Mick in Monsalvat/Kooyong 1973 photos by Rennie Ellis from the Rennie Ellis Collection of the State Victoria Library

"You could live 100 lifetimes and never deserve that boy."

Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones at a performance in London, 1965. Photo by Lawrence Fried.

Mick never knew too much about my affair with Spanish Tony. If he had known, I imagine he would have found it measured up perfectly to his contempt for women. He has a very low opinion of them.

Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography.

Irving Penn - Cybill Shepherd Wearing a Caftan by Halston and Jewelry by Bvlgari (Vogue 1972)

CHARADE (1963) dir. Stanley Donen

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, poster from swiss magazine POP 1973

Shalom Harlow by Arthur Elgort for Vogue Italia, May 1993.

Maybe I was meant to say, "Well, why don't we get Keith in here," but watching the two of them going at it wasn't exactly my idea of fun. That would rather have eliminated me, wouldn't it?

Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography.

David Bowie as Mephistopheles (1999)

what exactly made you cry reading the biographies?

Jagger and Hall spent their first night as a married couple at Rabik's. While his bride got ready for bed, Jagger allegedly made a play for his host's mate. "He jumped me, can you believe it?" the woman later confided to a friend. "Mick tried to make love to me on his wedding night!"

Christopher P Andersen, Jagger Unauthorized.

Marianne Faithfull with a copy of her autobiography, "Faithfull," September 20, 1994. Photo by Ron Galella.

I said in my most wispy voice, "No, darling, do tell me what you'd like to do?" From the mercurial Mick I was ready for anything, or so I thought.

"If Keith were right here now," he trilled, "God, I'd like to lick him all over and then... why then I'd suck his cock!" And on and on, all said loud enough for Keith to hear through the wall.

Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards photographed by David Bailey for Goat’s Head Soup album, 1973

Publicity aside, Bianca still complained loudly that her husband was not paying enough attention to her. While Mick was in Jamaica working on the Stones' new album, Goat's Head Soup, she did something about it. In an act of desperation reminiscent of Marianne Faithfull's scalping, Bianca chopped off most of her hair.

When he saw what she'd done to her beautiful mahogany-colored hair, he did the same to his. Even more than before Mick and Bianca looked like mirror images of each other.

Christopher P. Andersen, Jagger Unauthorized.

Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe at the Tiffany Club (1954)

Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play at the popular Mocambo, in Hollywood, because of her race. Marilyn, who loved her music and supported civil rights, called the owner of the Mocambo and told him that if he booked Ella immediately, she would take a front table every night. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. After that, Ella never had to play in a small jazz club again. “She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it." - Ella Fitzgerald about Marilyn Monroe