Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr attend Mick Jagger’s wedding

On this day, Rolling Stones’ lead singer Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez-Mora Macias in Saint Tropez, France.

From Rolling Stone, June 10, 1971:

A chartered plane load of guests arrived from Gatwick Airport, England, in the afternoon and joined the rest at the party in the evening. On the plane were Ringo and Paul, plus wives and children. One of Paul’s daughters showed her mother a drawing she’d just done. Paul looked at it too and the drawing was handed over to Ringo. He smiled, but the waiting eyes and ears of the press were disappointed. This wasn’t going to be the reunion. They were just going to a wedding. […]

The plane from St. Tropez landed at London, and Paul McCartney caught his private plane back to his Scottish retreat. He’d been out to a wedding.

From nypost.com, June 11, 2016:

Jagger chartered a plane to fly 75 friends who only learned of the wedding the day before, including Paul McCartney and his family, Ringo Starr, Peter Frampton and Ronnie Wood (who wouldn’t join the Stones for another four years), from the UK to Saint-Tropez.

As McCartney and Starr were embroiled in a harsh legal battle, they were seated far apart.

The guest list – Mick chartered a Don-Air Comet to bring his friends, family and associates from London, including Eva and Basil Jogger, Paul ond Linda McCartney and their children, Ringo and Maureen Starr, Nathalie Delon, Doris Troy, Leslie Perrin, Roger Vadim, Patrick Lichfield, Bobby Keys, Nicky and Linda Hopkins, the Loewensteins, Eric Clapton and Alice Ormsby-Gore, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Marshall Chess, Jimmy Miller, Donald Commell, Glyn Johns, Stephen Stills and PP Arnold.

From “Rolling With The Stones“, 2003

We all met at the plane. If it had gone down, there would be no music business. Ringo and Paul were on it, sitting at opposite ends as they weren’t talking then. We all piled on to three coaches to take us to St Tropez.

Anna Menzies, Stones office – From “Rolling With The Stones“, 2003

From “The Beatles: Off The Record 2 – The Dream is Over” by Keith Badman – Article by reporter Sydney Curtis:

“‘This is not a reunion, it’s a wedding,’ said Beatle, Paul McCartney, making the point quite clear as, with wife Linda, their child Mary, and her daughter Heather, he joined a Comet-load of guests at Gatwick airport, bound for the wedding reception of Mick Jagger and Bianca. McCartney, who kept the airline waiting half an hour, joined former colleague Ringo Starr at his table in the departure lounge. Neither said a word to the other. I asked him, ‘Why have George Harrison and John Lennon not turned up?’ Said Paul, wearing well-worn corduroy trousers with a four-inch square tartan patch on the rear, ‘I cannot speak for the others.’ I asked him, ‘Is there any chance of the rift being healed because of this wedding?’ He replied, ‘Look, I don’t want to talk about that, if you don’t mind.’ Earlier, Ringo had told me, ‘I don’t know if all The Beatles are coming. We’ve made our own arrangements.’ The Jagger juggernaut, as the airport staff was calling it, a Dan Air Comet, later flew off loaded with champagne and dolly birds. Friends of Jagger’s, musicians and their girl friends were aboard.”

That wedding was a bit strange because Paul and I hadn’t seen each other for a year but we both knew that everything was okay. None of us are going to punch each other or anything like that. It was just like, ‘Hello’, you know, and we had to get warm together.

Ringo Starr – From “The Beatles: Off The Record 2 – The Dream is Over” by Keith Badman

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