Beautiful and stylish: what was the wedding of Mick Jagger and Bianca Perez-Mora Macias
Mick proposed to Bianca 9 months after they met, and just 24 hours after that, they got married on the Côte d’Azur. On May 12, 1971, Rolling…
‘Drugs, always drugs’: how the rock ‘n’ roll dream almost killed me
In the small hours of April 2 2011, Eric Winwood smashed his head open and bled to death. He’d come to London with my mother to see…
Jo Wood: ‘The grandchildren call me Gangsta Granny and ask if I’ve ever done drugs – of course I say yes’
Jo Wood is the author of Stoned: Photographs & Treasures from Life with the Rolling Stones. She married Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood in 1985. The pair…
‘I could make colours freak out’: meet photography’s answer to Jimi Hendrix
Ferris’s psychedelic photography is memorialised in an ongoing show at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture, and also in…
The dos and don’ts of ageing rocker style (and why a flashy belt’s a bad idea)
What’s encouraging is that they’ve stayed true to their distinctive style as they age. McCartney has always favoured an easy, casual uniform and this remains the case,…
Do Mick Jagger’s SAD therapy glasses actually work?
Light therapy is still considered the gold standard for SAD sufferers, although it doesn’t work for everyone. Patients in the UK are prescribed a SAD lamp, or…
How deadly crowd crushes happen – and how to stop them
Characterising a crowd surge as a “stampede” or “panic” is misleading he says in that it implies the audience is in some way to blame. “People don’t…