1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones Swinging London days are insane. They drank 3 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: and drugged with royals, hung with East End gangsters. In 4 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wound 5 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: up in jail, Keith with a one year sentence and 6 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: Mick with three months. Prior to that, the Rolling Stones 7 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: jockeyed their way up the charts with the Beatles. Contrast 8 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: has dangerous drug addled, sex crazed black hats to her 9 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: Majesty's sanctioned lovable mob tops. In the mid sixties, the 10 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: Rolling Stones disrupted London's established social order with their music, 11 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: their attitude, and their vast influences pop stars. They attracted 12 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: into their orbit not only fellow bohemians and artists, but 13 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: well healed aristocrats and socialites. Of the Rolling Stones was 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: so powerful that it went both ways, drawing in not 15 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: only British youth accustomed to worshiping pop stars, but also 16 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: society's upper crust. To the establishment. This was highly disruptive, threatening. 17 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: Even the Rolling Stones made powerful enemies crooked headlines seeking police, 18 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: Seargeant Scotland Yard, the Press, American Acid kings and disgruntled chauffeurs. 19 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: And through it all, they also made great music. Throughout 20 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: their career of more than fifty years in counting, the 21 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: Rolling Stones have made some of the greatest music ever 22 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: and most of it almost never happened, unlike the music 23 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: at the top of the show. That wasn't great music. 24 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: That was a preset loop for my melotron called double ow. 25 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 2: No, he didn't MK two. 26 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: I played you that loop because I can't afford the 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: rights to I'm a Believer by the Monkeys, And why 28 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: would I play you that specific slice of unbelievable made 29 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: for TV cheese? 30 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: Could I afford it? 31 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on 32 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: February eleventh, nineteen sixty seven, And that was the day 33 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: the police rated Keith Richards Redmand's home, setting off a 34 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: series of events that threatened to destroy the ascended careers 35 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: of London's most dangerous band. On this special two part 36 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: episode Drugged Out Royals, East End Gangsters, crooked Cops Swinging 37 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:33,399 Speaker 1: London in the Rolling Stones, I'm Jake Brennan and this 38 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: is Disgraceland. 39 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 2: The prisoner peer out of the D Block Carridor Window. 40 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 2: It was a long way down a. 41 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: Twenty foot drop. If he fell, his ankles could handle it. 42 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: They had handled worse Korea before that. Germany's invasion of 43 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: Amsterdam during the Second World War, that was cute. He 44 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: and his Dutch cousins showed up at the border on 45 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: their bicycles to confront the invading Germans. The Germans showed 46 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: mercy and a sense of humor rather than killing them 47 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: on site. The Dutch were thoroughly outmanned and outgunned. The 48 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: Germans took some as prisoners of war, let others go 49 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: and track their moves to learn more about the Dutch resistance, 50 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: and they of course confiscated their bicycles, melted them down 51 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: and then used the bike materials to make new bombs, 52 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: which they later used to bomb Rotterdam with sick bastards 53 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: Hitler's men. That was where he started to turn toward communism. 54 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 2: His cousin, the Marxists made a lot of sense. Hitler. 55 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: The Allies two sides of the same imperialist coin. The 56 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: seeds were planted in Adam during World War Two, and 57 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: they fully bloomed during the Korean conflict. By then, the 58 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: prisoner was an MI six officer stationed in Seoul. The 59 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: Korean People's Army invaded the South, took him prisoner, locked 60 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: him up, and gave him all the time he. 61 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: Needed to finish up those Karl Marx readings. 62 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: Soon, the KGV flipped him and put him to work 63 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: the spy on the West. It was a fine arrangement 64 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: until the Polish defector ratted him out to British authorities. 65 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: The judge gave him forty two years in prison, wormwood 66 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: scrubs with its notorious rodent infestation. In hard timers, the 67 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: prisoner thought about his past, how he got here, while 68 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: contemplating his prison, mainly his ankles. Amsterdam, Korea. Those imprisonments 69 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: were nothing compared to this forty two years. He wasn't 70 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: going to die in the shithole. He was going to 71 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: bust out twenty feet that's how far down it was. 72 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: If he were to slip while scaling down the side 73 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: of the prison second story, his ankles would need to 74 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 1: withstand the impact because after getting down the side of 75 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: the prison. 76 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 2: To the yard, there was a sprint to the wall. 77 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: His heart raced. The hum of prisoners enjoying their daily 78 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: allotted free time filled the walls of the old jail 79 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: while the soundtrack from that Knight's picture show led out 80 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: of the common room. Screws barked in means grab asked 81 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: no more thinking five point thirty. 82 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 2: Free time on the block. Time to act now. 83 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: He bashed his elbow through the prison cardor window, coughing 84 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,559 Speaker 1: loudly at the exact same time to obscure the sound 85 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: of breaking glass. He pushed out the remaining glass from 86 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: the window frame, hoisted himself up, and squeezed himself headfirst 87 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: out onto the concrete lip of the exterior wall. There 88 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: he collected himself and slid down the top half of 89 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: the wall before falling the remaining ten or so feet 90 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: to the ground, landing unscathed, ankles intact. He sprung to 91 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: his feet and sprinted the fifty or so yards to 92 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: the prison wall. It was the longest run of his life. 93 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: It was quiet out in the yard, no guards barking, 94 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: no prisoner's boasting, just the sound of his heart racing 95 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: in his own labored breath, struggling to meet the demands 96 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: of his exploding lungs. He was closing in on the wall. 97 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: It was coming up fast. If his man on the 98 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,239 Speaker 1: outside was worth half a yardbird shit, the rope ladder 99 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: would be hung ready for his ascent, and if it 100 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: wasn't then he'd be caught. But alas, there it was, 101 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: hanging right where it was supposed to smack dab in 102 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: the middle of the wall, and the prisoner grabbed it 103 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: and quickly scurried to the top, another twenty feet up. 104 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: But when he reached the top he found then there 105 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: was no way down, no rope ladder on the reverse side. 106 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: He wasted no time and leaped to his freedom, landing 107 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: again with his ankles and tacts, but instead spraining his wrist. 108 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: He tore off into the night. It was never again 109 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: seen by British authorities. He was a legend. George Blake, 110 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: the escaped spy. Everyone in London knew his story, especially 111 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: the prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs, the prison he'd escaped from 112 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: less than a year prior. A repeat offender noticed the 113 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: first time prisoner to his right marveling. 114 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 2: At the wall in the yard. He nudged him. It's possible, 115 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 2: you know, huh, the nuby asked. The old pro nodded 116 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: at the wall. Blake cot over it. 117 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: That was nine months prior, and this was the newbie 118 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: prisoner's first day Her majesty's prison service. Inmate number one 119 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: two one two six dashed sixty six four last name 120 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: Richard's first name Keith, date of birth twelve, eighteen forty three. 121 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: Convicted on charges of drug possession, sentence twelve months occupation 122 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: Musician Keith Richards first day of his one year prison 123 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: sentence was typical. Stripped, searched, showered and sprayed down with 124 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: permathrin to kill whatever lice the dirty rock and Roller 125 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: might have been smuggling in. Then an issuing of his 126 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: inmate clothes one sheet, one blanket, and one pillow for 127 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: one tiny rat infested cell mercifully. Soon after a trip 128 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: to the yard to cool his jets with the other novices, 129 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: where he stood staring at the prison wall visions of 130 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: George Blake making his great escape and now the Filthy Trader, 131 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: the Spy was living free somewhere off in Russia, while 132 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: Keith Richards, the filthy Musician, the Rolling Stone, deemed too 133 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 1: much of a threat, too much of a disruptive, corruptive 134 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: force by the British establishment, was locked up for a 135 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: year with a sordid bunch of hard characters not that 136 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 1: Keith wasn't used to the hard boys. He was after all, 137 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: tight with Spanish Tony and Spanish Tony. It was believed, 138 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: at least by Keith was tied up somehow with the 139 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: Crate Twins. Keith heard the rumors about the Cray twins, 140 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: Ronnie and Reggie, notorious crime lords from the Geast. By 141 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: the time the early sixties came around, they controlled most 142 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: of London through a hard mix of murder, armed robbery, 143 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: the protection rackets, and of course, loan sharking and gambling establishments. 144 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: London's establishment thought they were doing themselves a favor by 145 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: legalizing gambling casinos in nineteen sixties, cut down on arrests, 146 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 1: jammed up court dockets, overcrowded prisons, that sort of thing. 147 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: But the new casinos only brought more power to organized 148 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: criminals like Ronnie and Reggie Cray, and the excitement of 149 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 1: the casinos with their rampant vice, the glamour of their 150 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: gangsters and working girls began to attract the smart set musicians, 151 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: famous photographers, artists and aristos and with bold faced names, 152 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: partaking and gambling, drinking, and who. 153 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: Knows what else. 154 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: Greater London followed suit taking its cue from its famous 155 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: At the exact same time, the early sixties, when Britain 156 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,719 Speaker 1: found itself hungry to cast off the societal restrictions of 157 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: post war austerity, attitudes were a cham dramatically. Art was 158 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: becoming more innovative and fashion more far out, and rock 159 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: and roll was taking the nation by storm. The Beatles, 160 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones, and any and all rock and roll 161 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: adjacent artists Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, the photographer David Bailey, 162 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 1: painter Lucien Freud, grandson of Sigmund, and film consulting David 163 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: Littbanoff among them, were part of a new movement, a 164 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 1: new generation that openly challenged the UK establishment's conservative way 165 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: of life. The disruption of polite society was unlike anything 166 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: London had ever seen, with the bourgeoisie Lord Effingham and 167 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: others among them were happily seen cavorting with known rabble 168 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 1: rousers and scruffy bohemians at gambling establishments owned and operated 169 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: by known gangsters like the Cray Twins. Than what exactly 170 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: in the name of her Majesty was the country coming 171 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: to the crae weren't to be crossed? Spanish Tony told 172 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: Keith all about David Litvanoff. It was at Esmerelda's Barn, 173 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: one of the craze casinos. Litvanov got with a croupier 174 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: in one of the back rooms, a croupier that Ron Cray, 175 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: who liked David Litvanoff was gay, happened to be having 176 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: an affair with. When Cray found out he was being 177 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: two timed, the gangster's vengeance was swift. Two heavies held 178 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: David lit knocked down. His screams were useless even if 179 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: they were heard. There was no one brave enough outside 180 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: the casino's back room doors to do anything about it. 181 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: The razor blade pierced the skin just below Litvanov right ear. Slowly, 182 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: ron Cray pressed it through the flesh and drew it 183 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: down the neck in the shape of a youth, stopping 184 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: briefly at the atoms apple, careful enough to penetrate too far, 185 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: while angling the pull of the razor back up the 186 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: left side of Lettanov's neck toward his left ear. 187 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 2: The scream ceased. It was shocked. 188 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: David Litvanov is still alive, but properly maimed. Cray's point 189 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: made he nodded to his heavies, and they knew what 190 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: to do. They grabbed the blood and litanof stripped of naked, 191 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: bound his arms and ankles with heavy rope and hung 192 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: them outside of the second story window, twenty feet above 193 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: the sidewalk for all to see, swinging just like the 194 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: rest of London in the early sixties. Keith Richards remembered 195 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: those days, the early days when things first started to turn. 196 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: The squares, the establishment, the authorities, they knew little, and 197 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 1: they were too busy trying to quell violent East End 198 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: gangsters to concern themselves with scruffy art school dropouts who 199 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: fancied black music and drugs. Were so new onto the 200 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: scene that the coppers were oblivious. They had no clue. 201 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: Keith remembered walking down Oxford Street with a brick of 202 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: hash the size of a small acoustic guitar under his arm, 203 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: right there, out in the open. And that was back 204 00:12:47,400 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: in sixty five. My how things had changed. By the 205 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: time nineteen sixty six rolled around. The Beatles were untouchable, 206 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: the biggest stars on the planet. Old Guard London bit 207 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: their tongues, held their snickers, swallowed their well established pride 208 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: and celebrated The Fab four as their greatest exports since 209 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,599 Speaker 1: well capitalism. All four Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, 210 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: George Harrison and Ringo Starr had recently been awarded membership 211 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the 212 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 1: British equivalent of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. This 213 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: stirred great controversy among the staunch Tories and Labormen and 214 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,959 Speaker 1: Her Majesty's government. But the Beatles were special and they 215 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: now had the medals to prove it, and they were 216 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: introduced to the Queen as nice boys, even if they 217 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: did have to sneak away to the loud to calm 218 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: their own nerves or a jazz cigarette beforehand. Matter, the 219 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: Fab four were now cultural ambassadors, so it was in 220 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,839 Speaker 1: the Establishment's best interest to keep the Beetles out of 221 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: the papers. They were, after all, now part of the 222 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 1: establishments themselves. And on the other hand you had the 223 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: Rolling Stones, who were cast by their manager Andrew loub 224 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: Oldham as the complete opposite of the Beatles, dirty, dangerous, 225 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: not to be left alone with your daughters. The Beatles 226 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: were pop the parts of their musical lineage that connected 227 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: to Willie Dixon and Motown were ignored by the Tea 228 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: and Crumpet's crowd. Lennon and McCartney were cute, albeit a 229 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: little rough around the Liverpool edges, but steeped in the 230 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: tradition of tinpan Alley and therefore allowed with a wink 231 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: and a nod into the club. Whereas the Rolling Stones, 232 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: by comparison or Black af from Down the Road a 233 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: piece singing about pork and beans, they masked none of 234 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: their Black American blues inflorts jumped up Chuck Berrwicks laid 235 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: back Jimmy Rei Griffs, Bobby Womack's Last Time Irma to 236 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: Almas's Time is on My Side and Howling Wolfe's version 237 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: of Willie Dixon's Little Red Rooster in Old Blues a 238 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: song about a fucking chicken at number one on the charts. 239 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 2: In November of nineteen sixty four. 240 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: White kids art students, English kids with scruffy hair, bad 241 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: skin and skin tight trousers, singing about a uniquely black 242 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: American experience and sitting at the top of the English 243 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: charts and increasingly rubbing shoulders with people from the top 244 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: of England's social class. 245 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 2: Not at her Majesty's. 246 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: Request like the Beatles, but at social gatherings and in 247 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: clubs owned by the notorious Kray Twins. 248 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 2: It was completely novel and it made no sense. Who 249 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 2: the hell were these guys. This wasn't the way things 250 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 2: were supposed to happen. 251 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: It was totally disruptive to the accepted way of how 252 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: things were supposed to work. From the perspective of the establishment, 253 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: the Beatles were one thing, okay, but two groups of 254 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: long hairs at the top of the charts competing for 255 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: attention of young English girls in influencing young English boys. 256 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: The establishment was just sick of it, tired of it, 257 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: fed up with it, especially when one of those groups 258 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: was clearly unacceptable by any set of established societal norms 259 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: and no doubt dangerous. 260 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 2: Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone? 261 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: This was the question be im posed by lazy British 262 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: journalists being spoon fed by Stone's manager Andrew Luke Oldham, 263 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: who was eager to draw a contrast between his group 264 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: and the Beatles, and the press, of course did as 265 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: was expected. The establishment clutched their pearls, guffad and longed 266 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: for the days of chasteat belts, crusades, and all the 267 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: Rolling Stones played the part Oldham and the press cast 268 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: them in, and once they took to writing their own hits, 269 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: their singer Mick Jagger's lyrics went dark. Play with Fire, 270 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: I Can't get No Satisfaction. Part of Stone and Painted 271 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: Black took the deep rooted darkness of the Blues and 272 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: added a layer of anti establishment cynicism to the band's 273 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: fast evolving modern production. Fuzz sitars in an ever growing 274 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: blend of Keith Richard's deadly guitar riffs that went far 275 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 1: beyond Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reid and Messrs Lennon and McCartney. 276 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: The blending of guitars in the Stones production technique was 277 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 1: born out of necessity. Keith came upon it by accident 278 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: in an effort to compensate for his so called bandleader, 279 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: Brian Jones derelict of duty. 280 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 2: Brian Jones had let fame go to his head. 281 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: He was consumed by drugs, increasingly LSD and alcohol, and 282 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: to his bandmates had become an insufferable asshole, not to 283 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 1: mention unreliable. Brian bagged out of gigs and Keith had 284 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: to figure out how to play Brian's parts on top 285 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: of his own parts, Brian bagged out of recording sessions 286 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: or was content to mess around on the marimbas or 287 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,199 Speaker 1: whatever the fuck, and Keith was tasked with coming up 288 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: with complimentary guitar parts to his own and then mixing 289 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: them together into a seamless and consistent clap of guitar thunder, 290 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,959 Speaker 1: a mix that would prove irresistible. 291 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 2: To teenage good buyers. 292 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: In May of nineteen sixty five, I Can't Get No 293 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: Satisfaction went to number one on the back of Keith's 294 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: vicious guitar playing No thanks to Brian Jones, who was 295 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: busy fucking off with whoever were given the requisite amount 296 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: of craven rock star attention, and that's someone was an enterprising, 297 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: undercovered journalist from the notorious British tabloid The News of 298 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: the World. 299 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this word were word. 300 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 1: June eleventh, nineteen sixty six, one thirty am UK pop 301 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: star Donovan is stoned, lying back in his Edgeware road flat, 302 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: ignoring his guests, basking in the beauty of a boy 303 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: called Donovan, the myth making documentary about none other than 304 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: his own beautiful Bohemian brit self complete with all the 305 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,160 Speaker 1: requisite bullshit of the time, hip drugs and hip expiration 306 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: on the concept of being modern, and oh yeah, some music, 307 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: the Sunny Goog Street track about Hash, of course, so hip. 308 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 1: There's a knock on the door at this hour. Gypsy 309 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: Dave isn't concerned. Life's a party, right, What even are 310 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 1: clocks anyway? Time is a construct foisted upon those of 311 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: us in the know by the establishment as a means 312 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: to keep us constrained to the past and worried about 313 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: the future. The present man, the moment, no matter when 314 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: it is, is all that matters. 315 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: Don't you know that? 316 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the door, there's a semi hip looking chick 317 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: through the people. Gypsy Dave opens it, of course, and 318 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: behind the women come nine police officers from out of nowhere, 319 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: rushing into the apartment, busting up Donovan's hippy hamlet. They 320 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: are led by head Nabby himself Norman Pilcher, police sergeants 321 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: scourge of swinging Londoners everywhere. Pilcher and his boys locate 322 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: Donovan's Hash and place him his girlfriend in Gypsy Dave 323 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: under arrest. Then, celebrity slut that he is, Pilcher asks 324 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: his prize scout Donovan for his autograph. Paul McCartney and 325 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: George Harrison pitch in to help Donovan hire a barrister 326 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 1: to fight the case. Sergeant Pilcher confirms what he's long suspected. 327 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 2: Drugs are his way in. 328 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: Drugs are the hammer he can use to nail the 329 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 1: disruptive anti establishment threat posed by influential musicians corrupting Britain's youth. 330 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 1: He leaks the details of the Donovan raid to the 331 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: News of the World and they run with it. The 332 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: nation is enthralled by the details. A symbiotic relationship between 333 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: the tabloid and the police is formed. The headlines draw attention, 334 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: drum up support for Pilcher's cause, give him himself a 335 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: little bit of celebrity and why shouldn't he enjoy it? 336 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: And the raids and the arrests give the tabloid the 337 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 1: salacious content it needs to sell newspapers, and the bigger 338 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: the star, the better. So the interest in the rolling 339 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: Stones from Sergeant Pilcher and the News of the World 340 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: made sense for both self interested parties. Where's Brian Keith? 341 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: Have you seen Brian? 342 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 2: Uh No? I haven't seen the prick in some time. 343 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 2: What about you? Charlie, have you seen him? 344 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 1: Charlie Watt said nothing, He just sat in the back 345 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: seat of Brian Jones's Rolls Royce, suppressing a smile. Brian 346 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 1: sat in the driver's seat. He couldn't see Charlie behind him. 347 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: He couldn't see much ahead of him either, above the 348 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: steering wheel, and the car was so huge. Brian was 349 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: not happy. He'd been enduring this joke since the beginning 350 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: days of the band. Mick didn't care. He sat next 351 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: to him and kept at it. Keith, where is Brian? 352 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 1: I can't see him? 353 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 2: He is he back there? 354 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: Keith smiled, knowing full well that mixed comments were lighting 355 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: Brian up with anger. Now, Mick, I haven't seen him. 356 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:52,479 Speaker 1: He's a hard one to spot, so little and all. 357 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: That was the long running joke that Brian Jones was 358 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: so short that even when he was standing or sitting 359 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: amongst his bandmates, his diminutive stature made him so hard 360 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: to see that Mick Keith and Brian's other bandmates were 361 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: forced to repeatedly look for him and to ask each 362 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: other had the others seen him. It was vicious, cruel, 363 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: and justified. By nineteen sixty seven, Brian Jones was fast 364 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: becoming a one man wrecking ball of narcissistic rock star 365 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: bullshit and threatening to bring down the band he founded, 366 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones with his drugged out Napoleonic complex. Mick 367 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: and Keith's words stung. Brian was silent, pissed. Mick didn't care. 368 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 1: The little shit had it coming because Brian gave that 369 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: fucking interview to the News of the World, the one 370 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: that started the whole mess with the police, the one 371 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: that resulted in strange cars following Mick and Keith around, 372 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: and strangers still, the clicks on the telephone lines whenever 373 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 1: they'd bring each other up, and of course Brian's little 374 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: shit interview kicked off the whole mess at Redlands. The 375 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: News of the World journalists sucked Brian in, massaged his 376 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: ego like an East End working girl for one of 377 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: the crazed casinos, and Brian jumped all over it like 378 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: the desperate little fame John he was admitting to taking 379 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,199 Speaker 1: LSD for the first time on the Stones tour of 380 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: America with Bo Didley, so him. The interview played nice 381 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: within the News of the World's regular editorial contexts that 382 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 1: exploited the hard schism between the establishment and the dangerous 383 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: drugging musicians and artists from Swinging London, storming the gates 384 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 1: of polite society, and it flew off newspaper stands. Totally 385 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: salacious and totally true except for one major detail. The 386 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: interview attributed Brian's quotes about illegal drug use to Mick Jagger, 387 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: which of course made matters for the Rolling Stones even 388 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: worse because by nineteen sixty seven, Mick was firmly established 389 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: as the group's frontman and was thus the bigger name 390 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: than Brian, and as such a bigger shit show ensued. 391 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: The interview ran as part of a three part series 392 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: entitled pop Stars The Truth That Will Shock You. The 393 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: series not only covered Mick Jagger as Brian Jones and 394 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: his illegal LSD use, but it also detailed the drug habits, 395 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: hard partying and corruptive ways of other artists like The Who, 396 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: The Moody Blues Cream's Ginger Baker and of course Donovan, 397 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: with unknown details from the night of his arrest that 398 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 1: could only have been supplied by headnob himself, Sergeant Norman Pilcher. 399 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: The battle lines were cemented and with Pilcher and corrupt 400 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: members of the press heading up the fight for the establishment. 401 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: A full fledged war with the likes of the disruptive 402 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: Rolling Stones was about to ensue. John Paul Getty, junior 403 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: son to one of the richest men in the world 404 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: at the time. John Paul Getty was distracted his wife 405 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,439 Speaker 1: Talitha Pole, was attracting all kinds of attention at the party, 406 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: which he'd supposed would be the case. She did wear 407 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: the dress, the one he dreaded the sea through one 408 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: and as if that weren't a nod, Talitha. 409 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 2: Wasn't wearing any underwear so modern Mick Jagger was impressed. 410 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 1: So was his girlfriend Mary Anne Faithful, though mildly annoyed 411 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 1: at the amount of attention Mick was paying to John 412 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: Paul's wife, Mary Anne was becoming a bit paranoid. The 413 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:32,719 Speaker 1: LSD was kicking in. Alan Ginsberg was not interested. He 414 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: was sitting on the floor in the corner, bullshitting on 415 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 1: an old concertina and being largely ignored, even though the 416 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: party was being thrown in his honor. It was hosted 417 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 1: by Swinging London's Hippos, antiques dealer and style guru, noted 418 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: wild man Christopher Gibbs, educated at Eton Gibbs was the 419 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: Rolling Stones gateway into the upper class. Mick Jagger was 420 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 1: quoted as saying he looked upon Christopher Gibbs to learn. 421 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 2: How to become a gentleman, and. 422 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: Gibbs noted bibliophile and sophisticate that he was, it was 423 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: not above the subterranean adolescent antics of the growing drug culture. 424 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: He sponsored wild LSD fueled trips to Stonehenge with Mick, Keith, 425 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 1: Mary Anne and Princess Margaret, and Keith Schaufford Bentley. He'd 426 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: spin off with the Stones and other aristos on a 427 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: moment's notice to herrifit shear and dropped tabs and chase 428 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: flying saucers. Gibbs was a serious chap who loved his 429 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: drugs and who knew how to handle them. He also 430 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 1: knew how. 431 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 2: To share them. 432 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: At the party for Alan Ginsburg, Gibbs Butler served guests 433 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: a batch. 434 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 2: Of hash brownies on a silver tray. 435 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: Princess Margaret indulged and quickly freaked the fuck out. The 436 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: hash in its over concentrated edible form knocked her sideways. 437 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: She wound up in the emergency room supposedly from quote 438 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: unquote food poisoning. Perhaps Margaret felt the poll of peer pressure. 439 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: She wasn't the only one. Brian Jones most certainly felt 440 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: pressured when it came to taking LSD, and Heith first 441 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,479 Speaker 1: dropped acid on a West coast tour of America. They 442 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: were turned on by Ken Kesey's Freaks the day after 443 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 1: the second of Kesey's famed acid tests. The way Brian 444 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: saw it, he had an image to uphold head of 445 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: the head, self proclaimed leader of the Rolling Stones, far 446 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: out multi instrumentalists capable of ripping wicked Elmore James slide 447 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: riffs in one moment and previously unimagined sitar pop structures 448 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: in another, which, of course was all true. But how 449 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,479 Speaker 1: much of that was due to Brian's LSD usage versus 450 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: his own innate genius is up for debate. Regardless, the 451 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: price of admission was costly, because when Brian was on acid, 452 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 1: which was often, he was an even looser cannon than 453 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: when he was on the sauce, his moods calibrated by 454 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,439 Speaker 1: imaginary snakes slithering on the sidewalks beneath his Marrakesh moccasins, 455 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: undiscovered colors rainbowing above his blonde Dutch boy locks previously 456 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 1: unheard sounds that only he could hear, because the rest 457 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: of the world just wasn't as turned on as he 458 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: was painting his inner monologue. Black Brian Jo Jones wasn't 459 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: only on a trip, he was a trip unto himself, 460 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: and Brian Jones and Princess Margaret weren't the only ones 461 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: getting far out. It's hard to imagine now, but Keith 462 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: Richards himself felt pressured by the LSD culture being spun 463 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: out by Ken Kesey and his Mary pranksters. The American 464 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: hippie dictate that if you weren't experimenting with acid, you 465 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: couldn't possibly be turned on, couldn't possibly be hit. It 466 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 1: helped an Unlike Princess Margaret and Brian Jones, Keith could 467 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 1: handle his drugs even when the trips turned bad, as 468 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: they often did. One minute, you're chasing the hallowed lost 469 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: Cord through a field of wild horses, and the next 470 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: you're down a bad road dealing with demons your conscious 471 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: has up to that point successfully kept dormant. Christopher Gibbs 472 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: was helpful to have around in those moments. Gibbs had 473 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: a way of reassuring Keith, talking him down off the ledge, 474 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: bringing him back into the good graces of his trip. 475 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: And Christopher Gibbs wasn't the only one. Keith, Mick, Brian, 476 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: Maryanne Faithful, the rest of the Rolling Stone and the 477 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: London musicians they hung around with had numerous upper class friends, 478 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: aristos whose experience they could rely on to steer them 479 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: successfully up through the ranks of society and through the 480 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: psychedelic twists and. 481 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 2: Turns of drug culture. 482 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: Christopher Gibbs eton chum the gallerist Robert Fraser, with his 483 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: double breasted suits, booker t and the MG's records and 484 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: a growing taste for heroin his tiffany lamps and silver 485 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: lime Tibetan skulls avant garde exotic as formative an influence 486 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: as there ever was on young Keith, Richards, Frasier and 487 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: Gibbs were fearless, confident and gay, and really could give 488 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: a fuck who knew about it. They trucked with high 489 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: society princesses and thieves, among them LSD, Black, American r 490 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: and B exotic art. They searched out and sometimes stole 491 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: and hoarded. 492 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 2: Rare first editions. They set the trends, chased. 493 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: Flying saucers, dosed the Queen's sister, schooled Rolling Stones and 494 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: fucked with brazen, criminal minded Charlatans like David Litvanoff and 495 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: his lot of East End gangsters Cray Twins included. They 496 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: opened the Rolling Stones up to a whole other world 497 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,719 Speaker 1: and in the process introduced the spy into their ranks. 498 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: Mick and Keith's very owned George Blake, a turncoat, a 499 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: snitch working double time for the Establishment, for Sergeant Pilcher 500 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: and the News of the world. A walking pharmacy. Really, 501 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: he could procure whatever you wanted, mandrex, dope, grass and 502 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: of course acid, the good kind, strawberry fields and purple haze. 503 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 2: He was, after all, the Acid. 504 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:37,479 Speaker 1: King aka mister X aka David Schneiderman aka David Britain 505 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: aka David Henry the American, and he would very nearly 506 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: bring national disgrace to what London's Old Guard had deemed 507 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: the most disruptive challenge the Establishment had seen in years, 508 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: the most dangerous band on the planet. 509 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 2: The Rolling Stones. 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