27 MARCH
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1987 U2 play a rooftop concert in Los Angeles to film their video for "Where The Streets Have No Name." Thousands of onlookers gather and police order the band to stop playing.More
1986 Sammy Hagar makes his first appearance as Van Halen's lead singer when the group begin their tour in Louisiana.
1982 "Pac-Man Fever," a song about the arcade game that has America enthralled, cracks the Top 10, becoming the only song about a video game ever to do so.More
1979 Eric Clapton marries George Harrison's ex-wife Pattie, the subject of the song "Layla." Harrison attends the wedding and remains friends with Clapton.More
1970 Mariah Carey is born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. She becomes the best-selling female singer of the '90s and the self-proclaimed "Queen of Christmas," thanks to her perennial favorite "All I Want For Christmas Is You."
1965 The Supremes' "Stop! In The Name Of Love" hits #1 in the US, making them the first act with four consecutive #1 singles on the Hot 100.
27 MARCH
In Music History
2026 Raye drops her second album, This Music May Contain Hope. The 17 tracks are divided into four "seasons" representing the emotional stages that inspired them. The lead single, "Where Is My Husband!," is a #1 hit in her native UK and helps her break through in America.
2022 Hans Zimmer wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 2021 film Dune. The composer crafted an experimental soundscape that eschewed the traditional orchestra in favor of electronic textures, choral chants, and bagpipes to reflect the movie's space-desert setting. Zimmer previously won an Oscar for scoring The Lion King (1994).
2022 Summer Of Soul, directed by Questlove of The Roots, wins the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The film features never-before-seen footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, including performances by Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson and Sly & the Family Stone.
2021 Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album, which debuted at #1 in America, logs its 10th week at the top, the most weeks for a debut chart-topper since Whitney Houston's self-titled album in 1987. In its fourth week at #1, Wallen was caught on camera using the N-word (addressed to his white friend) after a night of drinking, but instead of tanking the album when his music was pulled from radio stations, the controversy helped extend its run as fans bought and streamed it in support.
2020 Two weeks into the pandemic, Dua Lipa releases her disco-fied second album, Future Nostalgia, with the hits "Don't Start Now" and "Levitating." It earns her lots of new fans, including Elton John, who teams with her on "Cold Heart" the following year.
2013 Gordon Stoker of The Jordanaires dies at age 88.
2013 Crawdaddy magazine founder Paul Williams dies at age 64. Not to be confused with the singer/songwriter/actor Paul Williams, the subject of the 2011 documentary, Paul Williams Still Alive.
2011 Dionne Warwick is the fourth contestant fired by Donald Trump on season 11 of The Celebrity Apprentice.
2008 Trace Adkins is one of the finalists on Season 7 of The Celebrity Apprentice. He loses the battle to tabloid editor Piers Morgan.
2008 The Los Angeles Times publishes — and later retracts — a story that Diddy had a hand in the shooting that killed Tupac Shakur. In the end, it is all fiction conjured by an imprisoned con man.
2008 A jury convicts rapper Remy Ma of assault charges stemming from a shooting outside a Manhattan night club.
2007 Faustino Oramas of Buena Vista Social Club dies at age 95.
2006 Pete Wells, guitarist in Rose Tattoo, dies of prostate cancer at age 59.
2006 Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion is designated as a National Historic Landmark.
2005 Mexican singer Rigo Tovar dies at age 58.
Digital Underground Release Sex Packets
1990Digital Underground, a rap collective that later includes Tupac Shakur, release their debut album, Sex Packets. It's a concept album about a drug that simulates the experience of having sex.
The group comes up with an elaborate backstory about how the drug was developed by a Stanford University researcher named Edward Earl Cook (the real name of one of the group's vocalists, Schmoovy Schmoov, who helped with the idea and sings on the title track) for use by astronauts on their space missions, since NASA figured out that sexually satiated space travelers are more effective. The group explains to journalists that the drug is big on the West Coast black market, and that it really works: if you take it, you will go to sleep for a few minutes, then wake up with proof of climax. Journalists are sometimes incredulous, but dutifully report the story, including frontman Shock G's depictions of what happened to him when he tried it. The album ends up being very successful, selling over a million copies on the strength of the singles "Doowutchyalike" and "The Humpty Dance."
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