AUGUST 27
PAT BENATAR RELEASES HER DEBUT ALBUM ‘IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT’ TODAY IN 1979 FEATURING HER BREAKTHROUGH TOP 25 SINGLE “HEARTBREAKER”.
ON THIS DAY IN 1990, 35-YEAR-OLD STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN WAS KILLED IN A HELICOPTER CRASH, FOLLOWING A WISCONSIN SHOW WITH ROBERT CRAY AND ERIC CLAPTON. CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME, THE BLUES-ROCKER WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 2015.
AND BEST KNOWN AS THE GUITARIST AND CO-FOUNDER OF ‘RUSH’, BIRTHDAY WISHES GO OUT TO ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE, ALEX LIFESON, WHO WAS BORN IN 1953.