“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then- whoosh, and I’m gone…and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me- ever.”

So, Yossarian - draw your own conclusions

Sounds like you were definitely ‘there’.

“i was there Stig - got the teeshirt - and yes you are absolutely right.”

I’m always right!

Good thing you got the T-shirt, as it will be the only evidence you ‘were’ there, seeing as how you don’t remember a thing, it all being a bit of a blur.

“Morisson’s blatant disregard for law and authority and society’s fear of his corrupting influence made him a police target all over America and throughout the world.”

Oh how history likes to repeat itself. Speaking of which - any of this sound familiar?

“Public attention was drawn to his marijuana use by the TV documentary, A Boy Called Donovan, broadcast in early 1966, which showed the singer and friends smoking cannabis at a party thrown by the film crew. However, it now appears that the Drug Squad were already planning to target many British pop stars, and Donovan’s arrest proved to be the first in a long series, including members of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Donovan’s arrest garnered a great deal of publicity, and in early 1967, Donovan was the subject of an exposé by the British newspaper, the News of the World.

According to Donovan’s autobiography, the article was based on an unauthorized interview given by an ex-girlfriend of his closest friend, Gypsy Davy. It was the first installment of a three-part series, “Drugs & Pop Stars - Facts That Will Shock You”. Although some claims were probably true, others were false. The most notorious instance was that of the News Of The World reporter’s claiming to have spent an evening with Mick Jagger, who (he alleged) discussed his drug use and offered drugs to companions. Only after publication was it discovered that the reporter had mistaken Brian Jones for Jagger, who sued the paper.

Among other supposed revelations were claims that Donovan and other stars including members of The Who, Cream, The Rolling Stones, and The Moody Blues regularly smoked marijuana, used other illicit drugs, and held parties where the recently banned hallucinogen LSD was used, specifically naming The Who’s Pete Townshend and Cream’s Ginger Baker as LSD users.

It emerged later that the News Of The World reporters were using access to pop stars to gather information and pass it to the police. In the late 1990s, an article in The Guardian revealed that it was News Of The World reporters who alerted the police about the party at Keith Richards’s house, Redlands, which was raided in the early hours of 12 February 1967, just after George Harrison and his wife had left.”

wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan

Seeing history repeat itself puts me in the mood for a little song.., everybody sing along…a one, a two..

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

See how they run like pigs from a gun see how they fly,
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Mister city policeman sitting pretty little policemen in a row

See how they fly like Lucy in the sky see how they run,

….

See how they smile like pigs in a sty see how they snide