This week what happened in Music is:

1958, "It's All in the Game" by Tommy Edwards is the Billboard No. 1 Pop Hit ... the song was written in 1937 by Charles G. Dawes who served as U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge from 1925-1929 ... that same week the Teddy Bears release their song "To Know Him Is To Love Him," penned by 18-year-old Phil Spector who named the tune for the epitaph on his father's tombstone...

1961, Bob Dylan begins a two-week engagement opening for the Greenbriar Boys at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village...

1964, a group of U.S. businessmen offer Beatles manager Brian Epstein £3.5 million to buy out his management contract ... he refuses to sell...

1965, during a Scandinavian tour Who singer Roger Daltrey punches out Keith Moon and very nearly gets booted from the band ...

1968, the No. 1 Billboard song is The Beatles' "Hey Jude" which holds down that spot for nine straight weeks and becomes the Fab Four's all-time biggest seller...

1972, depressed over heart problems and the recent death of his father, British rocker Rory Storm is found dead with his head in a gas oven ... Storm, born Alan Caldwell, fronted the Merseybeat group the Hurricanes who were regulars at Liverpool's Cavern Club and were perhaps most famous for once including a drummer named Richard Starkey...

1973, Robbie McIntosh, the funky drummer for the Scots soul outfit, Average White Band, dies of a heroin overdose at a Hollywood Hills party thrown for Gregg Allman ... McIntosh snorts the smack believing it is cocaine ... his band mate Alan Gorrie is saved from the same fate by Cher who is also in attendance and keeps him awake...

1975, soul singer Jackie Wilson suffers a heart attack in mid-performance at the Latin Casino in Camden, N.J. ... dubbed "Mr. Excitement," the singer falls off the stage and strikes his head on a concrete floor causing permanent brain damage ... he lapses into a coma and spends the rest of his life hospitalized until death overtakes him in 1984 ... the soul group The Spinners donate $60,000 for his medical care but much of that money is consumed in lawyer's fees due to relatives tussling over control of Wilson's estate ... the singer is laid to rest in an unmarked grave ... the Wilson family was haunted by tragedy ... son Jackie Jr. was killed in 1970 during a burglary; daughter Sandra died of a heart attack in 1977; and daughter Jacqueline was shot to death in a 1987 drive-by shooting...

1979, moments after launching into the song "Better Off Dead," Elton John collapses onstage due to exhaustion resulting from a case of flu ... after a 10-minute intermission he returns to the stage to finish the show which goes nearly three hours...

1980, after a long night of drinking and drugging at band mate Jimmy Page's home, drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham is found dead in bed ... Led Zeppelin promptly disbands...

1985, the First Farm-Aid concert, organized by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp, is mounted in Champaign, Illinois, and raises $10 million to assist beleaguered family farms...

1986, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is killed when the tour bus he's riding in skids on an icy Swedish road, crashes, and then rolls on top of him...

1988, Bobby McFerrin's upbeat single "Don't Worry, Be Happy" becomes the first a capella song to make No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ... the tune is later appropriated by George Bush Sr.'s presidential campaign without permission ... the campaign complies after being told to desist ...

1991, following years of assorted maladies, the world's coolest human being, Miles Dewey Davis III, succumbs...

1992, Bruce Springsteen defies the rules by playing an electric set for MTV's Unplugged program ... the episode is renamed MTV Plugged...

1998, White Zombie gives up the ghost when bassist Sean Yseult announces the hard rock outfit will be buried for once and for all...

1993, September 24 has figured large in the life of former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler ... on this day in 1993 he settles a lawsuit with GNR for $2.5 million ... he had been kicked out of the band for failing to kick his heroin habit ... five years to the day later, Adler receives a 150-day jail sentence for assaulting two women he dated and violating parole on an earlier domestic violence conviction ...

1995, singer Bobby Brown escapes injury during a gun battle in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood when his car is riddled with bullets ... his sister's fiancé is killed...

1997, the DVD Audio format debuts at the Audio Engineering Society convention in New York...

1999, Diana Ross is briefly detained by police at London's Heathrow Airport after making a supreme fool of herself in a scuffle with a female security officer...

2001, Peter Gabriel and Celine Dion headline an American Red Cross benefit concert in Montreal ... proceeds go to victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks...

2002, British musician Mike Batt of the band Planets agrees to pay an unspecified six-figure sum to the John Cage Trust following charges that he had plagiarized the late avante-garde composer's composition "4'33," which was entirely silent............Batt had credited his piece "A One Minute Silence" to "Batt/Cage"...

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and  Last week that was, here is what happened.

1958, Pfc. Elvis Presley sails for Germany to join his army unit...

1964, The Beatles, appearing at Cleveland's Public Auditorium, are ordered to stop and leave the stage so that the overly excited audience, in danger of screaming itself to death, has a chance to calm down...

1966, George Harrison heads for India for his first meeting with guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi...

1967, Hendrix's first album, Are You Experienced, is released ... The Doors perform "Light My Fire" on The Ed Sullivan Show ... Morrisson is asked to alter the lyrics "girl we couldn't get much higher" ... he agrees but then sings the real words anyway...

1968, Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" goes gold and on to a glorious future as the biker anthem...

1970, Vice-President Spiro Agnew tells the world that rock music, movies, and underground newspapers are brainwashing America's youth and creating a drug culture ... Jimi Hendrix , one of the icons of this drug culture makes his last public appearance jamming with Eric Burdon and War at a London nightclub ... two days later he dies in his London apartment, suffocating on his vomit while intoxicated on barbiturates...

1973, Gram Parsons of The Byrds dies in Joshua Tree, California ... while in transit home for burial, his body is stolen from an airport by his manager and a roadie and taken back to Joshua Tree where they attempt cremation...

1974, Uriah Heep bassist Gary Thain is nearly electrocuted onstage at Dallas show ... he survives but quits the band a short time later...

1979, Bob Dylan gets religious, releasing the album Slow Train Coming, his first in a series with religious themes...

1981, The Doors' Greatest Hits goes platinum, more than a decade after Jim Morrison's death ... the long separated duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite to play in New York's Central Park before a crowd of 400,000...

1983, Kiss members show the world that they don't wear makeup because they are so hideously ugly ... they appear on MTV without so much as a touch of rouge...

1985, the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit this week is "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits ... the song was written by both Mark Knopfler and Sting ... Sting's voice is heard on the recording singing the repeating line "I want my MTV"...

1990, Bruce Hornsby begins playing keyboards for The Grateful Dead, replacing the recently deceased Brent Mydland...

1997, Fleetwood Mac reunites for a tour that begins in Hartford, Connecticut, this week...

1998, together for the first time in 24 years, the members of '70s British rock band Mott The Hoople get back together to perform at the Virgin Megastore in London ...

1999, rapper Eminem is being sued by his mom ... she files suit for defamation of character, claiming Eminem made defamatory comments about her in interviews ... one specified comment is that she is "lawsuit happy"...

and  week before, here is what happened

1933, Harold Lloyd Jenkins is born in Friars Point Mississippi ... in 1957 he changes his name to the improbable moniker Conway Twitty...

1955, Bill Haley and The Comets turn down an offer to do an Australian 15-date tour citing a fear of flying ... the proto rockers are offered a magnanimous $2,000 for the 15 shows...

1956, Elvis buys his mama a pink Cadillac...

1962, the Beatles hit Abbey Road recording studio for the first time, recording "Love Me Do" in about 16 takes with drummer Andy White ... six years later to the week, Eric Clapton lays down one of the most famous solos ever on the Beatles tune "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"...

1963, the Angels' "My Boyfriend's Back," a militant little ditty about impending retribution, tops the pop chart...

1965 during a Rolling Stones appearance on the British pop music show Ready, Steady, Go! Mick Jagger and producer Andrew Loog Oldham perform a parody of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe"...

1966, Donovan makes it to the peak of pop with "Sunshine Superman," featuring one Jimmy Page on guitar ... Keith Moon departs the mortal plane this week in 1978 due to an overdose of Hemenephirin, a drug he'd been prescribed to help with his alcohol problem ... the Who drummer was 31 years old...

1968, Cream releases the album Fresh Cream with the hit song "Sunshine of Your Love" featuring a Clapton guitar riff that becomes a staple of budding guitarists' repertoires everywhere...

1970, at the Palermo Pop '70 Festival, that crazy Arthur Brown sets fire to his helmet and strips naked during his performance ... the crowd throws things at him ... he is arrested and put him in solitary confinement for four days ... while in solitary, he receives a petition signed by 200 locals requesting that he leave Italy and never return ... that same week, The Kinks' single "Lola" is released and causes a stir due to the song's preoccupation with cross-dressing...

1977, Elton John reviews Generation X's debut single "Your Generation" for a British newspaper ... he complains that the song is "really dreadful garbage. The Ramones do this sort of thing so much better"...

1978, at a Teddy Pendergrass show in New York called "For Women Only," female concertgoers receive white chocolate lollipops in the shape of a teddy bear...

1985, the top three positions on the Billboard Hot 100 chart are all occupied by songs from movies with John Parr's "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" from St. Elmo's Fire in first place, Huey Lewis's "The Power of Love" from Back to the Future is in the runner-up position, while Tina Turner's "We Don't Need Another Hero" from the movie Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome holds down the third slot...

1988, Michelle Shocked's album Short Sharp Shocked is released with an authentic cover shot of the artist being carted off by a pair of L.A. cops ... her label, Cooking Vinyl, overprints sunglasses on a policeman's face and obscures a badge number to protect the innocent...

1989, Fine Young Cannibals vocalist Roland Gift urges Scottish citizens to burn down the holiday homes belonging to wealthy Brits ... quoted in the magazine Time Out, the singer, who owns a posh flat in London and a rambling estate in New Zealand, says it is immoral to own more than one home when there are others who are homeless...

1990, The Cure launches a pirate radio station beamed at London ... but the station soon goes off the air after being beset by technical difficulties and having a powerful BBC signal cover up its broadcasts ... that same week Tom Fogerty, former rhythm guitarist with Creedence Clearwater Revival, dies of respiratory failure caused by T.B. ... in an earlier incarnation of CCR the band had been known as Tommy Fogerty and The Blue Velvets...

1991, country singer Dottie West dies of injuries suffered in an auto wreck five days earlier ... the first female country Grammy winner, West blazed a trail for women country artists...

1992, David Bowie turns up on the cover of Architectural Digest -he's the first human to appear in that spot in four years ... The White Duke tells the mag that "my ambition is to make music so uncompromising that I will have no audience left"...

1995, the Rock and Roll Hall of fame opens in Cleveland...

1996, "Soul Man" Isaac Hayes gets a burr under his saddle when he hears Bob Dole promoters bastardizing his tune with the lyrics, "I'm a Dole man" ... he writes a formal letter of protest telling the campaign to knock it off...

1997, Chicago blues harp master Junior Wells, who is being treated for lymphoma, slips into a coma ... he will die four months later...

1998, ex-Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten appears on Judge Judy when a drummer sues him for $5,000 in lost wages and claims Rotten hit him ... Johnny maintains the guy quit days before the tour was to begin ... Judy rules for Johnny ... in other court proceedings that same week, Madonna files suit against the New York City YMCA seeking to block its erection of a high-rise residence building claiming that it "creates a hazard for me and my daughter" -a curious charge given the singer is then living in Miami...

1999, Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx is arrested at a show in Raleigh, N.C., charged with felony rioting and three counts of misdemeanor inciting to riot, assault, and disorderly conduct ... the charges stem from bad behavior at a Greensboro concert in 1997 ... Sixx allegedly assaulted a security guard and encouraged a melee among fans ... that same Labor Day weekend, the Virgin Megastore Web site melts down in the face of unprecedented traffic caused by a half-price sale...

2000, Rage Against the Machine bassist Timothy Commerford pleads guilty to charges of assault and disorderly conduct in a New York City court ... he had spent the night in the slammer after getting out of hand at the MTV Video Awards and being forcibly removed...

2001, System Of A Down throws a free concert for its fans in L.A. ... the event turns into a full-blown riot resulting in six arrests and several cops with minor injuries...