Jones, of the Rolling Stones, was raided in 1967 and the following year Tubby Hayes, the jazz saxophonist, was found in possession of heroin. While the Lennon arrest was the most highly publicised, many other musicians were targeted by Pilcher’s team. In his memoir, he recounted that “John Lennon taught me that his use of drugs was a matter for him … It is a fair point.” He accepted that when Lennon wrote I Am the Walrus with a reference to “semolina pilchard”, he may well have had Pilcher in mind, and was now happy to be known as “the Walrus”. Pilcher was impressed by him: “His ideas of peace and kindness were expressed in his demeanour and attitude, which was quite humbling.” Later he received a postcard from Lennon on tour in Japan with the greeting: “You can’t get me now!” Lennon would be fined £150 for possession of a small amount of cannabis. On 18 October 1968, wearing a postman’s hat as a disguise, Pilcher led his squad into the Marylebone flat of Lennon and Yoko Ono and discovered that “they were stark naked”.
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