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Marianne Faithfull, R.I.P

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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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  • kedavis@kedavis
    ReplyingtoHoyacon

    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    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.

  • Percival@Percival
    Replyingtocdor

    cdor (View Comment):

    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?

    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.

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