"Why are you getting embarrassed? You’re a psychiatrist!"

epub, with thanks to the original sharer

The theme of the party was going to be “Mods vs. Rockers,” so on the night of the party, to make it look authentic, Nicky went over to an S & M leather bar on 33rd Street and Third Avenue called the Copper Kettle, where he’d just taken his friend Jane Ormsby-Gore dressed as a boy and invited all the leather boys to come by later on but to really bust their way in to make it look like a real confrontation between mods and rockers. The leather boys did come, but since nobody even tried to stop them, they just wandered in with no problem—and no impact. Then for a band, Nicky had gone over to the Wagon Wheel on West 45th Street to ask the all-girl house band, Goldie and the Gingerbreads in their gold lamé outfits and stiletto heels, if they wanted to play at the party. They did, and they played until five in the morning, with the floors shaking so badly we were amazed at the bounce. The party was a smash even though the Stones were so shy they stayed way upstairs in Jerry’s apartment most of the time.