In February 1967, a quiet Sussex evening shattered into legend when nineteen police officers stormed Redlands, the country home of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. What followed—arrests, trials, media hysteria, and a cultural firestorm—became one of the most controversial clashes between Britain’s youth revolution and the iron grip of the Establishment. *Redlands Bust: When the British Establishment Tried to Get the Rolling Stones* uncovers the full, gripping story behind that night: the tabloid vendettas, corrupt police squads, hidden informants, secret letters sealed for decades, and the mysterious figure known only as “Acid King Dave.” Blending meticulous archival research with vivid personal memoir, Keith David Cooley reveals how the raid reverberated far beyond celebrity scandal. As a teenage Mod in 1967, Cooley himself was arrested and thrown in a Watford police cell—an incident that mirrored, in miniature, the same authoritarian contempt aimed at Jagger and Richards. Forty years later, a forgotten £20 fine pulled from an old trunk sent him deep into the archives, where he uncovered details long omitted from public view. This is not just the story of a drug bust. It is the story of an era in turmoil—of youth culture under siege, newspapers acting as judge and jury, and a Britain struggling to contain a cultural explosion it could neither understand nor control. It is the story of how the Rolling Stones were nearly crushed—yet emerged immortal. Part investigation, part cultural history, part personal reckoning, *Redlands Bust* exposes the fault lines of a society on the brink, and the extraordinary forces that shaped one of the most defining scandals of the 1960s. Dazzling, provocative, and deeply human, this book reveals what really happened when the Establishment decided to make an example of the Rolling Stones—and why the truth still matters.