Rock Stars Who Have Done Time

In 1998, almost a decade after the Stone Roses' mega-influential debut album was released, frontman Ian Brown got into an argument with a flight attendant that ended with him pounding away on the cockpit's doors. Actually, it ended with him being hauled off the plane and charged with threatening behavior. Brown spent two months in prison for his outburst.

Like the Rolling Stones before him, troubled Libertines singer Pete Doherty has had plenty of run-ins with the law over the course of his career. His most infamous incident stems from a break-in of a bandmate's apartment, which, naturally, occurred when he was high out of his head on heroin. He served two months of his six-month sentence.

Alt-country singer-songwriter Steve Earle's career was moseying along just fine in the '80s until he hit a wall with his drug abuse. In 1994 he was picked up on the streets of Nashville looking like a transient and holding heroin. While on bail, he was busted again. He was sentenced to a year in a Tennessee correctional institute but spent only 60 days there before entering rehab, getting clean and jump-starting his career.

The Sex Pistols' notorious bass player Sid Vicious was bad news from the start. Even within a band of dedicated troublemakers, he stood out. So when his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, was found dead of a stab wound in the hotel room they were sharing, he was promptly arrested. While on bail, Vicious was arrested again -- this time for assault. Upon release, he celebrated with a lethal dose of heroin and died in his sleep.

In 1993 Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder was hanging with some pals in New Orleans when things got a little out of hand. It culminated in a 5 a.m. street fight that concluded with Vedder being hauled off to jail on charges of public drunkenness and disturbing the peace. He ended up spending the night, or what was left of it, behind bars.