A most remarkable woman. Always in my heart.
(Photo: Michael Cooper) pic.twitter.com/ubZtRYW1Am— Keith Richards (@officialKeef) June 14, 2017
A most remarkable woman. Always in my heart.
(Photo: Michael Cooper) pic.twitter.com/ubZtRYW1Am— Keith Richards (@officialKeef) 14 giugno 2017
The Italian-German actress - who had kids Marlon, 47, and Angela, 45, with the 73-year-old rocker, as well as son Tara, who died aged just 10 weeks in 1976 - passed away aged 73 on Tuesday, but the cause of her death has not yet been released.
Sources told the Daily Mirror newspaper that Keith - who also has two children with wife Patti Hansen - was there for Anita in her final months, cared about her enormously and was "completely devastated" by her death.
Anita's close friend, Stella Schnabel, has posted a picture of them together on Instagram and paid an emotional tribute to her pal.
The most famous passage in Keith Richards’ autobiography, Life, concerns the writing of Gimme Shelter. It is perhaps the most celebrated and visceral song among the catalogue of Rolling Stones tracks that appeared to soundtrack the curdling of the 1960s counterculture: an “end-of-the-world song”, as Mick Jagger once described it; a haunting, spectral guitar figure that builds into a brutal, muscular riff, topped with phantasmagorical visions of war, flood, rape and streets burning “like a red coal carpet”.
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But, Richards revealed, its apocalyptic mood had prosaic roots. He wrote the song while his then-partner Anita Pallenberg was out filming her most celebrated acting role, opposite Mick Jagger in Donald Cammell and Nick Roeg’s Performance. Richards was convinced the film’s love scenes weren’t simulated and that Pallenberg and Jagger were having an affair. In one of literature’s great examples of protesting too much, Richards spends the best part of six pages claiming he wasn’t upset by Pallenberg’s infidelity, a claim undermined by the bitterness that seeps through every page 40 years on – Cammell was “a pimp”, Performance “third-rate porn”, Jagger had a “tiny todger” – and through Gimme Shelter itself. Whatever else it may be, it doesn’t sound like the work of a man who wasn’t bothered.
