Keith Richards has commented on the death Tuesday of his former girlfriend and the mother of three of his children, Anita Pallenberg.
He says, “A most remarkable woman. Always in my heart.”
Anita passed away peacefully at St. Richard’s Hospital in Chichester, England with her family by her side. She was 75 and had been ill for some time.
She will be cremated, with a memorial service to follow at a later date. The family requests that its privacy is respected at this time.
Anita is survived by two of her children with Keith -- son Marlon Richards and daughter Angela -- and five grandchildren. Her third child, a son, Tara Jo Jo Gunne, died 10 weeks after his birth in 1976.
Marianne Faithfull, who was Mick Jagger's mid-60's girlfriend during the time Pallenberg was with, first, Brian Jones and then Richards, posted the William Butler Yeats poem "The Cloths of Heaven."
She also wrote: "Anita used to say that [the two of us] are light years ahead of The Rolling Stones. Witty and probably true!...I really loved her. We had good times and bad times, but I only remember the good times now. She taught me so much, especially after we got clean; it was very good, and so much fun!"