Cosmódromo

PATTI SMITH AS BOB DYLAN / JUDY LINN

Deep Purple. 1971.

Marianne met Mick when she was 17 and still attending a convent school. Rumor has it that Mick introduced himself by spilling a glass of wine down her shirt and then using his bare hands to wipe off her breasts. Though friends reported the sophisticated Marianne found Mick and his bandmates to be “ugly, dirty, pimply people,” she got to know them better after signing with their manager and singing a song they wrote for her: ‘As Tears Go By.’ Marianne became pregnant, married the baby’s father, and began an affair with Mick soon after giving birth. She became an avid user of cocaine and was infamously found wearing only a fur rug when police raided Keith Richards’s home in search of drugs. Four amphetamine tablets were confiscated from Mick’s velvet green jacket, and though they actually belonged to Marianne, he insisted on taking the blame. Mick ended up only spending one night in jail, but misfortune struck the couple again in 1968 when Marianne miscarried their child, who she had already named Corrina. Suffering from depression, Marianne attempted suicide by taking 150 sleeping pills. Mick called Marianne an ambulance, rode with her to the hospital, and did not leave her side until she was in the clear. Damaged by drug problems and Mick’s blossoming affair with Marsha Hunt, the two began to drift apart. Mick wrote ‘Wild Horses’ about her as an attempt to keep them together, but Marianne ended things in 1970. It would not be until 2006 - 35 years since they had even spoken to each other - that Marianne received a call in her hospital room after undergoing surgery for breast cancer. “‘Ello, Marian darling,” the voice said. “How are you?” Mick had phoned agents and friends for hours trying to track down the number of the clinic where she was being treated - just so he could check on her. “If you love someone, you love them forever,” she said. “It never stops.”

Irina Ionesco - Modèle à l'amulette, 1975.

Jean Harlow and Clark Gable in Red Dust  (Victor Fleming, 1932)

“Seriously everybody was there”