On this day, Aug. 5, in 1983, folk rocker David Crosby was sentenced to eight years in prison on gun and drug charges.

In the mid-1980s, Crosby, one of the best-known musicians of the Woodstock era, was at the height of his drug addiction with a $1,000-a-day cocaine habit. He had been arrested repeatedly on drug and weapons charges, and after fleeing a drug rehabilitation clinic, he was sent to Texas State Penitentiary and served nine months.