Italian police stop party attended by Mick Jagger over music ban

Key points

• Police on an Italian island stopped a party attended by Mick Jagger – because music is banned on Wednesdays.
• The Rolling Stones frontman was on Stromboli, the volcanic island among Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, for the production of Three Incestuous Sisters, a film by the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher in which he stars.
• Jagger, 82, was celebrating wrapping the film in a local venue on Wednesday night, along with its other stars Josh O’Connor, Jessie Buckley, Saoirse Ronan, Dakota Johnson and Isabella Rossellini, when the police attended and asked them to stop the party owing to a Wednesday music ban enacted by the mayor.
• According to reports in the Italian press, the music was being played from a small speaker and at an acceptable volume.
• While the order caused some confusion and hilarity, the partygoers accepted it, albeit reluctantly, according to the reports.