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Folsom Prison Blues: Vintage Mug Shots of Musicians

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[...] you guess who is who? We came across a great collection of vintage mug shots via flavorwire.com Tweet This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. ← Dilapidated [...]

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[...] Gates, Jane Fonda, Kurt Cobain, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson, and about a dozen others. Thanks FlavorPill for the [...]

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[...] collection of vintage mugshots of musicians over at Flavorwire. The one of Frank Sinatra is, quite frankly, scary, and I wonder if the Johnny Cash one is from [...]

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[...] greats from Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Sid Vicious, David Bowie, Axl Rose and a dozen others. Check them here I read this on Chase Jarvis’ blog and his question was right in my opinion “Priceless [...]

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Would like to know the charges for each mug shot. Some I know, others not so much.

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warszawa's right about Bowie. Kurt Cobain was arrested for graffiting a cop car I believe. He wrote something like "gay" or "fag" on the side of it.

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Sinatra was arrested for "Seduction." No kidding.

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Bowie was arrested for pot possession, jsyk.

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Frankie was SO HOT. Glad James Brown was still smilin'.

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Great post - but it be even greater if you included the nature of the charges filed!

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Prince looks way too stylized to be a real mugshot. The reason why they all look good too is the great old cameras they used to use. The new digital mugshot's pale in comparison.

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there's a chance that prince mugshot is a fake: http://www.princefams.com/viewtopic.php?id=2445 -- does anyone know?

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I second the interest in knowing what each were arrested for

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It would be interesting to know what each was arrested for and at what age (year). And yeah, Elvis was just having some fun at a station for those mugs. He was not arrested for anything.

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David Bowie is well-dressed even when he's arrested. Incredible.

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The reason Elvis was allowed to wear sunglasses (unlike anyone else posing for a mugshot) is that it isn't actually a mugshot, just some clowning around he did at the police station. I don't think Elvis was ever actually arrested.

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I've often seen the front part of the Sinatra shot on posters and t-shirts &c. Now that I've seen the profile I see why it's never used- Sinatra had an awful profile.

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oh no forgot billie :S anyway...rocknroll

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janis is the only woman yeah rocknroll baby

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