One character involved in the '60's Beatles-Stones scene that I've never seen mentioned in 'conspiracy' circles, is someone who went by the name of 'Magic Alex'. According to the official story 'Magic Alex' was a Greek exchange student who helped to finance his studies by doing occassional TV repair work. Somehow this penniless student ended up falling into the sphere of The Beatles and The Stones and the exclusive, hip, swinging-sixties scene. He apparently befriended John Lennon (some accounts have him being instrumental in the break-up of Lennon's first marraige) and also Brian Jones. He supposedly created lighting effects for many of The Stones live performances, and was allegedly a maverick yet genius inventor. He also supposedly worked on creating state of the art studio/recording equipment, though allegedly 'none of them worked very well'. In the authorised Paul McCartney book about this period someone is quoted as saying that he claimed he had inventions that sounded out of this world, but ultimately it could be seen they were simply well ahead of the time, as many of them have come to pass.
Interesting then that a quick search for this indiviual yields these results:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Alex ... consultant
'In the 1970s, the anti-terrorism industry offered bullet-proof vehicles, bugging devices and security hardware. Mardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman.[21] Ex-King Constantine II of Greece (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal families for Mardas, and had close contact with the deposed Shah of Iran, who had moved to Mexico. The Shah was one of the first customers for the customised bullet-proof cars that Mardas was offering, and was believed to have financially assisted Mardas’ companies.[21]'
He first came into The Stones and The Beatles' orbit after he befriended Cambridge graduate John Dunbar, at the time the husband of Marianne Faithful (Peter Asher, Paul McCartney's prospective brother in law was best man), and spent the honneymoon with LSD guru Alan Ginsberg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dunbar_(artist)
Dunbar set up the Indica gallery with Barry Miles and 'Paul McCartney'. It probably should be noted that Roman Polanski was a regular customer (Polanski was good pals with some of The Stones in this period).
Ginsberg lived in a flat next door to The Indica (where John Lennon allegedly met Yoko Ono), though this dwelling must have occurred shortly after a stint in the Chelsea Hotel, where Ginsberg hung out with William Burroughs (who at the time was writing Naked Lunch) and Arthur C Clarke (who had moved into the Chelsea to write 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film that MGM interestingly marketed as 'The Ultimate Trip', nicely tieing the film in with the growing 'LSD culture' at that time.).
This is going off track, but it just occurred to me, Kubrick made 2001, a film marketed as 'The Ultimate Trip', and became a hit with LSD users because of its somewhat trippy 'stargate' sequence.
At the same time Jack Nicholson was working on the acid themed films The Trip and Head. Co-incidence?
Afer 2001 Kubrick spent some time working on a project about Napoleon, for which he wanted Nicholson to play the lead part - despite the fact that at the time Nicholson was a virtual unknown 'B' movie actor.
It might be nothing, but I view this now as a slightly odd connection that I find hard to just throw off.
