#(also sounes wrote 'an eskimo woman named iggy' which 1) am unsure if term is offensive in general but also
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[In early May 1967, w]hile the Redlands trio [Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Robert Fraser] awaited trial, DS [Norman] Pilcher raided Brian Jones’s London flat, busting him and his friend Prince Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, the extravagantly named son of the French painter Balthus. Brian and Prince Stash, as he was known for short, were taken down to Kensington Police Station in a blaze of publicity and charged with possession of cocaine and cannabis, Jones charged additionally with possession of cocaine and methedrine. They went from the police station to the new high-rise Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, where the Stones’ new American manager Allen Klein was staying, but the hotel management made it clear that Jones and de Rola were not welcome, which is when Prince Stash took a call from Paul McCartney, whom he knew slightly. Prince Stash explained to Paul that he and Brian couldn’t stay at the Hilton, and couldn’t go back to Brian’s flat because of the press. Brian had other places he could go, but Stash, a foreigner, didn’t know what to do. ‘I’m sending my car and driver right now. You’re packing your bags and moving into my house, and if they want to bust you again they’ll have to bust me as well,’ Paul said. So Prince Stash joined Paul and Dudley at Cavendish Avenue, running movies on Paul’s 16mm projector, taking drugs and entertaining what Stash describes as harems of girls, including a [woman] named Iggy [Evelyn Rose], while Beatles fans camped outside, periodically bursting in through the gates ‘like sort of cattle breaking through a fence’. They’d steal Paul’s laundry and empty his ashtrays—‘Did he smoke this?’—before being ejected.
[—from Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, Howard Sounes]
#source notes indicate second paragraph is from author interview with de rola though it is hard to tell how precisely#anyway 'they'll have to bust me as well' god.#would make ABSOLUTE sense coming from a man who once had a cop offer to park his (VERY) improperly parked aston martin#and in light of the cops having probably waited for george to leave redlands before busting the stones#but it's SO insane really. pop royalty pop royalty#(also sounes wrote 'an eskimo woman named iggy' which 1) am unsure if term is offensive in general but also#2) is incorrect + racist in any case bc while she was known as 'iggy the eskimo' in the '60s she was apparently actually half-mizo#so did not want to leave this in rebloggable quote)#fab: an intimate life of paul mccartney#howard sounes#paul mccartney#brian jones#prince stash#1967
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