Time Is On My Side.... Yes It Is!

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Last week in history. Yeah, I'm a little behind. Read it anyway.

1955, Elvis Presley appears for the first time on television on a regional show called Louisiana Hayride ... this same week, it is an unlikely gathering for "The Limbo Party" at San Francisco's Cow Palace ... Chubby Checker is host ... performers include Marvin Gaye, The Crystals, Lou Christie, The Four Seasons, Dick & Dee Dee, Paul & Paula, and Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass...

1963, golden-voiced country/pop great Patsy Cline never makes it back to Nashville when her plane goes down en route from St. Louis ... she, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins are returning from a benefit concert for the widow of DJ Cactus Jack Call, who was recently killed in a car crash...

1967, it is announced in the music media that Steve and Muff Winwood plan to quit the Spencer Davis Group ... the brothers have been with the band four years and will later form Traffic...

1970, Janis Joplin is fined $200 for onstage swearing in Tampa, Florida...

1971, Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" ... the tape was sent to the North Vietnamese station by anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman...

1973, that notorious pothead Paul McCartney pleads guilty and pays a fine of $240 after marijuana plants are found growing at his farm in Scotland ... in his defense McCartney claims that a fan gave him some seeds, which he planted, not knowing what would grow from them ... this same week in 1975, Linda and Paul are pulled over for running a red light in Los Angeles ... police sniff pot and find six to eight ounces in Linda's purse and charge her with possession ... since it isn't his purse, Paul skates free...

1976, a wax version of Elton John goes on display at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum...

1980, the number-one song on the pop chart this week is "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen...

1982, Blues Brother John Belushi dies at age 33 of too much speedball ... according to fellow Blues Brother Dan Akroyd, Belushi had taken to hanging out with a group of sleazy sycophants who had anything but Belushi's best interests in mind...

1994, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana washes down a handful of Valiums with champagne and winds up in a coma in a Rome hospital ... he revives after about 20 hours ... though officially labeled accidental, the overdose was secretly thought to be a suicide attempt by those close to Cobain and conspiracy theorists have suggested that Courtney Love may have slipped him the dose without his knowledge ... a second try by Cobain a month or so later with a shotgun will prove fatal...

1995, R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry undergoes successful brain surgery for an aneurysm after collapsing during a concert in Switzerland...

2000, at the Annual Brit Awards in the U.K., Macy Gray takes honors for Best International Female Artist and Best Newcomer...