1967: British police raid the Sussex home of Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards. To no one’s surprise, various “substances of a suspicious nature” are found. Richards and visiting friends Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful are all arrested.
The entire raid sparks a great deal of controversy, not because of the alleged drugs, but because many are convinced the raid was done at the behest of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, in retaliation for a lawsuit against the tabloid filed by Jagger.
