Cops jailed Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet, and Norman Granz in 1955 for planning to perform for a racially integrated audience. They got out on bail in time to play the show, audience none the wiser, and the “gambling” charged were dropped.

When blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan quipped on live TV to Albert King that the elder bluesman taught him everything he knows, King shot back with the unforgettable one-liner, “I taught you everything YOU know!”

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