Though It Hurts Me Badly

Album: The First Lady Of Immediate (1968)
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  • P.P. Arnold's first ever composition, "Though It Hurts Me Badly" documents the pain of hiding an interracial relationship. The song was rumored to be about Steve Marriott, the singer's beau and vocal partner on the Small Faces "Tin Soldier." Not so, she told Mojo magazine.

    "I wrote 'Though It Hurts Me Badly' before Steve," she explained. "My first interracial relationship was with [Mick] Jagger. But I never broadcast my love affairs. I wasn't a groupie. I wasn't into celebrity. I was writing what my spirit was sending through to me. But I was in the right place at the right time and sort of in this bubble."
  • Arnold originally recorded the song for her debut album, The First Lady Of Immediate. She returned to the track more and a half a century later on her first album in 51 years The New Adventures of...

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