Thursday, December 18, 2008

Beat Girl

Gillian Hills, a yé-yé girl and actress, was born in England where she was a sensation in Beat Girl, about a rebellious girl who goes out to nightclubs where rock music plays and the guys all pout and glare.

Quickly typed as “the British Bardot,” Gillian surprised her critics by singing very well in French and having more hits in France than in England. She turned up alongside Jane Birkin in Antonioni's Blow Up, but her film appearances decreased and she became quite elusive after the 70’s, when she moved to New York to work as an illustrator for books and magazines and later married Stewart Young, manager for The Scorpions!

(bio from last.fm/wikipedia)










































Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Anita in Wonderland

Anita Pallenberg - the female Rolling Stone!
Living the 1960s surrounded by total Dreamboat City rock and roll, Anita was romantically involved with Stones' founding member Brian Jones until she left him in 1967 for Keith Richards during a holiday in Morocco. She and Richards have two children together, son Marlon and daughter Angela (also known as Dandelion). It's also widely rumored she and Mick Jagger had an affair around the time of the movie Performance, which they co-starred in together. Regardless of the love triangles and entanglements, Anita was a constant fixture of the band and their group, and greatly influenced the way they presented themselves and developed. Her intense drug use and interest in the occult was something they all shared, and her eclectic sense of style rubbed off on everyone. Anita was just as wild and crazy, if not more so, than all of them. "Anita is a Rolling Stone. She, Mick, Keith and Brian were the Rolling Stones. Her influence has been profound. She keeps things crazy." - Jo Bergman, PA to the Rolling Stones 1967-1973.

Born in Rome, the daughter of an Italian artist and a German secretary, she became fluent in four languages and was involved with The Living Theater in New York City and Andy Warhol's Factory. In 1968 she played The Black Queen in cult classic Barbarella opposite Jane Fonda, and not one to ever stop trying new things, she earned her degree in fashion design from St. Martin's School of Art and Design in 1994.