Oprah: So tell me, Sir Mick, are you willing to be totally honest on my show.
Sir Mick: Sure, luv.
O: So did you do it?
SM: Yes, I did.
O: And did your "team" also go along.
SM: Sure, we all did. I mean, it was the only thing keeping Keith alive.
O: He's alive?
SM: In a way.
O: And how did you avoid the testing?
SM: Well we didn't very well avoid it in Alabama, did we? I mean, it was part of our image. People expected it.
O: And did you make your team do it?
SM: Well, I felt just as I told them we should tune up, and practice, aye, that it was my duty to share what I could score with the team.
O: And what about the other bands?
SM: Look, luv, it was Rock'n'Roll. EVERYONE doped. I'm not gonna name names, but Floyd, The Doors, The Who, the Grateful Dead, The Mouseketeers, EVERYONE. Well, not the Monkeys...
O: Not Jerry Garcia--no way!
SM: 'e was a bleeding smokestack on stage. I don't think I'm going out on a limb here. I mean, we coulda not doped, but then we'd still be wankers, and the Beatles would still be choir boys, wouldn't they.
O: So there we have the whole truth. Sir Mick, admitting that the Rolling Stones doped, the Who doped, and most shockingly, and perhaps part of a continuing pattern of coercion, Sir Mick outs the leader of the "Hardest Working Band" as doping as well. A whole industry, riddled with doping, perhaps even unable to function without it.
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