Swinging London: The "birds" of the Stones and Beatles

London in the mid-sixties had to kick ass, a cultural revolution was in full bloom-riot! The bands to come out of this time are still influential, the fashion realm was producing names that still echo with relevance and reverence. Literature, film and television merged with the music and fashion to form a synergy cycle of creation/hype/confirmation that allowed the scene to thrive for nearly the entire decade! Many a site is dedicated to this time period in London ; it wasn't the 50s, it was anti-conformity, but not the 70s overindulgence either, it was swinging but still held some sense of innocence. One post won't handle all I want to cover regarding this subject so consider this installment one of many....

This is the era when the model/actress/singer was born and The Beatles and Stones had their pick of 'em, I've only scratched the surface so her are some of their more famous birds.

Mick is/was a famous hound dog, one of his first flames was model Chrissie Shrimpton, little sister of one of the faces of Swinging London; Jean Shrimpton who is widely considered to be the 1st supermodel.
                                         Mick and Chrissie enjoying a fag.

"She had hair like Jeanie Shrimpton back in 1965..." Wow, the Smithereens rule, after finding this pic the song make even more sense!

Model/Actress/Singer, Marianne Faithful...wanted a Rolling Stone slept with three and chose the singer, she and Skinny Mick hung for 4 years!

Italian Model/actress Anita Pallenberg started with Brian but he had the audacity to get sick in Morocco so while he was in the hospital she

                                            moved on to Keith...classy.

The Beatles would not be out done, George with model Patti ( Layla) Boyd!

You know Paul would score...actress/model Jane Asher

Ringo did o.k. too, he married Maureen Cox a hairdresser/hang-around from the Cavern days...

Any of these ladies could have been the muse for these two songs. 

How cool was Brian Jones, damn he was smooth!



Seriously how good were the freakin' Beatles!! Look for more on the Swinging London scene..yeah-baby-yeah!