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Nellcote, this villa of the French Riviera haunted by the Rolling Stones

2021-04-15T16:14:00.320Z


Fifty years after the recording of the album "Exile On Main Street" in the cellar of this residence in Villefranche-sur-Mer, a book retraces the eventful epic of the place. The photographer of the tumultuous rockers also remembers.


He planned to spend an afternoon photographing Keith Richards in his new environment, a superb residence in Villefranche-sur-Mer, called Villa Nellcote.

He will stay there for a total of six months.

In 1971, Dominique Tarlé, 23, witnessed the Rolling Stones' stay on the French Riviera.

“At the end of the day, as I thank everyone for a great afternoon, Keith asks me, 'Where are you going?

Your room is ready. ”

It was at the end of the last concert of a British tour crowning the spring release of

Sticky Fingers

that Bianca Morales, future Mrs. Jagger, had put the young French in the confidence.

"She told me that the guys were going into exile in the south of France for tax reasons."

Dominique Tarlé was then the official photographer of the group, living in London for three years.

By dint of stringing tourist visas, the man is in the sights of the authorities, who urge him to join France at the same time as his favorite group

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Source: lefigaro

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