Frank Sinatra: This artist was arrested in 1938 in Bergen County (New Jersey) for allegedly dating a married woman. The charge was later changed to adultery and eventually the case was dropped.

Elvis Presley : At that time, Elvis had a $10,000 car. As a group of young girls approached, Elvis shut down the engine and started signing autographs. Because traffic was blocked so that other customers could not reach the pumps, the station owner asked Elvis to move his car. The confrontation quickly became physical, but Elvis and the owner had different stories about the sequence of events.

Johnny Cas h: The story of Cash as a tough prison customer is apparently too good not to assume for true. And there is no shortage of images that confirm his false image. For example, in the mid-1960s, a photo of Cash in handcuffs, just arrested for buying pepper pills from a policeman disguised as a dealer, appeared. In its later repertoire, the prison returns several times. In the song I got stripes, for example, Cash sings about stripes around shoulders and chains on his foot. And in San Quentin ('I hate every inch of you'), he sings the eponymous state prison as a prisoner. The atmosphere around the song was partly determined by the song being recorded live in San Quentin.

Jimi Hendrix : Jimi Hendrix was arrested at Toronto Airport (Canada) on May 3, 1969, after customs found heroin and hashish in his luggage. However, the iconic and flamboyant guitarist was acquitted during the lawsuit that followed the incident. During the case, Hendrix stated that he did not know that the drugs were put in his luggage. For the American, this could have ended completely differently: if found guilty, he would have received 20 years in prison.

Jim Morrison : On December 9, 1967, Jim Morrison from rock band The Doors was arrested on stage in New Haven. This has become one of the most well-known arrests in rock history based on the background information of this story. Anyone who listened to The Doors or looked into the band's history knows that Morrison was a rebellious rocker who deviated from societal norms.

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