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Fact #118089

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Short story:

The Rolling Stones, Ike And Tina Turner, The Yardbirds, Peter Jay and The Jaywalkers, Long John Baldry and others play at The City Hall, Newcastle, UK.

Full article:

Gered Mankowitz (photographer) : The drugs were still quite private then. You didn't go round the streets with a joint. I remember one time when we did, thinking it was pretty daring. Andrew (Stones' manager Andrew Oldham) pushed it sometimes, asking a policeman for a light for his joint in Newcastle in 1966 when we were doing the Ike And Tina Turner tour. But there were no drugs backstage in those days because there were always police outside the door.
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