SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 1.30.2025
It was just days ago that I wrote about the ‘Parachute Women’ in the lives of the Rolling Stones. Today Marianne Faithfull, perhaps the most famous of the ‘Parachute Women’, has died at age 78 and with her death an icon of the 1960’s and beyond passes into cultural history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull
The Stones and Marianne Faithfull collaborated musically and romantically. Perhaps the most famous collaboration is the 1969 song ‘Sister Morphine’‘
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Morphine
“Sister Morphine” is a song written by Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Faithfull released the original version of the song as the B-side to her Decca Records single “Something Better” on 21 February 1969. A different version was released two years later by the Rolling Stones for their 1971 album Sticky Fingers.
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