Yahoo News The Rolling Stones’ Hotel Booking Pseudonyms Revealed By Their New Exhibition
Stones stalkers will now be phoning hotels where the band is staying asking to be put through to the rooms of long-dead Romantic poets.
The pseudonyms Mick Jagger and Co, below, use to sign in to luxury suites on tour have been revealed – and most of them are writers of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
A handwritten note among memorabilia currently on display at The Stones’ Exhibitionism show at London’s Saatchi Gallery is proof of their choices.
It shows Jagger, 72, liked to check in as libertine Lord Byron, pictured in a portrait below alongside his ancestral home of Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, who died aged 36 after a life of bisexual debauchery during which he’s said to have slept with his half-sister.
The note states Keith Richards, 72, liked to sign in as poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, pictured below – husband of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley who died at 29.
Charlie Watts, 74, characteristically chose a quieter poet as his moniker and used the name Thomas Gray at hotels, best known for Elegy Written In A Church Courtyard.
But pals of Marylebone Cricket Club have also claimed Watts later preferred to sign in under the name of the game’s late commentator Peter West.
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