with them, smashing up the room and beating her when she refused. She fled to Keithâs room and spent the night with him. The next day Anita sat in a canvas swing by the deep end of the pool, her gaze held by Keith in the water.
That evening they learned that a plane-load of Fleet Streetâs finest was on its way to Tangier to track down the party. Immediately, they made off to Marrakech.
*
In Marrakech, they checked into the Sadi Hotel. âWeâre all in Marrakech,â Keith said. âCecil Beatonâs there, Robert Fraser, Brion Gysin, Mick, and the airsâs like heavy, lots of people doing acid. Iâm feeling guilty.â
âThey were a strange group,â wrote Cecil Beaton, the photographer, in his diary. âThe three Stones: Brian Jones and his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg â dirty white face, dirty blackened eyes, dirty canary drops of yellow hair, barbaric jewelry â Keith R. in 18th century suit, long black velvet coat and tightest pants, and of course, Mick Jagger. He is sexy, but completely sexless. ⦠None of them is willing to talk, except in spasms. No one could make up their minds what to do, or when.â
The next day Brion Gysin was persuaded to take Brian to the nearby Atlas Mountains, to hear the celebrated pipe sounds of the Master Musicians of Jajouka.
As soon as he had gone, Keith bundled Anita into his car and they drove back to Tangier. Everyone else also left, leaving a shocked, hurt Brian to pay the bill for the entire party. Keith and Anita caught a ferry to Spain.
The couple only drove as far as Madrid, where they took a plane to London. There, Keith and Anita went immediately to the crash pad that Keith still kept in St Johnâs Wood, the scene of his dying relationship with Linda Keith.
Brian flew to Paris to briefly stay with Donald Cammell, the society painter who would shortly co-direct Performance , arriving on his doorstep drunk, with his customarily elegant clothes in tatters. Then, in deep emotional pain, he returned to London. He drove over to the flat in St Johnâs Wood and when Keith opened the door, he collapsed on the carpet in front of him, beseeching Anita to return. This was not to be the last such occasion. For a long time Brian refused to accept that Anita had left him, just as he had refused to accept that he was no longer âleader of the Rolling Stonesâ. âHe never forgave me,â said Keith. âI donât blame him.â
Anitaâs leaving Brian for Keith Richards was devastating to him and Brianâs father believed the shock of this altered the entire course of his life. âHe changed suddenly and alarmingly from a bright, enthusiastic young man to a quiet and morose and inward-looking young man,â said Lewis Jones in 1971. âIn our opinion he was never the same boy again. Iâve always been concerned that that was the turning-point in his life.â
The day Brian returned from Paris, the Daily Mirror reported that Mick and Keith were to be charged for offences against the drug laws: Mick for illegal possession of amphetamines, and Keith for âpremisesâ, which found the owner or landlord of any property in which there was illegal drug consumption to be as guilty as those partaking of the particular substance.
*
A week after Brian had finally returned from Morocco on 18 March 1967, the Rolling Stones began a three-week European tour, opening in Malmo in Sweden. After Sweden, the group raced through four dates in Germany: in Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund and Hamburg. Anita Pallenberg, whom Brian had met in Germany, had gone off with the guy who stood on the other side of Mick Jagger onstage. So it was an uneasy Brian who embarked with the group on this tour, while Keith was conscious all the time of Brianâs bitter resentment. âMr Shampooâ, however, was unaware that at this stage Anita, who had gone to Italy for another film part, in Roger Vadimâs
That evening they learned that a plane-load of Fleet Streetâs finest was on its way to Tangier to track down the party. Immediately, they made off to Marrakech.
*
In Marrakech, they checked into the Sadi Hotel. âWeâre all in Marrakech,â Keith said. âCecil Beatonâs there, Robert Fraser, Brion Gysin, Mick, and the airsâs like heavy, lots of people doing acid. Iâm feeling guilty.â
âThey were a strange group,â wrote Cecil Beaton, the photographer, in his diary. âThe three Stones: Brian Jones and his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg â dirty white face, dirty blackened eyes, dirty canary drops of yellow hair, barbaric jewelry â Keith R. in 18th century suit, long black velvet coat and tightest pants, and of course, Mick Jagger. He is sexy, but completely sexless. ⦠None of them is willing to talk, except in spasms. No one could make up their minds what to do, or when.â
The next day Brion Gysin was persuaded to take Brian to the nearby Atlas Mountains, to hear the celebrated pipe sounds of the Master Musicians of Jajouka.
As soon as he had gone, Keith bundled Anita into his car and they drove back to Tangier. Everyone else also left, leaving a shocked, hurt Brian to pay the bill for the entire party. Keith and Anita caught a ferry to Spain.
The couple only drove as far as Madrid, where they took a plane to London. There, Keith and Anita went immediately to the crash pad that Keith still kept in St Johnâs Wood, the scene of his dying relationship with Linda Keith.
Brian flew to Paris to briefly stay with Donald Cammell, the society painter who would shortly co-direct Performance , arriving on his doorstep drunk, with his customarily elegant clothes in tatters. Then, in deep emotional pain, he returned to London. He drove over to the flat in St Johnâs Wood and when Keith opened the door, he collapsed on the carpet in front of him, beseeching Anita to return. This was not to be the last such occasion. For a long time Brian refused to accept that Anita had left him, just as he had refused to accept that he was no longer âleader of the Rolling Stonesâ. âHe never forgave me,â said Keith. âI donât blame him.â
Anitaâs leaving Brian for Keith Richards was devastating to him and Brianâs father believed the shock of this altered the entire course of his life. âHe changed suddenly and alarmingly from a bright, enthusiastic young man to a quiet and morose and inward-looking young man,â said Lewis Jones in 1971. âIn our opinion he was never the same boy again. Iâve always been concerned that that was the turning-point in his life.â
The day Brian returned from Paris, the Daily Mirror reported that Mick and Keith were to be charged for offences against the drug laws: Mick for illegal possession of amphetamines, and Keith for âpremisesâ, which found the owner or landlord of any property in which there was illegal drug consumption to be as guilty as those partaking of the particular substance.
*
A week after Brian had finally returned from Morocco on 18 March 1967, the Rolling Stones began a three-week European tour, opening in Malmo in Sweden. After Sweden, the group raced through four dates in Germany: in Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund and Hamburg. Anita Pallenberg, whom Brian had met in Germany, had gone off with the guy who stood on the other side of Mick Jagger onstage. So it was an uneasy Brian who embarked with the group on this tour, while Keith was conscious all the time of Brianâs bitter resentment. âMr Shampooâ, however, was unaware that at this stage Anita, who had gone to Italy for another film part, in Roger Vadimâs
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