Mick Jagger and Keith Richards imprisoned in 1967

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Famously, in 1967, the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were sentenced to spend three months and a year in prison respectively. On appeal Richards' conviction was overturned, and Jagger's sentence was suspended. What if the convictions stood? Would the Rolling Stones be able to reunite after they both complete their sentences? How does this impact the London music scene and drug scene? Would other big sixties acts end up targeted? I'm not sure precisely how to do this, but what happens if Jagger and Richards actually go to prison?
 

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jager and richards in prison

maybe in prison they could write some really good blues tunes with no distractions.:eek:
 
Beyond the implication of the effective end of the Rolling Stones, I do wonder whether the imprisonment of Jagger and Richards would encourage British authorities to take a more hard line stance than they did, and whether other big names in the pop and rock music world could end up in prison on drug charges. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were not the only drug users on the pop music scene at the time as everyone knows. At the same time I wonder whether other artists, not wanting to suffer the fate of the Rolling Stones, would end up fleeing Britain, and whether a group of pop/rock music exiles would emerge some place else, someplace where there would be less of a risk of prison.
 
Two thoughts.

Firstly, the Blues inspired Rock of the Rolling Stones mixed with prison will make for an interesting sound and inspiration for music and songs after they get out. Prison and the Blues go very well together. They could find some common ground in themselves and their Blues heroes in that, and comment on that thereafter, and it could give them a deeper sense of some things.

Secondly, the youth will be piiiiiiiiiiiissed. I would very likely expect to see outrage and protests, the underground papers and counterculture rallying, anyone in the music business associated with the Rolling Stones rallying, and an absolute outrage. Things will be done, possibly violent, and pressure will be put on people to make get them out.
 

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.....I would very likely expect to see outrage and protests, the underground papers and counterculture rallying, anyone in the music business associated with the Rolling Stones rallying, and an absolute outrage. Things will be done, possibly violent, and pressure will be put on people to make get them out.

Might that have some negative consequence, when black people who have seen their own getting frequently banged-up for a bit of ganja witness all that effort being gone to for the sake of a couple of white boys?

May just create divisions between black & white political activists, or maybe even some disturbances in somewhere like Brixton or St Pauls?

Or maybe not, of course, but y'know how it is once those butterflies get flapping.
 
Two thoughts.

Firstly, the Blues inspired Rock of the Rolling Stones mixed with prison will make for an interesting sound and inspiration for music and songs after they get out. Prison and the Blues go very well together. They could find some common ground in themselves and their Blues heroes in that, and comment on that thereafter, and it could give them a deeper sense of some things.

Secondly, the youth will be piiiiiiiiiiiissed. I would very likely expect to see outrage and protests, the underground papers and counterculture rallying, anyone in the music business associated with the Rolling Stones rallying, and an absolute outrage. Things will be done, possibly violent, and pressure will be put on people to make get them out.

Will Jagger be willing to wait nine months for Keith Richards? There have been comments on the kind of music the Rolling Stones will make post prison, but I am not sure they will get back together, given the different sentences and given the fact that everyone else in the group is not going to be waiting around for the pair. Presumably, Jagger and Richards will return to music, but they may not be working together. I think they leave Britain after prison if they can.

I agree that they will be a cause of the moment. But will authorities think that the successful imprisonment of the two Stones means they can go after all the drug users in the music world? Would another domino fall? Jimi Hendrix? Eric Clapton? Yes, in 1967, there is absolutely no way that a Beatle would face trial, everyone else may be at risk of following the Stones into prison, and one more conviction would trigger a pop cultural exile somewhere. The big question in my mind is if the conviction would have been a one off event or not.
 
I also wonder what the other Stones will do. I think they have a few options
1. Split Up Entirely. With the former Stones either joining new bands or becoming session musicians.
2. Form a new band with a new singer and a new guitarist to take the place of the imprisoned members.
3. Wait for Jagger to serve his sentence, but hire a new guitarist to replace the still imprisoned Keith Richards.
4. Wait for both Richards and Jagger to serve their setences and go on hiatus for a year.

I think it will be a mix of the first and the third option. But then again, I could be wrong. By this point, Brian Jones, if I remember correctly, already was not on good terms with Jagger or Richards, and in 1967 he was not as far gone as he would be a year later. In 1968 you have claims that Jones had forgotten how to play a guitar, but in 1967 he's still as talented an instrumentalist as ever, and he could well take the imprisonment of his bandmates as an excuse to leave the group. I don't know as much as I should about Jones, but from the little I do know I think, in 1967, he could have found success as a session man. Then again he was closer with the remaining Stones than he was with either Jagger and Richards, so I could see him being a part of a rump band if it was formed.
 
Ok, I think that Brian Jones might have formed his own group (maybe Traffic with Steve Winwood?) Bill would either join him or become a session musician. Charlie might have joined too but he would probably reunite with Jagger and Richards when theyre both out of jail.

After Mick is done with his 3 month sentence, theres still 9 months left for Richards, perfect time to record a solo album, imo. I think that this could be one of the best albums of the decade.. or the worst. He might have continued with the psychedelia that they did with the (unreleased at this point) Satanic Majesties Request. That would be kinda bad, imo. But it would be really cool if he would do a kind of a concept album around someone that has experienced prison and how it is really like. Maybe write a little story about it and a movie in the 70s could be made. I actually see Mick going solo if the album goes well. If it don´t, however, he will wait for Keith and get back Charlie, a new guitarist and bassist. If Mick decides to go solo, Keith will either; a) do even more drugs and get a longer prison sentence, b) start a supergroup, c) go solo as well, d) die of some sort of overdose

As for their satanic majesties request.. It will probably be seen as an album that fans would be happy that it didnt get released. Mick Jagger might have recorded "Citadel" and "Shes a Rainbow" though. Great songs. Debut solo singles??
 
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