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"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. [1] A different version was released two years later by the Rolling Stones for their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. [2]
The song, with Charlie Watts' introduction, appears on the 1968 The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus video. "Something Better" was released as a single to promote the Decca singles compilation The World Of Marianne Faithfull, along with the B-side, "Sister Morphine". [1] [2] [3]
Faithfull co-wrote Sister Morphine with Sir Mick and Richards from the Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers, releasing her own version in 1969 featuring guitarist Ry Cooder and Jack ...
Nonetheless, she collaborated with Jagger and Richards on a song that was briefly available as her last B side: “Sister Morphine,” which she described to writer Kris Needs in 2018 as “my ...
Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a party for the Rolling Stones, where she was discovered by the band's manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Her 1965 debut studio album Marianne Faithfull , released simultaneously with her studio album Come My Way , was a huge success and was followed by further albums on ...
Beloved vocalist/actress Marianne Faithfull, who rose to fame amid the 1960s U.K. rock revolution and had a tumultuous relationship with the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger, died today (Jan. 30) in ...
Cooder was a session musician on various recording sessions with the Rolling Stones in 1968 and 1969, and his contributions appear on the albums Let It Bleed (Yank Rachell-style mandolin on "Love in Vain"), and Sticky Fingers, on which he contributed the slide guitar on "Sister Morphine".
By the time he left her, she had also lost custody of her son, Nicholas, her son by Dunbar, along with the credit for her bleak 1969 song “Sister Morphine” – ostensibly because the Stones ...