I recently discovered that as a teenager, Keith Richards rescued a monkey destined for vivisection from the science lab at Dartford Technical School, and for a short time raised it as his own baby. This story was mentioned in a feature run by the teen magazine Boyfriend in the early Sixties, intended to puncture the bad-boy image at the heart of the Rolling Stones’ campaign. It is now hard to imagine, but the establishment really did once quake at the prospect of Mick, Keith and friends – at their wildness, and what it meant for civilisation andyour daughters.
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