One: the Stones immediately sever all ties with Klein. Loewenstein proposed a two-step course of action. вЂњThere was one frightening incident in the Savoy Hotel when Mick started screaming at Klein who darted out of the room and ran down the corridor with Mick in hot pursuit,вЂќ Loewenstein writes.вЂњI had to stop him and say,вЂYou cannot risk laying a hand on Klein.вЂ™вЂќ Here was the smartest rocker, the LSE student, being taken in a game of three-card monte. вЂњThey were completely in the hands of a man who was like an old-fashioned Indian moneylender,вЂќ Loewenstein writes, вЂњwho takes everything and only releases to others a tiny sliver of income, before tax.вЂќ This also gives Klein ownership of just about every one of your songs. Royalties, publishing fees-all of it belongs to Klein, who can pay you as he sees fit. The American Nanker Phelge is owned by Allen Klein you are his employees. He explained the problem to the band in 1970: Klein advised you to incorporate in the United States for tax purposes as this new company was given the same name as your British concern- Nanker Phelge (named after their old Edith Grove housemate)- youвЂ™ve assumed itвЂ™s the same company itвЂ™s not. It took Loewenstein eighteen months to untangle the contracts and deals. None of us have any money.вЂ™ Given the success of the Stones, he could not understand why none of the money they were expecting was even trickling down to the band members.вЂќ The essence of what he told me was,вЂI have no money. вЂњMick slipped into the room, wearing a green tweed suit,вЂќ Loewenstein goes on.вЂњWe sat and talked for an hour or so. She gave me a briefing and my curiosity was tickled.

leaned towards Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms,вЂќ Loewenstein writes in his memoir.вЂњThe name of the meant virtually nothing to me at the time, but I asked my wife to tell me about them.

At first glance, Loewenstein, a prematurely middle-aged aristocrat who spoke with a slight German accent, seemed an unlikely partner for the Stones. Jagger finally reached out to his friend Christopher Gibbs, the art dealer, who put him in touch with the private London banker Prince Rupert Loewenstein. When they asked Allen Klein for more of what they assumed was their money, he sent it grudgingly, in dribs and drabs. The Stones were in the same condition as the culture, having come to realize, despite all their hit records and sold-out shows, that they were essentially broke. Keith came to personify that-the oldest young man in the world stand him up and watch him play shoot him up and watch him die. The promise of hippie epiphany was gone only the high remained. The shift from the sixties to the seventies was the shift from LSD to heroin. Vietnam, the streets filled with psychotic vets, LSD cut with strychnine, Richard Nixon in the White House. (вЂњI never liked being famous,вЂќ he said.вЂњI could face people a lot easier on the stuff.вЂќ) Like prime rib with cabernet sauvignon or creeper weed with high school, junk went perfectly with that bleak, washed-out moment. He loved how it made him feel-how it answered every question, removed every obligation, annihilated every stare. Heroin was in part KeithвЂ™s response to Altamont. He sought that crucial authenticity in debauchery instead. HeвЂ™d never know cotton shacks or rent parties. Fame removed Keith from the kind of suffering that stands behind the Delta blues. When he speaks about his junkie years-вЂњI know the angle,вЂќ he told Zigzag magazine in 1980, вЂњwaiting for the man, sitting in some goddamn basement waiting for some creep to come, with four other guys sniveling, puking and retching aroundвЂќ-itвЂ™s not without a certain pride. To make music with the depth of the masters, Keith had to experience what they experienced, had to touch the seafloor, where the pearl is buried in the muck. If youвЂ™re of a certain temperament, you do things you know are bad for you because without the experience, you canвЂ™t emulate the art. Heroin had been a passion of KeithвЂ™s heroes-black blues players whoвЂ™d chased the high until they lost everything. When we opened a channel to South- east Asia, soldiers flowed out and china white flowed in. Cheap, nearly impossible to avoid, an unintended consequence of the Vietnam War. He says it was probably an accident, that he mistook a line of smack for a line of blow at a party at the rag end of the decade.

When did Keith Richards take his first hit of heroin? Excerpted from the Book 'THE SUN & THE MOON & THE ROLLING STONES'

Mick taylor with the rolling stones