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1:46

In the nineteen seventies, the rolling

1:48

stones were a mess. They

1:51

were busted countless times for

1:53

heroin, marijuana, illegal

1:56

possession of guns. Keith

1:58

Richards, in particular, was

2:00

a special kind of indestructible mess.

2:03

He drove his Bentley off the road too

2:05

many times to count. While smoking

2:08

heroin and cocaine, he'd lit multiple

2:10

homes on fire. Including the Playboy

2:12

mansion. And

2:13

he may or may not have had something to do with

2:15

stealing the dead body of his friend and

2:18

fellow musician, Grand Parsons.

2:21

But Keith Richards, in his band,

2:23

the very dangerous rolling stones made

2:26

great music, especially in

2:28

the seventies. That music you were

2:30

hearing at the top of the show. That wasn't

2:32

great music. That was a preset

2:34

loop for my melotron called

2:36

Foxtrot swinging Saxes. MK2I

2:41

played you that loop because I can't afford

2:43

the license for new kid in town

2:45

by the Eagles. And why would

2:47

I play you that awful piece of Johnny

2:50

come lately, peaceful easy

2:52

cheese could I afford it? Because

2:54

that was the number one song in America

2:56

on February twenty seven, nineteen

2:59

seventy seven, and that was

3:01

the day that Keith Richards was busted for heroin

3:03

trafficking just days before

3:06

members of his group, the most dangerous

3:08

band on the planet. The rolling stones

3:11

would sleep with the first lady of Canada

3:13

and set off an international incident.

3:17

On this episode, foxtrot swinging

3:20

saucers, throwing stones, lots

3:22

of sex, even more drugs,

3:25

and great rock and roll. I'm

3:27

Jake Brennan, and this is

3:29

this Graceland. The

3:52

rolling stones It should be noted

3:54

for the purpose of this podcast are

3:56

probably my favorite band of all time.

3:58

It's a toss-up between them and the Badbrands.

4:01

And depends on my mood and how organized

4:03

my record collection is when you ask me.

4:06

But to me, the rolling stones embody

4:08

everything good and bad about

4:10

rock and roll. And by bad, I

4:12

mean, even when they were bad, they

4:15

were good. Let me rephrase

4:17

that. Even when things were bad,

4:19

they were fucking great, especially

4:22

in the

4:22

seventies. Don't believe me?

4:24

Okay. When their founding member,

4:27

Brian Jones, got fucked up and drowned

4:29

in a pool, a kid from John Male's

4:31

blues breakers, Mick Taylor, overfilled

4:33

Brian's big shoes to help the stones

4:36

make their most creatively consistent run

4:38

of records. Let it bleed, sticky

4:40

fingers, and exile on mainstream.

4:43

When the band missed out on playing in front of

4:45

half a million people at Woodstock because

4:48

their singer, Mick Jagger, was off in Australia,

4:50

making a western nobody would ever see

4:52

called Ned Kelly, the stones

4:54

created their own woodstock up in Northern

4:57

California. A free concert for

4:59

their own fans at a speedway called

5:01

Altima. Less universal flower

5:04

power and more stone centric.

5:07

When things went sideways at Altamonte because

5:10

the Hell's angels, the biker gang, the

5:12

band hired to run security, killed

5:14

a dude in the audience, The stones

5:16

found themselves at the center of a generation punctuating

5:19

moment. The seventies

5:21

were about to begin. And the stones got

5:23

credit for putting a dagger into the heart

5:25

of the flower children. Rock and

5:27

Roll was meant to be dangerous, and the stones

5:29

were now the most dangerous band on the planet.

5:33

They then hit the road with a circus of sex,

5:35

drugs, and rock and roll, a true

5:37

traveling outlaw roadshow. Scared

5:40

the shit out of middle America, cops,

5:42

parents, holy rollers, and left

5:44

almost as many casualties as they claimed

5:46

in converts. They sold countless

5:48

records and sold out stadiums and

5:51

in the process led the music industry

5:53

into a new era of bank making

5:56

constantatory. And all of this,

5:58

it happened before nineteen seventy four.

6:03

Given what the Rowan Stones have become,

6:05

A cultural institution, Dad

6:08

Rock, that Band Martin scores says

6:10

he makes videos for. An expensive

6:12

night out with the wife. One where

6:14

your Instagram posts from their concert

6:16

will engender both envy and

6:18

snark from your friends. Given

6:21

all of this, it's hard to imagine

6:23

or remember if you were there, just

6:25

how dangerous the stones actually

6:28

were in the seventies. In

6:31

nineteen seventy, the band owned their

6:33

record label, DECA, one

6:35

more single, which they did not want

6:37

to deliver. The relationship had

6:39

long since soured. And the stones

6:41

were eager to move on. But

6:44

contracts being what they are, the

6:46

band had to give the label something. So

6:49

they went into the studio and recorded

6:51

a simple mid temple blues, but

6:53

with lyrics referencing anal

6:55

and oral sex. It was Mick

6:57

Jagger. Gleefully singing, screaming,

7:01

and moaning from the receiving end

7:03

of both. Knowing the

7:05

lyrical content would make the song unsellable

7:08

for the label. They took it a step further

7:10

and delivered the song to Deku with the title.

7:13

Cock sucker's blues. In

7:15

two thousand eighteen, it's hard to imagine

7:17

any mainstream artists bucking their

7:19

industry kingmakers with so much attitude

7:22

but this happened in nineteen seventy.

7:26

By the mid seventies, guitarist Mick

7:28

Taylor, despite being able to match

7:30

Keith Richard's lick for lick guitar,

7:33

could not match Keith's drinking and

7:34

drugging, and suddenly up and

7:37

quit the band to save his own life. He

7:39

was

7:40

replaced by Ron Wood, which is like

7:42

replacing a flickering out light bulb with

7:44

a bolt of lightning. What do

7:46

he quickly fit into the stone's way of doing

7:48

things? Both on and

7:50

offstage. In

7:53

offstage, in the seventies, the

7:55

stones were a disaster. They

7:57

were arrested almost too many times

7:59

to come. For heroin, marijuana,

8:03

illegal possession of handguns, rifles,

8:07

Keith, in particular, was a special

8:10

kind of disaster. He regularly

8:12

drove his cars off the road too many

8:14

times to come. To the point where Mick

8:16

Jagger was convinced that his guitar players

8:18

end was near. Keith

8:21

and the Stone Sachs player Bobby

8:23

Keys almost burned down the Playboy

8:25

mansion while getting high in Heft's bathroom.

8:28

To get through their live shows, The band

8:30

relied on ultra pure pharmaceutical

8:33

grade cocaine, an elaborate

8:35

tunnel system behind beneath their

8:37

stage. Where they can quickly disappear

8:39

in the middle of a show, do a bump

8:41

or two, and get back to their marks.

8:44

Another fire, this one, a

8:46

rager, had Keith escaping out

8:48

of a girlfriend's Laurel Canyon home

8:50

wearing only a t shirt and left a poo

8:53

bear to safety. He survived

8:55

unscathed, as did his friend,

8:57

his gun, and five hundred rounds

8:59

of ammunition. In

9:02

the nineteen seventies, the world regarded

9:04

the rolling stones as an insular band

9:06

of hedonistic but glamorous rock

9:08

and roll outlaws and dangerous

9:11

pansexual junkies. But

9:13

all the trouble they had stirred up to this

9:15

point would be dwarfed by the trouble

9:17

they would find themselves in, in Canada

9:19

in nineteen seventy seven. Up

9:22

until that point, Keith's constitution,

9:25

the band's money, and their collective

9:27

luck had fended off death and destruction.

9:30

But the scandal they were about to embroil

9:32

themselves in would touch the highest

9:35

levels of government and threatened to

9:37

destroy the band and they're so

9:39

far indestructible guitar

9:41

player.

9:57

The current prime minister of Canada, Justin

9:59

Trudeau, was five years old in nineteen

10:02

seventy seven. His father,

10:04

Pierre Trudeau, was at the time

10:06

CANADA'S PRIME MINISTER, A POPULAR

10:08

RESPECTED LIBERAL LEADER OF A FREE

10:11

WESTERN COUNTRY. PETE'S

10:13

WIFE, JUSTIN'S MOM, MARGARET,

10:15

was nearly thirty years younger than her husband.

10:19

In nineteen seventy seven, Margaret

10:21

Trudeau, the first lady of Canada,

10:23

was a beautiful and glamorous

10:26

twenty nine year old. She was also

10:28

filled with intense restlessness. The

10:31

kind that only a glamorous woman in her

10:33

twenties who has been romantically involved

10:35

with and married to a powerful man

10:37

nearly thirty years older than her since

10:39

her late teens can feel. After

10:43

the Trudeau was married, they were content.

10:46

Margaret gave birth to three children and

10:48

ran the home and took to photography while

10:50

Pierre ran the country. And for the most

10:52

part, Canadians loved their prime minister

10:55

in his young, flower, child, wife,

10:57

and growing family. But

10:59

for Margaret, any contentment she'd

11:01

felt would soon make way for that

11:03

pesky restlessness. Domesticity

11:06

was no match for the waiting jetset.

11:09

The first lady enraged Canadians

11:11

when word got out that on the eve of Canada's

11:13

national elections, she was in

11:16

London partying at the tramp night club.

11:19

The tramp was no ordinary nightclub.

11:21

It was a private members only club,

11:23

the catered to London's celebrity elite.

11:26

Ringo Starr and Liza Miniele had their wedding

11:28

receptions there. It was where Shirley

11:31

McClain felt comfortable enough to pass

11:33

out for at one of the clubs tables

11:35

and wake up in the morning to start drinking

11:37

all over again. It's where the

11:39

who's Keith Moon would strip down his

11:41

birthday suit for a quick laugh. And

11:43

where Mel Brooks would get on all fours

11:45

and how let them move. My

11:47

point, the tramp night club

11:49

wasn't exactly the environment. One

11:51

would expect the first lady to hang out.

11:55

But young Margaret Trudeau will prove

11:57

to be full of surprises. Her

11:59

restless promiscuity from this time

12:01

is legendary. She bedded

12:03

Prince Charles, US senator

12:05

Ted Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, darker

12:09

corners of the animal, would have you believe

12:11

that her rumored affair with Cuban dictator

12:13

Fidel Castro led to the illegitimate

12:16

birth of her first son and current

12:18

prime minister of Canada, Justin

12:20

Trudeau. Keep that in

12:22

mind next time you read or hear Justin

12:24

Trudeau's fawning tribute to Fidel

12:27

Castro after his death. You

12:29

may want to check the resemblance too,

12:31

but I digress. In March

12:33

of nineteen seventy seven, Margaret

12:35

and Pierre Trudeau, were about to celebrate

12:37

their sixth wedding anniversary, and

12:40

oh Canada was all hell

12:42

about to break loose.

12:44

We'll be right back after this word,

12:47

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12:56

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12:58

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13:00

We check for things like sunburns and scarring,

13:03

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13:05

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13:07

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13:10

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13:12

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13:14

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13:15

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for everyone. In the fall of nineteen

13:20

seventy six, Mick Jagger and Rolling

13:22

Stone's manager Peter Rudge

13:24

began scouting for a small venue to

13:26

complete their double live album. Love

13:28

you live. It was decided

13:31

that the intimate Elma combo nightclub

13:33

in Toronto would be the place. It

13:35

was perfect. Small, good

13:38

sound, and situated so

13:40

the production logistics would be relatively

13:42

uncomplicated. If the

13:44

rolling stones, the biggest and

13:46

baddest band on the planet, were to

13:48

perform in a four hundred capacity club,

13:51

Secrecy was of the utmost importance.

13:54

If word got out, the ensuing shit

13:56

show would prevent the gig from going off

13:59

and the whole trip would be waste of time

14:01

and money. In February

14:03

nineteen seventy seven, band members

14:06

with the exception of Keith, were already

14:08

in Toronto under the guise of rehearsing

14:11

for their upcoming summer stadium tour

14:14

Heath and his wife Anita Powenburg

14:16

rolled into Canada late as junkies

14:19

are want to do. When their

14:21

plane landed, authorities were waiting

14:23

for them notoriously drugged out proxy.

14:26

Heath had fixed on the plane, But somehow,

14:28

the spoon ended up in Anida's pocket.

14:32

She had busted. Keith,

14:34

once again, had managed to escape,

14:37

but the Canadian mountains were now on.

14:40

While missus Richards pondered her uncertain

14:42

fate, Keith and the rest of the Rock

14:45

and Roll circus took over six floors

14:47

at the Harbour Castle Hilton in Downtown

14:49

Toronto. The entourage was

14:52

immense. Management, publicists,

14:55

attorneys, aids, security,

14:58

crew, techs, wives,

15:01

girlfriends, groupies, journalists,

15:04

local scenesters, and other assorted

15:06

hangers on. The party was

15:09

endless. While

15:11

Stone's management tended to the setup of

15:13

the El Macabo shows, The band

15:15

rehearsed at night and fell back afterward

15:18

into the ongoing entourage party

15:20

back at the hotel into the morning.

15:23

Meanwhile, the mounties descended upon

15:25

the hotel with undercover cops

15:27

dressed as waiters to take in the

15:29

sea. And scope out where amongst

15:32

this madness, Keith was hold

15:34

up to the stash. They

15:36

soon determined which room he was copying

15:38

it, and waited until he passed out

15:40

before beginning their raid. When

15:48

they entered the room on February twenty

15:50

seven, nineteen seventy seven, Keith

15:52

was passed out. He'd been awake

15:54

for days. Rehearsing and partying.

15:58

It took some time for the mountains to rest.

16:00

When they finally did, Keith reminded

16:02

them that he needed to be conscious in order

16:04

to be arrested. The joke didn't

16:06

land. The mountains

16:08

found keys to entire stash, some

16:11

coke, a bit of weed, and the mother

16:13

load. Twenty two grams

16:15

of heroin. The moneys knew

16:17

their stuff too. This wasn't low

16:19

grade local swag. This was grade

16:22

a smack. The kind the royal

16:24

Canadian mounted police took pride

16:26

in keeping off of their streets. The

16:28

quantity in origin meant

16:30

one thing, intent to

16:32

distribute. They had Keith

16:35

on trafficking. This meant

16:37

a minimum. Of seven years.

16:40

And this wasn't some back county local

16:42

sheriff who could be bought off or some

16:44

local constable who owed the bands high

16:46

powered attorney in favor. This

16:48

was pissed off police, feds

16:51

who'd felt they'd been embarrassed at the airport.

16:54

Made to look like fools for allowing this

16:56

traveling shit show to establish

16:58

its own private Gamora in the middle

17:00

of downtown Toronto. Fuck

17:02

this. Bring the skinny prick in.

17:05

Throw the book at him. Send them away for

17:07

seven years and teach the rest of the world

17:09

not to fuck with the mounties. But

17:11

the moneys themselves fucked

17:14

up. They booked Keith in a police

17:16

station out of their jurisdiction And

17:18

because of this technicality, Keith

17:21

bounced after paying a next to nothing

17:23

no deposit bill. But

17:25

the pending trial in looming seven

17:27

year prison stint hung heavy on

17:29

the minds of the band and their handlers. This

17:32

could very well mean the end of the Rolling Stones,

17:35

but the band pressed on. They

17:37

continued to prep for their secret shows

17:39

that somehow still remained a secret,

17:42

rehearse, and of course, party,

17:45

even with an increased mounting presence hanging

17:47

out in the hotel lobby, the date

17:49

of the shows couldn't come soon enough.

17:53

On March fourth, nineteen seventy

17:55

seven, pedestrians passing by the

17:57

Elma combo heard what they thought

18:00

was a Rolling Stone's tribute band

18:02

rehearsing in preparation for that evening

18:04

show with Canadian rock band.

18:07

April why. But

18:09

later that evening, when the first lady

18:11

of Canada, Margaret Trudeau was

18:13

spotted backstage it was

18:15

clear that this was no tribute band.

18:18

Ladies and gentlemen, this

18:20

was the Rolling Stones. Earning

18:22

through an intimate club show, their

18:24

first in thirteen years, and there

18:26

were no flies on Keith, inspired

18:29

by Ronnie's new cake on early stones

18:31

covers, blues classics like Chuck

18:33

Barrys around and around how

18:35

and Wolf's little red rooster and

18:37

hell bent originals like brown sugar

18:40

and jumping jack flash, the stones

18:42

laid waste to the tiny Omnicom. Sweat,

18:46

sex, pure rock and roll.

18:49

The crowd was mesmerized. For

18:52

a minute, they'd forgotten that the first lady

18:54

was in the house. But

18:57

when the show ended and Margaret Trudeau

18:59

was spotted hopping into a limo with Mick

19:01

and Ronnie, things took a turn.

19:04

The press noted that this was the sixth

19:06

anniversary of her marriage to the country's

19:08

prime minister. What was she

19:10

doing out alone with the most dangerous rock

19:12

and roll band in the world. Rumors

19:15

started to circulate that back at the hotel,

19:18

missus Trudeau was seen running through the

19:20

halls wearing only a

19:21

bathrobe. The press,

19:23

as the cliched goes, had a field

19:25

day. But that didn't stop Maggie

19:28

from hanging out while the band remained in Toronto

19:30

for their last show at Elma Cabo. She

19:33

hung out at the hotel, looked after

19:35

Keith's young son, Marillyn. And in

19:37

her own words, it was innocent. All

19:40

she did was quote, smoke a little ash,

19:42

play dice, and drink a little wine,

19:44

unquote. Keith later claimed

19:46

that she did in fact, do a bit

19:48

more than that. To be blunt,

19:50

Keith's claims she'd slept with both Mick

19:53

and Ronnie at the same time.

19:57

Maggie hit the second show in the company of

19:59

both men. The press could

20:01

not believe what they were seeing. As

20:04

for a comment, while posing for a picture

20:06

with the first lady. The Rolling Stone's

20:08

drummer, Charlie Watts, claimed. I

20:11

wouldn't want my wife associating with

20:13

us.

20:30

The whole thing turned into an international incident.

20:33

The New York Daily News proclaimed, Ron

20:35

Wood is missus Trudeau's very special

20:38

stone. Mick Jagger who was

20:40

married to Bianca at the time, issued

20:42

a press release in the New York Post saying

20:44

that he and Marbittrudeau had no romantic

20:47

ties just to quote passing acquaintance

20:49

for two nights, unquote. And

20:51

the prime minister himself weighed in with

20:53

dry wit, saying of his wildflower wife.

20:56

I hope she doesn't start to see the Beatles.

20:59

It wouldn't be the Beatles. It would

21:01

first be the famous dancer, Macau

21:03

Barishnikoff, then the

21:05

famous photographer, Richard Avidan.

21:08

After arriving in New York with

21:10

the stones after the

21:12

Elma combo mess. But

21:14

not all of the stones would make the trip

21:16

out of Canada. Left behind

21:19

in the wreckage was illegally vulnerable,

21:21

strung out Keith Richards, hold

21:24

up in a hotel with his wife and young

21:26

son alone and afraid

21:28

in a country he had just made a mockery

21:31

of and that had lost its patience

21:33

with him. A waiting trial for

21:35

a sentence that was likely to lock

21:37

him up and break up his band. Keith's

21:40

fate, and ultimately the fate of the

21:42

band would be decided in court soon.

21:45

It was tough to gauge public opinion one

21:48

way or the other. The stones had their

21:50

fans for sure, but a good portion

21:52

of Canadians were pissed. The

21:54

ban had blown through their town and disrespected

21:56

their laws and their leader. In

21:58

the months before the trial, Keith publicly

22:01

sweated the end of his ban. Putting

22:03

it out to the press that if you were to go to jail,

22:05

the ban wouldn't continue. Mick,

22:08

saying a different tune, claiming the show

22:10

must go on. In

22:12

nineteen seventy eight, who could have

22:14

possibly replaced Keith Richards in a band

22:17

made in his image? Eric

22:19

Clapton, George Harrison, Jeff

22:22

Beck or they go with a relative

22:24

unknown, someone like Johnny Thunder's perhaps.

22:27

I'm guessing Mick had a plan to talk Mick

22:29

Taylor out of retirement. Or

22:32

was this hit for the rolling stones? Who

22:34

was gonna carry their weight for rock and roll?

22:37

The beaters were gone, the Eagles

22:39

were huge, but come on, the Eagles. Led

22:42

Zeppelin, maybe. I

22:44

mean, maybe this was it for Rock and Roll.

22:47

DISCO had taken over the charts. Punk

22:49

was making waves on both sides of the Atlantic,

22:51

and up in the Bronx, a bunch of kids were starting

22:54

to rhyme over mixed tapes from local DJs

22:56

and producers. And what the hell was that

22:58

all about? The what ifs

23:00

weighed on everyone, especially Keith.

23:03

The day of the trial finally arrived on

23:05

October twenty third. By

23:07

now, Keith had kicked smack in rehab,

23:09

but always the renegade. He faced

23:12

the judge wearing white socks in a three

23:14

piece tan suit with shoes more

23:16

scuffed than buffed. Keith

23:18

lawyers flew in Toronto, Nadah, Saturday

23:20

night live producer Lauren Michaels to

23:23

testify on Keith's behalf. Prosecutors

23:26

were not impressed. They sought

23:28

the maximum penalty. Life

23:31

imprisonment for trafficking. Keith

23:35

pled guilty to possession of heroin, but

23:37

not to drug trafficking. Then

23:39

in a stunning development, the judge

23:42

dropped the trafficking charges altogether and

23:44

accepted Keith's plea. What

23:47

just happened? A guardian

23:49

angel. That's what just

23:50

happened. The judge had been

23:52

prevailed upon by a young blind girl

23:55

who was a fan of Keith She wrote

23:57

the judge countless letters detailing

23:59

Keith's kindness toward

24:00

her. When they went unanswered, she

24:03

went to the judge's house to make her case in

24:05

person. She claimed whenever

24:07

the band had come to town, Keith had

24:09

sought her out, made sure she had a great

24:11

time, and made it home safely. Instructing

24:14

his rogue crew to see to it. A

24:16

kindness the rockstar took upon himself

24:18

to see to was a kindness the

24:21

judge would see to repaying with leniency.

24:24

He sentenced keys to probation and

24:26

mandated the stones perform a benefit

24:28

for the blind within six months. Keith

24:31

later claimed that, this chick went

24:33

to the judge's house in Toronto personally,

24:36

and she told him this simple story, you know,

24:39

And from there, think he figured out the way

24:41

to get Canada himself and myself

24:43

off of the hook. And so I was

24:45

sentenced to a concert for the blind, which

24:48

I gladly performed, you know? And

24:50

my blind angel came through. Bless

24:52

her heart. After

24:56

the incident, with Keith Free from the grips

24:58

of heroin, the Rolling Stones went on

25:00

to become a bigger force than ever. Their

25:03

next album, some girls became

25:05

an instant masterpiece. Their

25:07

nineteen eighty release, tattoo

25:09

you would rocket the band to a level

25:11

of superstarnam, that even they would

25:13

have been unable to imagine in the seventies.

25:16

They embarked upon the biggest tour in

25:18

the history of the music business, and

25:21

were on their way to becoming a cultural institution.

25:24

No band in the history of music

25:27

has been able to achieve and sustain

25:29

the level of success that the rolling stones

25:31

have. Would that have happened

25:34

without the intervention of a blind guardian

25:36

angel? Probably not.

25:39

And judging from the honky tonk send up

25:41

on side two of some girls, aptly

25:43

titled Far Away

25:45

Eyes, Making Keith soon

25:47

to agree with me. I'm

25:49

Jay Brennan, and this is

25:51

a disgrace that.

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