Mick Jagger

[Pina]

The soundtrack to the movie "Alfie" has some original songs written, produced and performed by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart. They're really good! Check out "Old Habits Die Hard", "Blind Leading the Blind" and "Let's Make It Up".

Carlos, thank you for the CD!

[Paulo]

Secret files on Jagger drug probe

Sir Mick Jagger may now be a knight of the realm but 35 years ago when he claimed that detectives had tried to plant drugs on him, police were distinctly unimpressed.

Secret files now released to the National Archives show that an internal inquiry by Scotland Yard dismissed the allegations, saying the Rolling Stones singer was caught up in "the world of users of dangerous drugs".

Jagger's main witnesses were described as "the dregs of society", while his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull - who was also caught up in the claims - was said to be a "most unreliable person".

The allegations followed a police raid on Jagger's home in London's fashionable Cheyne Walk in Chelsea on May 28, 1969 led by the head of the local drugs squad, Detective Sergeant Robin Constable. A quantity of cannabis resin was seized by the police. However, the allegation that Constable had tried to plant some "white powder" on Jagger and then demanded a £1,000 bribe to drop the charges only surfaced some weeks later when Jagger and Faithfull were filming in Australia.

In the midst of shooting, Faithfull was rushed to hospital in Sydney with a drugs overdose after suffering hallucinations that she was the dead Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones.

She told the Australian detectives who came to interview her that she "hated coppers" because of her recent experience at the hands of the police in England.

"She elaborated on this, alleging that her recent arrest in England for 'possession of cannabis' was a result of a trumped up charge when the chief of the Chelsea drug squad called at the flat she and Jagger occupied and produced some cannabis stating that he would arrest them if they didn't pay him money," the Australian police report stated.

The claim that Constable had tried to plant drugs and then attempted to solicit a bribe was to form the basis of the singer's defence when he was charged with cannabis possession at Marlborough Street Magistrates Court.

Jagger also went on to allege that the cannabis seized in Cheyne Walk had "shrunk" while in police possession from a half pound block to just a third of an ounce - the inference being that it was being sold by corrupt officers. Although he was found guilty and fined £200 and ordered to pay 50 guineas in costs, Scotland Yard felt that they had little option but to investigate Jagger's claims.

However, after interviewing all those involved the Yard's investigating officer, Detective Chief Inspector William Wilson said the claims came down to Jagger's word against Constable's. "Michael Jagger is an intelligent young man, and doubtless is on the fringe, if not embroiled in the world of users of dangerous drugs," he noted.

Source: MSN News