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Marianne Faithfull, R.I.P
She was a child of, and one who was wrecked by, the 1960s and early 1970s. I can’t but laugh, when I see twenty-first century snowflakes (Selena Gomez, I might be looking at you) trying to establish their transgressiveness, their relevance, and their victimhood as something new, something never seen before in the history of mankind. They can’t imagine, and they cannot possibly compete.
Here is Marianne Faithfull, child of privilege, age 19, in 1965. I was 11. But I remember. How pretty she was. How gentle. And–as I later learned–how wrecked:
Somehow, she made it through.
And she died today, age 78. A survivor of an age that has yet to see a proper reckoning.
Rest in peace.
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That was my transition time between teenager and adult. I knew of Marianne Faithfull, but knew nothing about her. I do not know what you are intimating with the term, “proper reckoning”. Would you explain, please?
I was surprised to learn that she had 18 albums.
It was a different time. Rita Coolidge has 25, not counting those where she was involved with other people. Plus 12 compilation albums. Back in the 60s and 70s, perhaps into the early 80s, artists might come out with more than one album even in a single year, in addition to not waiting years between releases.
I don’t think I’m “intimating” anything. What do you think I’m intimating?
She was ill used by damn near everyone who came into her life. If you were to write a novel containing half of the stuff that happened to her, your agent would throw the manuscript at your head after reading it.
But am I correct that she is basically known for one song?
I understand that she has her fans, and ironically received a writing credit on the Stones’ “Sister Morphine,” but I just don’t see her as that popular. Coolidge had a real career.
Boy howdy.
Not all that much in the UK.
Could be. I doubt many people could name more than one Rita Coolidge song either.
What I think of when I hear her name is seeing her as an older woman singing Broken English. That was decades ago. She seemed to have been through a lot. I don’t remember much about the song and at the time I had no idea what it was about. Later, someone said it was about the Red Brigade. The other thing is Mars bars, but that we can let slide.
Fourteen odd years and a lifetime older. She had to get through being the muse to the Rolling Stones, the drug raids, breakups, heroin addiction, alcoholism, homelessness, and then start dropping Grammy worthy albums. See? Simple. She was someone you read about in Rolling Stone back when it was still cool.
Almost forgot. The great English “rock” photographer Gered Mankowitz took a number of early and wonderful pics of Marianne. See here.
Never heard of her before today.
thank you.
Just read the wikipedia entry for her. It’s almost like reading about Art Pepper. One can’t help but wonder how they made it through their addictions.
And?
And nothing. Maybe I’ll look her up and see if anything rings a bell.
On my playlist: Love is Teasin’
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Marianne & David back in the day.
Rolling Stones, more pay tribute to Faithfull | Watch
It was an age whose numbers have yet to be crunched.
Well said, but we’re getting close.
The reason I asked, She, is because I didn’t know what you meant.
P.S.
And I still don’t.
She sang the song “Love Got Lost” on Joe Jackson’s album “Night & Day” in 2000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUgt5RjEzo
And as usual the youtube video did not embed!
There you go.
So how do you do that? I paste the raw URL into the comment box, then highlight it and click the “Insert/edit link” button. What am I doing wrong?
Just paste the URL into the reply box. All you need.
I copied the video URL by right-clicking on the video and pasted it in the body of my reply.
Yep. Don’t make it a “clickable link.” The site then embeds it, if appropriate.