You could tell she was different from the other groupies. In her beige fur jacket, tight sweater and Ossie Clark mini skirt, she looked nothing like the usual Swinging Sixties models — all knee socks, babydoll dresses, heavy eyeliner and thick mascara — when she turned up backstage in Munich in 1965.Everything about her suggested experience, from her hard-to-place accent to her hand-made leather gladiator sandals. Her first words were perhaps not, in the context of the Sixties, surprising. 'Want to smoke a joint?' she asked the band. and eyed her suspiciously. They'd never done drugs before. The only coke they'd had was mixed with rum.She glanced at Brian Jones. 'Yeah,' he said. 'Let's do that. Come back to the hotel.' The woman followed the Stones to the next day. Their tours were girlfriend-free zones, yet here was Brian flaunting his bewitching new lover: the hedonistic, beautiful, multi-lingual, 23-year-old German/Italian model and actress Anita Pallenberg.
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