DJ Fred’s Rock N’ Roll Factoids For January 13th [VIDEOS]

What were all the big British rocks stars up to on this night way back when?  Glad you asked.

In 1966, George Harrison and girlfriend Patti Boyd met up with Mick Jagger and Chrissie Shrimpton at Dolly's nightclub on Jermyn Street in London's west End. By the way, Harrison and Boyd would soon marry, and then divorce in 1977.  Two years later she would marry Eric Clapton.  By the way, Clapton wrote the 1970 song Layla about Boyd while she was married to Harrison, so what a mess that must have been.

In 1967 on this night, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr went to the Bag O'Nails Club in London to see Jimi Hendrix play.

Johnny Cash made history on this night in 1968 when he played in front of 2000 inmates at Folsom Prison, near Sacramento, California. The show would be recorded and would turn into his biggest selling album ever.  It was one of the first albums that I ever purchased.  I believe I bought it at Sears in West Springfield, Massachusetts.  But who the hell cares, right?

Borrowing money from Stewart Copeland's brother, The Police began recording their first album in England. The album was titled Outlandos d'Amour, and it featured Roxanne and Can't Stand Losing You.

It was this day in 2003 that Who guitarist Pete Townsend was arrested for downloading child pornography.  Townsend would later be released after someone determined that he was viewing it as part of an investigative report he was composing.  And chickens have lips.