Mick Jagger 1967’s Mugshot Premium Cotton T-Shirt
Mugshot Story
After the 12 February 1967 “Redlands” drug raid on Keith Richards’ Sussex home, Mick Jagger was eventually tried at Chichester Crown Court and, on 29 June 1967, convicted of possessing four Italian-bought amphetamine tablets. Judge Leslie Block fined him £200 and sent the 24-year-old singer to Brixton Prison for three months.
Intake officers there snapped the now-iconic front-and-profile photo—the slate reading “35098 M. P. Jagger”—capturing the Stones’ front-man in a neat suit and tie, eyes defiant yet anxious.
Jagger spent just one night behind bars. The very next morning The Times ran William Rees-Mogg’s thunderous editorial “Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”, arguing the sentence was wildly excessive. Public sympathy surged; Jagger was released on £7,000 bail that afternoon, and on 31 July 1967 the Court of Appeal quashed the jail term, replacing it with a conditional discharge.
The photograph, once routine prison paperwork, became a counter-culture trophy—proof of the widening gulf between Swinging London and Britain’s moral guardians.
