#its a miracle none of the beatles went out like tara browne

[gardenwalrus]

In my mind's eye the last image of that night is this: John and Yoko, both completely legless, deciding to drive themselves in the psychedelic Rolls over to Ringo's old flat on Montagu Square. They would've crashed and killed themselves. Driving wasn't John's forte, never mind the acid. I see Spanish Tony, keeping himself cool on coke and smack, rushing out and putting them in a taxi. He hands the driver a twenty-quid note and tells him, 'Don't let them out till you get to 38 Montagu Square.'

- Marianne Faithfull on Mick Jagger's party at the The Vesuvio Club, 8 August 1968. Within Memories, Dreams and Reflections (2007)

['Spanish Tony' is Tony Sanchez, drug dealer and owner of The Vesuvio. Longer quote on the party under the cut of this reblog]