“I am extremely remiss over the amount of time I regarded Marianne Faithfull solely in terms of her adjacency to Mick Jagger. I rarely thought of Marianne the pop star, Marianne the actress, Marianne the drug addict, Marianne the human, only Marianne on the arm of the front man, Marianne in bed with the front …
After breaking her hip in Rhodes in May 2014, Marianne Faithfull had emergency surgery. The hip continued to cause problems throughout the year and investigations have revealed that the prosthesis is infected. Marianne will now undergo surgery in Paris. As a result, her concert dates scheduled for February, March and April, in France, Japan, Greece …
After the end of the Swinging Sixties Marianne all but disappeared from the public eye. She only appeared only in very few screen and stage productions and had put her singing career on hold for the time being. In this interview published in the March 1971 issue of Rave Magazine Marianne tells of her new and reclusive life with her young son Nicholas and mother Eva. Nothing seems to suggest that only a short while later Marianne would trade the Berkshire cottage for a wall in Soho during which time she recorded the long-shelved “Rich Kid Blues”.
In A Life on Record Marianne Faithfull takes us along for the ride that is her life in pictorial form. The oversized book published by Rizzoli on the occasion of the artist’s fiftieth stage anniversary last year is the celebration of the life of a woman who has seen and done it all. After two …
Last week Marianne returned to the stage for her 50th Anniversary World Tour with a concert in Stuttgart, Germany followed by an intimate gig at Rockhal in Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg. After a short break, she’ll continue tonight in Leipzig, Germany. Claude Piscitelli and Steffen Schmid were kind enough to let me share their photos of the …
