Episode #60 | 6.23.20
Rolling Stones (Part One): Swinging London, a Prison Break, East End Gangsters and the Anti-Beatles
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In this episode
London was swinging. Keith Richards was in jail. The Kray Twins were menacing about. Brian Jones was on too much LSD. Aristocrats were tripping over themselves to hang out with the Rolling Stones. England was smitten. The London Establishment was freaking out and the Stones’ manager wanted to know one thing: Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?
Sources
Life by Keith Richards
Faithfull, Marianne Faithfull
Rolling Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham
Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones Bios, 1965-1967: Height of Fame, by Angie Spray
Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham: Would You Let Your Daughter Meet Andrew? By Graham Reid
Inside Allen Klein’s Role in 1967 Jagger-Richards Drug Bust, by Rolling Stone
Donovan Busted in First of Many Rocker Arrests in London, by Songfacts
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Music
Score by Jake Brennan.
Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.
Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
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