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  Marianne Faithfull - Biography
Marianne tried to get a new deal for about a year but her reputation as a junkie was too intimidating.
In 1979 Marianne returned to the studio to record her first album where she was considered as an artist who had something to give to the process.
Faithfull showed her talent to mould from a pop and rock singer to a great interpreter of jazz and blues.
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  Amazon.de: Faithfull: An Autobiography: English Books: Marianne Faithfull,David Dalton   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Faithfull doesn't spare the reader any of the detail of her long relationship with a breathtaking variety of drugs, but the most interesting parts are when she relates particular events and circumstances to specific compositions by Jagger and by herself.
Marianne Faithfull, the idol and style icon of the whole 60ies- swinging London generation, derscribes her life from being a young mother, an upcoming starlet, the muse of the Rolling Stones to becoming a junkie living on the street and in the end, being able to fix her life again.
Faithfull may be the crazy lady of rock and roll, but she has produced a warm and witty book with enough interesting twists and turns to hold the attention of anyone curious about what's behind "the star-making machinery" of the pop music business.
www.amazon.de /Faithfull-Autobiography-Marianne/dp/0815410468   (2066 words)

  
 Marianne Faithfull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Faithfull was born to the British military officer Major Glynn Faithfull and the Baroness Eva Erisso, a Viennese noblewoman of half Jewish and half noble Austrian descent, coming from the Habsburg dynasty.
Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, and briefly after starting doing folk music performances in coffeehouses, was discovered at a Rolling Stones' launch party by pop music producer Andrew Loog Oldham.
Faithfull’s musical career had a third fillip during the early 1990s with the recording of the live album Blazing Away and her new artistic persona of a neo-cabaret singer, performing works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marianne_Faithfull   (1759 words)

  
 Kissin' Time - Marianne Faithfull
One of the most endearing things about Marianne Faithfull is how well and often she reinvents herself as an artist, all the while remaining true to her rebellious, defiantly independent nature, enduring whatever changes the industry undergoes with her restless, and often reckless, vision intact.
Faithfull's collaboration album because of the appearances and production talents of numerous artists, including Beck, Billy Corgan, Jarvis Cocker, Pulp, Dave Stewart, Blur, etc. The truth of the matter is that this is just the latest installment in a series of collaborations, but one that includes far bigger names from the world of postmodern pop.
Faithfull is able to make this set sound as if it were recorded in one studio with one band is a minor miracle; that she can put such searing soul into sonic constructs that are sometimes only marginally "songs" is a major artistic achievement.
music.aol.com /album/kissin-time/521864   (723 words)

  
 Marianne Faithfull: Kissin' Time - PopMatters Music Review
Faithfull went on to have a rather ordinary career as a late '60s chanteuse, and with the exception of her chilling 1969 version of the Stones' "Sister Morphine" (a song she co-wrote with Jagger and Richards), she didn't put out any material of the timeless quality.
Marianne displays less of a croak, in favor of a more innocent-sounding, yet still smoky, croon, as Corgan backs her up with more lush music.
Marianne Faithfull may have gracefully slid down that unwanted pedestal she was on, but now, she deserves to be atop another one, one befitting a truly original female artist, one whose music is more vital than it's ever been.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/f/faithfull-marianne-kissin.shtml   (1007 words)

  
 Boston's Weekly Dig: Music: Marianne Faithfull   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On this record, the stripped-down, bare-all vulnerability of Faithfull's own lyrics (set to music by Cave), paired with the raw humanity revealed in those tracks written specifically for her by Harvey, show both sides of this legend's reflections on times before and during her heroin addiction, plus a few meditations on the present.
On this record, Faithfull harvests the energy and words of those who inspire her, laying out a story that is just too large for her to provide all the pieces herself.
Whatever the case, Faithfull's new album proves that the past never leaves completely-it may stay hidden, but to strip back the layers of time and memory as she does on Beyond the Poison, is to find it.
www.weeklydig.com /articles/marianne_faithfull   (642 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Faithfull: Livres en anglais: Marianne Faithfull,David Dalton   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A descendant of Austrian novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the beautiful Faithfull was discovered by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Oldham in 1964 and became an instant pop celebrity with her recording of the brooding ``As Tears Go By,'' a song Oldham asked Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to write for her.
Faithfull, who's had her own share of same-sex dalliances, suggests it was sexual tensions among the highly repressed Stones that gave them their manic energy: ``Who was the great love of [Jagger's] life?
Actually, I think it was Keith.'' The tone is both compelling and pathetic as Faithfull details two decades of drug abuse and numerous lonely attempts to escape her addiction.
www.amazon.fr /Faithfull-Marianne/dp/0140246533   (681 words)

  
 Marianne Faithfull - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Former convent girl Marianne Faithfull (born December 29 1946) released her debut single, the Mick Jagger/Keith Richard-penned As Tears Go By, on August 13 1964, after meeting the Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham at a party in London.
Marianne told the press that she was over the heroin addiction that led to her departure from the music world and added that the royalties from Sister Morphine, the song she wrote for the Stones' album Sticky Fingers had been what sustained her through the past ten years.
Throughout the 80s and 90s, Marianne married and divorced a few times and lived in the US (until she was deported) and Dublin, Eire.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /music/marianne.htm   (818 words)

  
 Artist Profile - Marianne Faithfull
Marianne also embarked on a parallel career as an actress, appearing in the film Girl on a Motorcycle and on stage in Chekhov’s Three Sisters (with Glenda Jackson) and Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson and co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicol Williamson.
Marianne’s interest in Kurt Weill and the music of the Weimar Republic was consummated in 1996 with the release of 20th Century Blues.
Marianne, for instance, wrote a television theme called Hang It to Your Heart with Blur’s Alex James –;- a precursor to the collaborations with Damon Albarn on both of her most recent albums, Kissin Time and Before The Poison.
www.emimusicpub.com /worldwide/artist_profile/marianne-faithfull_profile.html   (987 words)

  
 Marianne Faithfull @ Soundbug Music Artists
Marianne also embarked on a parallel career as an actress, appearing in the film Girl on a Motorcycle and on stage in Chekhov's Three Sisters (with Glenda Jackson) and Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson and costarring Anthony Hopkins and Nicol Williamson.
Marianne's interest in Kurt Weill and the music of the Weimar Republic was consummated in 1996 with the release of 20th Century Blues.
Marianne, for instance, wrote a television theme called Hang It to Your Heart with Blur's Alex James — a precursor to the collaborations with Damon Albarn on both Kissin Time and Before The Poison.
www.soundbug.com /artist/1814   (875 words)

  
 The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music - Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull's voice may be considered weak by some and by others to show how much she's gone through over the years, but I find her delivery totally individual and powerful.
While what Marianne Faithfull is doing these days doesn't affect me as strongly as, say, Broken English, I still really like her voice and her interpretations of songs.
Marianne Faithfull came out with a much overlooked album of great pop songs, written alongside the likes of Dave Stewart and Billy Corgan--lots of great rock/pop/dance songs, though not as cohesive as some of her earlier releases.
ectoguide.org /artists/faithfull.marianne   (1422 words)

  
 Marianne Faithfull: Kissin' Time (2002): Reviews
Kissin Time is full with Faithfull's own history: disaster next to glory, next to the overriding feeling that, come what may, she will slide through it all by dint of charisma, wit and, indeed, charm.
Faithfull holds her own from the first track.
Marianne Faithfull's singing voice is like an open wound, a raw badge of suffering and self-examination that sounds best when the music gives Faithfull room to bleed.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/faithfullmarianne/kissintime   (457 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Marianne Faithfull has breast cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LONDON (AP) — Marianne Faithfull has postponed a world tour after being diagnosed with breast cancer, her London publicist said Thursday.
Faithfull, 59, had been due to begin a world tour next month, but it has been postponed until next year.
Faithfull gained fame in the 1960s as the girlfriend of Mick Jagger and as the pure-voiced singer of As Tears Go By.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-09-14-faithfull_x.htm?csp=34   (324 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - MARIANNE FAITHFULL COLLAPSES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Marianne Faithfull has been forced to abandon her European tour after collapsing with a seizure in MILAN.
Marianne Faithfull said: "I'm sorry to have let my fans down, but I will be back."
"Marianne's exhaustion is the consequence of a gruelling work schedule that started with her summer stage performances in 'The Black Rider', director Robert Wilson's celebrated and award-winning theatre production.
www.nme.com /news/110745.htm   (395 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Marianne Faithfull - UK - Indie / Rock / Pop - www.myspace.com/mariannefaithfullofficial
Marianne Faithfull’s story, has of course, been well documented, not least in her entertaining and insightful autobiography FAITHFULL (1994).
Marianne will also be doing some special performances throughout 2008 of Shakespeare's love sonnets, She will be reading a selection of the sonnets with a cello accompaniment.
While the defining statements of many artists are made during their early years, Marianne Faithfull continues to develop her own voice: She sets herself aside from her contemporaries in her continuing quest to explore new creative areas in a career that has always been a positive process of self-assertion.
www.myspace.com /mariannefaithfullofficial   (1114 words)

  
 On 'Poison,' Faithfull gets down again - The Boston Globe
Faithfull gathered up two of rock's most intense songwriters -- PJ Harvey and Nick Cave (of the Bad Seeds) -- and co-wrote with each of them to form the bulk of her new CD, ''Before the Poison," which hit record stores this week.
Faithfull is once again in fantastic voice -- albeit in a raspy, cabaret style that makes Leonard Cohen sound like a raging optimist.
Faithfull, who spoke on the phone from Paris (she spends much of her time there though she lives in Ireland), is also recovering from a pre-show collapse in Milan in early December that she attributes to exhaustion.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/01/28/on_poison_faithfull_gets_down_again   (1007 words)

  
 Salon.com People | Marianne Faithfull
But the most notorious Marianne Faithfull story -- an apocryphal one, she says -- concerns newspaper reports of Jagger being arrested in a drug raid, caught with his head between Faithfull's legs enjoying a Mars bar.
Faithfull is entitled to such a vox, one of pure European decadence.
Her mother then raised the girl like "one of her cats." Young Marianne was packed off to a convent, where she converted to Roman Catholicism, an act she later reported "was promoted more by a Walter Pater aestheticism than a veneration for the pope." By age 13, she was acting Shakespeare in local repertory theaters.
archive.salon.com /people/bc/2001/01/09/faithfull   (982 words)

  
 MARIANNE FAITHFULL
Here, Faithfull put her own vocal center stage rather than subdued as on the album.
Yes, it's hardly a Faithfull show without her picking up a smoke, but newly fit and trim from regular swimming, it hardly seemed like she had her heart into it.
But this is a minor housekeeping issue in light of the great, raw emotion Faithfull can bring to a song, and the stage.
www.buzzmix.com /FaithfulParkWest.htm   (616 words)

  
 Marianne Faithfull :: fansite - MarianneFaithfull.net
This is a Marianne Faithfull fansite which in no way has any affiliations with the artist aside from genuine veneration
Faithfull has managed to shatter the status quo; forever changing the role of women in Rock and Roll.
Marianne Faithfull has managed to dominate stage, studio and film in her sprawling career.
mariannefaithfull.net   (126 words)

  
 westword.com | Music | Marianne Faithfull   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Despite the constant pressure on veteran female artists not to act their age, Marianne Faithfull refuses to disguise the wear and tear caused by her four decades in rock.
Faithfull's collaboration with Albarn, "Last Song," is lush and creepy, yet her pairings with Harvey and Cave linger longest.
Instead, Faithfull oozes with a weary vulnerability that's more subtle but just as memorable.
music.westword.com /Issues/2005-01-20/music/playlist3.html   (175 words)

  
 Marianne Faithfull @ Filmbug
Marianne Faithfull (born December 29, 1946) is a British singer who began her career in 1964 with As Tears Go By, a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Faithfull sung backup vocals on Metallica's song The Memory Remains from their 1996 album Load.
Tell us what you think of Marianne Faithfull in the Filmbug forum...
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 Amazon.com: Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithfull: Music
This was one of two debut albums by Marianne - a collection of folk music (Come my way), which I've already reviewed, was released on the same day as her first pop album.
Marianne's voice was exceptionally sweet and pure back then, in sharp contrast to her recordings from the late seventies and beyond.
Actually, 'This Little Bird' was not included on the original 1rst release of 'Marianne Faithfull', but rather was added to latter pressings when it became a huge hit.
www.amazon.com /Marianne-Faithfull/dp/B000006YM1   (643 words)

  
 Faithfull Brings PJ, Cave: Marianne Faithfull : Rolling Stone
"When Marianne asked me to write the music, the first thing that went through my mind was, 'I'm going to write music for her that will allow her voice to breathe,'" Cave says.
Faithfull has kept herself busy playing the devil in The Black Rider, a play directed by Robert Wilson and written by William S. Burroughs, with music by Tom Waits.
But because of her storied past, it's difficult for Faithfull to get a visa to tour.
www.rollingstone.com /artists/mariannefaithfull/articles/story/6651376/faithfull_brings_pj_cave   (685 words)

  
 Marianne Faithfull
Daughter of Eva, the Baroness Erisso, and Major Glynn Faithfull, a WWII...
The first time the F-word was spoken in a movie was by her in I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967).
Marianne nominated for EFA Award for Irina Palm
www.imdb.com /name/nm0265717   (734 words)

  
 The Marianne Faithfull Experience
This site is dedicated to Marianne Faithfull, a woman who has been through a lifetime of love, loss, death, drug addiction, success, and failiure.
But when the sixties came crashing down so did Marianne as she subcumed to heroin addiction that left her living on the streets, with nowhere to turn.
He really didn't know who she was, until he saw one of her new gap ad's(look for the commercial with Taryn Manning, on the sides of buses, and on the wall in Gap stores).
brianjonesy.tripod.com /dreaminmydreams   (218 words)

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