The memory of Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones

If many media have considered having to describe it only as “Mick Jagger's muse”, it was the same frontman of the Rolling Stones to worthily remember the ex-domestic Marianne Faithfull, after the news of his death, which took place yesterday in London at the age of 78. The musical career of the London canbtatator began in 1964 thanks to the support of Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of the Rolling Stones. His first single, “As Tears Go By”, written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Oldham himself immediately became success. At that time he became a central figure of the Swingin 'London, co -author of successes of the Rolling Stones such as “Sister Morphine” and among the most appreciated interpreters and author of British music. Faithfull and Jagger had a relationship between 1966 and 1970, arousing enormous public interest for their private life in that period. At the time, a “muse” for the Rolling Stones was called and it is thought that it inspired some of their most famous songs, including “Wild Horses” and “You CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT WANT”. Now Mick Jagger has published an image of their two on his Instagram profile together with the time, writing: “I am very saddened by the news of the death of Marianne Faithfull. He was part of my life for so long. He was a wonderful friend , a beautiful singer and a great actress.

After the official account of the Rolling Stones published a musical tribute, the guitarist of the band Ingles, Keith Richards, also shared his words with this message on X: “My most heartfelt condolences to Marianne's family! I am so sad And I will miss it !!! Following, Ronnie Wood's words also arrived: “We will miss it very much, be blessed”.
In 2023 the anthology-tribute “The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull” had come out in his honor, which had called names from the world of rock and author's world like Tanya Donelly (Breeders), Lydia Lunch, Joan AS Policewoman and the Cat Power-Oiggy Pop couple, struggling with his “Working Class Hero”.
After 2000, Faithfull consolidated his status of artistic icon with albums such as “Before The Poison” (2005), in collaboration with Nick Cave and Pj Harvey, and “She Walks in Beauty” (2021), with Warren Ellis, recorded during that pandemic that endangered life The same of the English singer, to realize what had always been his dream: to create a series of songs divided between reading, poetry and music. But his true final legacy is three years earlier: “Negative Capability” (2018) faced reflections on themes such as loss and resilience; Today it plays us now as the spiritual testament of Marianne Faithfull, an album that has the same value as Leonard Cohen's “I Want It Darker”, Johnny Cash's “American Recordings”, or of David Bowie's “Blackstar”. Without the omen of a darker and more difficult future, but with the look at the past without unnecessary regrets.