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The Rolling Stones Pt. 2: Swinging London, Stolen Jewels, the Mars Bar Myth, and Busted at Redlands · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis The Rolling Stones.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: They're placed in London society in the mid sixties, and
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the arrests of
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: both Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are so complex that
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: I needed two episodes to properly tell this story. If
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  Speaker 1: you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: hit pause and go back to Disgraceland episode sixty or
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: part one of The Rolling Stones Swinging London's story, where
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: we discuss the band's prefab rivalry with the Fab Four,
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  Speaker 1: London's fast changing culture, the arrest of pop star Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: the news of the world's acts to grind with the Stones,
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  Speaker 1: the influence of the aristos, gangsters and spies, one escaped
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  Speaker 1: and one in the ranks. In this episode, we get
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: deeper into the band's bending of the law and social norms,
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: as well as into the mold breaking great rock and
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: roll music that The Rolling Stones created, Unlike the music
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  Speaker 1: I played for you at the top of the show.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: That wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: my melotron called Cocka Doodle Blues MK one. I played
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  Speaker 1: you that loop because I can't afford the rights to
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  Speaker 1: Windy by the Association, And why would I play you
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  Speaker 1: that specific slice of easy breezy pop Geeze? Could I
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  Speaker 1: afford it? Because that was the number one song in
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  Speaker 1: America on July first, nineteen sixty seven, and that was
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: the day the Conservative London Times released the editorial entitled
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel? Effectively saving the
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  Speaker 1: careers of the embattled and likely soon to be imprisoned
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  Speaker 1: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards On this episode, A jewel heist,
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  Speaker 1: a drug bust, A powerful acts to grind, making Keith
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  Speaker 1: hind bars Brian Jones off the rails, an easy breezy cheese,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen the rolling Stones. I'm Jake Brennan and
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  Speaker 1: this is Disgraceland, twenty four years old and one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest pop stars on the planet. With the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of Her Majesty's entire kingdom trained on him, Mick Jagger
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  Speaker 1: sat in the back of a rickety police car racing
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  Speaker 1: through the streets of London taking him to jail. He
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: arrived numb and in disbelief. How had it come to
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: this jail? Or nothing? Pills amphetamines they were prescribed legal.
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  Speaker 1: Was it because of Robert Krazer with his twenty four
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  Speaker 1: jacks of heroin and his daint Elizabethan box, the fallen
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  Speaker 1: angel of eating slumming it with the Rolling Stones, showing
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  Speaker 1: just how far a society could slide into the disgraced
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  Speaker 1: clutch of rock and roll. Was it because of Mary
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  Speaker 1: Anne with the fur rug and nothing on under it,
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  Speaker 1: the well behaved, beatific young lady turned lacivious nimpho by
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  Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones? Or was it because of Brian Jones
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  Speaker 1: and his loose, acid smacked lips, corrupting London's youth, turning
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  Speaker 1: them on to tuning out the establishment. Whatever the reason,
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: Mick Jagger hardly felt like he had committed any crime
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  Speaker 1: befitting of this punishment three months in prison for possession
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  Speaker 1: of drugs, again prescription drugs. Inside the walls of the prison,
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  Speaker 1: Mick was stripped and deloused and thrown into a solitary
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  Speaker 1: cell off the infirmary. He was permitted the visit of
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  Speaker 1: a girlfriend, the aforementioned quote unquote lascivious nimpho Mary Anne.
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  Speaker 1: Faithful Mary Anne was scared, but not as scared as Mick,
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: Mick saw the writing on the wall. This was it,
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: This was game, set match. The Squares had won. He
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  Speaker 1: was done. Keith was surely done as well. Brian had
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: been done for over a year now. Charlie would have
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: to go back to the trad jazz clubs. Who knew
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  Speaker 1: what Bill would do. Ian would probably end up driving
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  Speaker 1: a lorry. Andrew had already split for the States. Couldn't
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  Speaker 1: take the heat from the arrests. He wasn't even there, coward.
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  Speaker 1: If Mick ever got out of this, he knew one thing,
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  Speaker 1: If the Rolling Stones were to continue, it would be
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  Speaker 1: without Andrew. Lou Goldham, Alan Klein would take over the
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  Speaker 1: whole show. Get mixed some of that Sam Cook, Juice.
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  Speaker 1: Mary Anne stood outside the cell Mick was in regulation
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  Speaker 1: prison guard. It was two sizes too big. He looked
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  Speaker 1: so small and so scared. He was mumbling semi coherent.
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  Speaker 1: It was as if Mary Anne wasn't even there. Mix
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  Speaker 1: rambling was incessant. It turned to anger, anger, ner of desperation.
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  Speaker 1: In the past few years for Mick Jagger and the
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Stones was one constant ascent, up, up and up,
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  Speaker 1: and there were no real setbacks, and there was no
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  Speaker 1: plateauing of any sort since their inception, since the early
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  Speaker 1: packed crowds at the Marquee Club in nineteen sixty two,
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  Speaker 1: to signing on with Andrew Oldham as their manager in
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  Speaker 1: sixty three, and then soon after with Decca, their first
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  Speaker 1: tour of the UK with Bo Diddley, Little Richard and
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  Speaker 1: the Everly Brothers. How top was that Mick could have
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  Speaker 1: died then and there and gone to his grave as
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  Speaker 1: success in his own mind. At least what soon followed
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  Speaker 1: was beyond his schoolboy dreams chart success in the UK
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  Speaker 1: number twelve with John and Paul's I Want to Be
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  Speaker 1: Your Man, and all the way to number two with
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  Speaker 1: Buddy Hawley's Not Fade Away. And then it was off
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  Speaker 1: to America, where they'd have to find a way to
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  Speaker 1: overcome the indifference and disdain of the American establishment without
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  Speaker 1: a hit, relying on their live chops and risma to
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  Speaker 1: put a snarky Dean Martin in his place on national television.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: And then to Chess's studios, were Muddy Waters carried in
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  Speaker 1: their gear for them. Again, Mick could have died then
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: and there, the old bluesman Muddy Wolf. They welcomed Nick
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  Speaker 1: and his bandmates with genuine kindness, real openness, not a
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  Speaker 1: shred of cynicism or contempt. In the Rolling Stones, they
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  Speaker 1: saw reverence, sincerity, authenticity, which was more than what James
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  Speaker 1: Brown saw. James saw a threat, a bunch of white
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  Speaker 1: boys from a strange little country profiting off of what
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: he was working hard to dominate Black American R and
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  Speaker 1: B music. James took them to school with the filming
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  Speaker 1: of The Tammy Show, but the vanquishing from the stage
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  Speaker 1: wasn't without its value. Mick learned a lot from watching
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  Speaker 1: James on stage, how he moved, how he owned the audience.
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  Speaker 1: And later that year when Ronnie Spector Keith's American girlfriend,
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: she was Ronnie Bennett at the time, Crazy Phil hadn't
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  Speaker 1: sealed the deal yet. Anyway, when Ronnie took them to
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  Speaker 1: see James Brown's legendary Apollo performance, Mick would learn even
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  Speaker 1: more how to be a frontman on and off stage.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: James was finding sidemen in the middle of a set
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  Speaker 1: with subtle hand gestures and backstage holding court like a
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  Speaker 1: regal prince being catered to by his servantry, fussing over
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  Speaker 1: his hair, his outfit, even his nails. Mick Jagger took note.
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  Speaker 1: Then there was the number one hit in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: Little Red Rooster, the tour of Australia and New Zealand,
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  Speaker 1: and another number one slot in the UK with Bobby
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  Speaker 1: Womax the last time, and that went to number nine
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  Speaker 1: in the US. And they were moving up and they
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  Speaker 1: could feel it, the world could feel it. The movement
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  Speaker 1: was constant, the rolling stones were coming. And then He's
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  Speaker 1: had the dream, the dream that changed everything. He dreamed
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  Speaker 1: up the riff after listening to too much Otis Redding
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  Speaker 1: trying to play those horns on an acoustic guitar. He's
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  Speaker 1: woke up from the dream and luckily had enough sense
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  Speaker 1: to put the rift down on tape, recorded it on
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  Speaker 1: a little Philip's tape recorder he kept on the nightstand
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  Speaker 1: his hotel. In the morning, there it was bom Mick
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  Speaker 1: had no problem writing lyrics to that one. Brought them
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  Speaker 1: next to the pool at the hotel in Clearwater, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: That you can feel the sticky heat on those words, satisfaction.
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  Speaker 1: It went to number one in the US and in
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  Speaker 1: the UK, of course, And then the last time, another
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  Speaker 1: one Keith and Mick wrote went to number one as well.
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  Speaker 1: And then the same top slots Forget Off of My
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  Speaker 1: Cloud and painted black. The Rolling Stones couldn't miss. The Beatles,
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  Speaker 1: of course, were enjoying their own success at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and the Stones were the black hat. Sure, but that
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  Speaker 1: was just image for the kiddie magazines. Anyone in the
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  Speaker 1: know knew better knew that John, Paul, George and Ringo
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  Speaker 1: were up to the same extracurricular activities. The Stones were
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  Speaker 1: held even together with the Stones a lot of the time.
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  Speaker 1: George and Patty Boyd were at Redmond's the night of
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  Speaker 1: the bus and they just happened to have the good
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  Speaker 1: four leaving before bloody Hell busted up their trip. In
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  Speaker 1: this it was all over now jail the very likely
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  Speaker 1: end of the Rolling Stones. Mick couldn't handle it. He
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  Speaker 1: was breaking down behind the cell bars. Mary Ann, on
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  Speaker 1: the other side, broke character and went for tough love.
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  Speaker 1: Pull yourself together, don't let the jack booted thugs you cry,
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  Speaker 1: don't play the part of the prissy little pop star.
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  Speaker 1: Be a man. Mick would never forgive her for it,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd never forgive whoever it was you tipped off
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  Speaker 1: the cops. It had to be one of Keith's friends,
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  Speaker 1: not Robert Fraser, not Christopher Gibbs. They were too sophisticated.
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  Speaker 1: But Keith had other friends more unsavory. Spanish Tony came
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  Speaker 1: to mind. He was always running some sort of scam
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  Speaker 1: right there in the open, without you even knowing it.
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  Speaker 1: Mick remembered the story that Keith told him. Behind Bond
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  Speaker 1: Street near Piccadilly, the Burlington Arcade, a covered European shopping gallery,
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  Speaker 1: one of the precursors to the modern day shopping mall.
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  Speaker 1: Built by the Earl of Burlington, brother to the Duke
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  Speaker 1: of Devonshire. The Burlington Arcade retailed jewelry, boutiques, fine watches,
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  Speaker 1: luxury perfumes, a mix of modern and traditional wares for
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  Speaker 1: both the old guard and discerning Chelsea set. Keith Richards
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  Speaker 1: sat outside behind the wheel of Spanish Tony's new Jaguar
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  Speaker 1: Mark ten pimped out in two tones, top of the
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  Speaker 1: line saloon car with a max speed of one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty miles per hour, faster than Brian Jones's Rose
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  Speaker 1: Roy's Silver Cloud, the one he could hardly see over
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  Speaker 1: the steering wheel of, and for half the price. Keith
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  Speaker 1: was eager to wheel around town in Tony's new jag
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  Speaker 1: see what it was made of and how it would handle,
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  Speaker 1: and Tony had just the opportunity. Keith waited outside the arcade,
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  Speaker 1: casually dragging on his cigarette, and the sirens he heard
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  Speaker 1: were distant and dream like, more like the air raid
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  Speaker 1: sirens from the Second World War than anything twirling atop
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  Speaker 1: a copper's roof or from an alarm. But with every
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  Speaker 1: passing second the sound grew louder, more intense, and finally
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  Speaker 1: coupled with what most certainly was the sound of an alarm,
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  Speaker 1: a sharp, consistent rattle. Keith looked around the outside of
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  Speaker 1: the Jag and there was no one around. A couple
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  Speaker 1: stragglers shopping about, and then Keith looked to his right,
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  Speaker 1: out of the driver's side window, toward the arcade's entryway
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  Speaker 1: double doors. They burst open, and through them came Spanish
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  Speaker 1: Tony in full sprint, sprinting from what Keith didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Keith left his cigarette to dangle between his lips, reached
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  Speaker 1: down with his left tanda twist the ignition, grabbed the
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  Speaker 1: wheel with his right, reached down to the stick shift
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  Speaker 1: to put the car in gear, looked up to see
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  Speaker 1: Tony sliding across the hood of the car and then
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  Speaker 1: bouncing into the passenger seat next to him with one
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  Speaker 1: word drive. Keith was already a step ahead of him.
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  Speaker 1: No idea what Tony had just gotten him into. He
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  Speaker 1: knew he didn't want to stick around to find out.
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  Speaker 1: Unbeknownst to Keith, Spanish Tony had just robbed the arcade's
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  Speaker 1: jewelry store a hit and run, a real bang bang job.
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  Speaker 1: Tony had the new Jag, a clean car, and he
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  Speaker 1: needed a clean getaway driver. He knew Keith would never
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  Speaker 1: do it if he knew the score, so Tony set
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  Speaker 1: him up. Keith was pissed, but not entirely unsurprised. It
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: wasn't the first time Spanish Tony would land him in
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  Speaker 1: piping hot water, and it wouldn't be the last. Tony
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  Speaker 1: had his complications, but he wasn't entirely bad. He helped
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Robert Fraser out with his debt to the Cray Twins.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: Tony ran one of their casinos, and that was another
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  Speaker 1: plus for Keith. It opened up the Rolling Stones world
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  Speaker 1: to a wide array of sordid characters, who, in addition
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: to being as glamorous as rock stars, could also procure
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: hard to find drugs. In particular acid, which is most
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  Speaker 1: certainly how David Schneidermann, the Acid King, came into the
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: picture through some Spanish Tony Robert Fraser, Craig Casino, Chelsea
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  Speaker 1: set Christopher Gibbs Aristo connection and no one really knew.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: But here he was, fresh from the States, with his
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: smarmy carry grant skin and white lightning LSD. It was
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: better than the strawberry fields, better than the purple haze,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: supposedly fresh from Keesy's personal batch, but who knew if
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: that was true. David had a way about him instantly
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: you get the vibe that at least half of what
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: he said was utter bullshit, and he was as pretentious
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: as they came, in that real hippie, dippy American West
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  Speaker 1: Coast kind of way. On that infamous day February eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, before handing out out the LSD to
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: the group assembled at Redlands, Keith's new home in West Sussex,
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  Speaker 1: David actually said, this is the dow of Lysergic di
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: thalomine man. Let it speak to you, Let it tell
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  Speaker 1: you how to navigate the cosmos. What tripe? Even mixed
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: snickered at that one, and he was obsessed with the Tao.
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  Speaker 1: But regardless of the accompanying bs, the lsd that David
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  Speaker 1: the Acid King handed out was the stuff the Stones,
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  Speaker 1: Keith and Mick the Chantus, Mary Unfaithful, that Etonians Robert
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  Speaker 1: Fraser and Christopher Gibbs, and fellow aristone Nikki Kramer, the
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  Speaker 1: photographer Michael Cooper, and they tripped hard and by the
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: time dinner rolled around, beadled George Harrison and his girlfriend
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Patty Boyd had turned up, only to quickly split after
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: the rest of the group made it back safely from
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: their excursion through the nearby woods and then to the beach,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: back to Keith Redland's home, lavishly decorated by Christopher Gibbs.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: The home wrapped the tripping set up in its warm
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  Speaker 1: embrace cozy. They began to settle in to riding out
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: the final hours of their trip, and then a hard
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  Speaker 1: knock on the door. Was it really a knock or
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: was it a collective oral hallucination? And there it was again, hard, intrusive,
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  Speaker 1: not going away. The group looked around at each other,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: No one spoke. Everyone had the same thought, and just
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: be quiet and maybe it'll go away, and maybe whatever
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: bad road was on the other side of the door.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Would just roll itself up and wind itself away. But
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: it didn't go away. It grew louder, more persistent. Keith
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  Speaker 1: took to it head on, strolled over to one of
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  Speaker 1: his front windows, pulled back the heavy curtain, and looked
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  Speaker 1: out upon the pending disruption. There on his front lawn
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: at least a dozen, possibly more dwarfs, all wearing the
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  Speaker 1: same blue uniform, the same little shiny black shoes, and
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  Speaker 1: the same tiny little ss helmets. Heith couldn't wait to
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  Speaker 1: meet them. He opened the door, shirtless and his skin
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  Speaker 1: tight pinstriped slacks, barefoot brown rocks, and a tumbler in
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  Speaker 1: his right hand, welcoming them in with a wide stretch
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  Speaker 1: of his left arm. Gentlemen, wonderful attire. Am I expecting
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  Speaker 1: you anyway? Come on in. It's a bit chilly, how
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: the main dwarf tilted back his helmet, had to look
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  Speaker 1: up at Keith. We have a search horn. We'd like
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: to read it to you. Keith would have none of it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's very nice, but it's a bit cold outside.
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  Speaker 1: Come on in and read it to me over by
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the fireplace. Keith's hospitality was not met with kindness in
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: march to the stuffy uniform dwarfs. They began to quickly
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  Speaker 1: search the home, turning out ashtrays, opening up desk drawers,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: pulling books down rare and valuable first editions procured by
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Robert Fraser, and casually throwing them to the ground. The
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: sudden action sent Keith's head a wobble. He blinked his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and the dwarves had multiplied completely over run his home,
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  Speaker 1: and the sounds as they made, grunting like pigs at
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  Speaker 1: the trough, tearing through his belongings, frighten EDI's guests. He
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: heard other sounds, the wind of the alarm outside Spanish
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Tony's jag. One of the pig face drawors marked mary
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Anne down the stairs, clad in nothing but Keith's for
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: a rug. Marianna just showered when the intrusion came upon them.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Keith watched confused. He heard the sound of Brian's pissy
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: little laugh. The little carnival clown turned into content with
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: pissing his pants in the back of Keith Bentley while
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: he and Mick took the piss out of him for
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: being such a sniveling little twat Brian had it all
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: and he was blowing it. Keith heard the tumble from Grace,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: out of tune, sitars, cracked marimbas and bent mallets. Failure,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: fear of failure. It was scarier than any jack brooted
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: pig rummaging through his house at the moment. But fear
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: wasn't Keith's game. It was mix. Keith heard Blue Weena
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: roaring towards Stonehenge from the back seat with Princess Margaret,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: his butler at the wheel, Christopher Gibbs in his double
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  Speaker 1: breasted suit, up front, off about flying saucers and the
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: latest rumors about David Litvanoff. Keith heard the razorblade pierce
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: through Litvanoff's skin, just under the chin, the slight tear
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: of the skin, the sound of Litvanoff taking it like
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a man stifling his screams, staring craze heavies in the eye,
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  Speaker 1: daring them to go all the fucking way with it,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: if they were going to go on with it at all.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Litvanoff was hard like Spanish, tony like Keith. He could
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: take it and he'd live to tell about it. The
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Dwarves were relentless. The chick door made Marianne drop the rug, naked,
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  Speaker 1: and the pigs double took one. Take mary Anne. There
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: she stood, bare, paranoid, ravaged with fear, a nightmare of
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: shame come to life. But nothing compared to what was
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: about to come down on poor Marianne. It wasn't anything
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Keith hadn't seen before, but the sounds, these were new.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: The snorting of the pigs, the roaring engines, and then
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the horns, the hawk of the air Raid siren bending
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: itself into the sound of the Memphis horns, shaping his satisfaction,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: revel the way it was supposed to sound, thick, like
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  Speaker 1: the feeling in his head, like the rabbit fur on
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: mary Anne's back, like the multi track guitars he had
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to cobble together to compensate for Brian's fuck offery, like
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the bullshit being spewed by the piggy dwarfs. Now fixed
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to separate the group. The Etonians, Robert Fraser and Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Gibbs upper class. The pigs reserved whatever niceties they had
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  Speaker 1: for Groovy Bob and Gibsie. Then the Stones, Mick and Keith,
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  Speaker 1: mary Anne alone on the stairs, and the rest of
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the revelers off to the side with the servants, who
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the pigs barely acknowledged as being worthy of their disdain.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: They'd found pills Speed wanted to know whose they were.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Mick immediately and valiantly copped them being his. And then
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: there were the jacks of Heroin, twenty four of them
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  Speaker 1: in Robert Fraser's beautiful little antique box. But strangely left
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: alone throughout the entirety of the raid was David Schneiderman.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't even searched. Now there was his highly suspect
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: aluminum briefcase filled with LSD. So strange no matter. The
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: cops had what they wanted, a drug charge that would
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: stick on a rolling stone, and possibly two, and they'd
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: gotten what they came for. The rest was now up
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  Speaker 1: to the courts. While they exited with the contraband to
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: bring back to police headquarters to test and then use
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: later to charge Mick impossibly Keith with and most certainly
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Robert Fraser with Keith decided to play them off with
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a little tune. He found his way to the downstairs
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: record player, quickly popped down Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and dropped the needle on Rainy Day Women number twelve
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and thirty five. Everybody must get stoned. Keith's guests cut
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: up and the piggies were enraged. Upon exiting, they'd see
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: who got the last laugh. We'll be after this word
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: word word. The Red Land's bust was in February nineteen
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: sixty seven, but Keith, Richards, Bick Jagger and Robert Fraser
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: would not be formally charged until May tenth of that year.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: On that day, Brian Jones was recuperating from a brief
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: trip to cann at his Courtfield Road, South Kensington apartment
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: with his friend, yet another bohemian aristo who'd come under
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the spell of the Rolling Stones, Stashed Klasowski. The phone rang.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Brian ignored it. It kept ringing. He ignored it. Still
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: it rang again. He picked up the receiver and quickly
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: dropped it back on its handle. It then rained some more.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: He repeated the move, and then it rang again and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: again and again, until finally Brian was forced to answer Hello.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: The voice on the other line was clearly a journal
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Kurt excited, zero politeness. Have you been arrested? Excuse me?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Brian said, how's it feel to be the third Rolling
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Stone busted for drugs? What Brian asked and quickly hung
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: up the phone. He told Stash about the exchange while
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the phone began to ring again. Immediately Stash figured out
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: what was going on. Quick hide the drugs, They're on
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: their way. The two sprung up and began searching for
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: whatever drugs they could find to quickly dispose of, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: there weren't many, thankfully, but still Stash and Brian were
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: smart to be in the lookout for random supplies absent
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: mindedly left behind by past partiers. At Brian's flat, they
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: found none. After a thorough search, Secure in the fact
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: that the apartment was clean, the two collapsed into Brian's
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: living room furniture and awaited what they suspected was a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: coming shit show. The doorbell rang, Stash peered through the people.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It was Mohammed Johaj, Robert Fraser's servant, who Stash had
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: called after the press phone, tore about coming over to help.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Stash opened the door to let Muhammad in, and when
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: he did, out of nowhere, a pack of strangers pushed
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: their way into the flat behind Mohammad. The strangers quickly
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: went to work. At first, Dash couldn't tell if there
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: were cops or press or both, but it didn't take
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: long to realize it was indeed a mix of both.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: But how in the hell did the press get there
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: so quickly? How did they know what was going on?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I left to call and inquire about being busted for
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: drugs before the police even showed up. And here now
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: it was clear that the police had arrived after the press,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: fighting their way past them out in front of Brian's
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: flat to work their way in the front door to
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: search for drugs that he had supposedly already been arrested for.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Despite the clear and present skullduggery, Stash was convinced, as
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: was Brian, that nothing would come of it, as they
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: knew there were no drugs in the house, but that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: confidence faded as soon as they saw the head knob himself.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Police Sergeant Norman Pilcher Old Knobby hadn't made it to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the Red Land's raid, but he made his presence felt
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: during the raid of Brian Jones's apartment, making a big
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: show of his search technique, sauntering around the apartment, glowing
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: hard in that booming voice of his about the moral
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: turpitude of pop stars. Stash caught the move one of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Pilcher's men pulled a hippie looking wallet from under the mattress.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: In it grass bullshit. Stash knew there was no wallet
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: full of grass under the mattress. He just checked it
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and before we could bring his mouth to protest, Pilcher
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: shouted his discovery from another part of the flat, a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: vial of cocaine. Again bullshit, not Stash. The drugs were planted,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: pure and simple, planted to sink the Stones. It didn't matter.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: More drugs found in the possession of another rolling Stone.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: On the same day Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: being formally charged. That's what the press was going to report.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: It was the next move from the establishment, the one
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: meant to counter Mick Jagger's move where he brought a
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: libel suit against the News of the World for the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Live US an incorrect account in their Drugs and rock
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Stars expas from a couple months earlier, accusing Mick of
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: admitting to taking LSD, when in reality it was actually
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Brian Jones rating and arresting Brian Jones was the corrupt
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: News of the World, working in tandem with Norman Pilcher's
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: police to strike back to prove despite mcjagger's libel suit
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that it didn't matter what Mick Jaggers said with his
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: lawsuits or what his and Keith Richard's lawyers said in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: court in their defense. This new bust of Brian Jones
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: would prove it that the Rolling Stones were dangerous drug
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: addicts whose influence would corrupt London's youth and completely disrupt
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the established social order. After the bust, Brian was back home.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: His phone rang, and this time he picked it up
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: on the first ring. It was Beadle Paul McCartney offering
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to help with Brian's legal bills, imploring Brian, who he
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: correctly suspected was in a depressive and defeat a state,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to fight these correct charges. Brianan was agreeable, if not inspired.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Clearly down, Paul invited him around the studio to sit
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in on a session the Beatles were having him to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: play guitar. Brian showed up later at Abbey Road Studios,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: but not with his guitar, with an alto Sacks and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: during the recording of John Lennon's highly abstract you know
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: My Name, Look Up My Number. Brian, once again showing
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: his prowess as an inspired multi instrumentalist blew an impressive
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: sax soul to wrapped the tune at the three p
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: fifty one mark. The track would show up three years
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: later in nineteen seventy as the B side to the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: single Let It Be. By that time, Brian Jones would
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: be long gone. Later that month, at the end of
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: June nineteen sixty seven, Mick Jagger, Robert Fraser and Keith
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Richards stood trial for drug possession. On day one, it
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: took the court five minutes to convict both Mick and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Groovy Bob, and they were sent to lose prison to
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: await sentencing. Mick heard the snickering of the guards and
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: then came their lewed inquiries, how did a taste the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Mars bar? The one the coppers caught him eating out
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of Marianne Faithful's vagina at Redlands on the day of
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the bust. Mick was beyond disgusted. The rumor was sick
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and totally false and cooked up by one of the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: raiding cops and passed on to the press to run with.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And there was a Mars bar on the scene, yes,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and yes, Mary Anne was wearing nothing but a rug.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: But how those two facts led to the rumor about
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the Mars bar should have been beyond anyone's wildest imagination,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: beyond being ridiculous. It was totally unfair to Mary Anne Faithful.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: She was getting it coming and going slut shamed publicly
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: by the press and cast as an unwitting innocent victim
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: by the prosecution to make the case that Mick Jagger
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and Keith Richards had corrupted her proof of the disruptive,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: morally bankrupt behavior of the Rolling Stones. On the second
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: day of the trial, Keith Richards's stay in court with
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: mixed sweating it out behind bars and Mary Anne sweating
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: it out on the outside with the full heat of
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the national press coming down on her. The judge tried
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: provoking Keith, pointing out that surely someone who would allow
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: cannabis to be smoked at his home, to allow a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: young innocent woman to come under the influence of drugs
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: in his home and to then be defiled by disreputable men,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: drug addicts, the lot of the men, Surely someone who
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: would do this was nothing more than quote unquote filth
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: or scum, and suggested that people like this shouldn't be
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: allowed to walk free. The prosecutor taking he and Keith
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: on the ropes, went in for the kill, asking mister Richards,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: would you agree that, in the ordinary course of events,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you would expect a young woman to be embarrassed if
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: she had nothing on in front of several men? Keith stonefaced,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: not at all. We are not old men, and we
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: are not worried about petty Morriles. She had been upstairs
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and bathed the prosecutor. Did it come as a great
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: surprise to you that she was prepared to go back
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: downstairs still only wearing a rug in front of ten
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: police officers? Keith, I thought the rug was big enough
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to cover three women. The prosecutor. I wasn't talking about
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the impropriety, but embarrassment. Keith took a moment, thought about
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the question, let the tension in the room naturally build
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: before answering, and then deadpanned. She doesn't embarrass easily, nor
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: do I. The exchange, once reported, instantly cemented Keith Richard's
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: reputation as we know it today, that tell it like
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it is, can't give a fuck, rock and roll pirate,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: swooping into action to lend his toughness, his attitude, his
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: back had assery to whatever the situation demands. The move
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: made the press and the public consider Keith Richards differently.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: He wasn't the third chair in the band, behind Brian Jones,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the band's founder, and Mick Jagger, the band's frontman. He
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: was his own man, a rebels rebel, and for putting
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: his neck on the line on the court record, for
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: sticking up for his singer's girlfriend in public at the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: expense of his own freedom, and for in effect telling
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the establishment to go fuck themselves, he was elevated to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: instant folk hero status. The judge, however, was not impressed.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: He gave Keith a one year sentence for his smart mouth,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the maximum allowed for the relatively minor drug charge of
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: allowing others to partake in illicit drugs in his home.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Hell Robert Fraser had heroin on him and he only
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: received a three month sentence. Along with Mick, Brian would
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: get nine months suspended sentence and forced drug rehabilitation. But
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: just as the bust made Keith Richards, it broke Brian Jones.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: His days were numbered, both as a rolling stone and
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: as a living, breathing, functioning member of society. He would
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: continue his slide into drug abuse in paranoia and be
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: arrested again a year later, unceremoniously kicked out of the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: band by Micking Keith a year after that in June
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty nine, and less than a month later
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: would drown to death somewhat mysteriously in his swimming pool.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: On July third, nineteen sixty nine, Keith stood in the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: yard at Wormwood Scrubs, staring at the prison wall visions
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: of George Blake in his Great Escape. One of the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: guards nudged him on the shoulder and informed him that
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: his one day in prison would be his last. His
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: lawyer had secured his release pending appeal. Keith's prisonmates quickly
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: went to work, penning letters swiftly to their loved ones
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and handing them off to Keith to deliver them as
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: soon as he could. On the outside, Keith stuffed his
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: pockets and delivered every last letter. Mick Jagger was released
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that day as well. Robert Fraser wasn't so lucky, he'd
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: serve his time. Ironically, upon Mcankeeith's release, it was the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: bastion of conservative UK press, the London Times, that ran
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: an editorial pointing out the unjust and extremely harsh sentencing
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: handed out to Mcankeith, claiming correctly that had they been
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: regular citizens and not pop stars that the establishment deemed
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: disrupted to society, an establishment with a clear vendetta against
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the duo, that their sentences wouldn't have been nearly as extreme.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: The editorial in The Times went a long way in
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: swaying public opinion in favor of MCing Keith. Had on appeal,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: their two prison sentences were quashed. As it turned out,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the Redlands bust was the result of Keith schauffeur tipping
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: off the news of the world, who was clearly in
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: cahoots with the police, tipping them off to make the raid,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and the coppers were one step ahead, having already ensconced
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: their man, David Schneidermann, the Acid King nark into the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: good graces of the Rolling Stones and the rest of
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the Aristo Chelsea, he said, who had fallen under the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: dangerous sway of the lower class rockers when it came
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: time to bust Brian. A few months later, when the
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: press showed up Brian's place to cover a drug bust
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that hadn't even taken place yet, what was supposed to
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: be the final nail in the Rolling stones coffin turned
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: out to be clear proof that the establishment was colluding
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to imprison the pop stars. How disgraceful. I'm Jake Brennan
• 33:29
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