Life

Begin Reading Table of Contents Photo Insert Copyright Page For Patricia Photographs With Doris, Ramsgate, Kent, August 1945. 1959, aged fifteen, with my first guitar, bought by Doris. Early Rolling Stones, Marquee Club, 1963, with Ian Stewart, our creator (top right). Redlands, my house in Sussex, England, soon after I bought it in 1966. Brian, Anita, me—high tension in Marrakech. Altamont Speedway, 1969, as things get ugly. Close harmony with Gram Parsons, guest at Nellcôte, during the making of Exile on Main St. The Starship, Bobby Sherman’s old plane, on the 1972 “STP” tour of the USA. With Marlon on the road in 1975. New romance. Patti Hansen, New York, 1980. Holding Voodoo, the rescued cat, in his lounge, Barbados, August 1994. The Amsterdam Arena, July 31, 2006. Chapter One In which I am pulled over by police officers in Arkansas during our 1975 US tour and a standoff ensues. Why did we stop at the 4-Dice Restaurant in Fordyce, Arkansas, for lunch on Independence Day weekend? On any day? Despite everything I knew from ten years of driving through the Bible Belt. Tiny town of Fordyce. Rolling Stones on the police m......