Mick Jagger was partying, well, like a Rolling Stone, when Italian police shut down a get-together celebrating wrapping his new film.
The Rolling Stones frontman, 82, was on the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli where he’d been filming Three Incestuous Sisters – alongside co-stars including Hollywood star Dakota Johnson, Irish actors Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley, British actor Josh O’Connor and Italian-American actor Isabella Rossellini.
Jagger and fellow cast members were at the party in a local venue on Wednesday night (20 May) when police attended and asked them to end the festivities due to a local rule banning music on Wednesdays.
According to local reports by the Italian press, music at the party was being played from a small speaker at an acceptable volume, but loud enough to apparently irk local residents.
Local journalist Bartolino Leone said the cast were celebrating in a private location while also cutting a cake for O’Connor’s birthday, as he turned 36 on Wednesday.
“There were 30 to 40 people at the party and it wasn’t too loud, but they were having a drink and celebrating, and as soon as midnight arrived, the neighbours were on to the police,” Leone said.
The Ansa news agency reported that the raid caused “some confusion, mixed with hilarity”, and that the revellers accepted instructions to shut it down, albeit reluctantly.
Stromboli has strict rules on amplified music introduced by Riccardo Gullo, mayor of the Aeolian Islands, which includes Stromboli.
The cast and crew left the island on Thursday, with Jagger, who owns a home in the Sicilian province of Syracuse, leaving by helicopter.
Rosa Olivia, a local official for a grassroots tourism association, complained that Jagger and his co-stars had been chased away by “punitive interventions” when they should have been welcomed.
‘One would have expected a welcome to the guests, or at least a greeting and a thank you for their crucial contribution to the Aeolian economy and their visibility,” she said.
The Independent has contacted Gullo and Jagger’s representative for comment.
Jagger is no stranger to cop-raided parties, having famously been arrested for drug possession along with bandmate Keith Richards at the latter’s Redlands estate in 1967.
The incident became a cause célèbre and the subject of widespread backlash, even among the traditionally conservative members of the press – Richards’ conviction was quashed on appeal and Jagger’s prison sentence was reduced to a conditional discharge.
The Rolling Stones are preparing to release their latest album, Foreign Tongues, on 10 July, less than three years since their Grammy-winning record Hackney Diamonds.
Three Incestuous Sisters is based on the illustrated gothic novel of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger. who also wrote The Time Traveller’s Wife, and is being led by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher in her first English-language feature film.
Jagger is reportedly playing the lighthouse keeper, whose son (O’Connor) disrupts the relationship between three sisters living in isolation when he arrives on the island.
