Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Invoice Wyman and Brian Jones in 1964
Jul. 26 2023, Printed 7:00 p.m. ET
The FBI has been accused of teaming up with British lawmen to destroy the Rolling Stones by hatching a weird plot to get the controversial rockers thrown in jail on drug prices, RadarOnline.com can report.
That’s the stunning story behind the Stones’ 1967 arrest in the course of the notorious “Redlands Drug Raid” as revealed in creator Philip Norman’s blockbuster guide Mick Jagger, which particulars the lifetime of the legendary band’s lead singer.
Though Mick Jagger ended up behind bars after the raid, the trans-Atlantic operation did not destroy the chart-topping group.
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards performing with The Rolling Stones in 1976
Fashioned in London in 1962, the Stones have been thought to be a stunning and “soiled” different to the delicate mop-topped Beatles.
Within the button-down period of the early Sixties, the sexual lyrics of their hits like “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “Let’s Spend the Evening Collectively” raised eyebrows. The Stones even needed to change their hit to “Let’s Spend Some TIME Collectively” once they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Present in 1967.
The bad-boy band was secretly declared “subversive” by COINTEL-PRO, an FBI Counter Intelligence Program launched by director J. Edgar Hoover to take care of social and political order. Brokers reached out to the Stones’ homeland for assist to make sure they’d by no means come to the US once more.
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Mick Jagger, Ron Wooden, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards
Together with their counterparts at Britain’s hush-hush MI5 police company, the FBI tried to arrange Jagger and the remainder of the Stones – guitarist Brian Jones, guitarist Keith Richards, bassist Invoice Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts – in an elaborate drug sting that may put them out of circulation.
The raid was carried out at Richards’ cottage known as Redlands exterior West Wittering, a small seaside resort in Sussex, England.
The police businesses used an American often called “Acid King David” to befriend the band. A failed TV actor whose actual identify was David Snyderman, the hippie was drifting round Europe when he was caught with medicine in his baggage at London’s Heathrow Airport.
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As an alternative of being thrown into jail, “British Customs handed him over to some ‘heavy individuals’ who hinted they belonged to MI5 and informed him there was ‘a method out’ of his predicament,” writes Norman. “This was to infiltrate the Rolling Stones, provide Jagger and Richards with medicine, after which get them busted.”
Appearing on authorities orders, the vendor befriended the Stones with an ample provide of medicine. Snyderman arrived for a weekend at Redlands with ‘a business-like attaché case’ full of LSD.
At 5 p.m. on a Sunday, police received a name from an nameless male informing them of a “riotous” drug social gathering at Redlands. Officers tore the home aside – however missed the incriminating drug-stuffed briefcase, which was sitting in the midst of a room.
At one level, a younger cop began to look at it, however backed off when Snyderman shouted the bag contained undeveloped movie.
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Richards, now 79, was discovered responsible of permitting Redlands for use for smoking pot. Jagger, who turns 80 at this time, who was hauled off in handcuffs and jailed, received a three-month sentence for possessing 4 amphetamines – regardless that his attorneys identified the capsules have been freely accessible to fight journey illness in mainland Europe. Each have been finally freed on attraction.
Satirically, the FBI’s alleged sordid scheme was completely pointless. Jones was later busted on marijuana prices and couldn’t get a visa, which stored the Stones out of America.
Nonetheless, Jones drowned in his swimming pool in 1969 – and shortly afterward the wild boys launched “a triumphant American tour.”
Snyderman died in 2004 because the band was making ready its fortieth anniversary tour.