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Faithfull: An Autobiography
From pop stardom through the depths of addiction to her punk-rock comeback, Marianne Faithfull's life captures rock 'n' roll at its most decadent and its most destructive. Faithfull's first hit, 1964's "As Tears Go By," opened doors to the hippest circles in London. There she frolicked with the most luminous of the young, rich, and reckless, including Bob Dylan, the Beatle
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336 pages
Published
June 6th 2000
by Cooper Square Press
(first published January 1st 1997)
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"The unmanagable woman has been seen as a very dangerous quantity from the dawn of time, or at least since patriarchal religion clamped down on us."
There's a noticable sexism which tends to manifest itself when it comes to the women of rock n' roll. When others tell their stories, they're either painted as victims or viragos (sometimes both). When the women themselves tell their stories (such as Pamela Des Barres I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie ) there's an unapologetic and unabashed ...more
There's a noticable sexism which tends to manifest itself when it comes to the women of rock n' roll. When others tell their stories, they're either painted as victims or viragos (sometimes both). When the women themselves tell their stories (such as Pamela Des Barres I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie ) there's an unapologetic and unabashed ...more
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Deliciously written from someone who was smack in the eye of the storm of the 1960’s British music scene, who then crashed and survived her own sojourn in the 1970s/1980s. Dishing on everyone from Donovan to Tom Waits, Faithfull’s encounters with Bob Dylan — and oh yeah that boyfriend of hers in the late 60s — all of it makes this a wonderful and often very funny read.
I wish I could say this was a better read but it was poorly edited, incredibly rambling and not at all funny despite the many funny people she knew intimately-Mick & Keith primarily. It even was a little boring and I would have jettisoned it had I not been going to hear her speak in two weeks.
I expected a lot more given she had David Dalton as a co-writer. She must have allowed him to do nothing.
Disappointing.
I expected a lot more given she had David Dalton as a co-writer. She must have allowed him to do nothing.
Disappointing.
Rambling tale of a 1960s London singer/actor/drug addict/Stones girlfriend/personality. Took forever for the real Marianne -not just a compilation of things she's done- to come out in that last few pages. Hard to really get a feel for who she is. Certainly a lot harder than the doe-eyed poptart I thought she'd be. Great behind the scene Information of the 1960-1970 music scene (especially from a woman's perspective).
A friend passed this along. Great vacation reading. But overall...needed an editor!
absolutely loved it.
delightful, laid-back and refined: fun to read , feel like listening to all her songs.
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Marianne Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter, actress and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. During the first two-thirds of that decade, and with little notice, only two studio albums were produced. After a long commercial absence, she returned late in 1979 with the la
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