The author wrote: \u201cMick was out cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cChess tried dragging him upright, even slapped him a couple of times, but \u2013 nothing. [Mick\u2019s] lips were turning blue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marshall added: \u201cI didn\u2019t know what else to do. I was freaked. Mick Jagger\u2019s gonna die in my f****** apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The producer called for an ambulance, and also rang former president of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun, who quickly arrived with Faye Dunaway, who was married to J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf at the time.<\/p>\n
The actor called a friend, who was president of the nearby Lenox Hill Hospital, and was able to \u201carrange a room where they could stash Mick so there would be no publicity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Marshall performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until emergency services arrived, and when they did, Mick was put on oxygen \u201cat which point he started breathing again\u201d.<\/p>\n
The book also details another brush with death the Paint it Black singer had following an altercation with drummer Charlie Watts, who died in August 2021.<\/p>\n
The incident took place in Amsterdam in 1984, where the Rolling Stones had gathered to discuss their future and repair some rifts.<\/p>\n
Mick came home from a night out with Keith Richards and called Charlie\u2019s room at around 5am, shouting: \u201cWhere\u2019s my drummer?\u201d<\/p>\n
Less than half an hour later, Charlie, dressed in a suit, stormed over and grabbed his bandmate by the collar as he shouted: \u201cDon\u2019t ever call me your drummer!\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the book, the stickman \u201cthen he hauled off and belted Mick square in the jaw\u201d, but it almost had dire consequences as Mick nearly fell out of an open window into a canal.<\/p>\n
Keith recalled watching the frontman fall \u201cbackward onto a plate of smoked salmon\u201d and slide \u201cperilously across a table toward an open window and the canal below\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI just grabbed his leg and saved him from going out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The author wrote: \u201cMick was out cold. \u201cChess tried dragging him upright, even slapped him a couple of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,15408,15497,2108,23552,181,6179,156,17515,65794,293,201277,205901,205900,32892,81768,117,111,139,69,8485,4758,25809,3608],"class_list":{"0":"post-398874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-almost","10":"tag-blue","11":"tag-book","12":"tag-claimed","13":"tag-details","14":"tag-died","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-experience","17":"tag-heroin","18":"tag-his","19":"tag-jagger","20":"tag-jaggers","21":"tag-lips","22":"tag-mick","23":"tag-neardeath","24":"tag-new","25":"tag-new-zealand","26":"tag-newzealand","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-sir","29":"tag-taking","30":"tag-turning","31":"tag-were"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}