French marriage involves a declaration of ownership to be used in the case of divorce. Although Bianca was four months pregnant, the couple had to fight through tight crowds to get to the civic ceremony. As Keith Richards wryly remarked, Jagger wanted a quiet wedding, so he chose Saint-Tropez in the middle of summer. By May 1971, Saint-Tropez was still an "in" resort - a place where you could make a glamorous splash for a big event, and where Mick Jagger married the Nicaraguan Bianca Pérez-Mora amid a media scrum. Nights were swilled with drink and danced away in cha-cha-chas and twists. David Dodge noted that on Tahiti Beach "the sheen of sun oil… was blinding." People slept during the day - on the sand under sunscreen, under trees in the shade. Limited space and high prices initially secured an exclusivity that was soon destroyed by the sheer number of people wanting to be there. Welcome to "The Stone Age," chronicling the Rolling Stones' epic career of rock, scandal and excessĭuring the Sixties, rebellious and provocative Saint-Tropez had stiffened into a self-conscious resort where people went to be seen. Mick Jagger was in Saint-Tropez for his marriage in May.
Hating the Riviera in season, Charlie Watts rented in the Vaucluse. On Ap- the start of a new English tax year - the Rolling Stones fled to the south of France, where Keith Richards rented the Belle Époque Villa Nellcôte at the base of the Cap Ferrat peninsula. Paul McCartney returned to film a sequence to accompany his song "The Fool on the Hill" in The Beatles' improvised television special that has been dubbed "The Tragical Mystery Tour." Then four years later, the Rolling Stones installed themselves on the Riviera for the challenging basement recording of "Exile on Main St."Īt the beginning of the 1970s, UK supertax stood at 83 percent with tax on unearned income at 98 percent. The Beatles - never too popular in France - played to 8,000 people in Nice in 1965. The Antibes Jazz Festival became big - Charlie Mingus, turning his back on Newport, headlined, and Miles Davis recorded an album at the festival in 1963. It was a home away from home, laced with French finesse. Aristocratic scandals bubbled over from London drawing rooms and nightspots.Īfter World War II, with the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood descended on the coast. The British maintained their presence with figures like Edward VIII, the King who abdicated for love, and songwriters like Noël Coward.
Scott Fitzgerald and musical composer Cole Porter. American tycoons and bohemians came – among them, novelist F. In the early 20th century, the dollar was king. During the following century, the rich and royalty – British, Russian and pan-European – turned this region into a pleasure haven with luxury hotels and casinos. The French Riviera was discovered in the 1800s by those British who were seeking a climate to cure tuberculosis. Adapted from " The Once Upon a Time World – the Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera," by Jonathan Miles.
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