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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Friday, June 29, 2012

Today in Rock: June 29

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 Keith Richards and Jagger are sent to jail after police found a naked girl and suspected drugs in raid on their estate five months prior. Richards spent one night in jail while Jagger was immediately released pending an appeal. The case was in fact overturned. (1967)

Peter Frampton broke his arm and cracked several ribs in a car crash in the Bahamas.(1978)

 “Cryin’”,Aerosmith’s much-loved single is released (1993)

 Elton John appears on stage with The Doobie Brothers in Oakland, CA. They do an impromptu duet with the Doobies’ hit “Listen To The Music” (1975)

The Iranian government officially ban rock and roll after declaring rock dancing “as harmful to health.” The ban would stay in place until the 1990s (1957)

The casket that held Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zandt is stolen from its mausoleum in Jacksonville, Fl. It was left, though, after the vandals were unable to open it. The thieves did take Steve Gaines’ urn after spilling his ashes(2000)

Lowell George, (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34

 

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Ian Paice, drummer, Deep Purple (1948)

 
 
 

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