![1967: The Redlands drug bust has gone down in rock history thanks mainly to THAT Mars Bar/Marianne Faithfull urban legend (which Richards late debunked in his autobiography, Life). Richards and Mick Jagger were at Richards' Sussex house with friends when a police raid cut short their weekend. The two were charged with possession of amphetamines and cannabis but their sentences were overturned after protests from the music community and a Times editorial supporting Richards and Jagger.]()
1967: The Redlands drug bust has gone down in rock history thanks mainly to THAT Mars Bar/Marianne Faithfull urban legend (which Richards late debunked in his autobiography, Life). Richards and Mick Jagger were at Richards' Sussex house with friends when a police raid cut short their weekend. The two were charged with possession of amphetamines and cannabis but their sentences were overturned after protests from the music community and a Times editorial supporting Richards and Jagger.
![1973: Months before the release of the Stones' 11th album Goats Head Soup, Keith was busted with a wide and impressive variety of drugs and paraphernalia. His haul allegedly included cannabis, heroin, mandrax tablets, burnt spoons, a handgun, a rifle and 110 rounds of ammunition. Sounds like an interesting weekend.]()
1973: Months before the release of the Stones' 11th album Goats Head Soup, Keith was busted with a wide and impressive variety of drugs and paraphernalia. His haul allegedly included cannabis, heroin, mandrax tablets, burnt spoons, a handgun, a rifle and 110 rounds of ammunition. Sounds like an interesting weekend.
![1977: In what could have signalled his premature departure from the band, Richards was charged with]()
1977: In what could have signalled his premature departure from the band, Richards was charged with "possession of heroin for the purpose of trafficking" which we all know is a pretty big dealio. Indeed, Richards could have been sentenced anytime from 7 years to life. Luckily, the charges were later dropped. "I'm going to be doing some hard f*cking time," Richards later wrote about the incident. "I'd better get ready. Which is one of the reasons I finally cleaned up."
![1978: Alongside ex-wife Anita Pallenberg, Richards once accidentally burned down an LA house. The pair escaped naked, and Richards later recalled how]()
1978: Alongside ex-wife Anita Pallenberg, Richards once accidentally burned down an LA house. The pair escaped naked, and Richards later recalled how "everything had burned down, except for one wooden stump of a pillar, and in the bedroom this little portion of a chest of drawers, which had my passport, all my favourite tapes, jewellery, a shooter with five hundred rounds of ammunition. All untouched."
![1980s: It's always tricky enough introducing your mother to your new partner, but imagine your partner's friend offering your mum drugs? That's what happened to Ronnie Wood's ex-wife Jo Wood, who detailed an awkward meeting between Richards and her mother in her autobiography Hey Jo, claiming Richards brazenly offered her mother cocaine and marijuana.]()
1980s: It's always tricky enough introducing your mother to your new partner, but imagine your partner's friend offering your mum drugs? That's what happened to Ronnie Wood's ex-wife Jo Wood, who detailed an awkward meeting between Richards and her mother in her autobiography Hey Jo, claiming Richards brazenly offered her mother cocaine and marijuana.
![2002: Richards had a close relationship with his father Bert. So close, in fact, that he snorted his late papa's ashes.]()
2002: Richards had a close relationship with his father Bert. So close, in fact, that he snorted his late papa's ashes. "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," he told NME. "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a shit. It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive." Richards then claimed he was joking, but seemed to confirm the revelation was true in his autobiography a few years later.
