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    • Sep 20, 1972
    Police raid the farm of "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" songwriter Paul McCartney, where they discover he's growing marijuana
    Mar 8, 1973
    Paul McCartney is arrested for growing pot on his Scotland farm. The former Beatle will earn country hits when his songs "I Feel Fine" and "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" are remade by Sweethearts Of The Rodeo and Rosanne Cash, respectively
    Sep 26, 1973
    Phil Kaufman and Michael Martin are arrested in Los Angeles on the set for "Night Moves," with Gene Hackman watching, for the theft of Gram Parsons' casket. Kaufman and Martin had taken the late singer's remains to the desert and burned the body six days prior
    Oct 17, 1973
    In a ruling in Nice, France, Keith Richards is banned from entering the country for two years in connection with a 1971 drug bust. He played on The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women," ranked in a CMF book among country's greatest singles
    Oct 17, 1973
    Jerry Lee Lewis is stopped in Memphis for driving while intoxicated
    Nov 5, 1973
    Phil Kaufman and Michael Martin plead guilty for the theft of Gram Parsons' casket in September. They receive suspended 30-day sentences, are fined $300 apiece and are required to pay $750 for the casket
    Nov 11, 1973
    Los Angeles club The Ash Grove is destroyed by fire. Believed by its owner to be a government-bred arson, it marks the end of a venue that increased the profile of such acts as Bill Monroe, The Byrds, Flatt & Scruggs and The Stoneman Family
    Jul 7, 1974
    B.J. Thomas is arrested in Nashville for resisting arrest and use of indecent language after a fight with a cab driver who says the singer refused to pay his fare
    Jul 30, 1974
    B.J. Thomas is fined $50 in a Nashville court for assaulting a police officer three weeks earlier. Thomas tells the court he'd been drinking brandy and that his actions were entirely wrong
    Oct 18, 1974
    Al Green's ex-girlfriend, Mary Woodson, pours boiling grits on the singer in his Memphis home, then kills herself, leaving Green with second-degree burns on his torso. Twenty years later, he is nominated for a Country Music Association award



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