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'You've got to have a line of coke,' she purred: The night I did cocaine with a megastar in a Chelsea flat... then never touched it again
In 40-plus years of writing about musical megastars, from the godfather of soul James Brown to the grandfather of pop Rod Stewart , I've snorted cocaine only once.
But the dominant presence in her childhood was her mother, born Eva von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian baroness, one of whose forebears had invented sachertorte chocolate cake and another had lent his name to the pleasurably uncomfortable form of sex called masochism. For a time she basked in the nation's good opinion, marrying John Dunbar, having a son, Nicholas, releasing further demure singles like This Little Bird and Come And Stay With Me (which, of course, meant in separate rooms) and becoming one of the first pop stars to broadcast a charity appeal. The police's haul from the Stones consisted only of a tiny amount of pot, for which Keith was busted, and four amphetamine-based travel-sickness tablets, illegal in Britain, which Marianne had bought in Italy but accidentally left in the pocket of a velvet jacket belonging to Mick.
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