The Rolling Stones performed a memorable show at the
1964 Golden Rose annual television broadcasting event, together with the English singer.... Petula Clark.
This was in the beginning of their fame, and Satisfaction was already in the charts. Later, they carried out other concerts in the Zürich Hallenstadion (capacity 10’000 people) and paid another visit to Montreux on May 21st, 1972 - but this time incognito. They rehearsed their new show for over 10 days in the Scala movie theatre, right opposite the Casino building. The place was turned into a rehearsal studio for this occasion.



Keith Richards, The biography by Victor Bockris :

From mid September 1972 Keith and his family were installed first in Gyron and then in a chalet called Le Pec Varp in Villars, high in the foothills between Montreux and Lausanne.
The eighty-three-year-old Charlie Chaplin was a near neighbour.

As a matter of fact in the fall of 1975, after touring the U.S. in support of “It’s only Rock and Roll”, Keith wanted to keep cutting the next one “Black and Blue”, he soon decided the Stones needed to work somewhere “we can get a real shitty, rock n’ roll sound”.
Naturally, they chose Switzerland.

In October everyone set up at Mountain Studios in Montreux, where Charlie Chaplin’s son was the staff engineer.

From there the Stones moved back to Munich. Despite enjoying the champagne air of the Alps, Keith was, according to Nick Kent, concerned that staying too long in the sanatorium of the Western world was bound to sap his creative juices.





Keith Richards :
“I’m actually quite ignorant of a lot of things that go on because I’m forced to live in these wooden huts for quite a long part of the year, in Switzerland.
“They come up to me on the street and say, :

“Hey, you’re a Rolling Stone! I’m in a band.
How do we get to be really big and earn lots of money?
What do you have to do to make a really good group?

And I say, “Well, look, why don’t you try starving?”

They don’t comprehend that man, they’re so rich.

I mean, have you ever heard of a good Swiss
musician, a good Swiss painter or writer?