Just because it is a great picture and it happened to be of my favorite girl Jlo.  Earlier this month this was taken and have to show the picture since I get a lot of mail on what is happening with this girl.

Here is the girl with the immortal man Reggie Jackson, now aint that a kick in the teeth.  She is hugging one of the greatest in the game.  I dont like to watch sports and I knew that.  You know for sure the Markster is around there somewhere trying to figure something out.  Well here is what happened in music on this month.  Hope you like the tibits. 

Week 3

1938, the legendary Robert Johnson dies in Greenwood, Mississippi ... Johnson's moonshine had been poisoned days earlier ... known for his womanizing, the murderer was presumed to be the angered spouse of one of his paramours ... it was rumored that Johnson's talent came at the expense of his soul, the result of a midnight deal struck with Satan at a Mississippi crossroads...

1962, "Your Heart Belongs to Me" by the Supremes debuts on the Hot 100 chart ... it is the first of their eventual 47 hits ... also this week in '62, Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as The Beatles' drummer ... rumor has it Lennon and McCartney are frustrated by Best's good looks, which attract the most groupies, leading them to hire the less attractive Starr...

1965, The Jefferson Airplane play their first live show at the Matrix Club in San Francisco ... the band will ink a deal with RCA before the year's end, one of the first rock bands on the Bay Area scene to do so...

1967, Fleetwood Mac plays their first gig at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival a month before John McVie joins the band and despite the fact that the band's name is derived from Mick Fleetwood's and McVie's last names...

1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Festival is held on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York ... nearly half a million will gather to celebrate what is billed as "3 Days of Peace and Music" and enjoy performances by a Who's Who of rock and roll, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ten Years After, and Jefferson Airplane...

1970, Jim Morrison's trial for allegedly exposing himself during a 1969 concert begins in Miami ... Morrison will be found guilty on one count of profanity and one count of indecent exposure but will appeal the convictions...

1972, Paul and Linda McCartney are busted for pot possession following a Wings show in Gothenburg, Sweden ... the couple is fined and released...

1977, Elvis leaves the building...the 42-year-old Elvis (at the same age and in the same week during 1958 in which his mother died) is found dead in his bathroom by girlfriend, Ginger Alden...according to the autopsy, death resulted from coronary arrhythmia...within days his passing becomes a media event of major proportions...it also sparks the debate as to whether his death has been staged and that he is really alive and well...even today sightings are reported, though usually now in jest...

1985, introduced to the benefits of owning publishing rights by friend Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson purchases the ATV music catalog that includes 251 Lennon/McCartney songs at auction for $47.5 million ... McCartney and Yoko Ono had attempted to purchase the songs only to be outbid by Jackson ... McCartney and Jackson's friendship ends promptly as a result ... Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon nearly drowns after his yacht capsizes during a race off the coast of England...

1990, in a tragic freak accident, part of a lighting rig falls on Curtis Mayfield during a performance in Brooklyn, New York ... the incident leaves Mayfield paralyzed from the neck down...

1998, Pete Townshend plays to an SRO crowd at Chicago's House of Blues and raises $300,000 for Marysille Academy, a home for abused and neglected children...

1999, The Backstreet Boys break box office records by selling all 765,000 tickets for their North American tour in just one day, taking in a cool $30 million, most of it within just a single hour...

2001, Dave Matthews and wife Ashley welcome their twin daughters Stella Busina and Grace Anne into the world ...

2002, in an interview with Spin magazine, Motorhead leader Lemmy says he is thinking of having his notorious facial warts removed ... Lemmy adds, "Yeah, I could sell them on the Internet" ... thankfully he later clarifies he's not serious about the latter statement ... Drowning Pool's Dave Williams is found dead on the band's tour bus during the Ozzfest tour ... rumors abound that Williams' death is the result of a drug or alcohol overdose ... the postmortem will show that Williams died from cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle, with toxicology reports showing no illegal drugs in his system ... also this week, keeping with his tradition of audience bashing, Motley Crue singer Vince Neil storms off the stage during a solo nightclub gig in Steamboat Springs, Colorado ... after opening with a few Crue classics, Neil turns to his solo material and is apparently angered at the lackluster response ... a shouting match with the audience ensues, culminating with Neil chucking the mic into the crowd and leaving the stage ... the club offers refunds to the 250 attendees...

2003, during a radio show in Springfield, Illinois, Ted Nugent says that the people of Illinois are "spineless, apathetic, embarrassing wimps" for their lack of involvement in their state government ... Nugent's comments come from his displeasure over the state's gun laws ... despite his comments, Nugent will play the Illinois State Fair later in the day..

Week 2

1937, the legendary Golden Gate Quartet cuts a mind-blowing 14 gospel tracks in two hours during a Charlotte, North Carolina, recording session ... are you listening, Axl Rose? ... that same week Bunny Berrigan and his orchestra record the jazz standard "I Can't Get Started" ... the chord changes from this oft-covered tune become a staple for bebop musicians a decade later...

1957, ABC TV's American Bandstand with its forever-young DJ Dick Clark makes its national TV debut ... meanwhile across the Atlantic, John Lennon and his band The Quarrymen play their debut date at Liverpool's Cavern Club, a venue devoted to jazz and skiffle ... after the band performs "Come Go With Me," Hound Dog," and "Blue Suede Shoes," irate club owner Alan Sytner sends a note up to the stage reading, "Cut out the bloody rock!"...

1958, Billboard publishes its first Hot 100 chart ... Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" nails the top spot...

1960, 25,000 copies of the death-rock single "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ray Peterson are destroyed by Decca Records after a critic deems the song "too tasteless and vulgar for English sensibility" ... it is interesting to speculate what that critic may have made of Ozzy Osbourne or the Sex Pistols a little later on...

1965, Herman's Hermits command the top of the pop chart with their "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" ... the novelty tune is a British music hall favorite written in 1911 ... that same week Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five suffers two fractured ribs when he's pulled off the stage by an enthusiastic fan...

1969, Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys is indicted for draft-dodging after he fails to show up for work as a hospital orderly in lieu of military service ... meanwhile in London, photographer Ian Macmillan catches four lads from Liverpool in mid-stride as they traverse a crosswalk ... the photo will famously become the cover for Abbey Road...

1970, Janis Joplin springs for a headstone to mark Bessie Smith's grave ... the blues singer was one of her idols...

1973, Stevie Wonder is seriously injured in North Carolina when the auto in which he's riding is hit by logs rolling off a truck ... he emerges from a coma after four days sans his sense of smell...

1975, Stevie Wonder inks a $13 million, seven-year contract, a record-setter for its time ... Robert Plant and his family are injured in an auto wreck on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes ... meanwhile Hank Williams Jr. tumbles 500 feet down a Montana mountain ... after two year's worth of surgeries, he resumes his career...

1978, Muddy Waters plays for President Jimmy Carter at the White House...

1984, "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. is the Billboard #1 pop hit ... Parker is later sued by Huey Lewis who claims the tune is a ripoff of his "I Want a New Drug" ... the case is settled out of court with the proviso neither party talks about the deal ... in 2001, during an episode of VH1's Behind the Music, Lewis reveals that Parker paid up to settle the case ... Parker then sues Lewis for violating the settlement terms...

1986, David Crosby is released from prison after doing time on drug and weapon charges...

1992, Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro dies from cardiac arrest triggered by an allergic reaction to an insecticide he is spraying in his garden ... meanwhile at a Montreal concert, citing a sore throat, Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses cuts short the band's set causing many of the 55,000 fans in attendance to riot ... this is a fitting end to a concert in which Metallica had also cut short their set after singer James Hetfield suffered third-degree burns from a pyro effect...

1996, former Motley Crue singer Vince Neil runs into trouble at an Indiana club date ... after starting the show four hours late, Neal pulls the plug after just three songs saying he is feeling ill and suggesting that the audience of "rednecks" doesn't appreciate his talent ... a riot by 500 surly ticket holders is narrowly averted by the prompt arrival of the cops...

1999, after running into legal roadblocks, the leading record labels drop their suit against Diamond Multimedia, makers of the Rio MP3 music player ... they had charged that the device would encourage online piracy...

2000, the Jimi Hendrix estate successfully evicts the holder of the web domain jimihendrix.com...

2001, rap group D12 executes a brutal attack on Detroit rap rivals Esham and T.N.T. during a Warped Tour stop in Camden, New Jersey, ... T.N.T. is bruised and cut while Esham suffers a broken nose, ruptured eyeball, concussion, and hearing damage ... D12 is promptly kicked off the tour ... that same day in L.A., 300 fortunate Foo Fighters fans are treated to a rare club gig when the band plays the legendary Troubador ... attendees are chosen from entries emailed to the Fighters' website...

2004, the Illinois Attorney General's office files suit against the Dave Matthews Band for dumping human waste from a tour bus into the Chicago River and onto a tour boat passing below ... it's later determined that the band wasn't directly involved, the foul act having been committed by a tour bus driver

Week 1

1956, the Platters become the first black group to have a number one pop hit when "My Prayer" reaches the top spot on the Billboard chart...

1957, Jerry Lee Lewis hits the TV screen for the first time on the Steve Allen Show ... Allen is so taken with The Killer that he books Lewis for two more appearances...

1959, the Isley Brothers record "Shout" ... the song only reaches No. 47 on the pop charts ... a Joey Dee & the Starliters cover will later climb to No. 6 . . . but the Isley's version has legs and will become recognized as one of the all-time great songs of rock-and-roll...

1966, "Wild Thing" by The Troggs hits the top of the chart ... due to a legal snarl, it is a simultaneous release from two different labels, a distinction no other number one hit can claim ... this same week, Bob Dylan is cruising on his Triumph 500 motorcycle near Woodstock, NY, when he takes a dive that nearly kills him, breaking his neck, giving him a concussion, and lacerating his face and scalp ... after a week he begins to rally but still suffers paralysis, amnesia, and internal injuries for a month...

1968, The Beatles record "Hey Jude" ... it will top the singles chart for nine weeks and become the band's biggest-selling single...

1969, Elvis Presley performs his opening night show at the International Hotel in Las Vegas backed up by The Sweet Inspirations ... Elvis is hot and by the time his set is over, Colonel Parker has negotiated a new deal written out on a restaurant tablecloth ... Elvis will receive a million dollars a year for five years performing eight weeks each year...

1976, John Lennon finally gets his green card from U.S. Immigration ... it has been held up because of a drug conviction and comes three years and four months after Lennon was ordered to leave the country ... if only he had...

1980, David Bowie opens in the title role of Elephant Man in Denver ... he receives rave reviews for his performance...

1984, The film Purple Rain premieres ... Prince is writer, director, and star of the film, a vaguely biographical tale of a young musician finding his way in the world ... the movie is largely panned by the critics but has it moments for music lovers and Prince fans...

1991, superfreaker Rick James, the King of Funk, finds himself in deep trouble ... he is arrested for the sexual torture of a 24-year-old woman ... he will be convicted for this and an earlier cocaine-fueled assault on a woman and will spend two years in Folsum for his misbehavior...

1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley announce to the world that they are a married couple ... the secret wedding took place several months earlier ... the marriage is largely perceived by the public as an attempt to convince the world that Jackson is a normal, two-fisted, manly guy ... the union will last 20 months . . .

2000, Beastie Boy Mike D. is injured in a biking accident causing postponement of The Rhyme & Reason Tour that The Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine are about to embark on.