Sister Morphine; Marianne Faithfull 1969

[@elrobertoreal]

R.I.P., Marianne! Incredible original version!

[@patrickport99]

RIP Marianne. DEINE Stimme hat mir regelmäßig Gänsehaut beschert.... 🙏🏼

[@CRICRI1313]

So sad ... Rip, LADY MARIANNE.

[@FrankContempt]

One of the darkest songs of the era... A brilliant dark star....RIP Marianne ...you were loved

[@clivewiddall3430]

Such an under rated singer.

[@tygerstripes3752]

It's so sad that I had to learn after Marianne Faithfull's death that she co-wrote this song. Credit where it's due. I'm glad to hear she had her family around her when she passed. What a tough spirit she had, to rise again so many times.

[@Scion3Sevens]

Her contribution was extremely minimal. When the Stones did it, they changed a couple of lines that she had added words to, therefore their version has no input from Faithfull. It's a 90% Jagger/Richards song from the get-go.

[@ruthdixon7807]

it took mick jagger twenty years to admit that marianne had helped write the words and to add her name to the credits on the stones' version.

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

Him and Keith wrote the lyrics according to the sticky fingers album

[@jaimeespinoza6523]

​@@RedGarnett-n2p, she wrote this song.

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

@@jaimeespinoza6523 wrong

[@crasherxtreme]

​@@jaimeespinoza6523 she co-wrote the song with Mick and Keith

[@kkfimanager4202]

Just discovered this thread. Marianne's autobiography states she wrote the lyrics, Mick wrote the music. I tend to believe her. Especially since Mick to finally allow her name on the credits. But that's the cut throat music bix for ya. It can drive a person to DRUGS!

[@christopherjohndavison]

❤ Sweet dreams beautiful lady x

[@ianburma]

Rest in peace

[@andymarx3836]

Amazing beautiful voice a ❤😊

[@sharinganchidori100]

Actually grew up listening to the Rolling Stones version for most of my 25 years of life until I found this and found out she put this out 2 years before the stones did 😮. I love this version though as much and her voice is so beautiful 🖤

[@Mirabella76]

They recorded it in about the same time though. Stones just released it two years later. Mick produced her version anyway.

[@fergusmurphy3269]

The Stones recorded their own version as part of the "Beggars Banquet" sessions. I think it's floating around KZbin as "alternate" or "rare" or "1968" version. They re-recorded it for Sticky Fingers.

[@desolatesurfer8651]

Agreed. Mick tried to sing it exactly like this version.

[@kurtkurt8938]

​@@desolatesurfer8651 mick was a poser Marianne lived it as well

[@susannebuchholz72]

Yes,her voice is absolutely great!❣️👏🏻

[@martyncooper7150]

I am on morphine for arthritis and was recommended this track by an old hippy. Thanks for posting it.

[@oleandreasjensen5263]

Hi mate, Have you heard the 1989 live consert version of Marianne Faithfull from "Blazing Away"? Its an awesome perfomance, playing Sister Morphnine. You can search for it here on You Tube or download from Spotify. Highly recommended : )

[@martyncooper7150]

@@oleandreasjensen5263 thanks for the tip - checking it out now!

[@marclayne9261]

I am a 100% disabled Veteran....extreme combat....the VA has denied all pain meds...my confidential source, inside VA...told me why...the DEA told VA to deny all pain meds...

[@janebute6203]

@@marclayne9261 I have arthritis with chronic pain and my MD said she can't prescribe morphine in Obio due to regulations.

[@carlodave9]

Get yourself a Dream Machine and you're all set.

[@SamRoberts-r1b]

Such a Sad day. Another Rolling Stone has passed. (RIP) Marianne Faithful😢❤

[@JayJay-wg5ex]

perfect song about pain

[@danemcgee1901]

God i love this woman. When I heard "Something Better", I was hooked. I fell in love. Love at first hear

[@marluxeduval1996]

big fan love her voice in this song so real

[@whube1]

Jesus Sets me free from Morphin, staying in prison for it. Fled to India for nearly three years, then JESUS cam and set me free! Thanks and praise to HIM,!

[@johannahidalgo7738]

👍👍👍🤪 been there and out for 35 years…. Good job!❤❤❤

[@iwanbottos5128]

I kicked it with help from mum and friends . And am grateful for that.

[@j.c.b6473]

@@whube1 😂😂😂

[@craigcoletta9380]

Clearly he didn't teach you spelling or punctuation

[@nunyabidness117]

​@@craigcoletta9380 And he's not an assĥole.

[@frankstecker5675]

Rip.⚘️⚘️marianne faithfull..i love you. ❤❤❤❤

[@ClaraDbanvl]

So raw. You can feel what she was going through in this rendition. The death of Brian Jones hit her hard.

[@anaalvarezbarthe5148]

Only Marianne Faithfull can sing this.

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Oh I don't know, Mick did pretty well too.

[@billwhite9703]

I can. So there. 😛

[@christopher2399]

I was just saying to myself.... Only Mick could sing this song. Just because Maryam was a junkie doesn't make her better.

[@anaalvarezbarthe5148]

For sure Mick does it pretty well but I'm talking about the strength of her voice and the way she says every word.

[@jameswhiteley5686]

Mick gave it a go but I agree

[@omnirath]

This version is breathtaking, her voice, Cooder, Jagger, Nitzsche amazing

[@crasherxtreme]

Cooder is not on this version

[@omnirath]

@@crasherxtreme cooder is both on the single and the stones version.

[@crasherxtreme]

@@omnirath ok. I stand corrected. Thanks.

[@maplelafe7671]

She sounds like sheep man !! 🤣

[@uwagajedzietramwaj_]

Rest in peace.

[@19spearking93]

Fare thee well, Marianne. You may be gone but the memory remains. 1946-2025 🖤🙏🕊️

[@NeeMroth]

RIP.... Marianne...🌠

[@R.ion64]

The finest version.

[@fergusmurphy3269]

I love the combination of Jack Nitzsche's churchy Hammond organ and Ry Cooder's slide guitar. Nitzsche played piano on the Stones version, which is also great, but a different vibe.

[@moondancer9066]

I agree.

[@spareroomdemos2006]

This is a good version but it does not come close to the Rolling Stones

[@clivewiddall3430]

@@spareroomdemos2006 she co wrote it

[@Cruithneach]

​@@spareroomdemos2006Quite right, it's far superior

[@novemberspirits3330]

She's awesome

[@plazticage3229]

Beautiful

[@robertbell4427]

Music is a time machine... takes me back to when.......

[@ThereThereAnymore]

A premonition that becomes a nightmarish reality in her rerecording of this song from the Broken English sessions. She had such a difficult life. But now she is at peace, with the warm wind in her hair. ❤

[@Bobjb999]

Marianne Faithfull played the parts of Lilith and a moon goddess in Kenneth Anger's "Lucifer Rising." Anger took her to Egypt to film, early 1970s. K.ANGER QUOTE: "I said to Marianne Faithfull, don't bring any drugs [to Egypt] because they'll execute you. She was addicted to heroin and had the nerve to carry some in her makeup box under the face powder..If she'd been arrested or discovered, we all would've been shot - that was the penalty then." Yikes.

[@Mirabella76]

She never cared about people around. She traded her own son for drugs. She was mean to Mick visiting him in jail when he took all the blame for HER drugs. Very selfish. Good she got rid of addiction but I do wonder, if she ever changed.

[@moondancer9066]

@@Mirabella76 People don't change very often

[@sergemetivier4566]

Jhgy

[@markohl3287]

Sweet sister ray

[@erikakathleen509]

She grew right into her junky face that she deserved though now didn't she. RIP lady- I am surprised you made it that far at all. Good for you. Now meet your eternity.

[@mikemurphey6361]

Happy Birthday, glad you made it

[@neojakemcc]

RIP to this lovely woman.

[@richardharding6119]

True this is her true experience and feelings put into the voice Today she is at peace in a rest home R 😢

[@lillyk2315]

GREAT VERSION.....

[@briandovey6241]

Broken English, fantastic album!

[@skipwaldent8465]

Wow, I wonder why I never knew about this version ? Anyways, it's beautiful. 🌹

[@Diosprometheus]

In the United Kingdom. Decca records withdrew the song after about 500 copies had been sold due to complains about the title and it was not played on radio stations in most countries where it was not withdrawn because of the title..

[@josianechaumat8275]

Marianne a ete ecrase par jagger qui ne supportait pas que marianne est plus de succes que lui.bellissima marianne

[@paulgalligan1916]

REST IN PEACE 🙏

[@krzysztofseremak2201]

R.I.P

[@lionelbeaulaton7610]

sublime

[@marvinbnaylor]

Best version.

[@robertmackenzie2808]

No way, sticky fingers version with Mick Taylor is superior

[@veli-mattisokero371]

No Mick Taylor in there. Ry Cooder playing slide guitar in this version and also the Sticky Fingers one.

[@crasherxtreme]

​@@veli-mattisokero371 yes Ry Cooder on slide. But this was the Mick Taylor years. The best years. Sticky Fingers and Let it Bleed.

[@ДМИТРИЙПристромов-к2д]

Simply the best version of this song ever, even among other Marianne's

[@peterschmitz6446]

Didnˋt know this Version. Great Song from Marianne. Ooooooh, those Memories of Days of Yore.

[@iwanbottos5128]

Guess who accompanied her. That voice still breaks me up every time I hear it. But that is why I don't play her that often anymore .So many sad memories round the time of Broken English .I used to listen for hours to BE and Bad Weather. And used drugs and still felt bad.

[@desolatesurfer8651]

Why did The Rolling Stones give me no money/credit for this song? Cant you see im not that strong?

[@kaitlynamira3916]

Her vocals are so different from her work in 1965 to this song in 1969.

[@Mrariesdave]

I suspect that the tube they stuck down her throat when she was in that coma from the barbiturate overdose in Australia in 1969 at age 22 damaged her cords permanently.

[@moondancer9066]

@@Mrariesdave Possibly

[@BacknMetro]

Her voice became even worse than this. Broken English. Wow what a difference.

[@ChocolateMALK]

Because she was a heroin addict

[@peacetree5000]

God speed dear Marianne x

[@winksongs]

Sleep well kiddo. xx

[@Urfisyus]

RIP

[@Fitzpatrick021]

I desperately need a fix while I'm listening this song:)

[@amalaletajohnson8745]

first step, stop calling it a fix, start saying “I desperately need to make it worse.”

[@nottavictim5]

Said no junkie ever

[@glenndouglas8822]

Fitzpatrick sounds like old bill.

[@timothymcdermott2220]

RIP, Marianne.

[@fb4708]

Everyone covered everyones songs. Some did it bad, some did it good. But the sixties didn't die. I was born in 86 and I get 9lder people saying I was born in the wrong generation. The sixties will always live on.

[@lilidany8107]

To Mafou ❤🖤💫🤘🏾 RIP Queens 😇😚🥲

[@ronchapman6525]

I had no idea she wrote this song, I always assumed it was Jagger/Richards.

[@Mirabella76]

It was Jagger, Richards and her. She added some lines.

[@nimim.markomikkila1673]

@@Mirabella76 According to Keef´s book it was Mick & Marianne who wrote this, but everything was always credited to Jagger/Richards in the Stones until the 80´s, I think...

[@moondancer9066]

She's the one who knows about this kind of thing.

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Marianne Faithful was at rock bottom in the 70s due to heroin. She spent time on the streets of London.

[@j.c.b6473]

@@Mirabella76 She wrote the lyrics. Music by Jagger/Richards.

[@siiviocesar8695]

Boa versão,talvez a melhor.

[@thirdeyes9993]

RIP my queen

[@aubreystanley1124]

I wish her, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse could have performed together.

[@Renklaf1]

Holy shite, how'd you come up with that! What a beautiful thought. Good on-yah, all the best.

[@Jonalisa754]

Amen sister❤

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

​@@Renklaf1you mean how did they come up with an insult to Janis Joplin and Marianne faithfull by mentioning a hack like winehouse in the same sentence

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

​@@Jonalisa754winehouse was a hack Marianne faithfull and Janis Joplin wasn't big difference

[@Mr1974cedro]

Feel so bad... so real...

[@MJones-hi9cr]

'more talent and guts than all that you could count up in your hands. Marianne Faithful, thank you. Thanks too to RollerGirlMeli.

I love her version. I have the original London promo 45.

[@ChaliQ1]

The stones dropped a verse That' probably why they said she din't write it. Fuckin Assholes

[@moondancer9066]

Wow this song was 42 years old b4 it got to KZbin

[@DavidCervin]

I've loved her forever as far as I know she's kind I knew but didn't know it was her at that time .much love you are the kind of ,that makes someone feel alive in your presence and we'll peace Mari,god I'm pissed your gone the world changed and all the pinheads gotta run the clock around I'm sorry n anyone knows what I'm saying in the know ❤❤❤❤❤.......😮

[@tippimail1]

She turned 78 today[11/29/2004].

[@yvesmedart7505]

So long, Marianne....

[@TheMarcio2014]

Beauty song.

[@ПолПол-г1э]

Очень искренно, так не сфальшивишь.

[@gaetanadimaltag9775]

Addio Marianne😢

[@theodekker7688]

Better than ever...

[@jonduke]

Fue una musa para los Stones y Beatles. 😢

[@sandierzen7300]

Cool !

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

I like the Stones version, and I'm not a junkie.

[@remkoification]

dit is een super plaat gezongen door een keeltje die klinkt als zijde kippenve,l maar ja komt dan ook uit dr hart ook perfect timing marianne faithful

[@wnd3099]

Toen had ze al veel meegemaakt...the Stones mochten het uitbrengen maar Marianne niet. Dat terwijl zij deze song geschreven had samen met Mick....

[@chlestelle122]

Sister Morphine is your song, dear Marianne. Not a Jagger/Richards song. So long Marianne.

[@dannystorm856]

Rip Sister morphine 😢

[@joelledoucetlienard2869]

RIP Marianne.

[@MisterPinks]

💔

[@OldSilverBear]

RIP Marianne

[@mitseraffej5812]

One of my older brothers who is now in his 70s was a junky and I suspect still is. He spent a good part of his 20s in prison for his antics, but to this day he still thinks his drug dealer junky days were the best years of his life. Now he is just a bitter, twisted and resentful old man.

[@sunburstsounds]

our drug dealing junkie days were a black hole that only lucky ones came out of - sorry but at this point they r not my favorite part of my life

[@GuitarmanIIII]

yep good one!!!

[@rayrichards3097]

Ml summer nights Marianne faithful

[@AndrewBooker-o8c]

Zing u im taking to m8🎉 love foget this

[@janebute6203]

Does anyone know, did Nicky Hopkin do the piano work?

[@toddlittle9095]

no it was Jack Nitzsche on the Marianne version

[@barrygraham4665]

Rip

[@luciab09.]

queen

[@glennhopkins2643]

Incredibly depressing song

[@amoebaface]

❤

[@stevekallaugher2325]

It took 25 years for a court to make those selfish sods to admit that she wrote this, too. I hope it cost them a lot. Next up: When are you going to credit Ry Cooder, whose slide makes both versions? I expect that from Mick, but Keith: Shame on you for not giving a guitarist his due.

[@deeannesmith]

i wouldn't say the stones ever hid ry cooder's participation on this track. he is credited on the album sleeve. just like jack nitschze, who plays piano on the track. what more can a studio musician on a record date expect? there are many fine side musicians on many rolling stones tracks. nicky hopkins,(now there is a guy who doesn't get enough credit), bobby keys, jim price, billy preston, sonny rollins. they all got credited on the sleeve, just like ry. its not like ry's playing the open g style that people claim keith lifted from him on this track. as you note, he is playing slide. his credit seems appropriate.

[@calliope_jane]

Steve Kallaugher I do believe it was for her own good. She'd have simply shot that money up her arm. Even Marianne admits this.

[@johhnypissoff]

"The ultimate humiliation, my name expunged even from my own song! I suspected this was a devious way to fleece me of my royalties, so I wrote an indignant letter to Allen Klein and went to see him. Things turned out to be less dire than I had imagined. Allen explained to me that the omission of my name had nothing to do with a fiendish plot, really! He showed me a letter wrtitten by Mick and Keith early in 1969 saying I should get a third of the royalties. It turned out they had not credited me because at the time 'Sister Morphine' had been written I was still contracted to Gerry Bron, and none of us wanted to see him get the royalties. So the arrangement was that I would get royalties , but no credit. In any case, that song did well by me. I lived on the money of 'Sister Morphine' for several lean years." - Marianne Faithfull

[@roberthensley9640]

@@johhnypissoff thanks for that clarification from the artist herself

[@cindyspowart555]

@@calliope_jane : But, it's okay for male artists to get their royalties and do as they please, including, yes, shooting the money up their arm?

[@earthtone1617]

Better than the Stones version which is almost impossible to pull off. She's the real deal....

[@ilk2102]

Magnigifique

[@lauraserrano7920]

ESTABA ENFERMA❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙌💜

[@cowboyfromhelI]

Holy shit!

[@mikehughes7854]

Love her and this song but the sound boys need to change their Meds

[@ekadudka4248]

I never enter in anyones world.

[@stevemcneill7154]

Coming round again

[@pamelab6046]

❤♥️❤️

[@colinjones3078]

I'm laying in my hospital bed, need a real pain killer. Not anymore paracetamol, my liver hurts

[@adamturner1563]

Superior. In every way

[@robert-heujulien9393]

😢

[@lauraserrano7920]

QUE PASA CON LA MORFINA

[@МаксКоролев-й6т]

nice

[@ItDontComeEasy]

Unfortunately, I can't experience Morphine, I'm Alergic. I can however enjoy favorable sisters thereof... Been here accordingly...

[@balthazartyshow1765]

🎵 🎶 😘 🎶🎵