Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about the Rolling Stones swinging London days are insane.

They drank and drugged with royals, hung with East End gangsters.

In 1967, both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wound up in jail.

Keith, with a one-year sentence in Mick with three months.

Prior to that, the Rolling Stones jockeyed their way up the charts with the Beatles.

Contrast has dangerous,

drug-addled, sex-crazed black hats to Her Majesty's sanctioned lovable mob tops. In the mid-60s,

the Rolling Stones disrupted London's established social order with their music, their attitude,

and their vast influence as pop stars. They attracted into their orbit,

not only fellow bohemians and artists,

but well-heeled aristocrats and socialites.

The appeal of the Rolling Stones was so powerful that it went both ways,

drawing in not only British youth

accustomed to worshipping pop stars,

but also society's upper crust. To the establishment, this was highly

disruptive, threatening even. The Rolling Stones made powerful enemies, crooked headline-seeking

police sergeants, Scotland Yard, the press, American acid kings, and disgruntled chauffeurs,

and through it all, they also made

great music. Throughout their career of more than 50 years and counting, the Rolling Stones have

made some of the greatest music ever, and most of it almost never happened. Unlike the music

at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my

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