There was Mick and Marianne. They were the couple of the sixties. Totally killing it together. Unfortunately it ended pretty badly with Marianne living on the streets as a heroin addict. So intense! But she sorted herself out and made an amazing comeback.
Their story seems like a tragic, doomed Romeo and Juliet style love. They were hot, rich and young and could do whatever they wanted, but it was never going to work out well. Towards the end of the sixties Marianne suffered a miscarriage and her drug use became more like abuse. Her and Mick were over by the seventies.
Marianne inspired a number of the Stones songs, the best of which is definitely Wild Horses. As the legend goes, Marianne awoke from a six day comma caused by an overdose of sleeping pills and found Mick and Keith at her bedside. When they told her that they thought they had lost her she said, "Wild horses couldn't drag me away."
Apparently this may not have actually happened, but I prefer to believe it did. Wild Horses is such a beautiful, sad song that says a lot about how Mick felt towards the end of their relationship.
I just finished reading Marianne's second biography, which touches on her relationship with Mick briefly, and am dying to get my hands on Faithfull, her first biography that reveals all of the details of her amazing life.
"Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away
I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away
I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I dont have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, well ride them some day
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, well ride them some day"
