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The irony was, Mick was the “uncool” one. He himself had been wary of acid — dropping it for the first time at Tara Browne’s party because everyone was there and everyone was doing it. And he ended up making a big scene, escaping at night over the grounds of Luggala, thinking that he was a small brown crow.

Elizabeth Winder, Parachute Women: The Women Behind the Rolling Stones.

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𝔏𝔲𝔤𝔤𝔞𝔩𝔞 / 𝔏𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔗𝔞𝔶

[therobertfrasergang]

Robert Fraser and Mike McCartney, April 23 1966

This photograph, by Michael Cooper, is incorrectly labelled as 1967. It was taken at Luggala, the Guinness estate in Ireland, undoubtedly at Guinness heir Tara Browne's 21st birthday celebration on Saturday, April 23, 1966, seven weeks after his birthday.

One of the biggest social events of that year [1966] was Browne’s 21st birthday party, for which he chartered two private jets to fly 200 of his friends to Luggala for an evening of unadulterated debauchery. Guests included Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Michael McCartney, John Paul Getty and Robert Fraser. A pharmacy worth of mind-altering substances were laid out for all on sterling silver serving trays, befitting a man of Browne’s breeding. The Lovin’ Spoonful, then one of the hottest bands in the world, were flown in and paid 1,000 pounds for a private performance. From Rolling Stone, "Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ at 50: The Doomed Socialite Behind ‘A Day in the Life’"

More photos and a summary of that night here.

[rolloroberson]

Sixties British Pop Royalty

Brian Jones, Anita Pallenberg, Nicki Browne (wife of Tara Browne), Talitha Getty, John Paul Getty II, and Bill Willis all supposedly tripping in these photos by Michael Cooper. They are in the Wicklow Mountains nearby the Guinness Estate Home of Luggala, the gothic castle home of Tara Browne’s family.

[theirishaesthete]

A Lakeside Lament

  The shore of Lough Tay, County Wicklow into which the ashes of the Hon Garech Browne were committed yesterday in the company of family and friends. The devoted custodian of the Luggala estate for half a century, his generous cultural patronage, not least through the creation of Claddagh Records, were deservedly eulogised during the afternoon in words and music alike. While Garech has gone, he…

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Luggala by .Kaisu.

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Luggala Estate

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Missing, Presumed not Lost A portrait of Oonagh Guinness commissioned in 1931 from the fashionable artist Philip de László by the sitter’s then-husband Philip Kindersley, who paid £1,575 for the work.