Pop stars in jail

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Lil Kim is going to jail... do you know any more pop stars that did (longer, not overnight) time behind bars? Ian Brown... and who else?

― jailfox, Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

Mystikal.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Arthur Lee

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Arthur Lee! 6 years for gun possession.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

... plus the times he was in prison before that

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

article about rappers in prison

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,,1560551,00.html

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

...and James Brown and Chuck Berry

... noticing a pattern here?

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

A better thread might have been "White Pop Stars In Jail"

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan King.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Gary Glitter...

― sonofabee, Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

what happened to phil spector in the end...?

― plethorax, Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

Kevin Rowland (I think)
Hugh Whittaker (Housemartins' drummer)

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Dan Treacy of the TVPs

GG Allin.. not really pop i know but...

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

David Crosby
Johnny Cash

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Hugh Cornwell

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Rob Collins (organist for the Charlatans)

― gspm (gspm), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Tommy Lee

― estela (estela), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

these guys all served sentences in prison (as opp to being locked up overnite etc)

Wayne Kramer (MC5)
Michael Davis (MC5)

Dino Valente (Quicksilver Messenger Service)

Merle Haggard (country)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Aside from some 'overnights', Johnny Cash has never actually served a jail sentence. He mentions this in his autobiography along with some humorous anecdotes about how reporters never believe him when he tells them this.

― soda_pal, Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Hey, H.R. from Bad Brains even recorded a vocal over the phone from jail! (Can't recall the song; it's from I Against I.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Whoever sings "HEllo Dad, I'm In Jail!"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Steve Earle.

― PB, Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

That was Steve Earle? Which album?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Hey, H.R. from Bad Brains even recorded a vocal over the phone from jail! (Can't recall the song; it's from I Against I.)

I think it's "Sacred Love" - correct me if i'm wrong, anyone who knows otherwise.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

It is "Sacred Love." The telephone vocal makes the song.

Re Arthur Lee/Love: Didn't two of the other guys serve time for holding up a bunch of donut stores? One of them (Johnny Echols) has just replaced Arthur as frontguy in the current version of Love. If there's any band that's had a screwier and more impropable story than Love I'm not sure I wanna know.

― JAS, Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I believe, but cannot confirm, that "smuggler's blues" was composed by Glen Frey when he was doing hard time in South Florida.

― jb, Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Count Grishnakh's spending a lot of time in jail, and he's super white.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Old Dirty Bastard in prison for some time?

― Gerard (Gerard), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

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