Butterfly on a Wheel: The Great Rolling Stones Drugs Bust
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (589 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1849389950 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the AuthorSimon Wells has written about film and music for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Times. The author of The Beatles: 365 Days and Your Face Here, he lives in Sussex, England
S Riaz said Butterfly On A Wheel. Even today, newspapers give a lot of column space to the behaviour and use of drugs by celebrities. However, in the mid-sixties a series of events raised the issue of drugs and rock musicians to new heights. The most famous of these events was the trial in 1967 of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, when it seemed the establishment took up arms against the young. The author does an excellent job of looking at the events of that year in a balanced and fair way, recreating them with great d
When Keith Richards threw a drug-fuelled party at his West Sussex house in early 1967, it was never going to be an uneventful affair. Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were the star guests but the police came uninvited, so launching a legendary confrontation. The drugs bust spawned a media frenzy of salacious speculation and led to a famous summer trial that pitted the hedonistic poster boys of the counterculture against the British Establishment. It was intended as a high-profile show of strength from on high. As it happened, things turned out rather differently. Using previously unpublished police and court documents, best-selling author Simon Wells reveals what really happened on the night of the drugs raid as well as the extraordinary conspiracy mounted to end the careers of Jagger and Richards, and how the Establishment widened their net to drag in the Beatles and other rock stars. With fresh interviews with lawyers, police, eye witnesses and those present at the notorious party, Wells reveals the truth about the celebrity pushers, London gangsters, bent cops, corrupt newspapers and dodgy politicians.
. Simon Wells has written about film and music for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Times. The author of The Beatles: 365 Days and Your Face Here, he lives in Sussex, England