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in women came to a head in the summer of 1971, when the band decamped to the South of France because of tax issues and recorded Exile On Main Street at Richards’s rented villa.

It seems Mick and Anita had a fling — at this time Keith’s heroin addiction was at its height — and she found herself pregnant.

Marshall Chess, an executive with Atlantic Records who was present, said: ‘It was tossed around whose kid it was. [ Anita] thought it was Jagger’s kid. There were major problems between Mick and Keith over it. A cold ****ing wall went up between the two of them over it.’

However, in an interview before her death last year, Anita said the

child wasn’t Mick’s. ‘I never felt Jagger’s charm the way other women did — the way Marianne [ Faithfull, right] did. I always thought Keith was more interesting. I would never, ever have jeopardised the relationship with Keith.’ Some suggest Mick and...