George Clinton Arrested

George Clinton was arrested on Saturday in Tallahassee, Florida, and charged with a felony count of cocaine possession.

The sixty-two-year-old Parliament/Funkadelic founder and funk legend was approached by police around 2 a.m. at a Circle K parking lot, where he was sitting in the passenger seat of a car. Clinton allegedly dropped a crack pipe between the seats, earning a misdemeanor charge for possession of drug paraphernalia. Upon being questioned by an officer, Clinton admitted that he was in possession of cocaine and was arrested. A plastic bag retrieved by police tested positive for cocaine.

Clinton posted a $2,650 bond over the weekend and was released from the Leon County Jail. The felony charge carries a maximum of five years in prison, though the case could also go to drug court, where the charges would be dropped if Clinton successfully completes a rehabilitation program.

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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