Week in Rock History: Ozzy Osbourne Bites the Head Off a
Bleedin' Bat  Plus: Jimi Hendrix covers Bob Dylan and the
Beatles are used as evidence against Charles Manson  Ozzy
Osbourne Ozzy Osbourne performs at the Alpine Valley Music
Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin, in 1982. Paul Natkin/Getty
Images  This week in rock history, Lesley Gore played a
Batvillain, Jimi Hendrix recorded one of rock's greatest covers,
the Beatles' White Album was played in the Manson Family's
Sharon Tate murder trial, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a live
bat and Tom Waits won a lawsuit against a snack manufacturer.
January 19, 1967: Lesley Gore appears on an episode of Batman as
Catwoman's sidekick, Pussycat Teen queen Lesley Gore conquered
the charts at 16 years old with her very first single, the 1963
pop classic "It's My Party," and she followed it up with a
landmark feminist anthem, 1964's "You Don't Own Me." As she
continued to release hits well into the late 1960s, she also
enjoyed an interesting diversion: playing a villain o