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Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Never Does What A Pop Star Should
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, April 1965
SHE HAS a pert, child-like face which darts out at you from a cascade of fine, fair hair. The face seems to be concentrated into the ...

Marianne Faithfull
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Request, February 1999
AS MICK Jagger’s girlfriend she was among the great - and most tragic - consorts of rock’s decadent heyday. But then this Sister Morphine forced her ...

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AUDIO: Marianne Faithfull (1987)
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1987
Clean, sober and philosophical: Marianne, on the up with the Strange Weather album, talks about acting, poetry, the art of interpretation, and addiction and ...

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Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Meets Dylan And Baez
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, May 1965
THE COLOURFUL combination of Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithfull, Joan Baez, John Mayall and "a nice fat man called Albert" (Dylan's manager) met to dispose of Indian ...

Marianne Faithfull: Baby Halts Marianne's Plans
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, August 1965
"BABIES are taking over," Marianne Faithfull informed me. "My little 'third party' is going to prevent me going to the U.S. or Mexico as I had ...

Rolling Stones Starting To Mellow
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, September 1967
THE TIMES THEY have a-changed, as Bob Dylan predicted – and with them – the Rolling Stones. There was a time when one approached a Mick ...

Marianne Faithfull
Interview by Andrew Tyler, NME, February 1974
EVEN THOUGH it's so bloody cold, everyone wants to know what happens to John Osborne's loathsome soldier hero in the ...

Still Faithfull After All These Years
Interview by Penny Valentine, Creem, June 1978
REAL SURVIVORS are rare in rock 'n' roll. Those who live in the fast lane tend not to make it to 30, the rest are called ...

The Ballad of Marianne Faithfull
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1979
MARIANNE FAITHFULL was the Face of the '60s Fragile, damaged little bird with the voice of an angel, broken on a spike and filled with downers; ...

Marianne Faithfull: Broken English
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, March 1980
"I never lied to my lover/But if I did I would admit it/If I could get away with murder/I'd take my gun and I'd commit it." ...

Marianne Faithfull: Dangerous Acquaintances (Island)
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, September 1981
FAST COMPANY, slow daze... Marianne Faithfull was once merely an incandescent 'inspiration' to the men and the merchandisers of rock. Now she has become one of ...

Marianne Faithfull: Ses Liaisons Dangereuses
Interview by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, February 1982
"I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN who I was," she says in a raspy, Bette Davis voice. "Whether I could achieve to express that to everyone else was another ...

Marianne Faithfull: My Credit is Good
Interview by 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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Child's Adventure (Island)
Review by Penny Reel, NME, 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 – ...

Marianne Faithfull Springs Eternal
Interview by Deborah Frost, BAM, October 1994
"Since AIDS, I've changed my attitude. Now I'm honored. I want to be part of the gay community and I am." ...

Marianne Faithfull: Venus & Mars
Interview by Mat Snow, Q, December 1994
Stop sniggering at the back. Marianne Faithfull may well have bedded the world and his whippet, but that smutty old story about the cunningly concealed confectionery ...

Marianne Faithfull: Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
Live Review by Dave Rimmer, Mojo, 1995
THE SET IS SIMPLE: black curtain, grand piano, chair and table, snifter of brandy and pack of Marlboro Lights. She’s nervous stepping on to it, as ...

Marianne Faithfull: An Interview
Interview by Will Self, Independent on Sunday, 1999
THERE'S NOTHING much crasser in life than being told by someone, shortly after you've met them: "You really remind me of so-and-so..." It's bad enough if ...

God (Marianne Faithfull) and the Devil (Anita Pallenberg) Talk About Their Ab Fab episode
Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, 2001
AFTER A six-year break the outrageous Britcom Absolutely Fabulous is back with a new six-part series. The "Donkey" episode airing on the Comedy Channel on Monday, ...

The Backpages Interview: Marianne Faithfull
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2001
ON A SUNNY evening in the fair city of Dublin, Marianne Faithfull pads about her kitchen, barefoot in a denim skirt, preparing a rack of lamb ...

Tears Gone By: the Rebirth of Marianne Faithfull
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, February 2002
The former Sister Morphine talks about her remarkable new album Kissin Time. ...

Marianne Faithfull: The Curse of the Multiplying Mariannes
Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, March 2002
PART 1: THE SCATTERED SELVES

Gadfly: I wanted to start by asking you to describe the various Mariannes who have manifested themselves over the years. ...

Marianne Faithfull With Special Guests: Only Connect Festival, Barbican, London
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Mojo, May 2002
SHE SLINKS on wearing a black suit with impossibly tight trousers and smoking a cigarette. Four young men play 'Sex With Strangers' dry, cobwebby beat, from ...

Marianne Faithfull: "La Saboteuse"
Interview by Jim Irvin, Word, September 2004
IT IS THE EVENING of the day – a very balmy day in San Francisco – and, perhaps, Marianne Faithfull shouldn't be here. ...

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