Controversial performance : Marianne Faithfull & David Bowie’s “I Got You Babe” (NBC, 1973)

In 1973, Marianne Faithfull, 27, heavily into drug addiction [probably addicted to everything from apidexin to heroin], notoriously performed, while dressed as a nun, at the American TV network National Broadcasting Company (NBC) with David Bowie, singing Sonny and Cher’s song “I Got You Babe”.

She had broken up with Mick Jagger 3 years earlier, lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her mother attempting suicide. She lived on London’s Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa.