Rock and Metal history, January 27
1944: Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is born in Birmingham, England.
1951: Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy drummer) is born in Dublin, Ireland.
1956: Elvis Presley's smash single, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released by RCA Records, who had just purchased Presley's contract from Sun Records for $35,000. The song sold 300,000 copies the first week and would eventually sell over a million, becoming Elvis' first Gold record.
1957: Janick Robert Gers, lead guitarist of Iron Maiden, was born in Hartlepool, England.
1964: The Beatles re-released the single 'I Saw Her Standing There" in the United States.
1970: John Lennon writes, records and mixes "Instant Karma" during a nine hour session. Phil Spector produced the effort with George Harrison on guitar, Billy Preston on piano, Klaus Voormann on bass and Alan White on drums.
1977: The Clash signed a recording contract with CBS Records.
1984: Cyndi Lauper released the single "Time After Time."
1986: Robert Palmer released the single "Addicted To Love".
1996: Oasis debuted at #21 with "Wonderwall".
2015: From the Very Depths is the fourteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Venom, was released by Spinefarm.
2017: Gods of Violence the fourteenth studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator, was released. It was the band's first studio album in almost five years since 2012's Phantom Antichrist, marking the longest gap between two studio albums in their career. A music video for the album's title track was released on 18 November 2016.Special editions of the album were released with a bonus Blu-ray/DVD of Kreator's performance at Wacken 2014.This is Kreator's final studio album with bassist Christian "Speesy" Giesler before his departure from the band in 2019
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