Yes, I definitely remember reading that they frequented these pubs. I am sure their roadies held a charity function/raffle at The Golden Lion. Did Richard Cole not host his wedding reception to Tracey at one of these pubs?

Yes, alright, there is a big p.r. campaign on at the moment for Keef's autobiography, but I can't help but add any interviews with him:- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1320761/Rolling-Stone-Keith-Richards-reveals-drugs-sex-Mick-Jaggers-tiny-manhood.html

I have put this under trivia because the book is from the guy behind 'Hammer of the Gods', Stephen Davis. He has this new book coming out shortly, supposedly based on lost notes from his time on the '75 tour. (What kind of a journalist loses notes from something so important?). How much of this book do you think will be based on fact? It sounds to me like he is screwing every last penny he can from having been on that tour. http://www.amazon.com/LZ-75-Lost-Chronicles-Zeppelins-American/dp/1592405894/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287168645&sr=1-2

I can't understand why the Daily Mail featured this book, if it is from years ago. The only explanation I can offer if that sometimes when there is a bidding war between newspapers for serialisation of a new book (keef's autobiography) and a particular newspaper loses out, they publish excerpts from another book.

A Keith Richards' former gofer trying to make a buck. Oh well, aren't we all! It is called 'Up And Down With The Rolling Stones' by Tony Sanchez, published by John Blake Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1320638/The-girl-nearly-broke-Stones-Keith-Richards-gofer-recalls-riotous-life-road.html

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This is from Ross' diary, 13/10/2010 "...October 13 Met up with my friend Ulf Zick and his partner Bonna for an early dinner at The Soho House. My son Oliver came along - strange to think I'd be hanging out with him at twenty three, but I had a wonderful time with him. We were joined by the always late Dave Brolan and Jimmy Page. I enjoyed the Soho House. The upstairs bit past the bar was nice to hang out in. Ulf and Bonna went to the "Jungle" to see Axl and back up band at the 02 while Oliver, Jimmy and I looked around Soho , Jimmy pointing out where the Marquee Club was, me telling my son about Soho in the good old days. Or bad old days - depends on your view point. The days when I was young and stupid, I suppose." www.sohohouse.com

Here's a link to an item about designer clothing shop owner, John Varvatos where Jimmy is listed as one of his customers. I recognised the name from Ross' diary e.g. Ross refers to visiting the shop in New York on 13 September 2010 and receiving some freebies. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/varvatos_vexed_2s8RNwlTJ3PMB90SgZw3HM.

Steve, 'London Wimpy bar?' Do you not think this was someone making mischief? After all, he would have been obliged to provide a house and financial maintenance for Scarlet. Having said that, as far as I know, at that time Charlotte was not qualified as anything other than a model. BTW, I have PM'd you with resources, as promised.

Robert Plant next week. :D

Great reply Aquamarine. When I post resources on this site, I don't care whether they are from a tabloid or a broadsheet. However, I note that Johnthomasmoby gives his location as Liverpool-ish . Liverpudlians and those close by remember the role of the News of the World's sister paper 'The Sun' in the aftermath of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. I don't want to take this thread off topic, but I am putting a link here for anyone who wants an explanation of what happened. http://en.wikipedia....orough_disaster

SAJ, Will you be attending?

OK, I know Keef's autobiography is coming out at the end of this month, and this is part of the pre-publication drive, but I love the guy - he's class. Source:- www.newsoftheworld.co.uk Keef: I carried gun to score heroin Stones wildman's shock admission </IMG> ARMED: Keith had a Luger By Sofia Zagzoule, 10/10/2010 HELL-RAISING Rolling Stone Keith Richards has revealed that he carried guns for protection when he went to buy drugs at the height of his addiction. The ageing rocker started packing a German Luger before moving on to rifles because they had a "longer range", saving him having to run after dealers who robbed him. But his favourite "piece" was a Smith and Wesson which has no safety catch. And even today the reformed Street Fighting Man admits to always carrying a four-inch knife tucked in his belt to deal with muggers. "You make a cut across the forehead - doesn't hurt," he says in an interview to publicise his explosive new autobiography. "All the blood comes down, and then you kick the f****r in the balls. It's a very efficient way of dealing with problems." Keith, 66, also tells of his drug-fuelled road trip across England with John Lennon, reveals how he tried and failed to talk junkie Pete Doherty out of his addiction and admits that he DID snort his father's ashes. The guitarist - who quit drugs after falling out of a coconut tree four years ago - says he took no chances when buying heroin on US streets where everyone has the right to carry a gun. "The first one I bought was a Luger I picked up in the East Village in New York City," he says. "After that I went into rifles for a bit just because they go further. "I've carried a piece or two now and again - most of that was to do with the heroin business and being involved in, like, scoring. Especially in America, it bodes you well to be armed. "A .38 Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver - that is the f****** gun. No safety on it." SON OF A GUN: Keith said he and John Lennon shared some high times Now he's calmed down a bit, Keith has settled for a ratchet knife tucked into the waistband of his trousers. "I've always carried one," he says. "I learned how to use it in Jamaica." Keith has spent three years writing his memoirs, called Life, after signing a £3.6million deal. They will be published at the end of the month. The Stone recalls a huge secret bender with late Beatle John Lennon. "Me and John went on a three-day road trip across England," he says. "What happened neither John nor I could ever remember. We must have been on something exceptional. There was one young lady with us at least, and a chauffeur because we were in no driving condition. And we were just playing sounds. "We were in my Bentley. I said, 'I'm not going on a trip with you in that goddam psychedelic Rolls Royce. Let's go more discreetly in my little blue Bentley'." Richards admits being so off his head on pure cocaine that he once fell asleep on stage during a Stones concert. "I used to like pure, pure cocaine - a very smooth thing and nothing to do with the street s*** other people take," Keith, told upmarket fashion mag AnOtherMan. "I fell asleep on stage in the middle of playing Fool To Cry. It is a very boring song and I was pretty out of it. I was on one of those volume pedals and I just stayed on it - but it got so loud that I had to wake up." ALL OVER NOW: Keith in drug days Keith has been off cocaine after suffering a blood clot in his brain during his tree fall in Fiji four years ago. But it was only one of many freak accidents he says he has suffered. In 1998 he broke three ribs and punctured a lung after falling off a ladder reaching for a book in his library. "It was a Leonardo Da Vinci book on anatomy and it hit me and knocked me off the ladder," he says. "I found out all about anatomy from that without even opening a page." Learning from his own drug-addled life, Keith says he has even tried to talk to Libertines rocker Pete Doherty about curbing his drug use. "Amy Winehouse and Pete take drugs for the same reasons we did," he says. "All I'd say is take your drugs in your spare time, if that's what you want to do, but don't mix it up. "I've had a word with Pete about this but it don't make any difference. If you mix it up you're just gonna fall like a million others. I've seen too many friends gone that way." Also gone is his father Bert's ashes - but not all of them up the rocker's nose. Keith was quoted in 2007 saying he had snorted them, then later denied it. But in a final word on the notorious incident he admits: "I opened my dad's ashes, and some of them blew out over the table. I looked at them and what do I do? Do I desecrate them with a dustbin and broom? "So I wet me finger and I shoved a bit of me dad up me f****** 'ooter. I'm sure he's still blessing me. The rest I put round an oak tree." Keith also has a dig at Stones frontman Mick Jagger - blasting his solo efforts away from the band. He says: "Mick did his best and flapped about like a chicken, but his stuff disconnects when he goes off by himself." Insiders say Keith was asked to tone down the book after an early draft was too close to the bone.

Here is the link:- http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/scottish/scottish_showbiz/1071684/Jeff-Beck-pulls-his-finger-out-to-release-stunning-new-album.html

Yoko Ono has talked about Paul McCartney's surprising role in reuniting her and John Lennon after John's 'lost weekend'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1319101/Love-Yoko-reveals-Paul-saved-marriage-John.html

I found these on www.mirrorpix.com. The female in the photos with Robert is, of course, the late great Sandy Denny.

Thanks SAJ, brilliant as ever.

Full article here: http://www.artnet.co...tess10-8-10.asp ".... Recently labeled in Time Out magazine as one of the "heroes of the underground" by no other than Wolfgang Tillmans, Richard La Rue -- aka Racky -- pulled a marvelous performance out of the bag at the Red Gallery for a multi-performance, slightly dirty art night called PSI Kick Self Defense/ Blank Cheque last week. Fronting a band called Winnie the Poof with the legendary musician and designer Richard Torry on ukelele, Racky bowled me over with his singing ability and ongoing oddity. I originally came across him dressed as a bathroom cabinet, since which time he has changed his name to Racky, and become a lot more vocal with me than he was back then, trapped and almost mute as he was in the confines of his mirrored dresser. The Blank Cheque night seemed to be sponsored by -- no word of a lie -- Walker's Prawn Cocktail Crisps (a British staple), and, if a blind-looking man in the audience (pictured) wasn't the Norwegian, bell-headed, looks-like-he's-been-hit-by-a-bell, chess master champion and G-Star Raw Jeans poster boy Magnus Carlsen (photographed for the jeans campaign by artist and filmmaker Anton Corbijn), I will eat my non-existent hat. Talking of Tillmans, his eponymously named Serpentine Gallery retrospective that ran during this summer attracted the gallery's biggest ever audiences, averaging over 2,000 visitors per day. The exhibition was Tillmans' first major show in London since 2003. Racky, being a bit of a cult figure himself, told me about a cultish dead man called Austin Osman Spare whose work had its first public museum outing at the Cuming Museum on the Walworth Road. At 17, Osman Spare (1886-1956) was hailed a genius as he became the youngest exhibitor at the Royal Academy's summer show of 1904. Traumatized by his experience as a WWI war artist, Spare rejected fame and fortune and concentrated his talent on "richly encoded Symbolist illustrations," which are now collected by the likes of Jimmy Page. The work I saw was "stack-hung" Edwardian style, in the manner of the RA's summer shows and Spare's own pub exhibitions of the late 1940s, early 1950s...."

Writer relates the saga of how Jeff Beck tried to buy from him a Les Paul which had been aquired from Rick Derringer. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/binky-philips/jeff-beck-tries-to-buy-my_b_749334.html

With reference to the photo where Jimmy is standing next to the jukebox, that looks like William Morris wallpaper behind him.

Steve, You are absolutely right, it is indeed Michael Winner. The lady with Michael in the photograph is his receptionist, sometime actress, Joanna Kanska. From what I can gather he has a number of receptionists working for him at his home. If you remember the series of magazine articles where people who know Jimmy give an interview about him, Michael says that Jimmy is rather taken with all the receptionists (quelle surprise!!!)

I'm sure many of you will already be aware of the link below about Jimmy going to the Papaya Tree restaurant in London, but I thought I'd put it in this thread anyway. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/eating_out/winners_dinners/article1294858.ece

Found this site, maybe some of you are already aware of it. I searched for photos of the lads - not bad. http://www.sunshiner...emart&Itemid=26

I had also found this thread on a Thailand forum where people have met Jimmy in Bangkok. Take note of the posting by Jeffinbkk on 2 August 2009 regarding Jimmy being 'done' with being Jimmy I am sure I've previously read the quote by Jimmy of him never having heard WLL played in a w****house before, so if you are already aware of the thread below, my apologies. http://webcache.goog...n&ct=clnk&gl=uk Also, Blacksheepmusic on YouTube says in the video's comments section that he asked Jimmy to sign his guitar whilst in Jameson's pub, but Jimmy declined to do so. I think that JP might be restricted by any contractual agreement he has with Gibson from signing other manufacturers' guitars.

The guy who posted the original video of JP in Pattaya onto YouTube, 'Blacksheepmusic', has posted another brief bit of film of Jimmy in the pub. It is called 'Jimmy Page Tribute' and consists of some more stills, together with brief film of Jimmy having his photograph taken by customers. Hope this link works: