Date: April 27, 1940

1940 : Hoots Mon! opens in the UK.

Date: April 27, 1956

1956 : Capitol Records signs Gene Vincent, intending to market him as the next Elvis.

Date: April 27, 1957

1957 : Elvis Presley makes his second and last appearance outside of the US, wearing his classic gold lame suit for the last time as he plays Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.

Date: April 27, 1957

1957, In a rare appearance outside the United States, Elvis Presley performed at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada where he wore his full gold lame suit for the last time.

Date: April 27, 1959

1959 : Lloyd Price releases "Personality"

Date: April 27, 1960

1960 : Elvis Presley records "Shoppin' Around," "Didja' Ever," "Doin' The Best I Can," "G.I. Blues," "Frankfort Special," "Tonight Is So Right For Love"

Date: April 27, 1963

1963 : Little Peggy March's I Will Follow Him hits #1.

Date: April 27, 1963

1963 : Martha and the Vandellas' Come and Get These Memories enters the charts.

Date: April 27, 1963

In 1963, Margaret Annemarie Battavio's very first single, "I Will Follow Him," reached No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts. With her 15th birthday only six weeks behind her, the singer better known as Little Peggy March became the youngest female performer ever to top the Billboard Hot 100.

Date: April 27, 1963

1963, Little Peggy March started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Will Follow Him'. At 15 years, 1 month and 13 days old, Little Peggy March became the youngest female singer to have a US No.1 record.

Date: April 27, 1963

In 1963, 15-year-old Margaret Annemarie Battavio became the youngest female performer to top the Billboard Hot 100 when her single "I Will Follow Him" reached number one on the U.S. pop charts.

Date: April 27, 1963

1963 : With The Beatles yet to enter the picture, the Hot 100 has some unremarkable chart-toppers. On this day, "I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March claims the top spot.

Date: April 27, 1963

1963 - Little Peggy March started a three-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "I Will Follow Him". At 15 years, 1 month and 13 days old, Little Peggy March became the youngest female singer to have a U.S. No. 1 record.

Date: April 27, 1963

1963, The Beatles appeared at The Memorial Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, England. The Beatles made a total of six concert appearances at this venue in Northwich.

Date: April 27, 1964

1964 : John Lennon's first book of prose and poetry, In His Own Write, is published in the US.

Date: April 27, 1964

1964 : The Beatles release Love Me Do b/w P.S. I Love You

Date: April 27, 1965

1965, Bob Dylan was interviewed by BBC journalist and radio presenter Jack DeManio in the Savoy Hotel, London, for the BBC’s Home Service, which was broadcast on the Today programme the following day. Later on the 27th, Dylan and Joan Baez were filmed singing the traditional song Wild Mountain Thyme in the Savoy. Parts of the interview and the song were used in the film Don't Look Back.

Date: April 27, 1966

1966 : The Beatles record I'm Only Sleeping

Date: April 27, 1966

1966, The Beatles started recording the new John Lennon song 'I'm Only Sleeping' at Abbey Road studios London, England. The song features the then-unique sound of a reversed guitar duet played by George Harrison. It was released two months earlier in the United States on the album Yesterday And Today and did not feature on the original US version of Revolver.

Date: April 27, 1967

1967, Sandie Shaw was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Puppet On A String', her third UK No.1 and the Eurovision Song Contest winner of 1967.

Date: April 27, 1967

1967 : The Beatles record Magical Mystery Tour

Date: April 27, 1968

In 1968, Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" was released.

Date: April 27, 1968

1968 : Simon and Garfunkel release Mrs. Robinson

Date: April 27, 1969

1969 : Jose Feliciano's TV special Very Special, guest starring Glen Campbell and Dionne Warwick, airs on NBC.

Date: April 27, 1969

1969 : Joe Cocker makes his TV debut, singing Feelin' Alright on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Date: April 27, 1969

1969, Pink Floyd appeared at Mothers Club in Erdington, Birmingham, England. Radio 1 DJ John Peel reviewed the gig as '...sounding like dying galaxies lost in sheer corridors of time and space'. Recordings from this show were included in the group’s 1969 album Ummagumma.

Date: April 27, 1969

Today in 1969, Joe Cocker made his U.S. television debut, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS. Together with the Grease Band, Cocker performed a cover of Dave Mason's "Feelin' Alright". The song would end up being a two-time charting hit for Cocker — in 1969 and again in 1972. Cocker included a version of the song on his 1970 double album, Mad Dogs & Englishmen.

Date: April 27, 1970

1970 : John Lennon's explicit "Bag One" lithographs are returned to the London Arts Gallery exhibition after a High Court judge rules them "unlikely to deprave or corrupt."

Date: April 27, 1970

1970, David Bowie and The Hype, Barclay James Harvest, High Tide and The Purple Gang all appeared at Stockport Grammar School, England.

Date: April 27, 1971

1971, The Grateful Dead appeared at the Fillmore East in New York City. The Beach Boys also appeared on stage with the Dead, who together performed a short set of Beach Boys songs.

Date: April 27, 1974

1974 : Ray Stevens releases The Streak

Date: April 27, 1974

1974, A free afternoon event was held in the parking lot of the University of Connecticut, Ice Hockey Arena in Storrs. The four acts that appeared, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Fairport Convention and Fat Back. Springsteen then went on to play another gig that evening at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.

Date: April 27, 1975

1975, Pink Floyd played the last of a four night run at Los Angeles' Sports Arena. A total of 511 fans were arrested over the four nights for possession of marijuana.

Date: April 27, 1976

1976 : Maxine Nightingale's "Right Back Where We Started From" is certified gold.

Date: April 27, 1976

1976 : After a trip to Moscow, David Bowie is detained in vain on a train at the Poland-Russian border by customs officers who don't appreciate his collection of Nazi books and mementos. Bowie claims he is researching a film on Joseph Goebbels, and is released after a few hours.

Date: April 27, 1976

1976, Customs officers on a train at the Russian/Polish Border detained David Bowie, after Nazi books and mementoes were found in his luggage. Bowie claimed that the material was being used for research on a movie project about Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Paul Goebbels.

Date: April 27, 1978

1978 : Bob Dylan records "No Time To Think," "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)," "True Love Tends To Forget," "Changing Of The Guard"

Date: April 27, 1979

1979 : Stevie Wonder makes a surprise appearance at a Duke Ellington tribute concert held at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus. Wonder performs his Ellington encomium Sir Duke along with Ellington's "C-Jam Blues."

Date: April 27, 1981

1981, Ringo Starr married actress and one time 'Bond girl' Barbara Bach. The pair met while filming the movie, Caveman, with Dennis Quaid and Shelley Long. In attendance at the wedding were George Harrison and Paul McCartney.

Date: April 27, 1981

1981 : The Beatle and the Bond Girl: Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach after meeting her on the set of the movie Caveman. They defy Hollywood odds and stay together.

Date: April 27, 1981

1981 - Ringo Starr married actress and one-time "James Bond girl" Barbara Bach. The pair met while filming the movie Caveman with Dennis Quaid and Shelley Long. Married to this day, Starr and Bach have homes in England, California and Monte Carlo.

Date: April 27, 1985

1985, USA For Africa started a three-week run at No.1 on the US chart with 'We Are The World'. The US artists' answer to Band Aid had an all-star cast including Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Daryl Hall, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon plus the composer's of the track, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

Date: April 27, 1985

1985 - USA For Africa started a three-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. chart with "We Are The World."

Date: April 27, 1986

1986 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love

Date: April 27, 1987

1987 : U2 makes the cover of Time magazine with the headline "Rock's Hottest Ticket."

Date: April 27, 1994

1994 : San Francisco's legendary rock venue the Fillmore Auditorium reopens, with performances by The Smashing Pumpkins and American Music Club.

Date: April 27, 1994

1994 : The Smashing Pumpkins and American Music Club perform at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium for the reopening of the legendary rock venue.

Date: April 27, 1994

1994, A man was arrested after breaking into Ace Of Base singer Jenny Berggren's home. Jenny was asleep at the time and woke up to find the man above her holding a hunting knife.

Date: April 27, 1996

1996, Oasis played the first of two nights at Manchester's Maine Road football ground as a 'thank you' to their fans, the 80,000 tickets sold out in hours.

Date: April 27, 1996

1996 - Oasis played the first of two nights at Manchester City's former stadium, Maine Road, as a thank-you to fans. The 80,000 tickets sold out in hours.

Date: April 27, 1999

1999, UK band The Verve announced that they had split. They scored the 1997 UK No.1 single 'The Drugs Don't Work' and their 1997 UK No.1 album 'Urban Hymns' spent over 100 weeks on the UK chart. Leader of the group Richard Ashcroft went solo scoring the 2000 UK No.3 single 'A Song For The Lovers' and the 2000 UK No.1 album 'Alone With Everybody.'

Date: April 27, 1999

1999 : The Lollapalooza festival tour is cancelled for the second consecutive year.

Date: April 27, 1999

1999 : R.E.M. makes its television series debut on Fox’s Party of Five.

Date: April 27, 2003

2003, Madonna went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'American Life', the singers eighth No.1 album. Also a US No.1 album.

Date: April 27, 2003

2003, UK boy band Busted went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Said No.' Also on this day the band appeared at Birmingham NIA, England with S Club 7, Dannii Minogue, Girls Aloud, Sonique, Kym Marsh, David Sneddon and S Club 7 Juniors.

Date: April 27, 2003

2003 : Iggy Pop reunites with The Stooges for the first time in 30 years to close out the Coachella festival. In 2010, the Stooges enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Date: April 27, 2003

2003 : Iggy Pop reunites with The Stooges for the first time in 30 years to close out the Coachella festival. In 2010, the Stooges enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Date: April 27, 2004

2004 : Elton John publicly responds to American Idol's snub of Jennifer Hudson by declaring the call-in voters "incredibly racist."

Date: April 27, 2006

2006 : 62-year-old Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones falls out of a palm tree while vacationing in Fiji and goes to the hospital with a concussion, creating a rare news event on the island.

Date: April 27, 2008

2008, The Last Shadow Puppets went to No.1 on the UK album charts with 'The Age of the Understatement', a side project of Alex Turner of Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of Liverpool band The Rascals.

Date: April 27, 2008

2008 : A nearly naked photo of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus makes the entertainment news when it appears in Vanity Fair. Shot by Annie Leibovitz, the photo is more tasteful than scandalous, revealing Miley's back but not much else. Cyrus, under contract with Disney, later claims she was coerced into taking the photo.

Date: April 27, 2008

2008 : Prince makes the crowd go crazy by covering Radiohead during an epic headlining set after being a last-minute addition to the Coachella Festival.

Date: April 27, 2009

2009, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament was the victim of a robbery outside Southern Tracks Recording studios in Atlanta, where the band were recording. Ament and a band employee had arrived at the rear of the studio when three assailants brandishing knives emerged from the woods wearing black masks and smashed the windows of a rented Jeep. The robbers grabbed a BlackBerry and Ament's passport and stole $3,000 in cash and $4,320 worth of goods.

Date: April 27, 2009

2009 : Pearl Jam bass player Jeff Ament is robbed outside the Atlanta studio where the band is recording. Thieves steal cash and equipment in the attack, which is reported byRolling Stone.

Date: April 27, 2009

2009, Aerosmith were to hold a free concert in Hawaii to placate angry fans who brought a legal case against them. Fans filed a class action case, which claimed the band had cancelled a sold-out show in Maui two years ago, leaving hundreds of fans out of pocket in favour of a bigger gig in Chicago. Lawyers for the would-be concert-goers said Aerosmith had now agreed to put on a new show, and would pay all expenses. Everyone who bought a ticket to the original concert would receive a free ticket.

Date: April 27, 2010

2010, Music sales in the UK had grown for the first time in six years, according to music industry body the British Phonographic Institute (BPI). Revenue increased by 1.4%, bringing the total income for 2009 to £928.8m. Download sales provided the shot in the arm, rising by more than 50% to earn £154m, compared with £101.5m in 2008.

Date: April 27, 2012

2012 : Bob Dylan receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US president Barack Obama, which is the highest honor awarded to a United States civilian citizen. Dylan is only the 29th musician to receive the award. Previous recipients include Frank Sinatra,Aretha Franklin, and Irving Berlin.

Date: April 27, 2013

2013, A blue plaque was unveiled at Swansea railway station, Wales, honouring Peter Ham who co-wrote 'Without You', a hit for both Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey. Ham who was a member of Badfinger, were signed to The Beatles Apple Records label, (and enjoyed their biggest hit in 1970 with a Paul McCartney penned, 'Come And Get It'. Ham took his own life in 1975 at the age of 27.

Date: April 27, 2014

2014 : Radio Devon DJ David Lowe (not to be confused with the composer of the same name), plays an early version of "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" on his program, which results in his resignation.