Anita Pallenberg

[danabnormal]

courtesy of getty-images

 

[songbirdsel]

My god guys, i saw performance last night, best movie ever! Anita looks beautiful as ever!!!!!

 

[danabnormal]

aww, I envy you! do you own the video/dvd, songbirdsel? (I still can't get over the fact that amazon doesn't offer it - aaaahhh)

oh,and here's another lovely pic.
(source: charliesweb.com)



I really wonder how somebody who actually confuses anita with marianne faithfull can have a fanpage dedicated to the latter.... (and that's not even the only mistake,there are a couple)

 

[StellaMare]

I have a poster of Mick & Anita from Performance in my room..

 

[danabnormal]

source: www.medien.hamburg.de

with director volker schlöndorff + hans f. hallwachs

source: www.catholicboy.com

anita with william t. burroughs + jim carroll in '97

 

[danabnormal]

courtesy of brianjonesy.tripod.com

some pics of anita + marianne







*links expired*


(argh,too bad this picture's in such a horrible quality!)

 

[brokenenglish]

Was that pic taken at Josua Tree?...
If so they were on mescaline and having a wonderful time!!

 

[sultry_suki]

courtesy of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anita_pallenberg/

 

[StellaMare]

I love the whole Stones late 60's scene thing.. Everyone was so sexy! haha.
Anita's a fox. I'd love a good rummaging through her closet.

 

[danabnormal]

source: anita pallenberg-group at yahoo
(I can really recommend the group,there are tons of fantastic + rare pics!)








at the premiere of "performance" in 1970

 

[geminilou]

those are great - the MSN group used to be a good source but stopped accepting new members for some reason. I think the more interesting period is in the mid to late seventies when all the debauchery started catching up. There's some new pics of anita during that time at Wire Image. I'd post em but not sure how to at the moment.

 

[danabnormal]

There's some new pics of anita during that time at Wire Image. I'd post em but not sure how to at the moment.

welcome!
well, posting pics in TFS forums is actually really simple - just type:

after the URL.

 

[charminglyfrench]

Anita Interviewed in 2001

It's been a bit quiet round hear lately so i thought i'd post an interview with Miss Anita.

I'M NOT just Keith's girl​

The Evening Standard (London, England); 11/26/2001; Watson, Shane
Byline: SHANE WATSON

ANITA Pallenberg is everywhere. Open any magazine and there she is, looking out at you through that dirty blonde fringe, the tease with the fox-fur jacket (Dolce and Gabbana) and floppy hat pulled down over kohl-rimmed eyes (Marni). This winter the look that's emerged as the frontrunner is straight out of the German actress, model and Rolling Stone muse's late Sixties wardrobe: skinny cords, tasselled hipster belts, chunky fur jackets. She was the inspiration for Bella Freud's last winter collection, "And now I use her as a reference point all the time," says Freud. "I've included her in things I've done for Jaeger. I like the way she wears masculine clothes - that taking from the boys and giving to the girls."

What is more, Anita Style is going strong for 2002: Luella Bartley's spring collection is packed with the rock 'n' roll siren's signature looks.

"I guess the girls like it because it's really casual." Pallenberg grins her signature bad-girl grin, still intact though she's 55 and a grandmother. "I mean, in those days, I always thought the one who was really stylish was Bianca, she was so perfect with the white hat and the suit and the stick. I wasn't into designers at all. I'd go to Granny Takes a Trip, sit there, have a joint and pick something. So much of it was about getting ready, sitting around smoking."

Sitting in the Picasso Cafe on King's Road, "the only place that's still here from the old days", a pixie felt hat shielding her eyes from view, the sleeves of her tweed coat pulled down over her knuckles, Pallenberg seems an unlikely fashion icon.

But, then, it isn't the cut of her coat that fashion is so greedy to reference so much as the essence of Pallenberg, official high priestess of the rock 'n' roll fantasy. Once upon a time the hat with the mini with the boa was an accident, the sartorial result of what Pallenberg calls her "gipsy life.
We didn't have time to change, we'd stay up all night and go to Stonehenge at dawn. You'd be in your satin miniskirt out in the middle of nowhere."

HER voice is a low, exotic blend of soft German inflections and lazy Rolling Stones vowels, picked up during the years she spent with the band between the ages of 24 and 40, first as Brian Jones's girlfriend, then as Keith Richards's. It's pretty much all she has to show for them, besides the flat in Chelsea that Richards bought for her when they separated at the start of the Eighties. "Well, we travelled a lot and there was a lot of nicking in those days or 'swapping' as we called it," she grins. "Marianne [Faithfull] always accused me of nicking her Ossie Clark snakeskin jacket. She still does."

She's perplexed as to why she and Marianne continue to be singled out for attention: "The two things we had in common were the drugs and the blondehair thing, but then all the girls looked like that in those days."

Maybe it's because they were the ones who lived the rock 'n' roll life. Anita shrugs. She was happy to hitch her fate to the Rolling Stones' coattails. She claims to have never fulfilled her potential as an actress because she didn't have a manager, but presumably it was also because the band came first. "Yeah, Keith would say, 'What are they going to pay you?' and I'd say '[pound]20,000, whatever', and he'd say, 'Well, don't do it and I'll give you the money'. He'd buy me out basically," and she laughs.

Still, you can't help feeling that the Rolling Stones took the best of these girls and then left them to fend for themselves in the real world where there are no limos waiting at the kerb to pick you up when you fall.

Pallenberg seems vulnerable still: "Oh, I can't even go for a coffee on my own," she says, lighting another cigarette. She likes to play bass guitar "but the amplifier doesn't work now". When she told Keith that she had taken up the bass he said, "Why didn't you do it back then, you could have saved us all those problems with Bill Wyman?"

It's not something that could ever have happened, of course.

"Never," she wrinkles her nose, "it's a real macho band. Sometimes, when Marlon was a baby, we ended up Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg in 1976 on stage, me with my baby, rocking him to sleep, and Mick would say, 'Get her out of here'. He didn't want anyone upstaging him."

WHO knows, maybe Jagger was thinking of Marlon's eardrums. But for the most part, like the rest of the world at the time, he saw Pallenberg as a bad influence. A foreigner who was more streetwise than the rest of them ("When I met her, Marianne was really straight, like a Laura Ashley girl") and something of a drugs connoisseur (she first caught Brian Jones's eye by going backstage with a joint in 1965).

The drug-taking got out of control.

When Pallenberg announced she was pregnant with Richards's child, Marlon, in 1969, it was 11 days after Brian Jones had been found dead in his swimming pool and less than a week since Faithfull had been rushed to hospital in a drug-induced coma. Seven years later Richards and Pallenberg were on the verge of meltdown after the death of their third child in infancy. They finally split at the start of the Eighties and in 1987 Pallenberg went into rehab.

Does she ever wish she had ended up with Keith (both Pallenberg and Faithfull are single and live alone)? "Only when I see other people, like the thing of having a soulmate."

Was he her soulmate? "Yeah, he was a friend first and then we became lovers. But he's too much into the lifestyle he's always lived. He goes to bed twice in a week. Not even to bed, to lie on the couch or whatever. But he is untoppable, I guess."

Lately, Pallenberg has been looking at lots of pictures of them in their untoppable days, researching a book about the making of the cult 1970 film, Performance, which she starred in with Mick Jagger. For her it's the less painful alternative to writing her autobiography. "The emotional process is so difficult, it's just not worth it. And then life is not finished anyway."
The question remains: would she have done it any differently?

"You know, you have your time; it's an experience, I guess." Her dark eyes glisten under the hat as the memories tip over into darkness: "Loads of good people lost their lives."

Suddenly she is overwhelmed and excuses herself to go to the bathroom. When she returns she has shrugged off the ghosts and recovered her pride in having been there and done it without compromise. "I kind of felt always at one with myself. That's why I wouldn't have cosmetic surgery or anything. It's me, you know." She pouts disdainfully. "Courtney Love, I don't like any more. She was tanned the last time I saw her, you know - the ultimate whitepallored creature."

She shakes her head in disbelief at the sell-out that is Courtney. "I feel sorry for the men now actually ... all these, like, aggressive women. There is no mystery," and she ducks further under her hat and takes out another cigarette.

The bits about Keith being her soulmate are beautiful

 

[danabnormal]

^charminglyfrench, thank you so much for this post.it's a truly great interview.
(I only wonder why anita came up with,uh,courtney love towards the end)

 

[StellaMare]

that's an excellent interview. thanks for posting.. Anita seems a lot more sensitive than she sometimes appears.

 

[charminglyfrench]

You're welcome !

That was one of the first things that struck me about the interview, how candid and open she is. People often percieve her as quite cold but i think she just puts up a front to protect herself, i cant say i blame her after what some people have done to her in her life.

But on a happier note, i was browsing a Rolling Stones Message Board, where someone mentioned they saw Anita backstage at the Stones' Twickenham concert with her new toy boy !

 

[IcePrincess]

photos and info courtesy of Mini Mad Mod 60's
some are not the best quality, sorry

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif]w/ Keith at the premiere of 'Yellow Submarine' - 1968[/FONT]

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[/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif]Anita was the most formidable 'rock chick' ever, with a swagger and presence that all the Stones found hard to handle. 'They looked at me like I was some kind of threat,' she recalled. 'Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. 'I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.' Richards has always been rather more combative, and although famously sweetnatured towards women, he sometimes reacted fiercely to Pallenberg's provocations. Stones pianist and roadie Ian Stewart had to keep a list of airlines unwilling to let the guitarist aboard, and he later revealed that Richards was banned by Alitalia 'for staying in the restroom from Rome to London, punching that crazy Anita'. Similar outbursts would recur throughout the couple's 12-year relationship.[/FONT]

Cannes - 1967 March

Mick Jagger, Anita & Keith Richards, 1968

Before they cruised off to South America, Keith lied to a jounalist from English 'Sunday Express': "We've become very interested in magic,and we're very serious about this trip. We're hoping to see this magician who practices both white and black magic. He has a very long and difficult name which we can't pronouce. We call him Banana for short." Anita scowled when she read the story and told him he was a fool to mock powers he was unable to comprehend. 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 shaker or holy water which she used for some of her rituals. Her ceremonies became increasingly secret, and she would warn me never to interrupt her when she was working on a spell.

Anita in 'Dillinger is Dead' - 1968

Anita & Keith lounging / Nellcote

Anita: "When we split we had to leave the dog. Keith paid the rent for another six months, just to keep the dog there. By that time I was pregnant and I didn't really go to the studio in LA. I remember spending about six months in LA, living opposite Mick Taylor in a canyon. I gave birth not long afterwards." - Photo courtesy of Dominique Tarle

Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg

 

[IcePrincess]

Anita in wig

Anita 1967

Anita & Brian Jones in Cannes - 1967

Anita Pallenberg and Brian Jones attend a party in Cannes during the film festival. Anita and Brian seemed to bring out the worst in each other. In Philip Norman’s book ‘The Stones’, Christopher Gibbs recalled a trip to Morocco in the summer of 1966, dominated by strife and argument. “They fought about everything - cars, prices, restaurant menus. Brian could never win an argument with Anita although he always made the mistake of trying. There would be terrible scenes with both of them screaming at each other. The difference was that Brian didn’t know what he was doing. Anita did know what she was doing. I think in a more gracious age, Anita would have been called a witch.”

Anita Pallenberg & Keith Richards - 1967

On their way to the U.S., Brian & Anita - 1965

Backstage at a gig in Munich, Brian was introduced to a young German/Italian model called Anita Pallenberg, a stunningly beautiful cat-like creature of 19. Brian fell for her instantly. Anita: "I decided to kidnap Brian. It sounds ridiculous but they even made a film about it, about kidnapping a popstar ['Privilege'] starring Paul Jones. This was the original story, Brian seemed to be the most sexually flexible. I knew I could talk to him. As a matter of fact when I met him I was his groupie really. I got backstage with a photographer, I told him I just wanted to meet him. I had some Amyl Nitrate and a piece of hash. I asked Brian if he wanted a joint and he said yes, so he asked me back to his hotel and he cried all night. He was so upset about Mick and Keith still, saying they had teamed up on him. I felt so sorry for him. Brian was fantastic, he had everything going for him, but he was just too complicated."

Anita & Keith Richards, Venice, 1967 August

Anita, Mick, Keith & Marlon, Heathrow Airport - 28 Aug '70

Anita Pallenberg, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (with son Marlon), probably the most powerful figures in the Rolling Stones camp during the seventies. Mick seemed to delight in Anita's sharp mind, her vicious streak that made her somehow very different from Marianne. For a while she seemed to dominate him with the same, almost supernatural hold she had over Brain & Keith. Once I heard Anita listen to a tape of 'Stray Cat Blues' as Jagger proudly waited her tell him (as all the other lackeys had done) how brilliant it was. "Crap," she said when it had finished. "The vocals are mixed up to high, and the bass isn't loud enough." Mick, with the basic insecurity of every creative artist, was so unused to hearing someone dare criticize his work that he at once went back to the studio and had the number remixed. - Excerpt from Tony Sanchez's book 'Up & Down with the Rolling Stones'

Anita plays a nurse in the film 'Candy' - 1969

 

[IcePrincess]

Cecil Beaton photographs Anita Pallenberg

The celebrated fashion and social photographer and diarist Cecil Beaton made several appearances on the set of 'Performance' in Lowndes Square to take photographs. Beaton was commissioned by Sandy Lieberson, whose then wife, Marit Allen, worked for Vogue magazine and was a friend of the photographer. Warner refused to pay for Beaton's services, so Lieberson paid the fee out of pocket. Beaton was sixty-three when he became enamoured with the Stones. - Photo courtesy of Dick Polak

Anita for Calvin Klein Jeans - 1995 December

Photo from The Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 723, December 14, 1995

Anita & Keith Richards, Stonehenge

Anita: "Yeah. we just decided to go [Stonehenge] - we'd been at a club where Gram was playing; he was with the Byrds then - and we kind of just took him away and went down there. But these clothes... I mean, that was our normal getup, to go out in London." - Photo courtesy of Michael Cooper


The Beautiful Couple of Europe, Anita and Brian Jones

As a couple Brian and Anita exuded an almost surrealistic aura: they began to look, dress and think so much alike that they became one - a single presence in silk and satin. They were, at that moment, the reigning Beautiful Couple of Europe and they took full advantage of the power they possessed over the young dukes, lords and other high-born friends and admirers who flocked to pay homage.

Anita Pallenberg - 1968

Her name was Anita Pallenberg, and no one ever seemed to know quite where she came from or who she was. When pressed, she would reveal that she was half Italian and half German and that she had worked as an actress with the Living Theater. She had only to walk along the street to cause a string of traffic accidents. She had tumbling, shining blond hair, a long lithe body and wickedly beautiful cat's eyes. She was no dumb blonde, either, and the combination of witty conversations and devastating looks rapidly turned her into the darling of aristocratic London. Before long she was being invited to society events by people like Lord Harlech and guinness heir Tara Browne. - Commentary and photo courtesy of Tony Sanchez

Anita meets Brian at the airport - 1965

Keith Richards: "At first I'm sure Anita wanted to protect Brian from what she thought was our cruelty and callousness. Coming in like that she couldn't realize how the scene developed. Or how impossible it was to deal with a dead weight like Brian. They had incredible fights. And she used to beat the sh*t out of him every time. He would start a fight. Obviously she was tougher than him. He always was walking around with his ribs bandaged or his eyed blackened. Anita felt Brian was somebody who could be sensitive and obviously she felt he needed support. When he started paying her back by trying to beat her up, she began to realize."

 

[danabnormal]

thank you IcePrincess, I haven't seen some of these before esp the big one by tony sanchez looks fantastic....oh, I'd have loved to attend the mentioned "society events"! I really wonder how anita got to meet,well,lords...