Today in Music History for Feb. 27: ...

Oasis lost the “Battle of Britpop” to Blur but emerged larger than the narrow hype. Radiohead sprinted from their biggest song and began reinventing the very notion of a rock band by dismantling it.

1775: Angelo Braschi is chosen as Pope Pius VI. 1804: New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery. 1852: Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children in London admits its first patient ...