Montauk is more than just a beachy locale where surfers, sunseekers and seafood-lovers alike converge. It’s where The Rolling Stones found inspiration for their 1976 song Memory Motel, effectively immortalizing a local institution. They wrote it while staying at Andy Warhol’s five-house compound there, which also hosted the likes of Lee Radziwill, Halston, Jackie Kennedy and Liza Minnelli. Top photographers Richard Avedon and Peter Beard made their homes in the area, too. And let’s not forget the iconic movies: A great white shark caught off the Montauk shore — weighing over two tons — fed the idea for Jaws.
From left: Charlie Watts, guest percussionist Ollie E. Brown, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones at Andy Warhol’s home in Montauk, 1975, photographed by Ken Regan/Camera 5 via Contour by Getty Images
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