Mick Jagger Rocks His Own Wedding Reception in St. Tropez

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Express/Getty Mick Jagger and his new wife Bianca Jagger on their marriage day May 13th 1971 alfresco St. Tropez Boondocks Hall

ST. TROPEZ, FRANCE - Ten hours afterwards he'd gotten married, Mick Jagger was on date performing. But he larboard the accent to the others as he abutting Doris Troy and P. P. Arnold to accomplish up a choir for a 25-minute soul-standard jam session, put calm for the brace of hundred guests at the accession by Steve Stills, Bobby Keyes, Nicky Hopkins and Michael Shrieve and David Amber of Santana.


Mick would accept admired the Stones to accept played, but Keith Richards was out to the bedrock world, collapsed on his aback with his aperture open. Confronted with an dogged bulk of aliment and booze, the affair afraid on till four the next morning.


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At four in the afternoon, Mick and his helpmate to be, whose name on the marriage affidavit is Blanca Rosa Perez-Mora, 26, babe of a Nicaraguan businessman, were still accepted in the Byblos Hotel in the centermost of St. Tropez. They'd heard that a hundred photographers were awash into the marriage alcove of the bounded boondocks hall, area the ambassador was cat-and-mouse to accomplish the civilian ceremony. He wasn't traveling through with it unless that lot were austere out.


"Impossible," the ambassador told anybody accommodating to listen. The anteroom is a accessible place, and as such anybody had a acknowledged appropriate to be there. Picking up his tricolor sash, the ambassador sashayed out, abrogation the arch of badge to calm down the atmosphere.


So 50 account late, agitation that he doesn't wish to be affiliated in a "fish bowl," amidst by aerial fists, agitated shrieks and bustling beam bulbs, Mick accustomed with his lady: Bianca Perez Moreno de Macias, 21, abutting acquaintance of French almanac abettor Eddy Barclay, affiliate of the European jet set, above babe acquaintance of Michael Caine, the actor, association babe of a Nicaraguan diplomat.


After assuming for photographers and adverse the blaze of television lights for several minutes, the brace went through a abrupt civilian commemoration in the mayor's office. This was followed by a Roman Catholic commemoration performed by the Rev. Lucien Baud in the 17th aeon Saint Anne Chapel. A alternative of tunes from Love Story was played on a harmonium. Bianca reportedly requested the tunes.


Mick, who claims the Church of England as his faith, accustomed a allotment from the Bishop of Frejus and has been demography clandestine canon acquaint from Fr. Baud so he could participate in the religious commemoration with his Catholic bride.


A accountant even amount of guests accustomed from Gatwick Airport, England, in the afternoon and abutting the blow at the affair in the evening. On the even were Ringo and Paul, additional wives and children. One of Paul's daughters showed her mother a cartoon she'd just done. Paul looked at it too and the cartoon was handed over to Ringo. He smiled, but the cat-and-mouse eyes and aerial of the columnist were disappointed. This wasn't traveling to be the reunion. They were just traveling to a wedding.


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At the hardly ailing Café des Arts, area the accession was held, a bounded bandage opened the appearance and flopped. Next came the Rudies, a assault reggae accumulation big in their own arena in Britain. They aerial up affluence of souls accessible for a set by Terry Reid and band. A part of the aflame amber legs, see-throughs, sleepy-eyed children, abnormally paternal-looking almanac executives, different inferior Lords and Ladies, Countesses and Earls, designers, hairdressers and gatecrashers . . . a part of all these humans wandered a rather absent analytic Mr. and Mrs. Jagger, senior. Joe Jagger, 58, a concrete apprenticeship lecturer, and his wife were analytic for a quiet amplitude to accord the brace their neatly captivated present. They larboard still captivation the present. Mrs. Jagger told a reporter, "I achievement my added son doesn't become a superstar."


Back in London, one cardboard was commercial its advantage of the marriage with the headline, Mick's Helpmate Speaks. It had been a bit of a bazaar by a lot of accounts. What you'd apprehend if you acquaint the apple you're accepting affiliated secretly on a Wednesday in St. Tropez. It wasn't hasty that the thousand dollars spent on caviar should burn some blue-blooded French tempers and that the bounded acceptance couldn't let Mick's Bentley drive accomplished after aiming a bang at it. It was abundant to arm-twist from Les Perrin, the Stones' chain-smoking columnist agent, a abrupt "the a lot of difficult day in my 21 years in the business."


The even from St. Tropez landed at London, and Paul McCartney bent his clandestine even aback to his Scottish retreat. He'd been out to a wedding.


This adventure is from the June 10th, 1971 affair of Rolling Stone.



From The Archives Affair 84: June 10, 1971

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