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Joan Collins has revealed she was at The Beatles’ iconic final gig – but had to Get Back due to dope fumes.
The Dynasty actress was at Apple Studio in Savile Row, London, on January 30, 1969, when the Fab Four played an impromptu 42-minute rooftop and police told them to turn the noise down.
But Joan – who at the time was with third husband Ron Kass, the head of the band’s Apple Corps production company – did not stick around for all of the show.
In her new book, Behind The Shoulder Pads, she says: “Ron and I were married when The Beatles broke up. I remember going up to the roof in 1969, when they played Get Back, but leaving before I succumbed to a contact high from all the marijuana being smoked.”
Contact high: Joan Collins (Dave Benett/Getty Images)Joan, 90, says she left the performance and went to pick up her kids from school.
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She also tells of how the Beatles played a part when she met the Queen in 1982.
She says: “I was presented to Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Royal Albert Hall at a concert to celebrate The Beatles’ 20th anniversary.
“A series of events had [made] me tense but it didn’t show in the now-iconic picture by Richard Young. In the photo, my daughter Katy had presented a bouquet to the Queen and was looking at her lovingly as I curtsied demurely, and the Queen and the Duke smiled.”
“I had just spoken the lyrics to John Lennon’s Imagine, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (as one does!).”