Brian’s 25th Birthday In Hospital Marie Gillet was a nurse in the CHU of Albi, France. She remembers: The greyness recovered the “tarnaise” countryside , end of February, 1967. Marie Gillet,a nurse supervisor (guard) in the cardiology care unit of the hospital c of Albi, was on guard. “I bring you a girl”, said the ambulance driver Francis Escaffre by entrusting her a person with a young face framed by a fair hair. “We could think that it was a girl”, tells today Marie Gillet. But at this time Marie could not imagine that the patient of whom she had just taken care was a living God, the icon of a whole generation. It was Brian Jones, a guitarist and a founder of the most famous rock band of the planet: The Rolling Stones. Marie Gillet is 80 years old today. And an intact memory. Brian Jones? Say his name, she will say to you the rest. Let’s go! “The weather was grey, it was at nightfall. When he arrived, in a silky satin cremates suit , he looked bad, breathless. I made him an intravenous injection with Cédilanide, a powerful cardiac tonic and I put him alone in a room. He was accompanied by Anita Pallenberg, his girlfriend, Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, they were heading for the South of Spain but during a week lived in the hotel Saint Antoine to wait for their friend. Brian Jones, I did not know who he was, anyway I was not for the bader there but to look after him, all the patients are the same “. Marie remembers the phone call to doctor Séréna, her boss. “We have just welcomed a patient, I am told that it is Rolling Stones? - if you had an adolescent child you would know that it is not true”, retorts her the doctor. And nevertheless. Then new must not show up the bulwarks of the hospital. “In town, in the businesses, the leader the hairdresser, we asked for what I knew. I said that he had left to Toulouse. He had to rest. A photographer tried to enter his room, he almost received a bottle of water in the head and it was glass.” During a fortnight Marie Gillet so lavished attention of Brian Jones, who spoke little French. “He celebrated his 25 years birthday in the hospital by drinking coffee in the milk. Every day, Stéphanie his secretary called him, the telephone was not in his room, then I locked him into the office where it was quiet “. Marie still keeps in memory these moments when Brian Jones composed on his guitar “he did not make noise, did not disturb anybody ” and the inspiration of moment moreover led him to write a piece during its of Albi stay. A photo? Most fan of the fans would not have been able to imagine it. ” I asked him if my husband could come to make a photo “. Robert Gillet immortalized Marie and Brian in the room (chamber) N ° 13 of the hospital of Albi. “A shy, kind lad”, remembers Robert. Until the last moment, Marie Gillet will stay up this a little bit special patient. “After two weeks , Anita looked for him, she was leaving him but she was kind, they left taking the plane in Toulouse “. With, a taxi recommended by Marie. Brian Jones will die two years later. Marie Gillet keeps this dedicated photo ” For Mrs Gillet, thank you. Brian Jones. Rolling Stones XX (kiss, kiss) “. And she likes it. In February, 1967, Brian Jones, founding guitarist of the rock band The Rolling Stones, victim of an asthma attack while he crossed the Tarn was hospitalized to Albi. Marie Gillet was nursing. She tells. Brian Jones stayed 2 weeks in the hospital in Albi. It was in February, 1967. Stones, having a walk in Cordes-sur-Ciel, had intercepted an ambulance for Brian Jones victim of an asthma attack.
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