Rock and roll miscreants both ancient and modern. And remember, kids – it ain’t big and it ain’t clever. That said, modern music stars don’t seem as obsessed with trashing hotels as was once the case – maybe it’s the ever-present paparazzi and the fear of getting caught, sometimes literally, with their pants down. Here are 30 questions about some of rock’s most notorious misbehavers.
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1 Which hard-rocking girl band once raffled off their drummer for some post-gig, um, entertainment? On which British TV show did one of them cause a furore by flashing her tuppence at the camera?
2 Who was jailed in 2008 for the false imprisonment and assault of a young Norwegian, Audun Carlsen? Which singer had previously tried to sue this star after he claimed in his autobiography, Take It Like a Man, that the pair had a homosexual affair?
3 See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over!... Which three words (plus, of course, another exclamation mark) are missing from the end of the title of Bow Wow Wow’s debut album? Why was the album the subject of a police investigation?
4 Which 18-year-old future rock and roll star was sent to prison for three years for armed robbery? What offence saw him back in stir for 120 days in 1979?
5 In 1985, Penthouse and Playboy published seven-year-old nude pictures of which singing star? At which high-profile public performance a few days later did the singer declare, ‘I ain’t taking shit off today’?
6 Who was sued for $10 million by his own mother, Debbie? And which infamous song did he record about the relationship?
7 Which has so far been the highest-charting Stranglers single, a 1982 UK number two hit about heroin use? Which member of the band served time in prison for possession of drugs?
8 When country star George Jones’s wife hid his car keys so the alcoholic singer couldn’t leave the house to buy more booze, what did he use instead to take a trip to the shops? And who was the wife in question, also a country singer?
9 Which rock superstar was sentenced to eight months’ hard labour in 1969 for getting his todger out on stage in Miami? Why did he never serve the sentence?
10 For what crime was Pete Doherty first jailed in 2003?
11 Which US actor and soap star was Keith Moon’s favourite drinking partner when he lived in Los Angeles? And which English actor and boozing legend once said that Moon ‘showed me the way to insanity’?
12 The Appleton sisters from All Saints, Nicole and Natalie, have each been married to fellow music stars. Who did they marry? (To get the points, you must pair the husband with the right sister.)
13 Driving without insurance, fraudulent use of a credit card, speeding, larceny, aggravated assault, carrying an unlicensed firearm, fleeing arrest, manslaughter. Of which two of these offences was James Brown never found guilty?
14 Nick Oliveri was arrested in Brazil for performing nude on stage with which band in 2001? Which musician, who also played with Oliveri in Kyuss, is the leader of the band?
15 Which mega-rich star auctioned 20 unused cars in 2001, worth £2 million, and sold the entire contents of his house two years later so he could refurbish it properly? During a 2000 court case, on what did he admit to spending £293,000 in an 18-month period?
16 Which Britpop hero was sentenced to four months in prison for threatening an airline pilot and hostess? Which other star had airline issues when she kicked up a stink and accused a female security guard of trying to goose her?
17 Tommy Lee was jailed for wife-beating in 1998. With which band is he the long-term drummer? And who was the wife in question?
18 Which eighties glam metal guitarist was arrested for carrying a loaded Beretta on to an aeroplane in 1995? And which young jazz pianist and singer was detained at New York’s JFK airport for the same offence in 1992?
19 Which star served with the 3rd Armored Division in Freidberg, West Germany, between 1958 and 1960? Which significant individual did he meet while serving?
20 Which soft porn magazine was guest edited by Shaun Ryder and Bez in 1990? And which ‘newspaper’ engaged Ryder’s writing skills in 1998?
21 Which American singer was arrested in Milwaukee on obscenity charges, apparently for ‘simulating masturbation with a sledgehammer’? What was the name of her backing band?
22 Which Jamaican producer destroyed his own studio during a spell when he would only walk backwards? What did he purport to worship during this strange episode?
23 What was the name of the infamous burglary gang who were finally caught after robbing Lindsay Lohan in 2007? For what offence was Lohan herself jailed, apart from her numerous busts for addiction and failure to meet parole commitments?
24 Which 18-year-old did 52-year-old Bill Wyman marry in 1989, after dating her for four years? And who did Wyman’s son from his first marriage, now 31, marry in 1993, the same year that Wyman and his wife divorced?
25 On whose TV show did the Sex Pistols earn notoriety with a bit of mild swearing? What was the headline, later pinched as a kind of motto by the band, with which the Daily Mirror greeted this ‘uproar’?
26 Eddie Fisher, who had a number one single in the US and the UK with ‘I’m Walking Behind You’ in 1953, became notorious for leaving one film star wife for her best friend. Who were the two women involved?
27 Which rapper hired Farnsworth Bentley, and what was his role?
28 Who was tried (twice) and convicted for the second-degree murder of actress Lana Clarkson in 2003? Which teen comedy film, written by Cameron Crowe and released in 1982, gave Clarkson her first film role, and also provided early exposure for Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh?
29 Who wasted $50,000 of bail money stumped up by Virgin Records in 1978 by bottling Patti Smith’s brother, Todd, in a bar? In which famous New York prison was he detained?
30 Which female rapper served 12 months in 2005 for perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice? For which crime was Lauryn Hill sentenced to three months in jail 2013?