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Frazer from N-Dubz has admitted that he was staring down the barrel of a life of crime had his music career not taken off. However he'll need to watch out. A life in the music biz doesn't guarantee immunity from the law as the following list of musical jailbait shows....

10 Gary Glitter

Deported from Vietnam after a second spell inside, Glitter continues to deny any wrongdoing following allegations of inappropriate activity with children, instead insisting he had been framed by British tabloid newspapers. Do you wanna be in my gang? Er, no thanks...

Phil Spector

Following the 2003 shooting and subsequent death of actress Lana Clarkson in his California home, the paranoid gun-toting producer extraordinaire was charged with murder in the second degree. In 2009 he was convicted and given a prison sentence of 19 years to life.

Rick James

Buying around $7,000 of coke a week for his own personal use the Superfreak star blew $2 million in five years on the white stuff. In 1994 he was jailed for a number of crimes, including aggravated assault, false imprisonment and furnishing drugs.

Varg Vikernes

Norway's foremost black-metal icon was released from prison after doing time for murdering the lead guitarist of Mayhem and setting fire to three churches. "I have learned from my mistakes," he said. "Now I just want to be together with my family." Lucky family...

Boy George

In January 2009 George O'Dowd was jailed for 15 months after allegedly imprisoning a Norwegian male escort in his flat in east London. The singer admitted handcuffing Audun Carlsen to a wall but denied the charge saying he had done it only in order to recover some stolen property

Arthur Lee

Frontman for 60s LA band Love, Lee existed for many years on an diet of marijuana, heroin and acid before disappearing from view. Amid rumours of addiction, squalor and homelessness came news that he had been jailed for two years.

Tommy Lee

The former Mötley Crüe man did four months of a three-year stretch in 1998 after finding himself in court on a charge of assaulting his then-wife actress Pamela Anderson."I loved prison,” he later said. “I'm not going to have to do interviews. I'm not going to have to answer the phone....Just total peace and quiet.”

Chuck Berry

In 1961 Berry was sentenced to three years for transporting a 14-year-old across state lines for "immoral purposes".Decades later he was accused of videotaping women in the ladies cloakroom of his Wentzville, Missouri restaurant. In 1979 he was back in the can, sentenced to another four months, this time for tax evasion.

Jerry Lee Lewis

This rock'n'roll hell raiser's career took a turn for the worst when he was discovered to have married his 13-year-old cousin in back in December 1957 - and to have been jailed twice before he turned 21. In fact Jerry Lee was already a bigamist by then, going on to shoot his own bass player, lose two more wives (one drowned, one OD'd) and then a son who died in a car crash. He was also jailed again after brandishing a gun outside Graceland and demanding to see Elvis.

Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

In 1967, tipped off by the News of the World, Sussex police raided a party at the home of Keith Richards, subsequently charging Richards, Jagger and friend with drug offences. Jagger was sentenced to three months and Richards one year in jail, but they were later released when it transpired that their fame was the primary motivator behind their arrest.