Tony Sanchez, Keith Richards’s bodyguard (and drug dealer) talks of Pallenberg’s strange spiritual practices: “She was obsessed with black magic and began to carry a string of garlic with her everywhere — even to bed — to ward off vampires. She also had a strange mysterious old shakers for holy water which she used for […]
Monday’s Muse: Anita Pallenberg
Tony Sanchez, Keith Richards’s bodyguard (and drug dealer) talks of Pallenberg’s strange spiritual practices: “She was obsessed with black magic and began to carry a string of garlic with her everywhere — even to bed — to ward off vampires. She also had a strange mysterious old shakers for holy water which she used for some of her rituals. Her ceremonies became increasingly secret, and she warned me never to interrupt her when she was working on a spell…. Like a life-force, a woman so powerful, so full of strength and determination that men came to lean on her.”
Anita Pallenberg. Possibly one of the most admired women of the late 60’s. Declared as “much more than just a groupie or a partner of a band” to the Rolling Stones by author A. E. Hotchner, he goes on to say that “Mick Jagger respected her musical opinion enough that tracks on Beggars Banquet were remixed when Pallenberg criticised them.”
We love her for her blonde bangs in that perfect mess, the secret she keeps behind her grin, her loose glam-rock styles and the way she knows what she wants.
