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“Sister Morphine”: The song Marianne Faithfull fought for Rolling Stones Over | Culture

“Sister Morphine”: The song Marianne Faithfull fought for Rolling Stones Over | Culture

Spain received a censored version. Instead of a defiant cover Designed by Andy Warhol To the album Rolling Stones Sticky fingers (1971), with a male pelvis enclosed in jeans (“Cover of the Castle”, which was called), simply and not inspiring female fingers protruding from a jar of molasses. It was not comparable. But there was another form of censorship, which Spanish music lovers did not notice: instead of the song Sister Morphine, The album for sale in Spain had Let them swayRock and roll creation by Chuck Berry appeared in the style of Mick Taylor’s stones. Why? According to Franco censors, because Sister Morphine “It contained sexual material.” He is even wrong with it.

Sister Morphine Hid another deliberate omission, this one Mick Jagger And themselves Keith Richards. We are talking about a song that Marianne Faithfull published earlier, in February 1969. Remember: the romantic relationship of Faithfull and Jagger lasted four years, in 1966–1970, while the stones began to try all kinds of drugs, even drugs, even the most powerful, and When arrests and performances in court were frequent, for logical joy paparazzi. When she released Sister Morphine As page B of the Singla, which contained as the main song on the side A Something betterThe song was signed by all three: Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger. The single was withdrawn from the market a few weeks later because the head of Decca Records was terrified by allusions to hard drugs. Sister Morphine He started his rocky journey. When the song was released on Sticky Fingers, only two authors of Rolling Stones appeared in the inscriptions. The faithful disappeared in a mysterious way.

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“I fought and fought until I regained the loan, but it took me 20 years.” Faithfull sued the group and only in 1994, 23 years later, was legally recognized as the author. In 1998, Stones contained a song on the album live Lack of securityAnd there, for the first time in public, all three appeared in the magazines. When Keith Richards gave his memories, LifeIn 2010, he admitted the authorship of Faithfull: “Marianne had a lot in common with” Sister Morphine “. I know Mick’s writing, and he lived with Marianne and I know from this style, there were several Marianne lines. “The guitarist played one of his favorite games: bringing Jagger to the ground. Mick took the bait: “He always says she wrote everything, but she wrote only two lines, and I don’t even remember what they are.” In your long biography Mick Jaggerwriter Philip Norman notes that cooperation between Jagger and Faithfull was visible, not just enabled Sister Morphine. Norman points to the scruples of the singer that he spends his time: “Changing his lover in the artistic partner in the style of John Lennon and Yoko He did not call Mick. The singer was too busy aviring Golden Dynamo called Jagger-Richards. “

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Faithfull’s great hit in the 1960s When tears passDuo Jagger/Richards song. In 1969, Faithfull was one of the few women in the unfortunate Rock and Roll Circus television program. Sitting in the middle of the round circus, her black skirt throwing himself onto the platform, she sang frosty Something better.

Spanish censors were confused Sister MorphineBecause he talks more about drugs than sex. “Please, sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams. / Oh, you can’t see that I will disappear quickly and that this shot will be my last? “Says a song that concerns someone lying in a hospital bed and asking for a powerful painkiller to alleviate pain. The song was important for Faithfull, which he recognized in an interview with The Guardian It was quite autobiographical: “The story tells about a man who is seriously injured in a car accident and would prefer to die than suffer, so he asks for a deadly dose of morphine. It didn’t happen to me, but my feelings on this topic are probably the same. After a suicide attempt, I was hospitalized in Sydney. It was a terrible time. “Faithfull lost her son and was deeply affected by the death of Brian Jones (in July 1969), guitarist and founder of Rolling Stones.

Which Sister Morphine Or better? Faithfull’s has a cloudy velvet underground sensuality in the style, and Rolling Stones “has the sum of those who saw in the center of the world. Both are fantastic.

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