Marianne Faithfull Made an Art of Upending Expectations
The singer, who died on Thursday at 78, spent decades in the spotlight exercising a very specific and subversive power.
The guitarist Billy Gibbons called the “barbaric pirate”
Billy Gibbons was able to fuse traditional blues with modern funk elements within ZZ Top, which was widely influenced by the ...
Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress, 1946-2025
In the description of her superb 1994 memoir Faithfull, she was bedevilled by “grotesque contracts, lying, cheating crafty legalisms, mad and bungling managers and barbaric schedules”. Relief of a ...
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Marianne Faithfull’s 10 Most Essential Songs (Critic’s Picks)
The Rolling Stones’ manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, discovered her, which lead to Mick Jagger (eventually her romantic partner) and Keith Richards co-penning her debut single “As Tears Go By.” ...
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Marianne Faithfull Made an Art of Upending Expectations
Andrew Loog Oldham, the brash young manager of the Rolling Stones, had noticed the striking Faithfull — then a 17-year-old blonde with shaggy bangs, full lips and a knowing glint in her big doe ...