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STOPPING off in Gibraltar in 1967 en route to Tangier, The Rolling Stones’ in-house muse Anita Pallenberg may have decided to transfer her affections from Brian Jones to Keith Richards when she witnessed the troubled founding Stone playing a tape of some of his songs to the local barbary macaques. According to She’s A Rainbow: The Extraordinary Life Of Anita Pallenberg, the apes were unimpressed. “The monkeys don’t like my music,” Jones bellowed. “Fuck the monkeys! Fuck the monkeys!”

Smart, worldly and not inclined toward gauche monkey business, Pallenberg

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