![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile the pop stars slipped quietly into the frosty night. By the end of the night it was a mangled wreck and a mysterious young Moroccan was licking his wounds in Accident & Emergency. So far from being ‘safely locked up in the garage’ Paul’s ‘highly recognisable’ black Mini Cooper had been out on the town with its owner and some Rolling Stones. The heavily customised car was highly recognisable, so rumours began circulating that McCartney had been killed in the incident. Hadjij crashed McCartney’s Mini and was hospitalised with injuries. The two cars became separated during the journey. ![]() The party decided to head to Jagger’s home in Hertfordshire … McCartney travelled with Jagger in the latter’s Mini Cooper, while Hadjij drove in McCartney’s Mini. The pair turned up at McCartney’s house on the evening of 7 January, and were later joined by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and antiques dealer Christopher Gibbs. Hadjij was an assistant to London art gallery owner Robert Fraser. However, the car was being driven by a Moroccan student named Mohammed Hadjij, and McCartney was not present. McCartney’s Mini Cooper was involved in an accident on the M1 motorway outside London, as a result of which it was written off. This - as Sixties folk liked to say - is what really went down. That part was true but the rest was inaccurate and misleading. The article appeared to confirm that Macca was alive and kicking, with three more years of Beatle in-fighting to look forward to. ![]()
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