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\"\"<\/a>

Mick Jagger in Clearwater, Florida, 1965.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dear Lorin,<\/p>\n

Did I ever tell you about the thing I did with The Ice Plant? You know them\u2014they make oddly compelling photography books. Last year they did one about some candid \u201cfound photos\u201d of the Rolling Stones, pictures taken in the South that had somehow turned up at a flea market or estate sale out west. I wrote a piece to go with the book. But the book wound up getting squashed, or at least suppressed. There was some kind of legal problem\u2014a photographer\u2019s estate claimed rights, saying their man had taken the pictures, but it couldn\u2019t be proved, and there were other claimants. At one point the book was embargoed on a container ship, I\u2019m not inventing. Anyway it was all a shame because the book was beautiful to look at and would have been positive for all parties, and The Ice Plant\u2019s books are done for the love\u2014if nobody\u2019s profiting, nobody\u2019s profiting off\u2014but we are a people of the lawsuit, we like to own.<\/p>\n

All of that is background, though, to the actual pictures (referring here\u00a0only to those that have already been on the Web). There\u2019s something sweet and sad about them (a twenty-two-year-old Brian Jones flipping playfully into the pool \u2026 ), and something unglamorous that has postwar English childhoods in it, and at the edges maybe just a trace of eerie and autumnal pre\u2013Altamont Apocalypse vibes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I went back to the cluster of shots that mainly show Mick and Charlie Watts wearing shades and sitting in plastic chaise chairs by the pool. If I\u2019m not mistaken we think it\u2019s at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, the day after their Clearwater show. At first I was interested in them because I\u2019d become convinced that a reflection of the photographer might be preserved in the lenses of the dark glasses, an image that could then be blown up using advanced technology, but evidently there isn\u2019t enough to work with. Not enough pixels were preserved.<\/p>\n

In staring at those particular pictures so much, I noticed there appears to be a young\u00a0woman in a few of them. In one, the picture where Mick is holding a beer can in his hand and talking to someone (her), you can see her wrist in the bottom right corner. In another shot, that has a smiling Bill Wyman in the background, you see her straw-blonde hair and the curve of her knee and a few of her fingers as she holds up a hand to shade her eyes from the sun. Charlie is smoking and smiling at her. In one picture her shoulder blade and back are visible, and the strap of her bikini top slides down her arm. Finally it may be her in one of the (apparently) later pictures, from London, where Keith sits there looking magisterially stoned, and a girl\u2019s short blonde hair swishes against the side of her face as she spins in a blue jacket.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Brian Jones.<\/p><\/div>\n

People have written that these pictures come from a time when the Stones were \u201con the\u00a0brink of mega-stardom,\u201d but the overuse of that expression makes it hard to feel how uncannily apt it is here. If we can believe Keith Richards (whom else are we meant to believe?), these pictures\u2014specifically the shots from Florida\u2014were taken not only on the very day but during the very moments in which Mick wrote the lyrics to \u201cSatisfaction,\u201d the song that would change everything for the band, take them from being \u201canother mop-haired, British singing group,\u201d as the Florida papers had just described them, to one that might contest the\u00a0Beatles\u2019 throne. In Life<\/em>, his memoir, Richards writes: \u201cMick wrote the lyrics by the pool in Clearwater, Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Stones spent not even twenty-four hours in town on that tour. Arrived in the evening, played a show at a ballpark, and left the next afternoon. So there are just a few hours\u2014between, say, eleven and two, on May 7, the day after the show\u2014that Keith could have had in mind when he wrote \u201cby the pool in Clearwater.\u201d<\/p>\n

The previous night\u2019s show, in Jack Russell Stadium, had been a classic absurdist bust. It started at seven. Opening acts were the\u00a0Roemans (a Florida garage band), the\u00a0Legends\u00a0(Milwaukee rock), the\u00a0Catalinas (beach music from Charlotte), and the\u00a0Intruders (Philly soul). When the Stones attempted to take the stage, the teenage fans rioted, overwhelming a barrier and a line of police. A somewhat scary picture of a few fans\u2019 faces appeared later in the St. Petersburg Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"fans<\/a><\/p>\n

The band was instantly hustled into a white station-wagon and driven from the field. \u201cThere will never be another show like this as long as I am here,\u201d said the head of Clearwater\u2019s recreation department, Gary Garretson.<\/p>\n

It was the next day, by the pool. Mick was drinking a Budweiser that had been brought to him by a middle-aged black man in a white dinner jacket. You can see the man in at least one of the pictures. Serving drinks to this unintelligible fruitcake. Mick has words running through his head. \u201cI\u2019m riding \u2019round the world \u2026<\/p>\n

\n

And I\u2019m doing this, and I\u2019m signing that,
And I\u2019m trying to make some girl,
Who tells me, \u2018Baby, better come back, maybe next week
Cause you see, I\u2019m on a losing streak.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"frances<\/a>A couple of hours later and the band is again being hustled toward a waiting car. Out of the hotel, this time, and into the garage. A local reporter jogs along down the hallways, a woman from Tarpon Springs named Frances Brush<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Brush, \u201clarge groups of boys and girls\u201d had \u201cconverged\u201d on the hotel and \u201centered every available entrance in their efforts to get to the musical stars.\u201d But police and \u201chotel officials\u201d had succeeded in keeping them away.<\/p>\n

\"ginny<\/a>\u201cOnly one girl,\u201d Brush writes, had been able to \u201cget to the \u2018rock men,\u2019<\/a>\u00a0\u201d and this girl was there for the good-bye when they left. Could it be the one from the pool? Brush describes her as an eighteen-year-old \u201cpretty blonde,\u201d an English girl living in the States, who\u2019d known \u201cthe boys\u201d back in London. Her name was Ginny French. She\u2019d been hanging out with them. Seems like it has to be her. If \u201cSatisfaction\u201d has a muse, her name is Ginny French.<\/p>\n

Brush asks Ginny about the non-show from the night before, if the Stones had been frightened. \u201cGinny said the boys were not particularly disturbed by the incident that disrupted their show since \u2018this sort of thing happens all the time.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t find anything else about a girl named Ginny or Virginia French in connection with the Rolling Stones. Who knows how much longer French was her name, or if that was her real name. Presumably she\u2019s out there. Feel free to reach out, Ginny!<\/p>\n

Before the band took off, Mrs. Brush asked Brian Jones (a bit condescendingly, and incorrectly it turns out, at least in the way she meant it), \u201cWhat do you plan to do when this bubble bursts?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones smiled and said, \u201cWe\u2019ll blow another bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wish I had more.<\/p>\n

Yr. devoted,
JJ<\/p>\n

\"charliewatts\"<\/a>

Charlie Watts, with\u2014perhaps?\u2014Ginny French in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

John Jeremiah Sullivan is the Southern editor of <\/em>The Paris Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Lorin, Did I ever tell you about the thing I did with The Ice Plant? You know them\u2014they make oddly compelling photography books. 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