Battlefield Rest, a restaurant in a converted Edwardian tram depot. ‘Looks like a seaside ice cream parlour or something. Why’s it called the Battlefield Rest?’
“By March 1965, the core Rolling Stones image was such that they’d been described as ‘crude’ by Ed Sullivan and ‘scum’ by the News of the World.”
― The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
― The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
“We might be done with the past," said Bunny, "but the past ain't done with us.”
― The Day That Never Comes
― The Day That Never Comes
“Heading back to my icy house I felt like a trapper returning to his frozen cabin with a prime pelt. Except, in this case, no animals had been harmed. When”
― Written in Dead Wax (The Vinyl Detective
― Written in Dead Wax (The Vinyl Detective
“only two individuals in the world whose mere announced arrival guaranteed pandemonium on the streets: the Pope and Mick Jagger.”
― The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
― The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
“London, Mick would have a final showdown with Chrissie Shrimpton and effectively tell her he felt ‘very bored’ and didn’t want to see her again. When she took a nearly fatal overdose of sleeping pills and sent Mick the hospital bill, he refused to pay it. Lin Eastman became Linda McCartney.5”
― The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
― The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
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