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Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Keith Richards decided to move out of the ‘squalid’ flat they shared in ‘an unfashionable part of Chelsea’ and rent their own homes. Quite simply, he couldn’t bear to live without her.

Charlie, was in some senses, an anomaly. The money was starting to roll in. But the Rolling Stones have really, really done everything in their power to make the transition smooth and sympathetic and empathetic.

However, the detached building has since been turned into a two-bed guest residence. 

Thomas Fulljames, best known for his work on Gloucester Cathedral, constructed Foscombe House in 1866. But that’s what Keith Richards did in 1965. At 28, he was the oldest Stone.

It’s estimated that the property — 8 Kenilworth Court — would have cost roughly £4,000 in 1965.

It has since been converted back into living space, boasting three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and dining room.

“Foscombe House occupies one of the most magical settings in Gloucestershire, with part of its beauty being that it is set in the middle of its own beautiful parkland grounds, with swathes of wildflower gardens and two sweeping driveways of around half a mile each,” boasts the home’s official listing.

If he were to live there today, it would cost £1,929 a night.

The following year, 1966, Keith bought the Redlands estate, in West Wittering, West Sussex, . He transformed the property’s coach house into an on-site music studio where, one imagines, the Stones used to rehearse and record.

Firstly, as is well known, he didn’t like touring. There’s also a 20-car garage, which has been updated to include space for a helicopter.

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Watts purchased the property in 1976 and lived there until 1983. One of the highlights of my professional life was his thanking me for making sure that his wife and baby were okay on tour, when before she had frequently been overlooked in the melee that was the Rolling Stones circus.

An era has passed but the show will go on.

He still lives there, as well as in his home in Connecticut in the U.S.

In May 1968, he also bought the grand No 3 Cheyne Walk, in Chelsea, selling it in 1978.

In his modern, rented, uncluttered mews flat just north of Marble Arch, with its trendy Sixties teak room divider, bare other than for two candlesticks and a vase, Mick Jagger, 22, stands as nonchalantly arrogant as any young businessman.

Certainly the two telephones would not have been easy to acquire in 1965.

In the mid-Sixties, 13a Bryanston Mews East, in Paddington, West London, would have cost about £8,000 to buy.

The mews property is estimated to be worth £820,336 today.

Wearing a shirt that matches the curtains and standing on the stripped pine floor of the rented mansion flat he shared with his wife Shirley near London’s Regent’s Park, the drummer’s taste betrayed his art school education.

The Ivor Court flat in, Gloucester Place, Marylebone, would have cost about £5,000 in 1965. A young girl was trying to get on stage and a man was pushing her roughly down into the audience with excessive force.

Charlie, seeing this, was outraged and demanded I intervene

“He can’t treat our fans like that,” Charlie protested.

In May 2012, the house went on sale for £2 million. During his residence, the drummer converted a 2,000 square foot guest house into a recording studio. Note the photo of himself and the gold disc on top.

In a couple of months’ time the group’s signature song (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction would be released. Charlie had already approved of his temporary replacement when he was ill.

“So they’re happy for me, but they don’t understand that I’d rather not have this be the case. The mansion’s present owner has made considerable renovations, but many of its original characteristics, such as its exquisite moldings, carved stone fireplaces, and magnificent beamed ceilings, have been preserved. And, if you were at all concerned, rest assured, nothing’s been painted black.

Charlie, bless him, had a quiet word with Mick, explaining what had happened. Wyman still lives in the property, which has 15 acres and is worth £4 - £5 million.