NEW! The Rolling Stones in London Walking Tour launches on Thursday 5th May 2016!
Daily Constitutional Editor & Rock'n'Roll London guide Adam Scott-Goulding writes…As a countdown to the Rolling Stones in London Walk I've picked 45 moments – tracks, busts, incidents, quotes – from the greatest story in Rock'n'Roll. These are the moments that made the legend… 28/45. The ‘67 Drug Bust at Redlands
The first big rock’n’roll drugs bust. Keith’s country manor, Mick, Keith, gallery owner Robert Fraser, 24 heroin ‘jacks’, a lump of hash, some uppers and Marianne Faithfull wrapped in a fur rug. The tabloids had an orgasm. Legend has it that the cops waited for George Harrison of those nice Beatles to leave the premises before the bust went ahead.
William Rees Mogg looked to Alexander Pope in his reaction to the (brief) incarceration of Jagger and Richards by writing his famous editorial in The Times under the headline Who Breaks A Butterfly On A Wheel?
His story is told in Harriet Vyner's excellent book Groovy Bob.
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