August 27

Events

 * 1950 - The BBC transmitted in Britain the first cross-Channel live television programme by microwave relay links celebrated the centenerary of the first cross-Channel telegraph by submarine cable.
 * 1965 - Bob Dylan booed off stage in New York's Forest Hills
 * 1965 - Beatles meet Elvis Presley for the only time in Los Angeles at his Beverly Hills home
 * 1965 - 'Highway 61 Revisited' LP by Bob Dylan released in US
 * 196 - The Hollies release 'Look Through Any Window' in UK
 * 1965 - Silkie release 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away', produced by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and featuring Paul on guitar and George on tambourin


 * 1968 - Beatles' 'Hey Jude' and Mary Hopkin's 'Those Were the Days' released, launching Apple Records
 * 1989 - The first communications satellite, Marcopolo I, for the first television direct broadcast service in the United Kingdom was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the first US commercial satellite rocket, a Delta booster.

Births

 * 1886 -, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
 * 1886 -, English composer (d. 1957)
 * 1909 -, American musician (d. 1959)
 * 1919 -, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007)
 * 1927 -, American singer
 * 1937 -, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
 * 1940 -, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
 * 1942 -, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)
 * 1948 -, Greek musician (d. 1990)
 * 1949 -, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin for Alabama
 * 1951 - (Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes)
 * 1953 - (Mink De Ville)
 * 1953 -, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
 * 1955 -, Dutch singer
 * 1956 - (Rich Kids, Sex Pistols)
 * 1958 -, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
 * 1961 -, American gospel singer
 * 1970 -, English-born musician (No Doubt)
 * 1978 - rapper
 * 1986 -, American R&B singer

Deaths

 * 1521 –, Flemish composer
 * 1572 –, French composer
 * 1976 –, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
 * 1990 –, American guitarist (b. 1954)
 * 1997 –, Greek singer (b. 1921)
 * 2005 –, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1922)
 * 2006 –, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)