Book description
In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn't understand why the Rolling Stones had no
money. The man he asked to help was a German prince, a merchant banker.
They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of
rock'n'roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert
Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or
decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as
'a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny', usually
enthralled but often bemused and exasperated.
Coolly impartial, dryly humorous, this is a refreshingly different take
on the rock'n'roll world from within its inner sanctum. This is one of
the funniest rock books IÂ ve read, fuelled, in the way only an
aristocrat s memoir could be, by a sense of cheery entitlement and the
random pursuit of amusement for its own sake Born in Palma, Majorca in
1933, Prince Rupert Loewenstein lived in London and Paris, and studied
medieval history at Oxford before becoming a stockbroker for the
American firm Bache & Co. In 1963 he formed a consortium that bought
the merchant bank Leopold Joseph & Sons. Five years later he met
Mick Jagger and managed The Rolling Stones finances until 2008. Prince
Rupert lives in Petersham, near Richmond, with his wife, Princess
Josephine; they have three children.
