Overview
- Media reports over the weekend highlighted the book’s claim that Jagger collapsed in 1976 after allegedly sharing heroin with producer Marshall Chess in a New York apartment.
- Chess says he performed mouth-to-mouth as Jagger’s lips turned blue and that emergency responders put the singer on oxygen, after which he resumed breathing.
- According to the account, music executive Ahmet Ertegun arrived with actress Faye Dunaway, who phoned a Lenox Hill Hospital contact to secure a private room to keep the incident out of public view.
- The book also recounts a 1984 Amsterdam clash in which drummer Charlie Watts struck Jagger, who then slid toward an open hotel window before Keith Richards grabbed his leg to stop a fall into a canal.
- The episodes are presented as recollections in a newly released biography, and Jagger’s spokesperson has not responded to requests for comment.