John Lennon may be a modern songwriting legend, but his envy of this 1970s hit had him just as hungry for songwriting as he ...

When Chuck Berry didn’t show up to court on the 1958 peeping Tom charge, Judge Norman R. Moore ordered the rock’n roll star’s bond of $156.25 forfeited and sentenced him to 60 days in jail.

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