Mick Jagger was found collapsed on the floor and had turned blue after sharing a gram of heroin with a record producer, it’s claimed
Sir Mick Jagger almost died after taking heroin, a new book claims. Record producer Chess Marshall alleged he found the Rolling Stones star “collapsed on the floor” and had to resuscitate him, in 1976. He spoke to writer Bob Spitz for his new book The Rolling Stones: The Biography.
According to the New York Post, Marshall said that Mick visited him late at night following a party in the hope of finding drugs, and while he was trying to get clean at the time. The pair visited a “Buddhist heroin dealer, he knew who was at the beck and call of New York junkies twenty-four hours a day.”
The pair allegedly “shared a little gram of heroin,” but just 10 minutes later, Mick “collapsed on the floor.” “Mick was out cold,” Spitz writes. “Chess tried dragging him upright, even slapped him a couple of times, but – nothing,” and soon, Jagger’s “lips were turning blue.”
Marshall added: “I didn’t know what else to do. I was freaked. Mick Jagger’s gonna die in my f****** apartment.” The producer called for an ambulance, and also rang former president of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun, who it’s claimed arrived with Faye Dunaway, who was married to J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf at the time.
The actress allegedly called a friend, who was president of the nearby Lenox Hill Hospital, and was able to “arrange a room where they could stash Mick so there would be no publicity.” It’s claimed Marshall performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until emergency services arrived, and when they did, Mick was put on oxygen “at which point he started breathing again.”
Jagger’s ex-partner Jerry Hall has previously claimed the rocker used to smoke heroin. In her autobiography, Hall claims that Jagger admitted to smoking the class A drug at the beginning of their courtship, only giving up at her request. “I told him I couldn’t see him if he took drugs, saying, ‘Go away and don’t come back until you’re straight.’ He succeeded – he had amazing willpower,” she wrote.
Bandmate Keith Richards endured a heroin addiction at the height of the band’s success, which he overcame in the late 1970s.
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