February 27
Rock's most notorious outlaw faced his reckoning today in 1977 when Keith Richards was arrested in Canada after police found an ounce of heroin in his hotel room, the Rolling Stones guitarist facing seven years in prison before a lenient judge gave him probation in exchange for a benefit concert… Classical crossover's most successful tenor Josh Groban was born on this day in 1981, the singer whose operatic voice and theatrical performances made him one of the 2000s' biggest-selling artists despite critics dismissing him as middle-of-the-road easy listening… The Godfather of Soul regained his freedom on this day in 1991 when James Brown was paroled after serving two years of a six-year sentence for leading police on a high-speed chase, the hardest working man in show business proving that even prison couldn't stop his comeback… Bebop found one of its greatest voices when tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was born on this date in 1923, the tall, laid-back ...
