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Faithfull: An Autobiography

by Marianne Faithfull , David Dalton

3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 · rating details · 1,443 ratings · 106 reviews

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 ...more

Paperback , 336 pages

Published June 6th 2000 by Cooper Square Press (first published 1994)

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Aug 11, 2008 Lord Beardsley rated it 5 of 5 stars

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I have long been a great fan of Ms Faithfull, but now I can safely say she is my other living idol along with Stephen Fry. It takes a lot for me to seemingly worship people still living, and she is my female living idol. Talk about someone who knows who she is and can look back on her life with a brilliant sense of humor! She is brilliantly intelligent, dazzlingly witty, and unapologetic about her past. Also, how many people end their autobiography with a recipe?

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Mar 10, 2012 Melee rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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For years I've had a fascination with Marianne Faithfull - the girl who looked like an angel and sang like a waif, who then became a woman, with a strength that belied her broken voice.

This book was very evocative of the 60s. Not the typical sunshiny portrayal of the 60s, which I love too, but the darker flipside. In fact, it was so evocative, it inspired me to write a story, which I'm still writing now and living amidst in the back of my brain.
This autobiography is definitely not for those wh ...more

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Feb 25, 2012 Ian Mapp rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I don't often read biographies but the few facts that I had about Ms Faitfull's life meant that I wanted to find out more.

I knew about the Stones and the 60s, but what always interested me was how she ended up living on the streets of London in the late 70s. How could someone fall from grace so far.

The book is entertaining for various reasons. 1) the sex. I knew she had slept with two of the stones. Turns out this should be three. And some women. And Gene Pitney. And Alex Higgins. 2) The drugs. ...more

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Aug 17, 2012 Sara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After reading this, I have been struggling to come to terms with who this person is and what I'm getting from her autobiography, beyond the voyeuristic kick one gets from looking into someone else's life, particularly the (sometimes) rich and famous.

Ms. Faithfull is hard to pin down: she strives to be a "ghost", she hates her former beauty for the attention it brought her, but she wants to be acknowledged and noticed. She makes foolish mistakes and errors in judgment and excuses herself by sayin After reading this, I have been struggling to come to terms with who this person is and what I'm getting from her autobiography, beyond the voyeuristic kick one gets from looking into someone else's life, particularly the (sometimes) rich and famous.

Ms. Faithfull is hard to pin down: she strives to be a "ghost", she hates her former beauty for the attention it brought her, but she wants to be acknowledged and noticed. She makes foolish mistakes and errors in judgment and excuses herself by saying it was the times, or the drugs, or she was young, and is angry when someone holds her accountable. She lived her life almost completely for herself and rarely considered the consequences of her actions or the effects they will have on others, particularly her child who she insisted on keeping, yet abandoned throughout his life. She says that Mick Jagger was a considerate and involved companion, who stayed with her longer than she deserved,and then she complains about his narcissism, self-indulgence and the fact that he finally had had enough of her. She mocks the boring "upper crust" types with whom she felt forced to socialize, yet she proved to be a rather dull companion herself during her many years in a drug induced haze as she made half-baked pronouncements about life and the world before doing a face-plant in the soup. She is incensed when someone tries to categorize her, yet she does it constantly with everyone in her life; when she discusses one of her managers for example: "He was good at his job but in every other way quite awful. Just a draggy, English, middle-class, pop-music person." Pronouncements like this abound in this autobiography, and there is never a moment when she truly accepts what a self-aggrandizing, pain in the butt she really is. She does admit to self-loathing, particularly at the nadir of her drug years, but it comes across as a rather lame excuse to continue making bad choices rather than a true expression of angst.

I'm not sure I understand or like this person, but I did find her story an interesting one - not necessarily because of her but because of her experiences, the people she knew, and the times she lived in. I do admire the sheer strength and determination it must have taken to live through that era and, as always, I'm amazed at the ability of drug addicts to keep going and to recover from what is a horrible illness. ...more

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Sep 15, 2008 Sonia rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

April (who just got married) gave this book to me in early summer 1999. It is a good companion piece to Pamela Des Barres' I'm with the Band (which MF mentions several times--they both did Mick), but MF has a much more jaded view of things (drugs will do that to you, kids, or is it just Being the Descendant of Sacher-Masoch living in England vs. Growing Up Beatlemaniac in Reseda, California?).

Not to miss is one of the last photos--it's just her cleavage.

In fall 2004, Marianne Faithfull was starr ...more

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Feb 11, 2010 Mona rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction , biography-memoir , bookclub

I was eager to read this book as I had heard so much growing up what an icon Marianne Faithfull was, but I didn't understand why or what she had really done to achieve that status. So this book finally solved the enigma for me!
I am going to give a two-part review: the first part will be an evaluation of the book itself - the quality of the writing, the craft, etc. The second part will be about my thoughts on Marianne Faithfull as a person.
The writing style is very open and conversational. You fe I was eager to read this book as I had heard so much growing up what an icon Marianne Faithfull was, but I didn't understand why or what she had really done to achieve that status. So this book finally solved the enigma for me!
I am going to give a two-part review: the first part will be an evaluation of the book itself - the quality of the writing, the craft, etc. The second part will be about my thoughts on Marianne Faithfull as a person.
The writing style is very open and conversational. You feel like Marianne is actually telling you the story while hanging out in the living room, relaxed and casual. She will tell a bit of a story and then punctuate it with a comment that really makes you feel like she is engaged and present rather than distant from something that happened so long ago. She especially has a talent for detailing the hedonistic era of acid tripping and decadent adventures. I loved reading her journey into the psychedelic world and the sense of magic and power that welled up inside and around her. The book is pretty well stitched, without a lot of jumping around, although there are a few minor fragmented stories. Overall, it's a wild ride that Marianne has taken and her life seems charmed in a tragic way.
Marianne does seem to take for granted that the reader is familiar with the Rolling Stones' discography and musical eras (as well as other musicians and artists of the time). There's a lot of name dropping and assumptions which I found hard to relate to, but I just glossed over those references since I really wanted to know about Marianne more than anything.
And now my thoughts on Marianne Faithfull. I think she is brutally honest in portraying her self-centeredness and weaknesses in this book. I found it kind of sad how much of the time was spent where Marianne defines herself in terms of her relationships to other people. Sometimes it seemed that there was more about other people in this book than Marianne - and I think her identity is very tied to the external. I found her personality to be a little pathetic. Extremely self-centered and a bit of a hanger-on. And the depths of her descent into drug use, as with many addicts, is like being on a never ending carousel. Oh here we go again, round and round, same scenery, same excuses, same tragic cycle.
I feel extremely sad for her son, who she hardly mentions - she spends much more time in the book describing her drug and music buddies than she does her child (who she can't even care for because she's so involved with drugs.)
After reading the book, I was at a loss to understand her cult status. What is all the hubbub? So I thought I would listen to her music and find the brilliance of her art and truly appreciate her. Nope. Maybe Broken English has some redeeming qualities, but I'm just not seeing what all the hype was about. I did see her perform in the play The Black Rider some years ago but wasn't terribly impressed by it, either.

So, the book does a fabulous job of revealing the iconic Marianne Faithfull. And I am not really a fan.
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Mar 15, 2012 Kirsten rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction

The best thing about this book is seeing Marianne Faithfull as an artist and individual in her own right. Her reputation as "rock-star girlfriend" and junkie really is the most common narrative found, particularly in biographies about the Stones. That is such a dismissive view of an interesting and important artist. It really points out how we dismiss female musicians while lionizing and mythologizing male musicians for identical behavior. God forbid a female artist portray weakness or drug addi ...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Jemma rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An excellent biography, raw and candid. Few people could stand to be this frank about all aspects of their lives, especially when that includes promiscuity and heavy drug use. Full of poignant insights too, such as how being a homeless addict wasn't infact the nadir of her life.

Sadly, the book lacks a proper ending but then again what could that be. She remarks herself how a previous biography was waiting for her to die and we wouldn't want that. Here's hoping this incredibly resilient and inte ...more

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Jul 29, 2014 Nathalie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: music , memoir

I found this book through Alexandra Molotkow's roundup of rock stars' lovers' memoirs in The Believer . Molotkow was interested in how these different women survived the "ego death" of longterm attachment to very famous men—men who were creative and ambitious in ways that women at the time were rarely allowed to be. I loved the piece, but of all the memoirs it excerpted, Faithfull's was the only one that really grabbed me. That's partly because her dry sense of humor comes through in every passag I found this book through Alexandra Molotkow's roundup of rock stars' lovers' memoirs in The Believer . Molotkow was interested in how these different women survived the "ego death" of longterm attachment to very famous men—men who were creative and ambitious in ways that women at the time were rarely allowed to be. I loved the piece, but of all the memoirs it excerpted, Faithfull's was the only one that really grabbed me. That's partly because her dry sense of humor comes through in every passage she writes. (The part where Bob Dylan mansplains his own songs to her is priceless.) But it was also that she seemed to have her own perspective on her personal history, one that existed outside of Molotkow's frame.

Faithfull doesn't disappoint on this front: there's plenty of introspection to go with the drugs, sex, and celebrity gossip. Even just the tale of how she came to feel she had a story to tell and songs to sing—rather than just remaining a footnote to rock history—makes for a compelling read. The book benefits from the fact that Faithfull had a second act that most rock-star girlfriends don't: after breaking up with Mick Jagger, she not only clawed her way back from heroin addiction, she also managed, after a few false starts, to build a music career of her own. Faithfull does a great job of evoking the Swinging London scene, but it's really more bildungsroman than work of cultural anthropology. (It also made me really want to read the autobiography of Keith Richards, who is one of the few stars to come out looking like a decent human being.)

But any personal narrative is going to have its blind spots. Faithfull's (fairly frequent) generalizations about foreign/nonwhite cultures are pretty clumsy, even for 1994. She also seems weirdly oblivious to the questionable racial politics of sixties blues rock. (When she does touch on the issue, it's to take a dig at her ex, whom she calls a "professional black-person impersonator.") To be fair, Faithfull seems to have spent most of her adult life just learning to feel comfortable in her own skin. Tacking "check your privilege" onto her to-do list almost feels like too much to ask. But then again—isn't learning empathy for others an important part of personal growth? It's a measure of how much I liked the rest of the book that I was so disappointed by this particular failure. ...more

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Dec 13, 2007 minnie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: rock-biographies-and-music

Excellent book, well written account of early years as sixties songstress, then life with Jagger and the Stones.Marianne's book does not glamorise heroin addiction at all, as all she did was sit on a wall for 3 years.Her encounters with Bob Dylan and others make this an interesting read for music fans.

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Jul 27, 2011 Jayne Lamb rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a must read for anyone interested in the sixties British rock scene, Britain itself, female performers and La Faithfull in particular. Her sequel was published last year but this is the real thing. A must.

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Mar 24, 2014 Robyn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a pleasant surprise. Marianne Faithfull is a lot more than the gossip columns would let you know. She is deep, thoughtful, creative and gutsy. She dumped Mick Jagger for Christ's sake! Although, she is very vulnerable, in a way that her virtuousness couldn't handle the life she was living and the people she was living her life with. She is very well read and it shines in her book. She quotes philosophers and many authors from the romantic period. She was in the middle of one of the ...more

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Oct 02, 2015 Debbie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: autobiography-memoir

I think Marianne Faithfull definitely has enough talent as a singer/songwriter not to be classified as only Mick Jagger's ex. Sadly, I don't have a lot of respect for her as a person after reading this memoir. Who can recount in vivid detail every acid trip they took in the mid 1960's? It seems that Marianne cherishes her drug memories more than her family or even her own child. If you want to read about how many different orifices you can stick drugs and human body parts up into than this is th ...more

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Sep 04, 2014 Eliza rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

5 stars for entertainment value - I knew some of the legendary tales but didn't know details of the craziness, drugs and otherwise. The veracity may be in question at times but like most memoirs I'm not sure that matters. There's one passage that magically captures the early part of this book and how I imagined the sixties to be - quite beautiful and young and fresh: "It's the summer of 1966, but for me it is Year One. I've been adopted by Brian and Anita, and their flat in Courtfield Road has b ...more

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Mar 17, 2015 Abriana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-non-fiction

This book as acted as a coming of age sidekick for me time and time again. I'm not sure I'll be able to pinpoint what it is about Marianne Faithfull that makes me feel like home, but the voice in which she tells her story holds a peculiar comfort that I continuously treasure.

I've read this memoir several times, mostly as a teenager, then again when I started school, and again when I left home. When I was younger my favorite memories of Faithfull's were those regarding Mick Jagger, rockstars, an ...more

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Nov 26, 2012 Alex is The Romance Fox rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biographies , favorites-books , authors-a-h , rock-stars-celebrities-fashion

I love this book – first read when it was first published in 1994 and for me it’s a book that I can read again and again and still be touched and astounded by this extraordinary woman’s life.

Faithfull tells her story in a candid, hard-hitting and gritty way and one of the things I really liked was that she never looked for sympathy or made excuses for her mistakes but that she was honest and not shy to admit the mistakes she made.

There’s so much I want to write about my feelings and perceptions ...more

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Jul 17, 2014 Veronica Boeve rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography-memoir , i-like-music , read-in-2014 , nonfiction

I have to say, Marianne Faithfull never ceases to surprise me. Just when you think you have her figured out, she does something so contrary to everything that you have to do some serious reevaluating. However, I'm not complaining, as it makes for a good character with a compelling story.

Since I have read a lot of literature on the Rolling Stones and their entourage, I found her writings about her life with Mick Jagger to be a little redundant, as I am already well-versed on the subject. But, aft ...more

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Jul 10, 2013 Julie Barrett rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: finished-2013 , memoirs , rock-memoirs

Oooh, it's been a while since I really enjoyed a rock memoir like this one. Maybe it's because I wasn't expecting much that I was pleasantly surprised? Or maybe I have a fondness for memoirs written by intelligent, creative, self destructive and slightly crazy women? This memoir reminded me a lot of Patti Smith's memoir. And Hedy Lamarr's. And Ava Gardener's. All memoirs that I adore.

I've read a lot of Rolling Stones memoirs by this point. Also lots set in that time and place - swinging London Oooh, it's been a while since I really enjoyed a rock memoir like this one. Maybe it's because I wasn't expecting much that I was pleasantly surprised? Or maybe I have a fondness for memoirs written by intelligent, creative, self destructive and slightly crazy women? This memoir reminded me a lot of Patti Smith's memoir. And Hedy Lamarr's. And Ava Gardener's. All memoirs that I adore.

I've read a lot of Rolling Stones memoirs by this point. Also lots set in that time and place - swinging London of the 60s & 70s. So I thought I wouldn't learn much by reading this one. I was wrong. Marianne gives quite a vivid portrait of that scene and had me looking at certain events and people in a new light. For instance, I've always found Anita Pallenberg - while being gorgeous - to be a total asshole and thus I couldn't fathom why people found her so fascinating. I mean, there were lots of beautiful women around, why her? Marianne's portrayal of Anita made me understand for the first time why people had such a fascination with her. I still hold that Anita was a rotten mother (as was Marianne) but I now get the reasons why people wanted to be with her.

I thought Marianne did a great job painting people as complex individuals who have both positive & negative sides. You know, like actual complex human beings. Quite a few memoirs depict other people as one-dimensional and almost cartoonish. For instance, other memoirs seem to write about Brian Jones as either a monster or as a misunderstood genius Hello Keith Richards (Brian as devil) vs. Bill Wyman (Brian as angel). I read a biography of Brian that did give a more well rounded portrayal than other memoirs but Marianne's version of him was sympathetic without excusing his doucheiness.

Speaking of Brian Jones, Marianne's coma dream about him is intense! Really spooky - totally gave me the chills. I'm pretty cynical about witchipoo stuff like ghosts and fortune telling and goddess talk but when Marianne wrote about it, it didn't bother me. Like Patti Smith - all her mystical poetry stuff would have bugged me coming from someone else.

I thought the memoir did an amazing job talking about drugs and addiction. She was able to portray both the initial allure of drugs and how they can be fun and expand one's mind and the overwhelming horribleness of addiction. I have read a lot of memoirs by now-sober addicts. It can be difficult to write honestly about drugs. Either you veer into almost a comedy act, reciting wacky stories about all the crazy things you did or you become like Nancy Reagen in a DARE commercial from the 80s. Or you downplay the drug use so much that the reader is left confused as to the actions of the memoirist and their odd decision to suddenly become sober.

This memoir makes me want to go back and re-read certain memoirs again - especially Keith's. Wow, everyone was in love with Keith. EVERYONE. I get it - he's my favorite Rolling Stone. Still interesting to learn how so many people in his actual life were fascinated by him. I mean, Ron Wood's memoir is like an ode to Keith's greatness. Keith's memoir kind of bugged me, he is SO unreflective and unself-aware. I was happy to like him more again after reading Marianne's book. His comment to her about the Holy Grail after she told him she was sober was great. A nice thing to say to show Marianne that he hadn't forgotten their past even though he is such a superstar at that point.

There are so many great bits in this book that I'm too lazy to write about. Her mom was a Von Sacher-Masoch. THAT Von Sacher-Masoch. (Man, Venus in Furs is my favorite Velvet Underground song). Her entire crazy friendship with Bob Dylan. The fact that she & Sid Vicious had the same heroin dealer. Her boyfriend selling JIm Morrison the heroin that killed him. Anita's crazy acid fueled belief that she really was the evil queen from the Barbarella role she played. Just loads of interesting stories that also have a sense of awareness and introspection about them.

Two thumbs up. Way up. ...more

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Jul 12, 2013 Marti rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: music-genre , gonzo , biography-memoir

I thought I knew a fair bit about Marianne Faithful (most of it gleaned from Rolling Stones and Robert Fraser biographies). However, I had no idea that she was literally homeless for years, living on a wall in bomb site in Soho and later, a squat from about 1971 - 1979 when she released Broken English. I enjoyed her comparisons of the Sixties art scene to previous epochs in history and she certainly seemed to believe she had lived previous lives (her ancestor, a great, great uncle was the Baron ...more

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Apr 01, 2013 Super Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: rock-books

I bought this with Keith Richards' LIFE and after gleefully perusing both volumes I was drawn in by "Faithfull" first. I'm now reading Keith's book and much of what is written in Tony Sanchez's "Up and Down with The Rolling Stones", the catty but riveting "Blown Away" by A.E. Hotchner and "Faithfull" is reconfirmed by the man himself as valid. It is clear why her book drew me in first; she is a FANTASTIC writer (as is Keith) and she is also staggeringly well educated and well read; articulate, a I bought this with Keith Richards' LIFE and after gleefully perusing both volumes I was drawn in by "Faithfull" first. I'm now reading Keith's book and much of what is written in Tony Sanchez's "Up and Down with The Rolling Stones", the catty but riveting "Blown Away" by A.E. Hotchner and "Faithfull" is reconfirmed by the man himself as valid. It is clear why her book drew me in first; she is a FANTASTIC writer (as is Keith) and she is also staggeringly well educated and well read; articulate, acerbic, honest and painfully vulnerable. Yes she occasionally rankles with contradictions (she mentions being a raging out of control shop-aholic and then later writes that clothing never interested' her...) but that is the nature of a great artist and old soul. The book smashes the myth that she was upper class university educated. In reality she had near penniless eccentric self absorbed parents in a loveless marriage who were only able to get her a solid education at a Catholic Convent school in Reading. One thing that was reconfirmed is yes, it was Faithfull who educated Mick Jagger and gave him the cultural literacy he flaunts today. Without her, he'd have been quite generic in his tastes. Between Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg, The Stones were exposed to the connections and the cultural markers that made them what they are alongside the awesome music. Both Faithfull and Pallenberg are still best friends and let's face it-in their heyday they are still unrivalled for their beauty. Not only were they two of THEE most fabulous faces but no models today's have such superior figures! Faithfull's body in her prime was like a voluptuous, ethereal classical panting come to life.

Her wilderness years are staggering and sad but required reading for all addicts and co-dependents alike. It gets VERY tough for the reader emotionally at times (don't want to give too much more away) to read about her fails and relapses but stick with this book if you want to read about one of the TRUE mint originals of the entertainment industry. ...more

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May 25, 2013 Orion rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Faithfull follows the life of Marianne Faithfull from the mid-60s London rock scene through the 1980's punk scene. She tells her side of her love affairs with Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. Each of them are portrayed with sincerity and honesty. You can feel the love she had for each of them in her descriptions of their times together. Her descent into years of drug addiction takes up most of the book. To hear her description of it it is surprising that she survived. So it is a mira ...more

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May 18, 2010 Joanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (not necessarily in that order!)Overall I found this book very interesting. Originally read it because being a big Rolling Stones fan wanted to learn more about Jagger’s ex Marianne Faithfull. He wrote her hit song “As Tears Go By”. A good portion of the book described their relationship and the whole 60’s London music scene. I enjoyed Marianne’s transformation from a young pop-star in the limelight, to a sexually free woman and junkie into someone who after many ...more

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Jul 13, 2014 Althea rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think Marianne Faithfull is possibly the most self-centered, self-involved individual I have ever read about. But, at least see seemed to be totally honest about her life and times; she certainly did not sugarcoat anything. And, of course, it's always fun to read about the rock legends of the sixties and their drug habits and bed hopping escapades.

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Mar 05, 2012 John rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Having read two books on faded rock heroine who survived heroin (and Mick Jagger), this book was a hands down winner. In fact, the name of the other book escapes me. She tells her own story poignantly from the Swinging Mod Sixties with Mick to her strung out daze on the stoop up through her redemption. A talented beautiful charming lady falls into a netherworld of smack, orgies and excess. But she resists the temptation to detail her debaucheries like so many rock n roll casualties in search of ...more

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Feb 05, 2011 Bethnoir rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

3 1/2 (wish it would let me do half stars)
Throughout the book Marianne stresses that she doesn't want to be perceived as a victim and spends a lot of time wrestling with the media image of her at the beginning of her fame, but I'm afraid, although I admire her fighting spirit and honesty, I can't shake off the feeling that she was taken advantage of and did find it difficult to say no to things that in the short and long term did her harm.

She has come out of it all in amazing shape all things c ...more

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May 22, 2014 Kelsey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is a bit of an odd read since I'm totally engrossed in the book, but I feel like it's taking me forever to get through it. What I truly like about it is not exactly the book itself, but looking at photos and listening to albums of bands and other people she mentions in her autobiography; when I go back to reading, it seems to make the mini movies in my head just that much more entertaining. I would definitely recommend this to rock'n'roll authobiography enthusiasts, if only for the amo ...more

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Sep 21, 2014 Bijan Andrade rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The material about her time with the members of the Rolling Stones was interesting, but the overall narrative felt like listening to a coworker go on about their weekend party endlessly without any idea whether what they say may be interesting to their audience.

The final entry, with the lemon chicken recipe? Really?

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Mar 10, 2013 Robyn Obermeyer rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was drawn in to this book from the start. The stories are so crazy,I couldn't put it down. Talk of Mick and Brian and Keith and Ruby Teusday and Wild Horses and Sister Morphine.....Broken english, Why'd Ya Do IT, living on the wall all the crazy adventures, and still the honesty of her writing. The lovers,the dope, the meaning behind the music, the red hibiscus flowers....... In am definetly reading 2cnd book of hers and also have a lot of admiration for Marianne Faithfull as a artist,book rea ...more

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Jul 17, 2014 Jane Long rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Re-read this for the first time in nearly 20 years and it was just as great as I remembered.

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Jan 05, 2015 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

Marianne is just not as interesting as she thinks she is.

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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 ...more

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