In 1983, David Crosby was arrested after police found him preparing cocaine in his dressing room before a gig in Dallas.
In 1984, Paul and Linda McCartney were arrested in Barbados for drug possession and were each fined $200.
Joe Walsh ran for President of the United States in 1980 on top of his music career as a mock campaign. He promised to make ‘Life’s Been Good’ the new national anthem if he won, and ran on a platform of ‘Free Gas For Everyone.’ Though Walsh was not old enough to actually assume the office, he wanted to raise public awareness of the election. He then ran again for vice president in 1992.
Guitarists commonly consider Joe Walsh one of the greatest guitarists of all time, because he himself will happily admit that he is thick as a brick, but a God on the guitar.
The Sex Pistols were formed when two agents made a bet that one of them could take the ugliest no-tallent guys in London, and turn them into stars.
During 1961, The Beatles began a three-month residency at The Top Ten Club in Hamburg, Germany. The band played for seven hours a night on weekdays and eight hours at weekends with a fifteen-minute break every hour.
In 1972, Bill Wyman was banned from driving and fined £20 by Chelmsford Magistrates court after being caught speeding in his Mercedes on the A12.
James Blunt’s debut UK single ‘High’ peaked outside the Top 100 and sank without trace. The song was later chosen to appear in a Vodafone commercial in Italy where it charted and was re-released in the UK.
In 1988, James Brown was arrested after being involved in a car chase. It was the singers fifth arrest in ten months. He was charged with resisting arrest and possession of illegal weapons.
In 1992, David Gates from Gateshead, Northumberland was given one year’s probation after being convicted of stealing guitars from the back of a van belonging to The Bay Rollers. His solicitor said, "When he is not trying to save the world from the sounds of the Bay City Rollers, he leads a respectable life".
Lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote the ballad ‘Someone Saved My Life Tonight’ about the night he stopped Elton John from committing suicide with a gas oven.
Scientists have found a mass of water vapor cloud 10 billion light-years away from Earth that is 140 trillion times the mass of water on Earth’s surface