The Rolling Stones: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll (TRIH eps 558-559)
1967 · Resource
"We're not worried about petty morals." What happened to the Rolling Stones in 1967 to see them on the brink of imprisonment and mass censure, while at the height of their success, with fame, fortune, mansions, world tours, and best selling albums to their names? Was Brian Jones, the band's founder, murdered, after being found floating in his swimming pool? Under what pressures and against the backdrop of what other controversies, did they produce some of the best rock albums of all time? An...
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Around 1967
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)