Marianne Faithfull
Keith Altham, NME, 19 March 1965
MARIANNE FAITHTULL frightens me to death. She is cool, confident, clever and highly successful. The kind of beauty you meet at a party, regulate yourself to a 100-1 outsider and pass on to more mortal possibilities.
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