The mercurial Prince married his girlfriend Mayte Garcia in Minneapolis this week back in 1996. Like virtually everyone else on the planet, the bride had no idea how to pronounce the self-invented graphical symbol Prince was using those days in place of an actual name. She apparently had little interest in learning, either — she arrived at the ceremony wearing the symbol on a chain around her neck, and whenever the subject of the bridegroom came up in exchanging vows, she simply pointed to the necklace. (The couple has since divorced; Mayte Garcia is now dating Tommy Lee [ex-Mötley Crüe, ex-Pamela Anderson].)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers — with Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro filling the ever-changing guitarist slot — were on the road in support of their album One Hot Minute this week in 1996. Joining the band on various dates were the Rentals, Spacehog and Australia's Silverchair. Silverchair had turned down other high-profile tours, but opening for the Peppers was an entirely different story.

"It's fun because it's not like it's a really dumb band," Ben Gillies of Silverchair said. "If it was like with a stupid band it would probably suck."

While Silverchair followed the grunge M.O. of dismissing ostentation and showmanship in favor of looking bummed out and psychologically tortured, the Peppers still reveled in creating a fun-filled atmosphere.

"A lot of bands sort of frown upon the showy thing because they think it's pompous or bloated or unnecessary, so they try to concentrate on the earnest rockability of their band," frontman Anthony Kiedis said. "But to me, both together is where it's at."

Jewel was starting to make a splash with her debut album, Pieces of You, back in February 1996. The yodeling songstress, who hailed from an 800-acre Alaskan homestead with no television or shower, spoke about her beginnings from a New York tour stop.

"I'd been playing guitar for about a year and a half when I did the album, and writing songs for about a year and a half," she said. "So I'm not very good. I'm much better live then I am recorded, so I just want it to be a real kind of honest, representational time capsule of where Jewel was. That was the coffee shop I sang in, that I recorded in. It's just kind of an honest album, kind of dorky."

Then she demonstrated some of her trademark yodeling.

"My dad yodeled and he wouldn't teach me because he said I was too young," she explained. "I think I did it out of spite. I just practiced constantly and I got kicked out of the third grade with a note during math class saying, 'We appreciate Jewel's artistic endeavors, but will you ask her not to yodel during math class.' I still can't multiply."

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