From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: APRIL 27
1956: Capitol Records signs Gene Vincent, intending to market him as the next Elvis.
1957: Elvis makes his second and last appearance outside the United States, wearing his classic gold lame suit for the last time as he plays Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
1963: Little Peggy March’s “I Will Follow Him” hits No. 1 on the charts.
1963: Martha Reeves and The Vandellas’ “Come And Get These Memories” enters the charts.
1964: John Lennon’s first book of prose and poetry, In His Own Write, is published in the United States.
1969: Joe Cocker makes his television debut, singing “Feelin’ Alright” on tonight’s CBS-TV’s the Ed Sullivan Show.
1969: Jose Feliciano’s TV special, Very Special, guest starring Glen Campbell and Dionne Warwick, airs on NBC-TV.
1970: John Lennon’s explicit “Bag One” are returned to the London Arts Gallery exhibition after a high courts judge ruled them “Unlikely to deprave or corrupt.”
1975: 511 audience members are in custody in Los Angeles for smoking marijuana during Pink Floyd’s recent five nights at the arena.
1979: At a Duke Ellington concert held at UCLA, Stevie Wonder makes a surprise appearance to sing his hit tribute, “Sir Duke” and also Ellington’s own “C-Jam Blues.”
1980: The legendary New York disco of discos, Studio 54, closes it’s doors after exactly three years and a day due to violations of city liquor licenses.
1981: Ringo Starr marries his second wife, actress Barbara Bach, a former “Bond girl” and model he met when filming the flop comedy Caveman. The two are married at the Marylbone Registrar’s Office in London with the other two surviving Beatles attending.
1990: David Bowie plays his 1970s’ hits for the last time as he begins his latest American tour, “Sound Plus Vision.”
2003: Iggy Pop reunites with the Stooges for the first time in three decades at the close of this year’s Coachellas Festival.
2004: Elton John publicly responds to American Idol’s snub of Jennifer Hudson by declaring the call-in voters “incredibly racists.”
2006: 63 year-old Keith Richards falls from a palm tree while vacationing in Fiji, landing on his head and causing a hemorrhage that required doctors to drain his skull. He makes a full recovery.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
