Joan Collins: I was no dope to walk out of last Beatles gig LES NEWS SERVICE GETTY

DAME Joan Collins remembers The Beatles' famous rooftop gig like it was yesterday, but she has revealed she decided to Let It Be and leave before it ended - to escape overpowering drug fumes.

- Mark Jefferies

The Dynasty actress, 90, had a perfect view when the Fab Four put on the impromptu concert above their Apple Corporation HQ in London, on January 30, 1969.

As crowds gathered in the streets below, John, Paul, George and Ringo played for 42 minutes before the Metropolitan Police arrived and told them to turn down the volume.

Succumbed

But Dame Joan - who at the time was dating Apple Corps president Ron Kass and regularly hung out with the legendary band had not stuck around.