Walking down to investigate the beach at Villefranche-sur-Mer, we came across the entrance to Villa Nellcôte [Map], once the headquarters of the local Gestapo, and in the summer of 1971, where the Rolling Stones recorded ‘Exile on Main Street‘.

I remembered reading about it, and seeing some photos of the house in ‘Spanish Tony’ Sanchez’s ‘Up and Down with The Rolling Stones‘, but we couldn’t see much beyond the main gates.

Dominique Tarle took some amazing photos there when he was allowed full access to the house that summer, published in a limited edition book ‘Exile’ – you can see quite a few of them here, and there’s a nice feature KEITH RICHARDS & GRAM PARSONS 1971 | SUMMER IN EXILE @ VILLA NELLCOTE, over on the ever excellent The Selvedge Yard.

Bob Colachello – nice specs.

Love those white boots.

More Indian wedding bands here, here and here.

In Mumbai.

More Indian wedding bands here & here.

Those cones pump out some amplified distortion from a keyboard or a microphone.

The white horse is part of the package – the bridegroom parades around on it.

Bobby Redford looking suave.

Whatever you might think of Osho, he was a fucking sharp cat.

In France there’s ‘Bleus De Travail’, which used to be navy blue and are now a nasty fluorescent / sky blue.

In Italy they still have the good navy blue, but with fancy red piping.

Fully clothed, sunglasses on, beer in hand – they offered me one too.