How the Rolling Stones drew on their own - and imagined - lives for songwriting inspiration
For some, songwriting is all about honesty and injecting lived experience into the lyrics, yet as Mick Jagger will tell you, ...
Why were The Rolling Stones in exile?
Following the success of 1971's Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones decided to become exiles in France while recording their ...
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‘Sister Morphine’: The song Marianne Faithfull fought the Rolling Stones over
The singer, who recently passed away, had to wait two decades for Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to include her in the ...
The songs The Rolling Stones wished they could delete from history: “I would never write that now”
The Rolling Stones wrote a number of morally questionable lyrics in their time, but there's a handful that they wish they'd ...
Harvey Mandel tells how Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards ruined his chance to join the Rolling Stones
The former Canned Heat guitarist says Wood is “a really nice guy,” but believes he was far better suited for the gig ...
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The Country Collaborations Between Mick Jagger and Brad Paisley That Were Years in the Making
"He’s a real guy and I adore him as a friend, but he’s still responsible for an entire art form, in my opinion. He invented ...
Marianne Faithfull: Singer and film star who was more than a Rolling Stones muse
During her time with Sir Mick, Faithfull co-wrote Sister Morphine with him and Richards, which featured on the Rolling Stones ...
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Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones Members, & Metallica Pay Tribute to Late U.K. Singer/Actress Marianne Faithfull
The Rolling Stones later had a hit with their own rendition ... which they included on their 1970 album Sticky Fingers. During the late 1960s and into the 1970, Faithfull struggled with serious ...
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As a girl, I felt shut out of rock. But a new Led Zeppelin film shows a joyful female fanbase
She sang the work of Kurt Weill, Dolly Parton, Brian Eno and poet Frank McGuinness, and she wrote songs, most famously the Rolling Stones’ “Sister Morphine”, though she wasn’t credited on 1971’s ...
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Marianne Faithfull’s death is loss of the knowledge of a generation – Nick Cave
Faithfull co-wrote Sister Morphine with Sir Mick and Richards from the Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers, releasing ...
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“I’m not saying I behaved that well, but I didn’t really do anything that terrible either”: '60s icon Marianne Faithfull dead at 78
Faithfull was the co-writer, along with Jagger and Richards, of one of The Rolling Stones’ greatest songs, Sister Morphine, from the classic 1971 album Sticky Fingers. On her best album ...
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British singer, actress Marianne Faithful dead at 78
Jan. 30 (UPI) --Noted British singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithful died at age 78 in London while in the company of her family on Thursday. "It is with deep sadness that we announce ...