Jagger is in a relationship that is falling apart (by the Spring of 1970, Jagger and Faithfull had split permanently – by late Spring 1971, Jagger was married to another woman). Richards is in a happy relationship and just left his longtime girlfriend and newborn son to go to another country for a few months. So taking a look at the lyrics of “Wild Horses,” you can pretty easily see what’s what. However, the Stones had already agreed to do their first United States concert tour in a number of years, so only a few months after the birth of his son, Marlon (born August 10, 1969) Richards left for America. Their first child, Marlon, was born in August of 1969.
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Richards, at the time, was still in a loving (although also a drug-fueled) relationship with Anita Pallenberg. So in late 1969, Jagger wrote the lyrics to Richards’ melody and chorus, “Wild Horses.” The kicker, though, is that Jagger did not even come UP with the phrase “Wild Horses” on the song! Keith Richards typically would come up with melodies for the songs he would co-write with Jagger, but occasionally, like in the case of “Wild Horses,” he would come up with the melody and the chorus. These days, Faithfull says it was she who said it, but she has not always been exactly accurate in the past when it comes to, you know, facts (heck, I’ve even covered one of them in the first installment of Music Legends Revealed). That, right off the bat, is a bit suspicious, because I’ve read differing accounts that said Jagger said it to her, and when you start seeing people just refer to lines decades later without sources, well, like I said, it’s a bit suspicious. She was in a coma for a time, and when she awoke, she supposedly told Jagger, “Wild horses couldn’t drag me away.” She was going to play Kelly’s sister in the film, but soon after she arrived in July of 1969, it was clear to her that her relationship with Jagger was deteriorating, so the day after she landed in Australia, Faithfull landed in the hospital from an overdose of sleeping pills. It’s likely one of the most beautiful songs that the band ever released, and it has been covered numerous times, with the most notable cover likely being by The Sundays (The Sundays’ version is the one that’s typically used in commercials).įor years (heck, including right now), “Wild Horses” was said to have been written about Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger’s girlfriend of a number of years in the late 1960s.Īs the story goes, Faithfull, who had serious drug problems for years, went along with Mick Jagger in July 1969 for the filming of the drama Ned Kelly. The song “Wild Horses” appears on the 1971 Rolling Stones album, Sticky Fingers. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: The Rolling Stones’ song “Wild Horses” is based on something Marianne Faithfull said after almost overdosing.
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