section_path: Singing career/1960s
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paragraph_text: 1960s
  
  Faithfull began her singing career in 1964. Her first gigs as a folk music performer were in coffeehouses and she soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, who 'discovered' her. " As Tears Go By ", her first single, was written and composed by Jagger, Keith Richards, and Oldham, and became a chart success. (The Rolling Stones recorded their version one year later, which was also successful.) She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights", and " Come and Stay with Me ". Faithfull married John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in Cambridge, with Peter Asher as the best man. The couple lived in a flat at 29 Lennox Gardens in Belgravia, London SW1. On 10 November 1965, she gave birth to their son, Nicholas.
  
  In 1966 she took Nicholas to stay with Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg in London. During this period, Faithfull started smoking marijuana and became best friends with Pallenberg. She began a much-publicised relationship with Mick Jagger that same year and left her husband to live with him. The couple became a notorious part of the hip Swinging London scene. Her voice is heard on The Beatles ' song " Yellow Submarine ". She was found wearing only a fur rug by police executing a drug search at Redlands, Keith Richards 's house in West Wittering, Sussex. In an interview 27 years later with A.M. Homes for Details, Faithfull discussed her wilder days and admitted that the drug bust fur rug incident had ravaged her personal life: "It destroyed me. To be a male drug addict and to act like that is always enhancing and glamorising. A woman in that situation becomes a slut and a bad mother." It was during this time that Faithfull lost three opportunities to appear in films. "I really thought I had blown my career." In May 1967, Graham Nash, who found Marianne Faithfull "unbelievably attractive," wrote and released the hit song "Carrie Anne" with The Hollies, a track which started out as being about Faithfull. In 1968, Faithfull, by now addicted to cocaine, gave birth to a stillborn daughter (whom she had named Corrina) while returning from Jagger's country house in Ireland.
  
  Faithfull's involvement in Jagger's life was reflected in some of the Rolling Stones' best known songs. " Sympathy for the Devil ", featured on the 1968 album Beggars Banquet, was partially inspired by The Master and Margarita, written by Mikhail Bulgakov, a book that Faithfull introduced to Jagger. The song " You Can't Always Get What You Want " on the 1969 album Let It Bleed was supposedly written and composed about Faithfull; the songs " Wild Horses " and " I Got the Blues " on the 1971 album Sticky Fingers were allegedly influenced by Faithfull, and she co-wrote " Sister Morphine ". The writing credit for the song was the subject of a protracted legal battle that was resolved by listing Faithfull as co-author. In her autobiography, Faithfull said Jagger and Richards released it in their own names so that her agent would not collect all the royalties and proceeds from the song, especially as she was homeless and addicted to heroin at the time. In 1968, Faithfull appeared in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus concert, giving a solo performance of "Something Better".
  
  Faithfull began her singing career in 1964. Her first gigs as a folk music performer were in coffeehouses and she soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, who 'discovered' her. " As Tears Go By ", her first single, was written and composed by Jagger, Keith Richards, and Oldham, and became a chart success. (The Rolling Stones recorded their version one year later, which was also successful.) She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights", and " Come and Stay with Me ". Faithfull married John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in Cambridge, with Peter Asher as the best man. The couple lived in a flat at 29 Lennox Gardens in Belgravia, London SW1. On 10 November 1965, she gave birth to their son, Nicholas.
  
  In 1966 she took Nicholas to stay with Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg in London. During this period, Faithfull started smoking marijuana and became best friends with Pallenberg. She began a much-publicised relationship with Mick Jagger that same year and left her husband to live with him. The couple became a notorious part of the hip Swinging London scene. Her voice is heard on The Beatles ' song " Yellow Submarine ". She was found wearing only a fur rug by police executing a drug search at Redlands, Keith Richards 's house in West Wittering, Sussex. In an interview 27 years later with A.M. Homes for Details, Faithfull discussed her wilder days and admitted that the drug bust fur rug incident had ravaged her personal life: "It destroyed me. To be a male drug addict and to act like that is always enhancing and glamorising. A woman in that situation becomes a slut and a bad mother." It was during this time that Faithfull lost three opportunities to appear in films. "I really thought I had blown my career." In May 1967, Graham Nash, who found Marianne Faithfull "unbelievably attractive," wrote and released the hit song "Carrie Anne" with The Hollies, a track which started out as being about Faithfull. In 1968, Faithfull, by now addicted to cocaine, gave birth to a stillborn daughter (whom she had named Corrina) while returning from Jagger's country house in Ireland.
  
  Faithfull's involvement in Jagger's life was reflected in some of the Rolling Stones' best known songs. " Sympathy for the Devil ", featured on the 1968 album Beggars Banquet, was partially inspired by The Master and Margarita, written by Mikhail Bulgakov, a book that Faithfull introduced to Jagger. The song " You Can't Always Get What You Want " on the 1969 album Let It Bleed was supposedly written and composed about Faithfull; the songs " Wild Horses " and " I Got the Blues " on the 1971 album Sticky Fingers were allegedly influenced by Faithfull, and she co-wrote " Sister Morphine ". The writing credit for the song was the subject of a protracted legal battle that was resolved by listing Faithfull as co-author. In her autobiography, Faithfull said Jagger and Richards released it in their own names so that her agent would not collect all the royalties and proceeds from the song, especially as she was homeless and addicted to heroin at the time. In 1968, Faithfull appeared in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus concert, giving a solo performance of "Something Better".