October 30th

Today in Music History
1967

The Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones plead guilty to drug offenses stemming from his highly publicized May arrest. The Inner London Quarter Sessions judge would immediately hand down a nine-month prison sentence, forcing the guitarist to spend the night at Wormwood Scrubs Prison before securing bail the next afternoon. The controversial jail order was to be ultimately overturned at the Court of Appeal in December, 1967, where a panel of judges were to substitute the prison time with a £1,000 fine and a three-year probation period tied to psychiatric treatment