Bruce Springsteen appeared on covers of Time and Newsweek that hit the magazine racks on this day in 1975.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on October 27 include...

 

1949 Gary Tallent of the E Street band born.

1951 Judas Priest’s KK Downing born.

1967 Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver’s Scott Weiland born.
1969 Muddy Waters is critically injured in a car crash that kills three.
1969 Ringo Starr starts sessions for his Sentimental Journey album.

1970 Black Sabbath makes live debut at Glassboro State College.

1979 Elton John collapses from exhaustion during his Hollywood Bowl concert.
1980 T-Rex's Steve Took chokes to death.

2002 Legendary producer Tom Dowd dies of Emphysema.

1988 Def Leppard Hysteria tour wraps up in Tacoma, Washington.

1989 U2's Adam Clayton loses his drivers license for a year and pays a fine on DWI conviction.

2005 Three of the four Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover uniforms and the first Rolling Stones recording contact auctioned.

2007 Metallica, Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, Jerry Lee Lewis play Neil Young’s Bridge School benefit in Mountainview, California.
2009 Jeff Beck fills in for Eric Clapton at Rock Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary concert while EC recouperates from gall stone surgery.

2013 Lou Reed dies at 71 of liver disease...