Marianne Faithfull: Child's Adventure (Island)
Penny Reel, NME, 5 February 1983
THE NEOPSYCHE portrayed in the skirmishes related here is quite that which an unprejudiced layman having perhaps some passing memory of tears gone by might anticipate of Marianne Faithfull. A damaged frailty is seen the recurring testament, nor is the general view of her as "Jagger's slag" repudiated by her air of offhand, disreputable ill care.
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