Friday, July 1, 2011

Exiled

Every summer it happens; when the air is saturated with that sticky, humid thickness and the sun is burning, I always feel like listening to Exile On Main St (well, technically I should say, "I feel like listening to Exile more than I usually do", which is already an amount more sizeable than any person I know).  And it's not because Exile is a particularly 'sunny' record or anything (although it does contain the 'kind-of' love song, "Happy", written by Keith about Anita and two-year-old Marlon, and it doesn't contain the absolutely heart-wrenching, wrist-slitting ballads of its predecessor or successor, Sticky Fingers and Goat's Head Soup respectively, that contain songs like "I Got The Blues", "Wild Horses", "Sister Morphine", "Coming Down Again" and "Angie"). It must be because my mind can't help but transport itself to the summer of 1971, wandering through the long halls and gargantuan rooms of Villa NellcĂ´te, the mansion Keith Richards had rented in Villefranche-sur-Mer, where much of what became Exile On Main St. was written and recorded. It is, in fact, probably my top favorite Rolling Stones “I wish I was there” daydream – laying out on the veranda with Anita, eating a lavish meal at midnight while Keith and Gram strum their country blues, wandering down to the dark basement for a “Sweet Virginia” singalong…

Nicky Hopkins:

One of my favorite pics of Anita - making baby faces at Marlon:
Keith with Gram Parsons:

Anita with Marshall Chess:
Mick with Mick Taylor and his new bride, Rose Millar, who had recently given birth to the Taylors' daughter, Chloe:
Do those horseback riders know they are in the presence of greatness?
 This photo was taken by Michael Cooper:
Nicky Hopkins:
Family portrait on the grass
 All photos unless specified otherwise were taken by Dominique Tarle, scanned by me from a variety of sources. Pleeeeeeease credit if you re-post. Thanks.

6 comments:

  1. This is amazing!! Thanks for sharing!! love the photos!! :)

    Violet :) xoxoxox

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  2. i've never seen any of these photos before, thanks so much for sharing, there are some great shots of keith in there! love your blog & all the photos on it. massive stones fan. xx

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  3. Why haven't you listed the names of the photographers--whose copyrighted photographs you expect other people to credit YOU for? If you scanned the pictures from print publications, the information was there. You just didn't care to look for it. You have a lot of nerve to claim the hours and time YOU spent is somehow more important than the hours, time (and TALENT) of the photographers whose work you carelessly bootlegged.

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  5. This is quite an incredible site you've created here. A wonderful collection of photographs. Bravo!

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  6. Leith are you from Leith near Edinburgh? I love Leith and i love your post. Ive daydreamed about being at Nellcote with the stones and Anita since was 14 many decades ago thanks for sharing some photos ive not seen before xx

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