Monday, April 24, 2006

Suite Fightin' Man


Seldom have Republican's been so uniquely on the wrong end of the "Money=Power" equation.

  • Mick beats George to suite
  • PRESIDENT George Bush can’t get no satisfaction — after Mick Jagger grabbed his hotel room. The Rolling Stone splashed out £3,600 a night for the suite days before the US leader tried to book it.

  • Now Mick, 62, who has been a fierce critic of the Bush-led war in Iraq, is refusing to give it up.The veteran rocker hired the luxury Royal Suite at the five-star Imperial Hotel in Vienna, Austria, for June when the Stones are due to play a gig in the city.
  • Bush’s aides then tried to book it to tie in with a summit meeting.

  • But Mick put his foot down and insisted he was keeping the booking.

  • A source close to the millionaire singer said last night: “White House officials had wanted to reserve the suite and all the other rooms on the first floor.

  • “But Mick and the Stones had already booked every one of them.

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