Rolling Stones and 11 brushes with the law

Here are 11 times the Stones have gotten into trouble with the law

2/12/1967
-Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
-Arrested for drug possession at Keith Richards' house in Redlands. Jagger received 3 months in jail and Richards received a year

5/10/1967

-Brian Jones

-Shortly after 'The Glimmer Twins' were arrested, Brian Jones was arrested for marijuana possession

5/21/1968

-Brian Jones

-Arrested again, for, once again, marijuana possession'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/24/1968

-Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull

-Arrested for marijuana possession

2/16/1972
-Shirley Watts (wife of Charlie)
-Charlie has stayed out of the bad side of the law. But in 1972, his wife caused an incident at Nice International Airport in France, swearing and hitting customs officials

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/18/1972

-Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

-In order to keep Boston from rioting, the mayor of Boston had them released from police custody after the two were arrested for fighting with a photographer in Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/26/1973

-Keith Richards

-Possession of drugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/51975

-Ronnie Wood & Keith Richards

-Arrested in Fordyce, Arkansas for reckless driving and had to spend the night in jail. Keith had a small pocketknife on him and there were also drugs in the car

 

2/27/1977

-Keith Richards

-Heroin was found in his hotel room

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12/2/1990

-Ronnie Wood

-On this date, he was arrested for fighting with his girlfriend. He was "cautioned" by police afterwards

Rich Rock Stars

Wanna know some rock stars really raking in the dough? Find out here!

Lindsey Buckingham
-His dad owned a coffee processing plant

Gram Parsons
-Spent time with his grandfather in Florida, who ran citrus groves which provided 1/3 of the state's crop

Carly Simon

-Before she went to town on schooling Mick Jagger (it could be any number of men her hit You're So Vain is about) on issues of vanity, she was pretty well set. Her dad co-founded the Simon & Schuster Publishing House

Grace Slick
-In her songs, she was every bit hippie, fighting "The Man" in her songs. But her dad was very much "The Man". Her father worked for an investment banking firm

Lars Ulrich
-Despite the working class mentality of thrash metal Metallica, Lars grew up a spoiled rich kid in Denmark, where his dad was a top ranking tennis player in the 1970s

Most Overplayed Rock Songs

Here are some of the most overplayed rock songs, ones we've heard so much we don't want to hear them again for a while

Bad to the Bone
-George Thorogood & The Destroyers
-Definitely. Don't like this song!

Free Bird
-Lynyrd Skynyrd

Stairway to Heaven
-Led Zeppelin
-I just don't know how exactly this is a rock song. But I don't mind it. It never bothered me. It's kinda nice having a slow rock ballad with no bad stuff in it :D Besides, I'm starting to listen to these guys; the other day I downloaded their Houses of the Holy album

Won't Get Fooled Again
-The Who
-Love it every time I hear it!

You Can't Always Get What You Want
-The Rolling Stones
-Wow, someone speaks the truth on this song!

Robert Plant

Robert Plant

Birth name: Robert Anthony Plant
DOB: 8/20/1948
Where: West Bromwich, West Midlands, England
Height: 6'1''

Trademark
-Mystical, spiritual and philosophical lyrics
-Long, curly blonde hair

-High pitched voice
-His multi octave voice









Trivia
-Lives in Austin, Texas
-The youngest member of Led Zeppelin

-Supports the Wolverhampton Wanderers
-His biggest influences were Elvis Presley and The Doors' Jim Morrison
-The only member of Led Zeppelin whose name does not begin with a 'J'
-Suffered a massive breakdown after hearing of the death of his five year old son Karac. The Led Zeppelin song "All My Love" and Plant solo song "I Believe" are dedicated to him
-Lead singer and also harmonica player for Led Zeppelin

John Bonham

John Bonham

Birth name: John Henry Bonham
DOB: 5/31/1948
Where: Redditch, Worcestershire, England
DOD: 9/25/1980
Where: London, England (asphyxiation)
Height: 5'10''

Trademark
-Beard
-Energetic drum playing

Trivia
-Father of Jason Bonham, who's been said to be able to play drums just as good as him

-Died from choking on his own vomit at home















-Drummer for Led Zeppelin

-Used to be able to play drums with his bare hands and jazz drummer Bill Harvey showed him how to play with sticks to prevent injury

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Birth name: John Baldwin
DOB: 1/3/1946
Where: Sidcup, Kent, England
Height: 5'8''

Trademark
-Fender bass guitars

Trivia
-Bassist/keyboard player for Led Zeppelin

-His wife and daughters appear in The Song Remains the Same (1976)

Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page

Birth name: James Patrick Page
DOB: 1/9/1944
Where: Heston, Middlesex, England
Height: 5'1''

Trademark
-Fast riffs
-Heavy blues-style playing
-Wide variety of guitars

Trivia
-Somehow rearranged the song "Whole Lotta Love" for singer Leona Lewis, who sang it at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
-Before the name "Led Zeppelin" came to mind, the band was to be called The New Yardbirds
-When Led Zeppelin broke up, he would not allow anyone to do "Stairway to Heaven". He felt that only Robert Plant could do it correctly

-The "Led" in Led Zeppelin was misspelled for a reason. According to Page, he wanted it spelled that way so people would not pronounce it as "lead" as in "lead singer"
-His father was an engineer and his mother was a physician's secretary
-Page produced all of the Led Zeppelin albums

Malcolm Young

Malcolm Young

Birth name: Malcolm Mitchell Young
DOB: 1/6/1953
Where: Glasgow, Scotland
Height: 5'3''

Trivia
-Completed rehab in 1989 to deal with alcoholism
-Guitarist and founding member of AC/DC with brother Angus Young

Phil Rudd

Phil Rudd

Birth name: Phillip Hugh Norman
DOB: 5/19/1954
Where: Melbourne, Australia
Height: 5'6''

Trivia
-Fired from AC/DC in 1983 due to excessive pot smoking, irresponsible behavior with women and fighting. Was rehired in 1995
-Drummer for AC/DC
-During his 12 year absence from AC/DC, became a helicopter pilot
-Since the departure of Mark Evans, he is the only member of AC/DC to have been born in Australia

Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson

DOB: 1/5/1947
Where: Dunston, Gateshead, England
Height: 5'5''

Trademark
-Flat cap pulled down to his eyes
-His singing voice, which sounds exactly like Bon Scott

Trivia
-Is half Italian
-Since 1980, has been the lead singer for AC/DC