“I’ve been working on my singing, practicing singing with a friend of mine who plays guitar, because I am really frightened that I wouldn’t be able to sing anymore.”
From 1966 until 1970, Marianne, who was born in Hampstead, had an intermittent relationship with Mick Jagger. The couple intended to give their daughter the name Corrina,
But the celebrity tragically lost her pregnancy in 1968 at seven months. Marianne’s heroin addiction was exacerbated by the Rolling Stones icon’s adultery and the death of their kid.
Her first husband, John Dunbar, co-owned London’s Indica Gallery, where she first met Jagger. She first became associated with Jagger via the encounter and her song “As Tears Go By.”
Jagger, Keith Richards, and Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham wrote the song. Oldham described Marianne as “an angel with big tits,” but he believed he could make her a celebrity.
