Marianne Faithfull: My Credit is Good
Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 1983
WHEN MARIANNE Faithfull goes out nowadays, it is usually to the Chelsea Arts Club. The whitewashed house in Old Church Street, a cross between country pub and seaside repertory theatre, has become her main refuge from the prying eyes that still pursue her, even into her own home.
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