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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.
The death penalty seems appropriate.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 09 05 at 12:06 PM • permalink
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
Smokers are worse than Hitler.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 09 05 at 01:29 PM • permalink
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
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
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
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
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
#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
- 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.
- 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 cryPosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 09 05 at 11:27 PM • permalink
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.
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
#34 – At least Led Zeppelin introduced their groupies to healthier cuisine.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 06 at 04:48 AM • permalink
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.
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
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
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?