
Butterfly on a Wheel: The Rolling Stones Great Drugs Bust
by Simon Wells
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Pub Date 18 Jan 2018 | Archive Date 28 Feb 2018
Description
Four pep pills, a Sunday tabloid, two celebrated rock stars and a court case.
Butterfly on a Wheel: The Rolling Stones Great Drugs Bust documents how these ingredients came to form a huge slice of British social history; a watershed where attitudes to drugs prompted a seismic change in popular culture.
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. The police broke in, dragged Keith Richards and Mick Jagger away in handcuffs, and a media frenzy erupted which pitted the hedonistic counterculture against the British Establishment.
Using previously unpublished
police and court documents, best-selling author Simon Wells reveals what really
happened on the night of the raid and the extraordinary conspiracy mounted to
end the careers of Jagger and Richards, with The Beatles soon to follow. Using
fresh interviews with lawyers, police and eye witnesses to the notorious party,
Wells reveals the truth about the celebrity pushers, London gangsters, bent
cops, corrupt newspapers and dodgy politicians.
This Omnibus enhanced edition includes an online media collection
of television news footage, newspaper reports, interviews with Jagger, Richards
and McCartney, as well as an interview with the author.
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9780857127112 |
PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |