When Keith Richards threw a drug-fuelled party at his West Sussex house in early 1967, it was never going to be an uneventful affair.
Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were the star guests but the police came uninvited, so launching a legendary confrontation.
The drugs bust spawned a media frenzy of salacious speculation and led to a famous summer trial that pitted the hedonistic poster boys of the counterculture against the British Establishment. It was intended as a high-profile show of strength from on high.
As it happened, things turned out rather differently.