Maryanne faithful biography

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Faithfull

August 7,

"In families there's always one person - almost always a woman - who is designated to be the mad one. In my circle I was the one elected, and since we lived our lives on the pages of the tabloid press, I became famous for it."

I'm implementing a new personal rule: from now on, no more memoirs by white dude rockers (my backlog of to-write reviews includes the Moltey Cru memoir and hooooo boy, that one's gonna be a doozy). From now on, we only read rock n' roll memoirs written by the women who slept with these dudes. And Patti Smith.

I'll admit freely that before I read this, I had no idea that Marianne Faithfull was a successful musician in her own right before she fell in with the Rolling Stones crowd, and became most famous as the on-and-off-again girlfriend of Mick Jagger. Which just goes to show, really, how the women who surround famous men are pushed to the side of the narrative, and only ever described in relation to the famous dudes they used to fuck.

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Faithfull: An Autobiography

autobiography by Marianne Faithfull

Faithfull: An Autobiography is an autobiography by British singer Marianne Faithfull, written in collaboration with David Dalton. It was first published on 1 August bygd Little, Brown and Company and reissued as a paperback in July The book was also accompanied by the release of a compilation album Faithfull: A Collection of Her Best Recordings (). Faithfull: An Autobiography chronicles her childhood, career as a teenage pop star during the s, relationship with Mick Jagger, heroin addiction in the s, and her comeback to music industry with her album Broken English ().^[1]

Critical response

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The book received generally positive reviews from critics. David Browne in Entertainment Weekly gave the book A rating and wrote: "Most pop-music autobiographies are random notes; it's easy to believe David Crosby and Dion inhaled heavily simply because their memories are so vague. Faithfull, on the o

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It is astonishing to consider the fact that Marianne is celebrating over 55 years in music. Five decades on from that fateful party in London where she was spotted, at the age of 16, by The Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham Marianne has proved utterly fearless in her music and everything else besides and remains a unique and compelling musical figure: adventurous in her life, and adventurous in her art producing a wide and varied catalogue of albums over a fifty-five year career.

Faithfull: A Career Overview
Marianne Faithfull’s long and distinguished career has seen her emerge as one of the most original female singer-songwriters this country has produced; Utterly unsentimental yet somehow affectionate, Marianne possesses that rare ability to transform any lyric into something compelling and utterly personal; and not just on her own songs, for she has become a master of the art of finding herself in the words and music of others.

Marianne Faithfull’s story, h