Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Hendrix, Rod Stewart and Jagger were my lovers & Mick got me pregnant .. well it was the 60s
.. then there was the threesome when Marianne Faithfull joined in
with that and another abortion she had as a teenager with her ex husband. Painfully, she admits dreaming of the babies she lost.
But she adds: “I did not come to England to have a baby with Mick Jagger. I told Mick, ‘I’m really, really sorry to lay this on you but I’m pregnant, what are we going to do about it?’ We both decided the best thing was an abortion.
“Mick was upset – but he didn’t come back from his holiday,” she claims. “He sent me flowers, he called me every day.”
Although she says she and Mick remained lovers on and off for a while, she moved on.
“I wasn’t going to just be sitting about just being Mick and Marianne’s delight,” she explains.
She and Jimi Hendrix became close. “We were both going through this experience of suddenly being in swinging London and integrating.”
Marriott was another lover, and she also duetted with Rod Stewart in more ways than one, she claims, but isn’t so complimentary of him.
“Me and Rod had a bit of a love-hate relationship,” she says, pulling faces.
Ultimately, Pat’s burgeoning career faltered within a male-dominated music industry in which she had little control over her material.
A second album with Bee Gee and friend Barry Gibb and Eric Clapton was shelved. Moving between the UK and US with her children, marrying again, then separating, Pat has overcome tragedy, including the death of her daughter in a car crash.
Her career returned to backing vocals, then musical theatre.
In 2017, she finally won permission to release material recorded with Gibb and Clapton. Last weekend, she performed at Glastonbury.
“I like to think of myself as a thriving soul survivor now. I do have control.”
On her sixties’ fun, she has no
regrets, saying: “It was about me making sure I was doing what I wanted to do. We were all free spirits.”
Again, that infectious laugh of hers.
Soul Survivor: The Autobiography by P.P. Arnold is out 7th July RRP £22 (Nine Eight Books)