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Last updated on July 16th, 2017 at 12:13 pm

Rolling Stones scandal, 1967:

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of rock band the Rolling Stones have appeared before magistrates in Chichester, West Sussex, charged with drug offences.

Rolling Stones scandal, 2007:

A live UK music venue today dodged a fine after members of the Rolling Stones lit up cigarettes on stage in defiance of the smoking ban.

Posted by Tim B. on 09/05/2007 at 11:35 AM
    1. And so the generation born in a crossfire hurricane – Keef and Ron honourably excepted – has become the most puritanical in modern history. Truly pathetic. What next, a ban on Mars bars by obesity epidemic activists?

      Posted by C.L. on 2007 09 05 at 12:04 PM • permalink

 

    1. The death penalty seems appropriate.

      Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 09 05 at 12:06 PM • permalink

 

    1. The Rolling Stones has more embalming fluid than brains, but it’s nice to see them still thumbing their noses at the PC idiots trying to make everyone live down to their standards.

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 05 at 12:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. If I ever perform in England, I’m going to dip snuff and spit on stage.

      Posted by Hucbald on 2007 09 05 at 12:29 PM • permalink

 

    1. #1 Ah, Mars bars.  Thanks, we missed that one.

      /signed
      Nanny Staters.

      Posted by rbj1 on 2007 09 05 at 12:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. 40 years of “progressive” politics. By 2047 pretty much everything will be banned.

      Posted by Observer on 2007 09 05 at 12:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. Smokers are worse than Hitler.

      Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 09 05 at 01:29 PM • permalink

 

    1. Everything not required is forbidden. Likewise, everything not forbidden is required.

      Now EAT YOUR PEAS!

      Posted by mojo on 2007 09 05 at 01:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. #7 but not as bad a Bush.

      All time evil list:
      #5 Hitler
      #4 Satan
      #3 Smokers
      #2 Goebbels Warmening Denialists
      #1 George W. Bush

      Hmmm, maybe #4 should be The Joooooos.

      Posted by rbj1 on 2007 09 05 at 01:53 PM • permalink

 

    1. I started smoking because of this fascist bullshit.

      A pack a week. It’s going to destroy my health in about 200 years..

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 09 05 at 01:57 PM • permalink

 

    1. Well, the poor old dears can’t manage the hard drugs anymore.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 09 05 at 02:29 PM • permalink

 

    1. We used to drop acid, now we drop antacid.

      Posted by Latino on 2007 09 05 at 02:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. …But it’s all right now, in fact it’s a gas.

      Posted by Vexorg on 2007 09 05 at 02:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. They could’ve brought out a teenage girl who went the adoption over abortion route but I guess they are not that brave.

      Posted by yojimbo on 2007 09 05 at 02:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. Fixed:

      All time evil list:
      #5 Hitler
      [s]#4 Satan[/s] (Remember, if you’re a leftist, there’s no such thing)
      #4 the Jooooooooos(TM)
      #3 Smokers
      #2 Goebbels Warmening Denialists
      #1 George W. Bush

      Posted by Vexorg on 2007 09 05 at 03:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. Ack, that’s what happens when I try to write stuff without using the “I’m too stupid to figure out the tags” buttons.

      Posted by Vexorg on 2007 09 05 at 03:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. Observer—40 years of “progressive” politics. By 2047 pretty much everything will be banned.

      True, but civil disobedience gets progressively easier.

      When I was in London in May, many a double decker sported banners reminding “England Goes Smokefree July 1st”. I know it made me wanna light up.

      Theodore Dalryrmple reflects on Tony Blair’s legacy which, he says, was chock-o-block full of this nanny statism (and worse):

      Tony Blair’s most alarming characteristic, however, has been his enmity to freedom in his own country, whatever his feelings about it in other countries. No British prime minister in 200 years has done more to curtail civil liberties than has Blair.

      Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 05 at 03:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. Coulda been the Rolling Stones.
      Coulda been a teenage prank involving a pack of Lucky’s and the mummies from the British Museum.
      Too hard to tell, really.

      Posted by Merlin on 2007 09 05 at 03:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. #15 Vexorg

      I think that’s about right for a World Listing, but in Australia change “Hitler” to “Howard” (or maybe even another “George W. Bush”. It’s a tight one. George is extremely evil, you know.)

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 09 05 at 08:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. As for the Rolling Stones, I can’t believe the media hoo-haa over this. Jagger said that it was only marijuana.

      Tobacco’s just ridiculous, sensationalist pap.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 09 05 at 08:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. What makes you think that they’re more upset over “drugs” than cigarettes?  Many of the anti-tobacco Nazis are hempists.

      Posted by Andy Freeman on 2007 09 05 at 08:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. Happily for Mick And Keef, who should still be looking for satisafaction when The Caliphate is up and running Britain, they are far more tolerant of smoking. And getting stoned is the law!

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 05 at 08:48 PM • permalink

 

    1. It makes me feel like weeping, when I see how, as humans, we have allowed ourselves to become so easily manipulated and controlled like cattle.

      Posted by BJM on 2007 09 05 at 10:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. You better stop, look around, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes…

      Posted by charles austin on 2007 09 05 at 10:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. Don’t be mean to Keef.  Why, he looks the same as he did twenty years ago!

      Someone back in ‘63 or so predicted that by 2000 the Stones would seem as tame and innocuous as teddy bears.  He didn’t count on the hyper-ensensitivation of health attitudes in our own days.  Rawk on, guys!

      Posted by The Sanity Inspector on 2007 09 05 at 10:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. Mars Bars?

      From my cold, dead hands.

      Posted by kae on 2007 09 05 at 10:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. #21

      Many of the anti-tobacco Nazis are hempists.

      They all know that hemp is harmless.

      Posted by kae on 2007 09 05 at 10:48 PM • permalink

 

    1. #27 – Not in rope form, in a prison cell with good hanging points.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 05 at 10:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. Slightly OT.
      Some Lord Justice Sedley in the UK has called for the whole population of the UK and VISITORS to be included in the national DNA database. At the moment only 4 million people are on it who are guilty or cleared of crimes. He says this is ‘indefensible’ as it is biased against ethnic minorities and would be fairer to include everyone guilty or innocent.
      Another bloody progressive with too much say. No wonder people there are bailing out of there.

      Posted by BJM on 2007 09 05 at 10:59 PM • permalink

 

    1. If you spark me up
      If you spark me up, they’Il call the cops
      If you spark me up
      If you spark me up, they’Il call the copsI’m not smoking pot
      the pc police are gonna blow their tops
      If you spark me up
      If you spark me up they’ll never stop
      It makes the nannies cry
      Snuff out the fag,or feel the spleen of,
      disapproving, smokin mu- ja- hedeen,

      If you spark me up
      If you spark me up, they’Il call the cops
      If you spark me up
      If you spark me up, they’Il call the cops
      call the cops
      call the cops
      call the cops
      It makes the nannies cry
      It makes the nannies cry

      Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 09 05 at 11:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. I quit two years ago.

      This makes me want to start up again!!

      Posted by Elkor on 2007 09 05 at 11:28 PM • permalink

 

    1. The Stones have however raised the bar for selling out.

      Rolling Stones sell out in the 1960s:

      In one of the more famous examples of musical censorship, on The Ed Sullivan Show, the band was initially refused permission to perform the number, ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together.’ Sullivan himself told Jagger, “Either the song goes or you go”. A compromise was reached to substitute the words “let’s spend some time together” in place of “let’s spend the night together…”

      Rolling Stones sell out in the 2006:

      Rolling Stones drop ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together’ and five other songs from their set to appease the Communist authorities in China.

      Posted by monaro on 2007 09 06 at 03:57 AM • permalink

 

    1. Mars bars in 1967. Now didn’t Marianne Faithful get busted for a Mars Bar at the famous bust at Keith’s home, Redlands in 1967? Urban Legend has it that the Nutrition Nazis would have had a hard time criticising her because she not actually eating it.. oh, never mind.

      Posted by James Hamilton on 2007 09 06 at 04:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. #34 – At least Led Zeppelin introduced their groupies to healthier cuisine.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 06 at 04:48 AM • permalink

 

    1. Don’t laugh about the Mars bars.  It’ll happen.

      When guns were banned in the UK (except for drug dealers and muggers), some people said “What next?  Sharp knives?”.  Oh how they laughed

      The pommy wowsers are lining up drink as their next target.

      Posted by murph on 2007 09 06 at 05:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. Murph!!!!!!

      CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!******

      2000 POSTS!!!!!!

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 09 06 at 05:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’ll see Pog’s congratulations and double it. Well done, Murph.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 09 06 at 07:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. Why thankyou very much…

      Posted by murph on 2007 09 06 at 07:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. Ur such a showoff, Murph. 8-p

      Posted by kae on 2007 09 06 at 07:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. I do my worst

      Posted by murph on 2007 09 06 at 07:38 AM • permalink

 

    1. In a related action, last night I went out for shopping.  Amongst the items on my shopping list were pipe cleaners.

      Now, I don’t smoke, but I am not concerned about those people who do smoke.  If they want to, fine.  I need them to clean weapons.

      But I hit two stores that have tobacco products…..but they don’t carry pipe cleaners any more.  In fact, the manager at one store (a nationwide pharmacy chain) told me that they were phasing out all tobacco products.

      And this is in the “fly over country” of the United States.

      So the wowsers are moving slowly but surely through America……

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 06 at 01:18 PM • permalink

 

  1. I think that Keith, after putting down the oxygen mask, forgot to turn the tank off. No Keith flambe! If it’s possible he seems even more forgetful now after falling out of that palm tree.

    Posted by Pat Patterson on 2007 09 06 at 11:43 PM • permalink