“I was not Mick Jagger’s woman. He was not my man. We were friends. And we were lovers.' Swinging London looks darker through P.P. Arnold’s memoir of music and violence. | Michael Dwyer
. For all its raunchy feel-good vibes, the Rolling Stones’ 1971 hit, retired from their live set just last year, is likely to be remembered in more enlightened times as being among the rock era’s most breathtakingly barbarous moments.about me!’; ‘No he didn’t, he wroteabout me!’ … Well, I never gave a damn whether he wrote it about me. I always f---ing knew what he wroteP.P. Arnold: “I took my wig off and put it in that trash can. People saw me, the real me, for the first time.
“This book is coming out when I’m 75 years old. And when I started writing it I was no spring chicken either,” she says, “so I wasn’t writing it to hustle anybody.” Nor, clearly, to protect anybody. The most shocking allegation, recounted in sickening detail, is her rape by renowned serial abuser Ike Turner in 1965, soon after he hired her as an Ikette.
With its first chapters about her brutal youth interwoven with hundreds of years of family history, it’s possible that this book she spent 18 years writing will be remembered as her most important work. Even that was fraught with misfortune and rescued by sheer dogged resilience when she lost an entire finished draft to a computer glitch.“It’s a good thing that it was my life [story], or I really would have been up shit creek,” she says.
“A lot of things in my book have been cut,” she says. “And a lot of it was cut because the publishers, everybody, is so scared because it’s Sir Mick, it’s Sir Rod. The only person that I wanted to make sure that they did not get wrong was Barry Gibb. And even Barry, as lovely as he is and everything, they all dumped me in the end, you know. Come on, let’s face it.”Credit:Gibb remains a friend, albeit from behind the gates of his Miami mansion.
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