1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis The Rolling Stones. 2 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: They're placed in London society in the mid sixties, and 3 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the arrests of 4 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: both Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are so complex that 5 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 1: I needed two episodes to properly tell this story. If 6 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you 7 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: hit pause and go back to Disgraceland episode sixty or 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: part one of The Rolling Stones Swinging London's story, where 9 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: we discuss the band's prefab rivalry with the Fab Four, 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: London's fast changing culture, the arrest of pop star Donovan, 11 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: the news of the world's acts to grind with the Stones, 12 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: the influence of the aristos, gangsters and spies, one escaped 13 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: and one in the ranks. In this episode, we get 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: deeper into the band's bending of the law and social norms, 15 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: as well as into the mold breaking great rock and 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: roll music that The Rolling Stones created, Unlike the music 17 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: I played for you at the top of the show. 18 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: That wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from 19 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,279 Speaker 1: my melotron called Cocka Doodle Blues MK one. I played 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: you that loop because I can't afford the rights to 21 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: Windy by the Association, And why would I play you 22 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: that specific slice of easy breezy pop Geeze? Could I 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: afford it? Because that was the number one song in 24 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: America on July first, nineteen sixty seven, and that was 25 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: the day the Conservative London Times released the editorial entitled 26 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel? Effectively saving the 27 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: careers of the embattled and likely soon to be imprisoned 28 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards On this episode, A jewel heist, 29 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: a drug bust, A powerful acts to grind, making Keith 30 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: hind bars Brian Jones off the rails, an easy breezy cheese, 31 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen the rolling Stones. I'm Jake Brennan and 32 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: this is Disgraceland, twenty four years old and one of 33 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: the biggest pop stars on the planet. With the eyes 34 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: of Her Majesty's entire kingdom trained on him, Mick Jagger 35 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: sat in the back of a rickety police car racing 36 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: through the streets of London taking him to jail. He 37 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: arrived numb and in disbelief. How had it come to 38 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 1: this jail? Or nothing? Pills amphetamines they were prescribed legal. 39 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,679 Speaker 1: Was it because of Robert Krazer with his twenty four 40 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: jacks of heroin and his daint Elizabethan box, the fallen 41 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: angel of eating slumming it with the Rolling Stones, showing 42 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: just how far a society could slide into the disgraced 43 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: clutch of rock and roll. Was it because of Mary 44 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: Anne with the fur rug and nothing on under it, 45 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: the well behaved, beatific young lady turned lacivious nimpho by 46 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones? Or was it because of Brian Jones 47 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: and his loose, acid smacked lips, corrupting London's youth, turning 48 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: them on to tuning out the establishment. Whatever the reason, 49 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: Mick Jagger hardly felt like he had committed any crime 50 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: befitting of this punishment three months in prison for possession 51 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: of drugs, again prescription drugs. Inside the walls of the prison, 52 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: Mick was stripped and deloused and thrown into a solitary 53 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: cell off the infirmary. He was permitted the visit of 54 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: a girlfriend, the aforementioned quote unquote lascivious nimpho Mary Anne. 55 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: Faithful Mary Anne was scared, but not as scared as Mick, 56 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: Mick saw the writing on the wall. This was it, 57 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: This was game, set match. The Squares had won. He 58 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: was done. Keith was surely done as well. Brian had 59 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: been done for over a year now. Charlie would have 60 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: to go back to the trad jazz clubs. Who knew 61 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: what Bill would do. Ian would probably end up driving 62 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: a lorry. Andrew had already split for the States. Couldn't 63 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: take the heat from the arrests. He wasn't even there, coward. 64 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: If Mick ever got out of this, he knew one thing, 65 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: If the Rolling Stones were to continue, it would be 66 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: without Andrew. Lou Goldham, Alan Klein would take over the 67 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: whole show. Get mixed some of that Sam Cook, Juice. 68 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: Mary Anne stood outside the cell Mick was in regulation 69 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: prison guard. It was two sizes too big. He looked 70 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: so small and so scared. He was mumbling semi coherent. 71 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: It was as if Mary Anne wasn't even there. Mix 72 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: rambling was incessant. It turned to anger, anger, ner of desperation. 73 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: In the past few years for Mick Jagger and the 74 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: Rolling Stones was one constant ascent, up, up and up, 75 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: and there were no real setbacks, and there was no 76 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: plateauing of any sort since their inception, since the early 77 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: packed crowds at the Marquee Club in nineteen sixty two, 78 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: to signing on with Andrew Oldham as their manager in 79 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: sixty three, and then soon after with Decca, their first 80 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: tour of the UK with Bo Diddley, Little Richard and 81 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: the Everly Brothers. How top was that Mick could have 82 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: died then and there and gone to his grave as 83 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: success in his own mind. At least what soon followed 84 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: was beyond his schoolboy dreams chart success in the UK 85 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: number twelve with John and Paul's I Want to Be 86 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: Your Man, and all the way to number two with 87 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: Buddy Hawley's Not Fade Away. And then it was off 88 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: to America, where they'd have to find a way to 89 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: overcome the indifference and disdain of the American establishment without 90 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: a hit, relying on their live chops and risma to 91 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: put a snarky Dean Martin in his place on national television. 92 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: And then to Chess's studios, were Muddy Waters carried in 93 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: their gear for them. Again, Mick could have died then 94 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: and there, the old bluesman Muddy Wolf. They welcomed Nick 95 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: and his bandmates with genuine kindness, real openness, not a 96 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: shred of cynicism or contempt. In the Rolling Stones, they 97 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,239 Speaker 1: saw reverence, sincerity, authenticity, which was more than what James 98 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: Brown saw. James saw a threat, a bunch of white 99 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: boys from a strange little country profiting off of what 100 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: he was working hard to dominate Black American R and 101 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: B music. James took them to school with the filming 102 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: of The Tammy Show, but the vanquishing from the stage 103 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: wasn't without its value. Mick learned a lot from watching 104 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: James on stage, how he moved, how he owned the audience. 105 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: And later that year when Ronnie Spector Keith's American girlfriend, 106 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: she was Ronnie Bennett at the time, Crazy Phil hadn't 107 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: sealed the deal yet. Anyway, when Ronnie took them to 108 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: see James Brown's legendary Apollo performance, Mick would learn even 109 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: more how to be a frontman on and off stage. 110 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: James was finding sidemen in the middle of a set 111 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: with subtle hand gestures and backstage holding court like a 112 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: regal prince being catered to by his servantry, fussing over 113 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: his hair, his outfit, even his nails. Mick Jagger took note. 114 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: Then there was the number one hit in the UK, 115 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: Little Red Rooster, the tour of Australia and New Zealand, 116 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: and another number one slot in the UK with Bobby 117 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: Womax the last time, and that went to number nine 118 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: in the US. And they were moving up and they 119 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: could feel it, the world could feel it. The movement 120 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: was constant, the rolling stones were coming. And then He's 121 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: had the dream, the dream that changed everything. He dreamed 122 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: up the riff after listening to too much Otis Redding 123 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: trying to play those horns on an acoustic guitar. He's 124 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: woke up from the dream and luckily had enough sense 125 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: to put the rift down on tape, recorded it on 126 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: a little Philip's tape recorder he kept on the nightstand 127 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: his hotel. In the morning, there it was bom Mick 128 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: had no problem writing lyrics to that one. Brought them 129 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: next to the pool at the hotel in Clearwater, Florida. 130 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: That you can feel the sticky heat on those words, satisfaction. 131 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: It went to number one in the US and in 132 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: the UK, of course, And then the last time, another 133 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: one Keith and Mick wrote went to number one as well. 134 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 1: And then the same top slots Forget Off of My 135 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: Cloud and painted black. The Rolling Stones couldn't miss. The Beatles, 136 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: of course, were enjoying their own success at the time, 137 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: and the Stones were the black hat. Sure, but that 138 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: was just image for the kiddie magazines. Anyone in the 139 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: know knew better knew that John, Paul, George and Ringo 140 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: were up to the same extracurricular activities. The Stones were 141 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: held even together with the Stones a lot of the time. 142 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: George and Patty Boyd were at Redmond's the night of 143 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: the bus and they just happened to have the good 144 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: four leaving before bloody Hell busted up their trip. In 145 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: this it was all over now jail the very likely 146 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: end of the Rolling Stones. Mick couldn't handle it. He 147 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: was breaking down behind the cell bars. Mary Ann, on 148 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: the other side, broke character and went for tough love. 149 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: Pull yourself together, don't let the jack booted thugs you cry, 150 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: don't play the part of the prissy little pop star. 151 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: Be a man. Mick would never forgive her for it, 152 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: and he'd never forgive whoever it was you tipped off 153 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: the cops. It had to be one of Keith's friends, 154 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: not Robert Fraser, not Christopher Gibbs. They were too sophisticated. 155 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: But Keith had other friends more unsavory. Spanish Tony came 156 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: to mind. He was always running some sort of scam 157 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: right there in the open, without you even knowing it. 158 00:09:51,360 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: Mick remembered the story that Keith told him. Behind Bond 159 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: Street near Piccadilly, the Burlington Arcade, a covered European shopping gallery, 160 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: one of the precursors to the modern day shopping mall. 161 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: Built by the Earl of Burlington, brother to the Duke 162 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: of Devonshire. The Burlington Arcade retailed jewelry, boutiques, fine watches, 163 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: luxury perfumes, a mix of modern and traditional wares for 164 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 1: both the old guard and discerning Chelsea set. Keith Richards 165 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: sat outside behind the wheel of Spanish Tony's new Jaguar 166 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: Mark ten pimped out in two tones, top of the 167 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: line saloon car with a max speed of one hundred 168 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: and twenty miles per hour, faster than Brian Jones's Rose 169 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: Roy's Silver Cloud, the one he could hardly see over 170 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: the steering wheel of, and for half the price. Keith 171 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: was eager to wheel around town in Tony's new jag 172 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: see what it was made of and how it would handle, 173 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:16,319 Speaker 1: and Tony had just the opportunity. Keith waited outside the arcade, 174 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: casually dragging on his cigarette, and the sirens he heard 175 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: were distant and dream like, more like the air raid 176 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: sirens from the Second World War than anything twirling atop 177 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 1: a copper's roof or from an alarm. But with every 178 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: passing second the sound grew louder, more intense, and finally 179 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: coupled with what most certainly was the sound of an alarm, 180 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: a sharp, consistent rattle. Keith looked around the outside of 181 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: the Jag and there was no one around. A couple 182 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: stragglers shopping about, and then Keith looked to his right, 183 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: out of the driver's side window, toward the arcade's entryway 184 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: double doors. They burst open, and through them came Spanish 185 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: Tony in full sprint, sprinting from what Keith didn't know. 186 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: Keith left his cigarette to dangle between his lips, reached 187 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: down with his left tanda twist the ignition, grabbed the 188 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: wheel with his right, reached down to the stick shift 189 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: to put the car in gear, looked up to see 190 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,079 Speaker 1: Tony sliding across the hood of the car and then 191 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: bouncing into the passenger seat next to him with one 192 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: word drive. Keith was already a step ahead of him. 193 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: No idea what Tony had just gotten him into. He 194 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: knew he didn't want to stick around to find out. 195 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: Unbeknownst to Keith, Spanish Tony had just robbed the arcade's 196 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: jewelry store a hit and run, a real bang bang job. 197 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: Tony had the new Jag, a clean car, and he 198 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: needed a clean getaway driver. He knew Keith would never 199 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: do it if he knew the score, so Tony set 200 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: him up. Keith was pissed, but not entirely unsurprised. It 201 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: wasn't the first time Spanish Tony would land him in 202 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: piping hot water, and it wouldn't be the last. Tony 203 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: had his complications, but he wasn't entirely bad. He helped 204 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: Robert Fraser out with his debt to the Cray Twins. 205 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: Tony ran one of their casinos, and that was another 206 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 1: plus for Keith. It opened up the Rolling Stones world 207 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: to a wide array of sordid characters, who, in addition 208 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: to being as glamorous as rock stars, could also procure 209 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: hard to find drugs. In particular acid, which is most 210 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: certainly how David Schneidermann, the Acid King, came into the 211 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: picture through some Spanish Tony Robert Fraser, Craig Casino, Chelsea 212 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: set Christopher Gibbs Aristo connection and no one really knew. 213 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: But here he was, fresh from the States, with his 214 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: smarmy carry grant skin and white lightning LSD. It was 215 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: better than the strawberry fields, better than the purple haze, 216 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 1: supposedly fresh from Keesy's personal batch, but who knew if 217 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: that was true. David had a way about him instantly 218 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: you get the vibe that at least half of what 219 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: he said was utter bullshit, and he was as pretentious 220 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: as they came, in that real hippie, dippy American West 221 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: Coast kind of way. On that infamous day February eleventh, 222 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, before handing out out the LSD to 223 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: the group assembled at Redlands, Keith's new home in West Sussex, 224 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: David actually said, this is the dow of Lysergic di 225 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 1: thalomine man. Let it speak to you, Let it tell 226 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: you how to navigate the cosmos. What tripe? Even mixed 227 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: snickered at that one, and he was obsessed with the Tao. 228 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: But regardless of the accompanying bs, the lsd that David 229 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: the Acid King handed out was the stuff the Stones, 230 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: Keith and Mick the Chantus, Mary Unfaithful, that Etonians Robert 231 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: Fraser and Christopher Gibbs, and fellow aristone Nikki Kramer, the 232 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: photographer Michael Cooper, and they tripped hard and by the 233 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: time dinner rolled around, beadled George Harrison and his girlfriend 234 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: Patty Boyd had turned up, only to quickly split after 235 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: the rest of the group made it back safely from 236 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: their excursion through the nearby woods and then to the beach, 237 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: back to Keith Redland's home, lavishly decorated by Christopher Gibbs. 238 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: The home wrapped the tripping set up in its warm 239 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: embrace cozy. They began to settle in to riding out 240 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: the final hours of their trip, and then a hard 241 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: knock on the door. Was it really a knock or 242 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: was it a collective oral hallucination? And there it was again, hard, intrusive, 243 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: not going away. The group looked around at each other, 244 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: No one spoke. Everyone had the same thought, and just 245 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: be quiet and maybe it'll go away, and maybe whatever 246 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: bad road was on the other side of the door. 247 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: Would just roll itself up and wind itself away. But 248 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: it didn't go away. It grew louder, more persistent. Keith 249 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: took to it head on, strolled over to one of 250 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: his front windows, pulled back the heavy curtain, and looked 251 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: out upon the pending disruption. There on his front lawn 252 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: at least a dozen, possibly more dwarfs, all wearing the 253 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: same blue uniform, the same little shiny black shoes, and 254 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: the same tiny little ss helmets. Heith couldn't wait to 255 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: meet them. He opened the door, shirtless and his skin 256 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: tight pinstriped slacks, barefoot brown rocks, and a tumbler in 257 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: his right hand, welcoming them in with a wide stretch 258 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: of his left arm. Gentlemen, wonderful attire. Am I expecting 259 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: you anyway? Come on in. It's a bit chilly, how 260 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: the main dwarf tilted back his helmet, had to look 261 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: up at Keith. We have a search horn. We'd like 262 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: to read it to you. Keith would have none of it. 263 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: Oh that's very nice, but it's a bit cold outside. 264 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: Come on in and read it to me over by 265 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: the fireplace. Keith's hospitality was not met with kindness in 266 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: march to the stuffy uniform dwarfs. They began to quickly 267 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: search the home, turning out ashtrays, opening up desk drawers, 268 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: pulling books down rare and valuable first editions procured by 269 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: Robert Fraser, and casually throwing them to the ground. The 270 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: sudden action sent Keith's head a wobble. He blinked his eyes, 271 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: and the dwarves had multiplied completely over run his home, 272 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: and the sounds as they made, grunting like pigs at 273 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,640 Speaker 1: the trough, tearing through his belongings, frighten EDI's guests. He 274 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: heard other sounds, the wind of the alarm outside Spanish 275 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: Tony's jag. One of the pig face drawors marked mary 276 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: Anne down the stairs, clad in nothing but Keith's for 277 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: a rug. Marianna just showered when the intrusion came upon them. 278 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: Keith watched confused. He heard the sound of Brian's pissy 279 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: little laugh. The little carnival clown turned into content with 280 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: pissing his pants in the back of Keith Bentley while 281 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: he and Mick took the piss out of him for 282 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: being such a sniveling little twat Brian had it all 283 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: and he was blowing it. Keith heard the tumble from Grace, 284 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: out of tune, sitars, cracked marimbas and bent mallets. Failure, 285 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: fear of failure. It was scarier than any jack brooted 286 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: pig rummaging through his house at the moment. But fear 287 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: wasn't Keith's game. It was mix. Keith heard Blue Weena 288 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: roaring towards Stonehenge from the back seat with Princess Margaret, 289 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: his butler at the wheel, Christopher Gibbs in his double 290 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: breasted suit, up front, off about flying saucers and the 291 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: latest rumors about David Litvanoff. Keith heard the razorblade pierce 292 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: through Litvanoff's skin, just under the chin, the slight tear 293 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: of the skin, the sound of Litvanoff taking it like 294 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: a man stifling his screams, staring craze heavies in the eye, 295 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: daring them to go all the fucking way with it, 296 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: if they were going to go on with it at all. 297 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 1: Litvanoff was hard like Spanish, tony like Keith. He could 298 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: take it and he'd live to tell about it. The 299 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: Dwarves were relentless. The chick door made Marianne drop the rug, naked, 300 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,360 Speaker 1: and the pigs double took one. Take mary Anne. There 301 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: she stood, bare, paranoid, ravaged with fear, a nightmare of 302 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: shame come to life. But nothing compared to what was 303 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: about to come down on poor Marianne. It wasn't anything 304 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: Keith hadn't seen before, but the sounds, these were new. 305 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 1: The snorting of the pigs, the roaring engines, and then 306 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: the horns, the hawk of the air Raid siren bending 307 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 1: itself into the sound of the Memphis horns, shaping his satisfaction, 308 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: revel the way it was supposed to sound, thick, like 309 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,439 Speaker 1: the feeling in his head, like the rabbit fur on 310 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: mary Anne's back, like the multi track guitars he had 311 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: to cobble together to compensate for Brian's fuck offery, like 312 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 1: the bullshit being spewed by the piggy dwarfs. Now fixed 313 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: to separate the group. The Etonians, Robert Fraser and Christopher 314 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: Gibbs upper class. The pigs reserved whatever niceties they had 315 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: for Groovy Bob and Gibsie. Then the Stones, Mick and Keith, 316 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: mary Anne alone on the stairs, and the rest of 317 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: the revelers off to the side with the servants, who 318 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: the pigs barely acknowledged as being worthy of their disdain. 319 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: They'd found pills Speed wanted to know whose they were. 320 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: Mick immediately and valiantly copped them being his. And then 321 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 1: there were the jacks of Heroin, twenty four of them 322 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: in Robert Fraser's beautiful little antique box. But strangely left 323 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: alone throughout the entirety of the raid was David Schneiderman. 324 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: It wasn't even searched. Now there was his highly suspect 325 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: aluminum briefcase filled with LSD. So strange no matter. The 326 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: cops had what they wanted, a drug charge that would 327 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: stick on a rolling stone, and possibly two, and they'd 328 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,479 Speaker 1: gotten what they came for. The rest was now up 329 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,439 Speaker 1: to the courts. While they exited with the contraband to 330 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 1: bring back to police headquarters to test and then use 331 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: later to charge Mick impossibly Keith with and most certainly 332 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: Robert Fraser with Keith decided to play them off with 333 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 1: a little tune. He found his way to the downstairs 334 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: record player, quickly popped down Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde 335 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 1: and dropped the needle on Rainy Day Women number twelve 336 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: and thirty five. Everybody must get stoned. Keith's guests cut 337 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: up and the piggies were enraged. Upon exiting, they'd see 338 00:20:53,320 --> 00:21:01,679 Speaker 1: who got the last laugh. We'll be after this word 339 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: word word. The Red Land's bust was in February nineteen 340 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: sixty seven, but Keith, Richards, Bick Jagger and Robert Fraser 341 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: would not be formally charged until May tenth of that year. 342 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 1: On that day, Brian Jones was recuperating from a brief 343 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: trip to cann at his Courtfield Road, South Kensington apartment 344 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: with his friend, yet another bohemian aristo who'd come under 345 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: the spell of the Rolling Stones, Stashed Klasowski. The phone rang. 346 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 1: Brian ignored it. It kept ringing. He ignored it. Still 347 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: it rang again. He picked up the receiver and quickly 348 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: dropped it back on its handle. It then rained some more. 349 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: He repeated the move, and then it rang again and 350 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: again and again, until finally Brian was forced to answer Hello. 351 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: The voice on the other line was clearly a journal 352 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: Kurt excited, zero politeness. Have you been arrested? Excuse me? 353 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: Brian said, how's it feel to be the third Rolling 354 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,360 Speaker 1: Stone busted for drugs? What Brian asked and quickly hung 355 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 1: up the phone. He told Stash about the exchange while 356 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: the phone began to ring again. Immediately Stash figured out 357 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: what was going on. Quick hide the drugs, They're on 358 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: their way. The two sprung up and began searching for 359 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: whatever drugs they could find to quickly dispose of, and 360 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: there weren't many, thankfully, but still Stash and Brian were 361 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: smart to be in the lookout for random supplies absent 362 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,959 Speaker 1: mindedly left behind by past partiers. At Brian's flat, they 363 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: found none. After a thorough search, Secure in the fact 364 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: that the apartment was clean, the two collapsed into Brian's 365 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: living room furniture and awaited what they suspected was a 366 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: coming shit show. The doorbell rang, Stash peered through the people. 367 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: It was Mohammed Johaj, Robert Fraser's servant, who Stash had 368 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 1: called after the press phone, tore about coming over to help. 369 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 1: Stash opened the door to let Muhammad in, and when 370 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: he did, out of nowhere, a pack of strangers pushed 371 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: their way into the flat behind Mohammad. The strangers quickly 372 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,199 Speaker 1: went to work. At first, Dash couldn't tell if there 373 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 1: were cops or press or both, but it didn't take 374 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: long to realize it was indeed a mix of both. 375 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: But how in the hell did the press get there 376 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: so quickly? How did they know what was going on? 377 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 1: I left to call and inquire about being busted for 378 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: drugs before the police even showed up. And here now 379 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: it was clear that the police had arrived after the press, 380 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: fighting their way past them out in front of Brian's 381 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: flat to work their way in the front door to 382 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: search for drugs that he had supposedly already been arrested for. 383 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: Despite the clear and present skullduggery, Stash was convinced, as 384 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: was Brian, that nothing would come of it, as they 385 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 1: knew there were no drugs in the house, but that 386 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: confidence faded as soon as they saw the head knob himself. 387 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: Police Sergeant Norman Pilcher Old Knobby hadn't made it to 388 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 1: the Red Land's raid, but he made his presence felt 389 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 1: during the raid of Brian Jones's apartment, making a big 390 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: show of his search technique, sauntering around the apartment, glowing 391 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: hard in that booming voice of his about the moral 392 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: turpitude of pop stars. Stash caught the move one of 393 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: Pilcher's men pulled a hippie looking wallet from under the mattress. 394 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: In it grass bullshit. Stash knew there was no wallet 395 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: full of grass under the mattress. He just checked it 396 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: and before we could bring his mouth to protest, Pilcher 397 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: shouted his discovery from another part of the flat, a 398 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: vial of cocaine. Again bullshit, not Stash. The drugs were planted, 399 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: pure and simple, planted to sink the Stones. It didn't matter. 400 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 1: More drugs found in the possession of another rolling Stone. 401 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: On the same day Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were 402 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: being formally charged. That's what the press was going to report. 403 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: It was the next move from the establishment, the one 404 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: meant to counter Mick Jagger's move where he brought a 405 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: libel suit against the News of the World for the 406 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: Live US an incorrect account in their Drugs and rock 407 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 1: Stars expas from a couple months earlier, accusing Mick of 408 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: admitting to taking LSD, when in reality it was actually 409 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: Brian Jones rating and arresting Brian Jones was the corrupt 410 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: News of the World, working in tandem with Norman Pilcher's 411 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: police to strike back to prove despite mcjagger's libel suit 412 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: that it didn't matter what Mick Jaggers said with his 413 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: lawsuits or what his and Keith Richard's lawyers said in 414 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: court in their defense. This new bust of Brian Jones 415 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: would prove it that the Rolling Stones were dangerous drug 416 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: addicts whose influence would corrupt London's youth and completely disrupt 417 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: the established social order. After the bust, Brian was back home. 418 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,239 Speaker 1: His phone rang, and this time he picked it up 419 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: on the first ring. It was Beadle Paul McCartney offering 420 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: to help with Brian's legal bills, imploring Brian, who he 421 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: correctly suspected was in a depressive and defeat a state, 422 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: to fight these correct charges. Brianan was agreeable, if not inspired. 423 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: Clearly down, Paul invited him around the studio to sit 424 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: in on a session the Beatles were having him to 425 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: play guitar. Brian showed up later at Abbey Road Studios, 426 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: but not with his guitar, with an alto Sacks and 427 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 1: during the recording of John Lennon's highly abstract you know 428 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: My Name, Look Up My Number. Brian, once again showing 429 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: his prowess as an inspired multi instrumentalist blew an impressive 430 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: sax soul to wrapped the tune at the three p 431 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: fifty one mark. The track would show up three years 432 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: later in nineteen seventy as the B side to the 433 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: single Let It Be. By that time, Brian Jones would 434 00:26:38,359 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: be long gone. Later that month, at the end of 435 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: June nineteen sixty seven, Mick Jagger, Robert Fraser and Keith 436 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: Richards stood trial for drug possession. On day one, it 437 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: took the court five minutes to convict both Mick and 438 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: Groovy Bob, and they were sent to lose prison to 439 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:23,959 Speaker 1: await sentencing. Mick heard the snickering of the guards and 440 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: then came their lewed inquiries, how did a taste the 441 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: Mars bar? The one the coppers caught him eating out 442 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: of Marianne Faithful's vagina at Redlands on the day of 443 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: the bust. Mick was beyond disgusted. The rumor was sick 444 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 1: and totally false and cooked up by one of the 445 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 1: raiding cops and passed on to the press to run with. 446 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: And there was a Mars bar on the scene, yes, 447 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: and yes, Mary Anne was wearing nothing but a rug. 448 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,160 Speaker 1: But how those two facts led to the rumor about 449 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: the Mars bar should have been beyond anyone's wildest imagination, 450 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: beyond being ridiculous. It was totally unfair to Mary Anne Faithful. 451 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 1: She was getting it coming and going slut shamed publicly 452 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: by the press and cast as an unwitting innocent victim 453 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: by the prosecution to make the case that Mick Jagger 454 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: and Keith Richards had corrupted her proof of the disruptive, 455 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: morally bankrupt behavior of the Rolling Stones. On the second 456 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: day of the trial, Keith Richards's stay in court with 457 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: mixed sweating it out behind bars and Mary Anne sweating 458 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: it out on the outside with the full heat of 459 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: the national press coming down on her. The judge tried 460 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: provoking Keith, pointing out that surely someone who would allow 461 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: cannabis to be smoked at his home, to allow a 462 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: young innocent woman to come under the influence of drugs 463 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: in his home and to then be defiled by disreputable men, 464 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: drug addicts, the lot of the men, Surely someone who 465 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: would do this was nothing more than quote unquote filth 466 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: or scum, and suggested that people like this shouldn't be 467 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: allowed to walk free. The prosecutor taking he and Keith 468 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: on the ropes, went in for the kill, asking mister Richards, 469 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: would you agree that, in the ordinary course of events, 470 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: you would expect a young woman to be embarrassed if 471 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: she had nothing on in front of several men? Keith stonefaced, 472 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 1: not at all. We are not old men, and we 473 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: are not worried about petty Morriles. She had been upstairs 474 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: and bathed the prosecutor. Did it come as a great 475 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: surprise to you that she was prepared to go back 476 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: downstairs still only wearing a rug in front of ten 477 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: police officers? Keith, I thought the rug was big enough 478 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: to cover three women. The prosecutor. I wasn't talking about 479 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: the impropriety, but embarrassment. Keith took a moment, thought about 480 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: the question, let the tension in the room naturally build 481 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: before answering, and then deadpanned. She doesn't embarrass easily, nor 482 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: do I. The exchange, once reported, instantly cemented Keith Richard's 483 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: reputation as we know it today, that tell it like 484 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: it is, can't give a fuck, rock and roll pirate, 485 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: swooping into action to lend his toughness, his attitude, his 486 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: back had assery to whatever the situation demands. The move 487 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: made the press and the public consider Keith Richards differently. 488 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: He wasn't the third chair in the band, behind Brian Jones, 489 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: the band's founder, and Mick Jagger, the band's frontman. He 490 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: was his own man, a rebels rebel, and for putting 491 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: his neck on the line on the court record, for 492 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: sticking up for his singer's girlfriend in public at the 493 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: expense of his own freedom, and for in effect telling 494 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: the establishment to go fuck themselves, he was elevated to 495 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: instant folk hero status. The judge, however, was not impressed. 496 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: He gave Keith a one year sentence for his smart mouth, 497 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: the maximum allowed for the relatively minor drug charge of 498 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: allowing others to partake in illicit drugs in his home. 499 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: Hell Robert Fraser had heroin on him and he only 500 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: received a three month sentence. Along with Mick, Brian would 501 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: get nine months suspended sentence and forced drug rehabilitation. But 502 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: just as the bust made Keith Richards, it broke Brian Jones. 503 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: His days were numbered, both as a rolling stone and 504 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: as a living, breathing, functioning member of society. He would 505 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: continue his slide into drug abuse in paranoia and be 506 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: arrested again a year later, unceremoniously kicked out of the 507 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: band by Micking Keith a year after that in June 508 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty nine, and less than a month later 509 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: would drown to death somewhat mysteriously in his swimming pool. 510 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: On July third, nineteen sixty nine, Keith stood in the 511 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: yard at Wormwood Scrubs, staring at the prison wall visions 512 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: of George Blake in his Great Escape. One of the 513 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: guards nudged him on the shoulder and informed him that 514 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: his one day in prison would be his last. His 515 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: lawyer had secured his release pending appeal. Keith's prisonmates quickly 516 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: went to work, penning letters swiftly to their loved ones 517 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: and handing them off to Keith to deliver them as 518 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: soon as he could. On the outside, Keith stuffed his 519 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:56,479 Speaker 1: pockets and delivered every last letter. Mick Jagger was released 520 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 1: that day as well. Robert Fraser wasn't so lucky, he'd 521 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 1: serve his time. Ironically, upon Mcankeeith's release, it was the 522 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 1: bastion of conservative UK press, the London Times, that ran 523 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: an editorial pointing out the unjust and extremely harsh sentencing 524 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: handed out to Mcankeith, claiming correctly that had they been 525 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: regular citizens and not pop stars that the establishment deemed 526 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 1: disrupted to society, an establishment with a clear vendetta against 527 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: the duo, that their sentences wouldn't have been nearly as extreme. 528 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: The editorial in The Times went a long way in 529 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: swaying public opinion in favor of MCing Keith. Had on appeal, 530 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: their two prison sentences were quashed. As it turned out, 531 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: the Redlands bust was the result of Keith schauffeur tipping 532 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: off the news of the world, who was clearly in 533 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: cahoots with the police, tipping them off to make the raid, 534 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: and the coppers were one step ahead, having already ensconced 535 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: their man, David Schneidermann, the Acid King nark into the 536 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: good graces of the Rolling Stones and the rest of 537 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 1: the Aristo Chelsea, he said, who had fallen under the 538 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: dangerous sway of the lower class rockers when it came 539 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: time to bust Brian. A few months later, when the 540 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: press showed up Brian's place to cover a drug bust 541 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: that hadn't even taken place yet, what was supposed to 542 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: be the final nail in the Rolling stones coffin turned 543 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: out to be clear proof that the establishment was colluding 544 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: to imprison the pop stars. How disgraceful. I'm Jake Brennan 545 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 1: in this this Disgraceland. 546 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 2: Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is produced in 547 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 2: partnership with Double Elvis. 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