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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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Never Does What A Pop Star Should

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 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 ...

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Marianne Faithfull (1998)

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, July 1998

In Salzburg for her Seven Deadly Sins performance, the grand dame of British pop talks about her love of the Brecht/Weill canon; recording her new album Vagabond Ways; her self-destructive past and surviving it; writing Faithfull, her autobiography, with David Dalton; the '60s myths and legends about her... and not becoming a rich man's plaything.

File format: mp3; file size: 51.9mb, interview length: 54' 05" sound quality: ***

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 recovery.

File format: mp3; file size: 7.5meg, interview length: 1h 13' 24" sound quality: ***

Marianne Faithfull (1994)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, November 1994

Promoting her autobiography, la Faithfull talks at length about, well, just about everything really: writing the book with David Dalton; being called a witch by the Catholic Church; the aesthetics of sex, and the Rolling Stones and the Redlands bust.

File format: mp3; file size: 62.4mb, interview length: 1h 08' 10" sound quality: ***

Marianne Faithfull (2014)

Interview by Maureen Paton, Rock's Backpages audio, 16 July 2014

The grande dame talks about her new album Give My Love to London; her relationship with manager/ex-lover François Ravard; sleeping with Keef; her friendship with Anita Pallenberg; on Broken English; her family; her Sydney suicide attempt; not seeing Jagger anymore; on Paris, fashion, and becoming a Commandeur Of L'Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres.

file format: mp3; file size: 53.6mb, interview length: 55' 50" sound quality: ****

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Girl in Love in a Girl's World...

Interview by Jean-Marie, Rave, June 1965

Our Girl in A Girl's World series takes a look at a little bird who's sitting pretty in the charts right now — Marianne Faithfull. ...

Marianne Faithfull: Somewhere in Her Soul...

Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 12 April 1973

LONDON — She once said: "It's like there's this chant — 'Poor, tragic Marianne, poor, tragic Marianne.'" Tragic is a word that has cropped up ...

Marianne Faithfull: As Years Go By

Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 2 February 1974

EVEN THOUGH it's so bloody cold, everyone wants to know what happens to John Osborne's loathsome soldier hero in the end. ...

The Backpages Interview: Marianne Faithfull

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 28 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 ...

Tears Gone By: the Rebirth of Marianne Faithfull

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 16 February 2002

The former Sister Morphine talks about her remarkable new album Kissin Time. ...

Marianne Faithfull: Rock Steady

Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, March 2002

ON A DAMP December afternoon in bucolic Buckinghamshire, a legendary female icon of the '60s is leading her Noughties counterpart down the garden path. Literally. ...

Marianne Faithfull

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, AnOther Magazine, Fall 2001

ON THE TOP floor of a Georgian townhouse, a punt away from the Lansdowne Road rugby stadium, one of rock's greatest female icons bends down ...

Access all areas: The Rock Muse

Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Harper's Bazaar, April 1998

Scratch an epic rock god and you'll usually find a cool, inspiring woman who supplied him with lyrics, contacts and style. Now that girl power ...

Anita Pallenberg (1998) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, Summer 1998

This is a transcription of a phone interview. Listen to the audio of this interview.   ...

Marianne Faithfull: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 July 1995

Better class of icon defies the years ...

Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (Island)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 10 November 1979

BEFORE WE get started on the music... ...

Marianne Faithfull: Dangerous Acquaintances (Island)

Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 26 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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Berliner Ensemble, Berlin

Live Review by Dave Rimmer, MOJO, February 1996

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, ...

Marianne Faithfull: The Curse of the Multiplying Mariannes

Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, 18 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. ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus

Report by David Dalton, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1970

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was an entertainment extravaganza planned and put on by the Rolling Stones in December 1968. Originally done as ...

Marianne Faithfull: The Battle Over A Bird

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 8 April 1965

SAID MARIANNE: "The trouble with having a record called 'The Little Bird' is that I don't like birds. I'm being involved in publicity situations where ...

Marianne Faithfull: As Years Go By

Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 29 November 1979

David Hepworth recites the ballad of Marianne Faithfull ...

The Truth About the Pop Idles...

Report by Dawn James, Rave, July 1965

What is the truth about our stars of pop? How hard do they really work for the fabulous rewards that pop success brings? Are they ...

Girls in the News: Mick and I by Marianne

Interview by Dawn James, Rave, April 1967

Show business has dealt some cruel blows to Marianne Faithfull. At the moment she's happy — with Mick Jagger. Dawn James asks her about her ...

Marianne Faithfull Springs Eternal

Interview by Deborah Frost, BAM, 7 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 Like A Breath Of Fresh Air

Profile by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 24 July 1965

MARIANNE FAITHFULL flew out of Los Angeles and somehow the city didn't seem quite as bright. ...

Marianne Faithfull

Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Interview, April 2009

TALKING TO MariaTALKING TO Marianne Faithfull over the day's first coffee is a bit like waking up for cocktails. She's alert and energetic, but chicly ...

Marianne Faithfull: Before The Poison; Tom Waits: Real Gone

Review by Everett True, Plan B, September 2004

WHAT KEEPS FOLK like Waits and Faithfull from phoning it in? Why do they feel a need to reinvent themselves, seek out new styles like ...

Marianne Faithfull Speaks Broken English with Glenn O'Brien

Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, February 1980

MARIANNE FAITHFULL hasn't had a hit record since 'As Tears Go By' in 1966. That song, written for her by Jag­ger and Richards, instantly trans­formed a ...

Marianne Faithful: Strong Poison

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005

INITIALLY MORE infamous than famous, Marianne Faithfull was known more for her extraordinary beauty and her liaison with Mick Jagger than she was for her ...

Picture this: The love affair between rockers and the lens

Book Review by James Medd, New Statesman, 16 October 2014

Jimmy Page: Jimmy Page (Genesis) Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithfull – A Life on Record  (Rizzoli) Chris Stein: Negative – Me, Blondie and the Advent ...

Marianne Faithfull: "La Saboteuse"

Interview by Jim Irvin, The Word, October 2004

IT IS THE EVENING of the day – a very balmy day in San Francisco – and, perhaps, Marianne Faithfull shouldn't be here. ...

Marianne Faithfull

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 30 April 1995

As years go by, Faithfull sings haunting songs of A Secret Life ...

Interview: Island Records' Chris Blackwell (1989) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1989

This is a transcript of John Tobler's 1989 audio interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Decca Records in 1964: The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Tom Jones and the British pop explosion

Retrospective by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 3 July 2019

To celebrate 90 years of Decca Records, a new book about the label's history is being released. In this exclusive extract, renowned music critic Jon Savage ...

Rolling Stones Starting To Mellow

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 16 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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Yours Faithfully

Interview by Keith Altham, Fabulous, 3 October 1964

Fab's Keith says sad and simple folk songs are Marianne Faithfull's style — the girl with a natural flair... ...

Marianne Faithfull: Baby Halts Marianne's Plans

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 6 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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Meets Dylan And Baez

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 14 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 ...

Marianne Faithfull

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 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 ...

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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Give My Love To London (Dramatico)

Review by Kris Needs, Record Collector, Fall 2014

Fifty-and-counting with late-period career peak. ...

Marianne Faithfull: City Winery, NYC

Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages, 25 December 2011

MARIANNE FAITHFULL'S welcome return to the New York concert stage reminded one of that funky old aunt in everyone's family. You know, the one who ...

Fairy Tales Can Come True — Look at Marianne Faithfull

Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 31 July 1965

WELL HERE we go again. This time we're off to an exclusive interview with a girl who looks like a refugee from a fairy tale ...

Marianne Faithfull: Before The Poison (Naïve)

Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, October 2004

IT TAKES two seconds to realise this is gonna be a bit special. Three songs in and thoughts turn to album of the year. Just ...

Hal Willner: "He's The Kind Of Guy Who Knows When Something Sounds Absurd, It's Beautiful"

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, January 1989

HAL WILLNER, UNRIVALED KING OF THE "TRIBUTE" ALBUM, TURNS TO DISNEY ...

The TV Monsters: The Bowie Special

Report by Marty Cerf, Phonograph Record, April 1974

AS THE first network music special produced by the featured rock star, the David Bowie Midnight Special bears closer examination. ...

Elvis: The Million Dollar Bonanza

Report by Mat Snow, Sounds, 15 August 1987

On the tenth anniversary of ELVIS PRESLEY's death, MAT SNOW makes a pilgrimage to Graceland and reports on the thriving industry at rock 'n' roll's ...

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 ...

"Radically Festive": The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus

Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, November 1996

On December 10, 1968, some of the most exciting talent in rock history gathered for an event all the more legendary for having been quietly ...

Put it down to my age, says Miss Faithfull

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 July 1964

MARIANNE FAITHFULL is a raving beauty of 17 who lives with her mother, the Baroness Erisso, in a small terraced house in Reading. She goes ...

The Trouble With Marianne: By The Man She'll Marry

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 March 1965

MARIANNE FAITHFULL announced her engagement to Mr. John Dunbar in The Times. Pop singers do not often use The Times to let their friends know ...

Hollywood Anger

Interview by Mick Brown, Crawdaddy!, September 1976

The gossip-monger who exposed Babylon, created Scorpio Rising and inspired 'Sympathy for the Devil', turns to Magick and the ascending Lucifer. ...

Kenneth Anger: My Boyfriend Left Me For Charlie Manson!

Profile and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 31 July 1976

Hi! I'm KENNETH ANGER. Marianne Faithfull plays a demon in my new movie. This is a picture of me when I was three and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Praise of the Hollies

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017

WITH THEIR EXUBERANT three-part harmony, chiming guitar riffs, and keen sense of what makes a memorable hook, the Hollies created a signature sound. At first, ...

Marianne Faithfull: Landestheater, Linz, Austria

Live Review by Paul Trynka, MOJO, April 2013

NO SINGLE generation has a monopoly on decadence. Still, Marianne Faithfull's Swinging London and Kurt Weill's Weimar Berlin have a better claim than most. Even ...

Marianne Faithfull: Child's Adventure (Island)

Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 5 March 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 ...

Singles by Ike & Tina Turner, the Animals, the Yardbirds et al

Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 28 May 1966

Subdued Animals — smash hit! ...

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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (Island Ml) ***½

Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 17 November 1979

NOT SO much a comeback as a c-c-c-comeback. Marianne Faithfull has restarted her career more times than Frank Sinatra's retired. ...

Marianne Faithfull: My Credit is Good

Interview by Philip Norman, The 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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1983

KEEPING FAITH AFTER MANY TEARS AND YEARS ...

Marianne Faithfull: Is Marianne Kidding?

Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 27 February 1965

IS MARIANNE Faithfull kidding? A lot of people have been asking that question since she had a hit with 'As Tears Go By', starting doing ...

Marianne's World Of Dreams

Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 24 July 1965

SMUGGLING WINE and cigarettes into England, a pirate TV and radio station, houses in Italy and the Greek Islands. What a strange combination, but all ...

Wally Badarou's All-World Keyboards

Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, May 1986

The Synthesizer Star of Compass Point on Getting and Keeping International Feel ...

Marianne Faithfull: Horses and High Heels

Review by Steven R Rosen, Blurt, 11 July 2011

MARIANNE FAITHFULL'S 1979 Broken English may be as influential an album to come out of Britain's punk revolution as any – and it isn't even ...

Marianne Faithfull: Ca$h for Questions

Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Q, February 2013

She was the sensuous '60s starlet who flew too close to the sun, only to emerge from addiction as a rasp-voiced grande dame of the ...

Teledate with Marianne Faithfull

Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 12 December 1964

When Marianne Faithfull rang me up, we talked at first about the things all girls talk about when they natter on the 'phone. Then I asked the question ...

Marianne Faithfull

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, February 2005

Wooed by Dylan, ripped off by Jagger, too hardcore for Burroughs. A drug addict who recovered to make grainy, dramatic music rife with sex and ...

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, ...

Marianne Faithfull: Give My Love To London

Review and Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, October 2014

Recuperating from serious injury, the veteran chanteuse puts her back into one of her most personal records... ...

Marianne Faithfull: Come My Way

Sleeve notes by Tim Tooher, Rev-Ola Records, November 2007

THE ACCEPTED WISDOM regarding Marianne Faithfull is that in the 1960s she was the mere puppet of oft-considered shady, behind-the-scenes operators like Andrew Loog Oldham ...

Rave Girl To Brave Girl: True Confessions Of Marianne Faithful

Report and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, May 1980

"GOOD LORD, why?" rasps Marianne Faithfull, as she sinks into the hotel's rumpled bedding. "It's so strange, why would you be a fan of somebody ...

Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (Island ILPS 9570)

Review by Toby Goldstein, High Fidelity, March 1980

MARIANNE FAITHFULL cut her first record, 'As Tears Go By', fifteen years ago. She was seventeen and fresh out of pre-convent boarding school — a ...

Mick Sheds Chrissie For Faithfull

Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 25 February 1967

EVER SINCE he confirmed publically that he was no longer dating Chrissie Shrimpton it has been fairly common knowledge in London that MICK JAGGER spends ...

"I'm A Pop Singer!" — Says Marianne Faithfull

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 31 July 1965

MOST PEOPLE will agree, they were surprised when they heard Marianne Faithfull's latest single, 'Summer Nights'. ...

Marianne — Surprise Star

Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 1 January 1966

BIRD WHO DISLIKES BIRDS ...

Roy Orbison, the Rockin' Berries, Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers, Marianne Faithfull: Adelphi, Slough

Live Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 27 February 1965

SO HIGH is the esteem in which Roy Orbison's fans hold him that they made him do an encore of 'Running Scared' and 'Goodnight' at ...

How To Get Our Autograph — And Live!

Interview by uncredited writer, Disc, 14 August 1965

* stage door routine * butter-up compere * through fan club ...

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 ...

see also Rolling Stones, The

see also Wally Badarou

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