April 27
TODAY IN 1981 DENNY LAINE LEAVES THE TRIO ‘WINGS’, ESSENTIALLY LEAVING PAUL MCCARTNEY A SOLO ACT ONCE MORE. HIS DEPARTURE WAS MAINLY DUE TO MCCARTNEY’S RELUCTANCE TO TOUR IN THE WAKE OF THE MURDER OF JOHN LENNON.
IN 1987 R.E.M. RELEASE THE ALBUM ‘DEAD LETTER OFFICE’, WHICH IS A COLLECTION OF OUTTAKES & B-SIDES TO THE TRACKS RECORDED DURING THE EARLIER ‘MURMUR’ AND ‘RICH LIFE’S PAGEANT’ SESSIONS.
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ACE FREHLEY, THE FOUNDING LEAD GUITARIST OF KISS. THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMER IS 73 TODAY.
