October 27

Births

1933: Floyd Cramer (Country Pianist)

1942: Lee Greenwood (Country Singer)

1949: Garry Tallent (Bass for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)

1951: K.K. Downing (Guitar for Judas Priest)

1958: Simon Le Bon (Vocals for Duran Duran)

1967: Scott Weiland (Vocals for Stone Temple Pilots & Solo)

1984: Kelly Osbourne (Singer)

Events

1957: Police in Oakland, CA inform Elvis Presley that he is not allowed to swivel his hips onstage in tonight's 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.

1960: Tina Turner gives birth to Ronald Renelle Turner, her second child, while touring in Los Angeles. Husband Ike is not present at the birth.

1960: Singer Ben E King records his first solo songs "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand By Me" after leaving The Drifters.

1964: Singers Sonny (31 years old) and Cher (18 years old)  wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms.  Their marriage lasted 12 years.

1969: Blues artist Muddy Waters is seriously injured in a car crash in Champagne, Illinois. Three people were killed in the accident.

1970: Black Sabbath played their first ever-live show in the US when they kicked of a 16-date tour at Glassboro State College In NJ.

1975: Bruce Springsteen, riding on hype for his latest album, Born To Run, finds himself the first rocker to make the covers of both Time and Newsweek in the same week.

1979: Elton John collapses during his show at Hollywood's Universal Amphitheatre and is hospitalized for "exhaustion."

1980: John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman purchases the .38 revolver (a five-shot Charter Arms "Off Duty" special for $169) with which he will eventually kill his idol.

1980: Former T Rex guitarist Steve Took choked to death on a cherry stone, after some magic mushrooms he had eaten, numbed all sensation in his throat, he was aged 31.

1989: U2 bass player Adam Clayton was convicted of a drunk driving offence by a Dublin court after being found driving twice over the legal limit. He was fined $1,000 and banned from driving for 1 year.

1990: Michael Waite from reggae group Musical Youth was jailed for four years for his part in a robbery.

1991: Country singer Lorrie Morgan marries Clint Black's bus driver, Brad Thompson, outside of Nashville. Black serves as best man.

1992: Bo Diddley sues the estate of his former manager, the now-deceased Martin Otelsberg, for $75,000 in misappropriated funds.

1995: Gloria Estefan becomes the only pop artist to receive a call from the Pope to perform.

2003: Scott Weiland singer with The Stone Temple Pilots was arrested on his birthday in Hollywood, California, after being involved in a traffic collision. He was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, but these charges were later dismissed after the singer successfully completed rehab and underwent subsequent drug tests.

2005: The distributor of rapper 50 Cent's new film said it would remove posters advertising the film after complaints they glorify gun violence. Posters for 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' showed 50 Cent holding a gun in his left hand and a microphone the other. Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich wrote to Paramount Pictures urging them to take down the posters. The company said it had taken down one poster near a Los Angeles nursery school, and planned to remove more.

2009: Eric Clapton pulled out of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York City after he underwent an operation to remove gallstones. His place at the Madison Square Garden gig was taken by Jeff Beck.