were fired by Dr Martens for running an advertising campaign featuring dead rock stars such as Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious wearing the brand's boots in heaven. David Suddens, the chief executive of Dr Martens parent company Airwear, said the brand had not commissioned the series of four print ads. "Dr Martens are very sorry for any offence that has been caused by the publication of images showing dead rock icons wearing Dr Martens boots."

2009: A credit card company sued Courtney Love, claiming she owed more than $350,000. In court papers filed in Los Angeles, American Express said it had suspended Love's Amex Gold card after she "failed and refused" to make payments.

2010: Dozens of AC/DC fans needed treatment after complaining of burning eyes during a concert on the runway of Wels Airport, Wels, Austria. Around 150 fans had to be treated. Doctors found that the fans showed allergic reactions to bark mulch spread at the venue – the runway of Wels Airport – to avoid the soil getting too muddy after hours of massive rainfall.

2011: Soul & Jazz poet Gill Scott- Heron dies.  He had been HIV-positive for several years and been previously hospitalized for pneumonia.