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Fact #124684

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Short story:

During a Rolling Stones concert at Treasure Island Gardens, London, Ontario, Canada, local police officers turn off the power and refuse to allow the concert to continue.

Full article:

Bill Durst (audience) : I remember Mick Jagger taking the hat off a policeman and putting it on and walking across the stage.

Doug Varty (audience) : Brian Jones had the greatest hair, I remember that. A girl jumped out of the crowd and hung on to him until somebody peeled her off.

Sheila Curnoe (audience) : It was so noisy, you couldn't hear anything and then they pulled the plug.

Brian Jones (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : They didn't give us any warning. They just turned off the power.

Jan Miszczyk (audience) : I won a contest and went backstage and met them. I was taller than all of them.