Two weeks before the trial, Richards had been at the RCA Building preparing to act as host, with the rest of the Stones, on SNL’s season premiere. A memo had circulated beforehand, about ...

Lorne Michaels helped Keith Richards avoid jail time following the Rolling Stones' 'SNL' hosting gig in 1978. Richards most recently made an appearance at the sketch show's 50th anniversary special.

Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels helping Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards avoid a life sentence in Canadian prison sounds like, well, an SNL skit. But in 1977, life really would ...

The SNL creator served as a character witness for Richards, 81, in Toronto. In 1977, Richards was caught by Canadian Mounties in Toronto’s Harbour Castle Hilton, where he had 22 grams of heroin ...

Lorne Michaels once helped keep Keith Richards out of prison. According to an excerpt shared by Entertainment Weekly from the biography Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan ...