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Paul Brannigan

"The police should all retire. They're disgusting. England is falling to pieces." Mick Jagger's 1972 state-of-the-nation anarchist rant was quite something

Mick Jagger, in 1972

"My slogan is: 'Good Government is No Government'. England doesn't need a government."

It's March 1972, and sitting in Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is on a roll. NME journalist Roy Carr had been invited to the studio to hear an early preview of the Stones' then-still-unreleased Exile On Main St. album and conduct an interview with Jagger about what fans could expect, but a mention of the Conservative government's controversial Night Assemblies Bill has set the conversation on a different tangent. 

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