I came across an article and picture gallery on the NME website capturing the key moments of the Rolling Stones drug bust of 1967.
.You can't always get what you want.
Around 5:30pm on February 12th, 1967, around 20 police descended on Keith Richards‘ Sussex home, “Redlands”. Of The Rolling Stones, both Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were there at the time of the bust (Brian Jones was supposed to be there too but, according to Keith Richards, he and his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, were fighting when they left for Redlands, so they just left them behind in London) Several others had come down for the weekend including The Beatles‘ guitar player George Harrison and his then girlfriend, Patti Boyd, although they had left prior to the raid.
On the anniversary of their 1967 drug bust, we take a look the photos from that fateful night at Keith Richards' West Sussex mansion. While the other party goers preferred a van ride from the beach back to Redlands, Keith decided to retreat on foot. Evidently, the gravel outside Rose Cottage on the B1279 was much to his liking.
Just hours before the raid on Redlands on February 12, 1967, Keith is pictured by Michael Cooper larking around outside his West Wittering cottage
En route to Chichester Magistrates Court on May 10, Mick and Keith appear vaguely unconcerned with what lay ahead for them.
Leaving Chichester, England court, May 10, 1967 after electing to be tied by jury on drug possession charges
Mick and Keith leave Chichester Magistrates Court after pleading not guilty to charges emanating from the Redlands’ raid, May 10.
Judge Leslie Kenneth Allen Block, Chairman of the bench at Chichester Court. Stern, intransigent and unforgiving, Block clearly revelled in the opportunity to put Mick and Keith behind bars.
Found guilty and handcuffed to a warder, Mick is driven from Chichester Court to Lewes Prison to be held until sentencing was decided, June 27, 1967.
Just hours after the details of the raid have been read out in court, Marianne Faithfull is photographed at Redlands carrying an early edition of the London Evening News – its headline forever connecting her with the scandal.
The jailing of Mick and Keith brought an extraordinary amount of support from their peers. In an act of solidarity, The Who rush-released a single containing two Jagger/Richards songs: ‘The Last Time’ and ‘Under My Thumb’
A few hours after Mick’s prison sentence was reduced to a conditional discharge, he was flown from Battersea Airport to Spain’s Hall in Essex to appear on a World In Action TV special. With him are Marianne Faithfull and Granada researcher John (now Lord) Birt.
Butterfly On A Wheel: The Great Rolling Stones Drugs Bust by Simon Wells is published by Omnibus Press. Available now in paperback and eBook format www.omnibuspress.com
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