Well, Damn!!!

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It really sucks when things don't turn out the way you'd like. Oh, nevermind. Here's what happend this week in music history:

1967, Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, of course ... little Lisa Marie will join the family nine months later...

1969, Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest Jimi Hendrix at Toronto International Airport for possession of heroin ... Hendrix is released on $10,000 bail and claims that the drugs were planted .. the charges will later be dropped...

1974, the #1 Billboard Pop Hit is "Loco-Motion" by Grand Funk Railroad ... the original 1962 version by Little Eva had also hit the top of the pops ... the song will hit pay dirt one more time when Kylie Minogue rides it to #3 in 1988...

1976, Bruce Springsteen is given the bum's rush by security guards when he's caught trying to scale the fence at Graceland...

1976, Paul McCartney returns to the stage in the U.S. for the first time in a decade as the "Wings Over America" tour takes flight in Ft. Worth, Texas...

1981, Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach ... the two met and fell in love the year before while filming Caveman"...

1984, Mick Fleetwood files for bankruptcy...

1994, the historic San Francisco Fillmore reopens after 27 years ... performers at the show include American Music Club, Ry Cooder and David Lindley, and headliners Smashing Pumpkins ... promoters originally hoped to secure Neil Young or Bruce Springsteen for the opening, but settled on the Pumpkins as a last resort...

1995, Tupac Shakur marries girlfriend Keisha Morris while incarcerated at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York ... the rapper is in jail on a felony sexual abuse conviction...

1998, somewhere between doing the splits and a backflip while onstage in Anchorage, Alaska, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler injures his knee ... luckily for the Alaskan fans, the injury occurred during the last encore ... fans in other cities aren't as lucky, as the band must cancel the remaining 14 dates of its North American tour so Tyler can have surgery and recover...

1999, citing the lack of a strong enough lineup, organizers say Lollapalooza will not happen for the second consecutive year...

1999, at a Des Moines, Iowa, show, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson stalks off the stage upon noticing that someone has slapped a big yellow smiley face sticker on one of his props ... in the resulting melee, 23 are arrested...

1999, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...

2002, Suicidal Tendencies guitarist Mike Clark dislocates his shoulder in a motocross accident ... he will make a full recovery...

2002, Metallica resumes work on their eighth original album, St. Anger ... the rocky sessions, interrupted for guitarist-vocalist James Hetfield to enter rehab and for group therapy sessions with the band, are filmed by a documentary crew for the film Some Kind of Monster...

2002, Sharon Osbourne announces that her family will return for another season of their hit reality show The Osbournes on MTV ... the show, which chronicles the daily lives of Sharon, Ozzy, Jack, and Kelly, is the most successful for MTV in its 21-year history...

2003, on his official website, KISS bassist Gene Simmons blasts musicians and actors who have spoken out recently against the U.S. war in Iraq ... says Gene, "I don't think celebs make very much impact with the masses at all" ... this despite the fact that Simmons has used his site twice before to voice his support for the operation, going so far as to say," ...everyone who is marching today in a war protest can line up to my left to suck my b***s"...

2004, to celebrate the first anniversary of iTunes, Apple announces that the online music store will soon be featuring music videos and movie trailers ... users will also be able to play purchased songs on up to five different machines instead of the original limit of three ... the service sold over 70 million songs its debut year...