Free Keith! Free Keith!
Every time Richards pulled up to the courtroom, he was greeted with five to six hundred fans chanting, “Free Keith, free Keith.” Between his superstardom and his muscular legal defense team, Keith was found guilty but still managed to walk away nearly scotch-free. His sentence was to play a benefit concert for the blind, which Richards gladly did.
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So, how did Richards and his legal team manage to pull this one-off? Well, the guitarist partied with some pretty important people while on bail in Canada. The Prime Minister’s wife, Margaret Trudeau, was a huge fan of The Rolling Stones and hung out with the band.