The Rolling Stones are world famous for their way with women.
Although many of their girlfriends were only involved with the band for a short time, below is a list of 12 beautiful women who had a huge influence on their music, inspiring or co-writing tracks.
1. Chrissie Shrimpton
Chrissie Shrimpton met Mick Jagger when she was still in school. Together for three years (1963 – 1966), their relationship came before the Stone’s widespread success. Jagger was supposedly very controlling of Shrimpton, writing the songs ‘
Under My Thumb’ and ‘
Yesterday’s Papers’ about their time together and eventually leaving her for Marianne Faithful.
2. Christa Paffgen
In June 1967, Christa Paffgen, also known as Nico of The Velvet Underground, went to The Monterey Pop Festival with Brian Jones. The pair had a brief relationship.
3. Anita Pallenberg
On holiday in Morocco, Anita Pallenberg left Brian Jones for Keith Richards. She was with Richards between 1967 and 1979 but Keith claims that she also spent a night with Jagger in this time. Pallenberg had huge influence on the Stones’ music - tracks were remixed on her request and she was the inspiration behind the songs ‘
You Got The Silver’ and ‘
Happy’, also singing backing vocals on ‘
Sympathy for the Devil’.
4. Marianne Faithfull
It was Marianne Faithful’s four year relationship with Jagger which introduced her to drugs and during a police raid on Richard’s Sussex farm, Faithful was found wearing only a fur rug. Allegedly, several tracks including ‘
Sympathy for the Devil’ and ‘
You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ were written about Faithful - she also co-wrote ‘
Sister Morphine’with the band.
5. Anna Wohlin
Anna Wohlin was the girlfriend of Brian Jones at the time he died. She was the one who dragged his body from the Sussex swimming pool on that tragic day in 1969. Recently Anna has disputed the verdict that Jones died by “misadventure" and instead claims he was killed in a fight with Frank Thorogood, an employee Jones had fired a few days earlier.