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Rolling Stones in Hyde Park # 1

Mark Cooper, MOJO, July 1995

THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE VERY nature of being a schoolboy that necessitates getting caught. In the summer of 1969, I was boarding in the lower sixth at Cranbrook School in Kent, and I spent most of my time in detention. No matter that I dreamed of being a rambling boy, whenever I sneaked behind the pavilion for a cigarette I got nabbed.

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