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When Scotland Yard was out hunting rock stars

2020-10-28T02:36:01.310Z


Norman Pilcher, the drug cop who arrested John Lennon, Brian Jones or George Harrison, recalls their rise and fall in his memoirs


To paraphrase the poet, his name poisoned dreams, the dreams of beautiful people.

The stars of Swinging London were convinced that a bogeyman was on their trail.

A policeman who did not fail: he raided your home and, if he did not find incriminating material, Norman Pilcher made, hocus pocus, some prohibited substance appear.

In 1967, the hallucinated

I Am The Walrus came out

, where John Lennon made fun of a certain "Semolina Pilchard".

At the time, the Beatles believed ...

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