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Performance: Anita Pallenberg talks about the notorious Sixties film

By Chris Sullivan
Published: 16 March 2007

At the centre of international counter culture for the last 40 years, Anita Pallenberg co-starred in two of the most stylish and influential films - Barbarella and Performance. She came to the attention of the British public as the girlfriend of the Rolling Stone Brian Jones, whom she left for Keith Richards - the father of her two children, Marlon, now 37 and Angela, now 35.

"But I'd been around a lot before I met any of the Rolling Stones," says Pallenberg, in her beautiful, wood-panelled, apartment overlooking Chelsea Embankment. "I was in Rome in 1960 just as La Dolce Vita was happening and met [Federico] Fellini, Alberto Moravia, [Luchino] Visconti and [Paolo] Pasolini. Then I went to model in New York in 1963 and hung out with Andy Warhol and all the Pop artists, and met the Beat poets. And then I went to Paris." On a modelling assignment in the French capital, Pallenberg secured a part in director Volker Schlöndorff's new film, A Degree of Murder.There she met Donald Cammell, the writer and director of Performance.

The film, which is released this week for the first time in the UK on DVD, is the tale of Chas (James Fox), a sadistic, sharp-suited London gangland enforcer who, by killing one of his own, falls foul of the boss Harry Flowers (Johnny Shannon) and hides out in the home of the reclusive rock star Turner (Mick Jagger). And as Chas is sucked into Turner's world of Eastern mysticism and Western debauchery, he is plied with hallucinogenic mushrooms, accepts the advances of Turner and his sexually insatiable inamoratas - the stunning Pherber (Anita Pallenberg) and the androgynous Lucy (Michèle Breton) - and loses the plot.

Praised by Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci and Stanley Kubrick, Performance is held in high esteem as one of the great British gangster flicks. The film-makers based Harry Flowers on Ronnie Kray. "David Litvinoff [who Marianne Faithfull once described as 'a genuine Mob boss'] was a great friend of Ronnie Kray and was given the title of dialogue consultant on the film," recalls Pallenberg. "But, really, he was Donald and co-director Nicolas Roeg's passport into the underworld. He knew them and took James Fox around London to meet the real guys."

Performance managed not only to accurately depict the archetypal Sixties hoodlum but also captured the avant-garde bohemianism of the era. "I guess Turner was based on Brian Jones to a certain extent," says Pallenberg, who often entertained the star-struck Cammell at the house she shared with Jones between 1965 and 1967. "Donald was part of that thing when English intellectuals mixed with rock stars and discussed Eastern mysticism, sat on exotic rugs, burnt incense and smoked hash."

Besotted with the Stones, Cammell engaged the services of Mick Jagger and sold the film as caper movie that would capture "swinging London" and allow Warner Brothers to break into the coveted teen market. He pulled in Pallenberg to replace Tuesday Weld, who had broken her neck, and started shooting exterior shots at 25 Powis Square and interiors at 15 Lowndes Square, Knightsbridge in the late summer of 1968.

"It was an absolute nightmare," recalls Pallenberg. "Donald was a real prima donna - going into fits of fury, screaming, shouting and trying to put all of these mad, deviant, perverted sexual scenarios into the movie. Nic Roeg would spend seven hours lighting one shot. We'd sit huddled together in the basement, shivering, getting stoned and waiting for scenes that we would eventually do maybe 28 times. It was all very, very messy."

Adding to Pallenberg's discomfort was the understandably miffed Keith Richards who had to watch his significant other jump out of his bed and into Jagger's. "I hated it," admits Pallenberg. "At night I would go home and Keith would be slagging off Donald and the movie."

Some of the scenes, encouraged by the salacious director, were so explicit that the processing lab called to say that they breached obscenity laws and that they were obliged to destroy them.

"It was like a porno shoot, and Donald loved it," recalls the actress. "At one point I spent a week in bed with Michèle and Mick. There was a camera under the sheets and there was all kinds of sex going on but I put it down to method acting." But when asked, categorically, if sexual congress did actually occur Pallenberg is unequivocal. "No, it never did. I was a one-man girl at the time and Keith was the man for me. I loved him. And anyway, Jagger was the last guy I would have done that with."

While the three cavorted, Cammell courted chaos, encouraging Pallenberg to do her worst. "Donald used my character to make the rest feel ill at ease," she recalls. "I'd tease James, telling him I'd spiced his coffee with LSD. It was not harmonious. And that was what Donald wanted - pandemonium and paranoia." Such shenanigans have been blamed for Breton never acting again, Fox abandoning his craft for the next decade in favour of Christian vocational work, and Cammell's dramatic suicide in 1997. But Pallenberg is not convinced. "The roots of all that were there before," she says, dismissively.

When the finished cut was screened in Los Angeles it caused one of the Warner executives' wives to throw up, didn't feature Jagger until halfway through and, instead of being the groovy London pop-meets-wisecracking gangland feature that Warner expected, was a homoerotic, sadomasochistic, sexually fuelled, venomous and violent London gangster flick. And so they demanded a re-edit. The resulting reworking of the film, overseen by Cammell (Roeg had gone to Australia to do Walkabout) and performed by Frank Mazzola (a former gang member who showed James Dean exactly how to wield a switchblade in Rebel Without a Cause), employed a series of rapid cuts that, designed to lose much of the offending sex, drugs and violence, gave the film its breakneck pace, upped the tension and revolutionised the art of film-making.

"The movie signalled the end of the hippie era and the end of innocence," asserts Pallenberg. "It was as if the James Fox character personified all these exterior forces that polluted this rather naive world, and things were never quite the same again." Although the film led to other roles, by 1976 Pallenberg had lost interest, as her drug and alcohol abuse spiralled.

But, of late, she has seen her acting career blossom once again. Scheduled for release later this year is the cult director Harmony Korine's eagerly anticipated Mister Lonely, in which she co-stars as the queen of England, while this month she is back in Cinecitta studios in Rome acting in Abel Ferrara's Go Go Tales, starring Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Modine and Asia Argento. "I've often been in the right place at the right time," chuckles Pallenberg. "I guess it's a knack."

'Performance' is available now on Warner Home Video; 'Mister Lonely' opens later this year

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article2360954.ece

Неслабый кавер "Gimme Shelter" с нового альбома Патти Смит.

http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/index.html

RS может быть примут участие в масштабной музыкальной акции “Live Earth: The Concert for a Climate in Crisis”.
24-часовые концерты пройдут 7 июля 2007 года на всех континентах. Наблюдать за происходящим можно будет по телевидению, радио и через интернет. Концерты пройдут в Бразилии, Китае, Японии, ЮАР, Англии, Австралии и США.
Все собранные с мероприятия средства направят в организации, занимающиеся проблемой глобального потепления. Главным организатором мероприятия стал бывший вице-президент США Альберт Гор.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261561,00.html

http://liveearth.org/?p=22

2 Primal Scream
час от часу не легче. Опять закобенят какой-нить 4DVD бокс. придется заказывать!

2Alex Red:

>2 Primal Scream
>час от часу не легче. Опять закобенят какой-нить
>4DVD бокс. придется заказывать!

Концерты, производство, транспортировка и воспроизведение дисков будут только способствовать дальнейшему изменению климата.

Rolling Stones не примут участие в Live Earth вопреки сообщению Fox News

"Not happening," a spokesman for the band said in an email.

Слава Богу!

T.O.T.A '75

The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas 1975

The Diary, Photographs and Memorabilia of Christopher Simon Sykes

In 1975 The Rolling Stones wanted to make a diary of their forthcoming tour. 30 years later it's available in all its glory as a fabulous, in-depth fine art piece.

http://www.genesis-publications.com/books/tota/index.html

STONES STARS' NASTY FEUDS

ROLLING STONES RONNIE WOOD and KEITH RICHARDS haven't always been best friends - their drug and alcohol-related "misunderstandings" often left one of the pair wounded. Wood reveals some of the rockers' fights have been bloody and almost deadly, especially once, in a California hotel, when they drunkenly rowed about infidelities. The guitarist says, "He (Richards) came at me with a bottle. I hit him in the belly, in the balls and in the face and had to catch him to stop him falling out the window. "At that time he thought I was cheating on my wife. He's very moral. It wasn't true, but these stirrers got to him. "Afterwards, covered in blood, I walked into the next room where MICK (JAGGER) and CHARLIE (WATTS) were sitting on the floor working on a song. "I said, 'Look what's happened!' They said, 'Could you help us with this..?' (It) went totally over their heads." Wood adds, "Another time he (Richards) came at me with his ratchet knife at my throat and said, 'I'd kill you now but your wife wouldn't like cleaning up all the blood.'" But the rockers don't fight like they used to, according to Wood: "We do it verbally now. You can't carry knives and guns through airports like you used to."

Bill Wyman: 'Mandy Smith Romance Was My Mid-life Crisis'.
4th April 2007

Rocker Bill Wyman has called his romance with teenager Mandy Smith part of an "emotional mid-life crisis" he couldn't avoid.

The former Rolling Stones star wed Smith in 1989 when she was 18 and he was 52, but the odd couple had already become headline material in the UK after the model/pop singer revealed she'd been dating Wyman since she was 13.

The marriage lasted two years and Wyman and Smith were divorced in 1991.

The famously private Wyman hated becoming a press target during the marriage, but fears that if he lived his life over again, he'd still fall for Smith - and marry her.

He says, "That was something from the heart, I couldn't change things. That was something that was an emotional thing that I don't think I could have avoided another time.

"It was a mistake and it was probably my midlife crisis but I'm joyously happy now with my wife (Suzanne Accosta) and my family. Things have never been happier.

"We've all got skeletons in our closet, the trouble is if you're in the public eye your skeleton gets shown. If I lived in Halifax and I drove a taxi you would have never have heard about it."

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/Bill+Wyman-32662.html

Кстати, вы еще помните Билла?

Former Rolling Stones bassplayer Bill Wyman talks about his photos in VIP's International Art Galleries in Rotterdam 28 September 2006. The gallery shows photo's which Wyman took of the Rolling Stones during his time with the band.

Жив, курилка.

В продаже появился сигнатюрный металлодетектор Билла Уаймена, который считает себя "любознательным историком-любителем и экспертом в металлодетектировании".

Не, до степени безумия Кита ему еще далеко.

http://www.billwymandetector.com/

2Primal Scream:
И помним и любим! :)

Sergek:

А они уже разве...того?

ROLLING STONES The Origin Of The Species: How, Where & Why It All Began
(2007 288-page softback book by Alan Clayson, The most concise and accurate history of the Stones at their germination point, based on hundreds of interviews with myriad Stones associates. more details to follow...).
08-Jul-2007

Киту Ричардсу не нравится новое трезвое состояние Ронни Вуда. Вуд говорит, что его последняя попытка вести трезвый образ жизни раздражала Ричардса настолько, что он пинал Вуда на сцене.
"Ему не нравится, что я теперь трезвый. Я рад, что мы не на гастролях. Мне очень трудно выходить на сцену в трезвом состоянии. Кит даже пинал меня на сцене. У меня из-за этого образовалось кровотечение в мышце. Я не догадывался об этом пока не смог ходить."
Вуд говорит, что Ричардс назвал это "дружеским пендалем" прежде чем извиниться.
Ронни не пьет уже несколько месяцев после лечения в клинике в прошлом году, но признается, что гастролировать, не бухая, такая скука. Несмотря на недовольство Ричардса, Мик и Чарли поддерживают Ронни в его борьбе с зеленым змием.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Keith+Richards-14884.html

2Primal Scream:

во дела! надеюсь Кит нечаянно?