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From todays Sunday times:
Stones get their satisfaction from back rubs
John Harlow, Los Angeles
THE �bad boy� reputation of the Rolling Stones is about to be rocked. A new memoir by their favourite masseuse reveals that they are sweet-natured homebodies who prefer go-karting to groupies.
Guitarist Keith Richards is an expert on breast-feeding, drummer Charlie Watts is happier with his 47 greyhounds than with his band-mates while Mick Jagger is not quite the ageing lothario he is widely reputed to be, says masseuse Dot Stein. Her memoir, Butt Naked And Backstage, has sparked a bidding war among publishers and fear among some former clients.
Stein, 33, suggests a surprisingly large number of those clients, who include Frank Zappa, Sting, Bob Geldof, Oasis and Eminem, were content with a back rub and an early night.
However, Bruce Willis, the actor and occasional blues singer, is threatening legal action to prevent the �hippie child� known as Dr Dot from revealing details about the affair she claims they had.
Stein is a television celebrity in Germany, where she appears on chat shows in a skimpy nurse�s uniform. She is expected to make her British debut in a Channel 4 documentary about Jagger and Jerry Hall this year.
When she was a teenager in Connecticut she was encouraged by her aunt, a groupie who was friends with 1970s stars such as Lou Reed, to go backstage. But instead of using her body to attract attention she used her hands and a range of exotic massages, including her �bite method�, which involves chomping down the back.
She became popular among the stars and in the early 1990s Watts invited her to travel with the Stones. Since then she has been a regular member of the band�s entourage.
Stein says Jagger is charismatic but petulant. Since the 1980s, she said, he and fellow band members have lost interest in groupies: �Mick would pick out a girl now and again but that was it,� she said. �They were more interested in healthy eating and phoning home.� Go-karting was another passion.
�This may be not what the world expects of the Rolling Stones, but it is the truth.�
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