Again I want to remind everyone I don't want to see any hate in here. I know Anita might have been a demon cow, but we'll keep it nice.

I don't exactly know where to start this. You find so much about her, which makes this kind of hard to figure out, but I'll try.

I think the trip to Morocco and some other things need a chapter of its own, because there was quite a lot going on and not everything was as it usually gets told, but well more on that in a later chapter.

Some background knowledge:

Anita was born on the 25th January 1944. She's a German/Italian actress and model. She appeared for example in Mord und Totschlag/ A degree of murder (the movie Brian wrote the music for) and Performance (a movie Mick Jagger also appears in). She was Brian's girlfriend from 1965 until 1967 and Keith's from 1967 until 1979. They have 3 children together. 

This is an extract of the book Rock wives by Victoria Balfour. Well everything in italics are my notes.

In 1965 Anita modeled all over Europe. She was in Munich on a fashion job, when she read that the Stones were going to do a concert there. A photographer smuggled her backstage, where she met Brian Jones, the sensitive and musically gifted Stone, who by the age of 23 had fathered 3 illegitimate children. And that was the beginning of Anita Pallenberg's long association with the Rolling Stones. For the next few month's, Brian and Anita rendezvoused all over Europe.

"When I think about it, in the early days it was kind of fun," says Anita. "'I will meet you in that town,' and then I would fly by myself and I would see them in the other town. But then when things started to get bigger, I didn't enjoy the life-style at all. I didn't like the whole scene. Honestly, I can say now if I knew they'd become that famous, I'd  have moved out and disappeared long before." (I find that very hard to believe tbh...)

Within a short time, however Anita was installed in Brian's house in London. The domestic situation there would not prove to be exactly harmonious. "I think Brian was a terrible person really,"she says. "And I put up with a lot. I was really fascinated with his talent. Why I stuck first to Brian and then to Keith was because of the music. But all the side effects.... he was a tortured personality, insecure as hell. He was ill very on from when I met him. He was totally paranoiac." (And I read about a million times what a terrible person she apparently was, so maaybe I wouldn't fully trust this.)

They argued, especially over things like Anita's career. "He didn't like the fact that I was working. So when I came home with this big fat script, he tore it in half. Jealousy. English people are odd in the head, you know? Eccentric. But I went on." Anita landed a role in German director Volker Schöndorff's first fiction movie, A Degree of Murder (he went on to direct The Tin Drum) and talked Brian into doing the music for the movie. "The movie had success," says Anita. "It went on to the Cannes Film Festival." (The movie isn't very good in my opinion.)

In spite of their collaboration, things between them were rapidly falling apart. Brian was drinking heavily and as the story goes, could be terribly abusive. Finally, when Anita couldn't take his behaviour anymore, she left him for Keith. "I found there was an enormous talent in Keith and Keith was really a shy little guy in those days, couldn't come out of himself. And I had all this kind of Italian energy and outgoing personality, so it was really easy for me. And somehow it finally came out. Then he started to write songs and he started to sing them himself. I thought it was wonderful." (Somehow this makes Anita sound like she was some kind of poor innocent thing... and Brian like the Devil himself.  Furthermore I wonder if this Italian energy thing is a real thing, if it is I'm definitely missing it. #lazybeast)

This quote and the next one are from the early stones. They aren't much nicer.

This is kind of a huge contrast to the last chapter by Linda Lawrence, who talked so positive about Brian. Well Anita doesn't really.

"A terrible person" He probably wasn't the nicest guy around, but I doubt she is the nicest either.

What she totally forgets to mention here was how crazy Brian was over her. You have accounts by other people that Brian really loved her and if I read this I nearly wonder if she ever loved him. As she said she probably was "attracted to his talent", but not to him. Poor guy.

Well they did fight a lot and they did have an abusive relationship, but contrary to popular opinions it wasn't Brian always hitting Anita. She hit him as well. There's the account by a Stones employee 'that Anita's and Brian's rough-house lovemaking became notorious.' There were many times a hotel called asking: "Could you please help us, please? The room that Mr Jones is in, the door's been locked overnight and all day and all we hear is screaming and fighting...."

That's kind of awkward. 😅

I think I'll leave it at that. I don't know what more to say without this turning into a rant or smth...

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