Marianne was from a well to do family. She'd been married and had a son {Nicholas} prior to meeting Jagger. When Marianne met Jagger and when Anita met Keith the girls were both better connected to the world of drugs and hipness than Mick or Keith. Marianne through the art world and Anita through modeling. Marianne became an addict because she became an addict. She made her own choices. I don't see it as some tragic, dramatic story. Addiction is nothing if not boring. It is nothing glamourous.
Read her book. Fascinating stuff. She's not a symapthetic character, and certainly no victim. She admits her lifestyle ruined her looks and voice. She was not a very nice or responsible person. Stone's record executives urged Jagger to leave her, fearing her instability would somehow impact negatively on the Stones. The oddest statement is, that while she slept with everyone and anyone, she said she wasn't interested in sex. Huh?
I love her, she's very talented. Even though her voice is quite ruined, I still find it very beautiful. I'm into this rough, scratchy element in it, not only in her voice. I even like Tom Waits' voice sometimes. What I think is that in her case, and I hear it whenever I listen to "post-crisis" records of hers - espacially live records - this roughness gives her voice something dramatic to it, a lot of feeling. And I love it.
You don't fall in love with someone based on physical appearance and I think Bianca was beautiful but actually its been said he didn't love Bianca the way he loved Marianne.
She´s one strong woman. She was so angelic when she was young. So beautiful and what a voice she had. I still like her and her voice now even if her voice is more hoarse today than what is was back in the 1960´s. So glad that she made it through her battle with drugs. She´s a great inspiration on how you can change your life for the better (when you become clean from drugs). Her most recent album is amazing. :)
I think she explains that a bit in her autobiography. It was very hard for her to get drugs (having no money) so it was mainly through other addicts like herself, who who sympathetic and sensitive to her plight. One of the main ones was Alex Trocchi who she describes as a 'great drug guru'. Back then you could also get prescribed heroin through the NHS programme. She stayed on her wall until her old producer found her and helped her get back on her feet.
I think I figured out how she managed to get drugs without having money. She either became really good friends with the dealers or became their girlfriend. She was with Tony Sanchez (dealer) and Jean deBretuil (dealer) before she was on the streets. Also, in an interview I read she admitted that she borrowed money from her mother when she was on the streets. So she probably wasn't entirely penniless during that time as she sometimes claims.
What a stunning woman who's been through hell and back, seemingly over men? It's never that simple though is it, I mean there's always more to the story. It Is her story to tell however she likes. I'm so glad I've found her though as I'm truly mesmerized over her beauty and her talent.
His infedilities is one of the reasons. Also, she lived in Jagger's shadow. Jagger didn't want her to spend too much time on her career when she with him. She explains why she left Jagger in her autobiography. Also, after she left him, she had gained weight (about 50 pounds) because she was drinking . Jagger tried to win her back but was appalled by her appearance. That's when she realized that Jagger valued the women he took as his girlfriend for superficial reasons.
Well jagger is pretty ugly herself i never like her in inside and outside ,ugly and shallow,actually everybody in that circle after faithfull and pallenberg arrive became snobs and pretencius with his art galleries and bullshit
I think it a miracle that she is still alive, the whole genre were living for the 'moment', as some do now of course. I think her singing is great. I am sure that the it is easy to slip into that lifestyle if you ever give up. Must be strong to have survived all that abuse!
Its very good that Marianne its alive and so powerfull yeat. Life teach much things to her. Now she´s so well. A survivor from a crazy and glorious time that change the word.
I like her earlier stuff too though love the stuff she started putting out from the mid-70s onwards, where her songs became just a little more aggressive, and her years of smoking, drinking and drug use changed her voice to the deeper raucous voice she has today.
not sure...it would seem these could be lyrics from her 'This Little Bird', however that line is not in the song. The band Hellfire also has a song called 'Little Bird', which has the line 'Don't fly so high little bird'.
I absolutely love Marianne, was she the healthiest or the greatest person in her past? Not at all, but she came out of it, a healthier better person. And that within itself, makes me admire her music and just her in general, even more.
1:12 - 1:15 That simple sigh shows the agony and pain she was feeling for about 20 years, messing around with the Stones, without the Stones, with sex,drugs and rock n' roll. Just the memories of these, hurt her. God, love her ravaged voice, her accent and her views mostly.
Actually she did stay with friends from time to time, and the guy that got her to record "Rich Kids Blues " literally found her on the street, and gave her a place to live. I hope that helps some. I read her biography and watched her dvd. Really interesting stuff.
The article in which Marianne says she borrowed money from her mother when she was on the streets is called "The Curse of the Multiplying Mariannes (David Dalton Talks to Marianne Faithfull Part 1: The Scattered Selves)".
I think a lot of people would agree that she had a very beautiful voice. However, folk music doesn't appeal to everybody. I think most of her early songs are very well written and a hundred times better than the songs you hear nowadays. I have one of her greatest hits compilations with her songs from the mid to late '60s. It's quite a good collection of songs.
A girl to die for. I'm sad that beauty is a double-edged sword. Men f*ck up beautiful women with their lust and desire - I'm not judging, it's human instinct - but many have no self-control. No wonder so many attractive women run away spiritually and mentally. Being an object of unrelenting desire is a killer.
I tend to agree she wasn't entirely penniless the whole time. She also had 1/3 of the royalties of 'Sister Morphine' to help her through some of those lean years!
i fucking love this women. she british like me and i love her she real and this women have laid out her burden and gone on with her life. shes true blue. she's real. i wish more people were real like her. so the jack and coke is getting to me. but this women is true rock and roll and she dont fake it. i wish we had more stars like marianne faithful. i met the rolling stones but to meet marianne faithful would be so mucb better
Marianne doesn't look bad at all here. People age, differently, genetically. It's all about weather one finds her attractive or not. But, men, on average, age a little better so even the prettiest gal in her youth gets old before her time, in, my, humble, opinion.
1/3 of the royalties for Sister Morphine per year is probably a lot more than what I earn per year right now!! She also said that people took pity on her when she was on the streets. I don't remember where I read it. I may have read it in her autobiography. I can imagine that it was so because she was so young at the time.
These are the sources for the interviews with Marianne Faithfull. 1. "Faithfully Marianne Convent girl, Mick's chick, junkie, but Marianne Faithfull isn't an if-only person" (6/22/07) which is in the Entertainment section on The (London) Times site. 2. "The Curse of the Multiplying Mariannes (David Dalton Talks to Marianne Faithfull - Part 1: The Scattered Selves)" which is on the gladyflyonline site. David Dalton helped her write her autobiography.
Producer Mike Leander found her on the streets and helped her record "Rich Kid Blues" in 1971. That album was shelved until 1985. Her voice had changed a lot during the time the album was made because of cocaine abuse and smoking (according to Wikipedia site). With her album "Broken English" in 1979, she found success again. She could have been a major recording artist/actress but she lost so many years because she was either playing housewife w/Jagger or heavily into drugs.
Taking acid never made any sense unless your name was Timothy Leary or Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass now). These guys were scientists. The rest of us were innocents.
I think that's the name of the song - "Don't fly too high my little bird". I don't know if it was ever sung by Marianne Faithfull. One of the songs she's singing in this video is called "This Little Bird". She's singing it in the very beginning of the video.
Yep , all that is true. Also, one guy found her and recorded "Rich Kid Blues" and got her kind of back on track. I agree , reading about her is fascinating !
In the article "Faithfully Marianne Convent girl, Mick's chick, junkie, but Marianne Faithfull isn't an if-only person" (6/22/07) (in the Entertainment section on The (London) Times site), Marianne explains why her friends couldn't find her when she was on the streets. She also explains why she was living on the streets. You can put main part of the title of the articles in the search engine & the article will be listed. In this case, search for "Faithfully Marianne".
AND, everyone is going on about how her voice went to pot, but her speaking voice in this friggin' interview isn't much different from miley cyrus' singing voice, and the world can't get enough of THAT little poptart!
@TheWerewolf64 ~ That's exactly how I feel. Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jaggar, Keith Richards, etc. They were all part of the history of rock n' roll in the 1960's. It's common for younger generations to suggest that the 60's had no more relevance than any other era but nothing could be farther from the truth. The struggle for social consciousness, for peace in Vietnam, the assassinations of the Kennedy's and King, the Moon landing, the music, the politics, the war ~ it was all life changing.
She did everything that was available at the time..heroin,cocaine, pot, LSD & alcohol..she was so fragile, but turned it around & became an Iron Butterfly..She's Great.
I read her autobiography too. Didn't she say that when she was on the streets, she would go to stay with her mother from time to time? In an interview, Marianne said that her friends wouldn't be able to find her when she on the streets.I guess they didn't hang out in the part of town. Also, in another interview Marianne said she borrowed money from her mother during that time. I'd really like to see the "Dreaming My Dreams" dvd. Her life is quite fascinating!
You can get the movie on DVD and also its soundtrack on Amazon. I'm noy sure if it can be shipped outside of North America. The UK has its own version of Amazon. I haven't checked the UK Amazon website yet for the film's availability.
i read in a magazine that when they were in australia filming ned kelly and she went into hospital mick was by her side when she woke up and the first thing she said was "wild horses couldn't drag me away" and then he wrote the song, i guess it makes sense "i watched you suffer" like he watched her suffer, i dont know how true it is though, i mean its a good story and why not make up and awesome story for a beautiful song? its better if you believe it i think
I'm trying to answer my own as why to Marianne's friends may not have been looking for her when she on the streets. In show business, you can be famous at one moment and a has-been the next day. I used to sing at a small club and when I was younger and I had a lot of fans at that time. When I stopped singing at the club, my fans completely disappeared. Unfortunately, it's a line of work in which you have very few real friends.
I justed wanted to clarify what I wrote earlier. I had written that I couldn't remember where I had read about how people reacted to her being on the streets. In her autobiography, it's stated "I threw myself on the mercy of the street people and did they ever come through." (p. 211, Faithfull) Also, it's stated "A friend of Pamela Mayall's took pity on me and introduced me to the writer Alexander Trocchi...Alex was just what I needed at that moment-a great drug guru" (p.212, Faithfull).
It's not that medical advice about drugs wasn't available. That's somewhat true. My father is a Chemist. The hazards of working with certain carcinogenic chemicals in the laboratory were not known until the 1980's. But I was alive in the late sixties. I was only 6 or 7 years old then. By the time I was 10, I knew about the dangers of taking drugs like marijuana. I think so many people took drugs back then that it became the "in" thing to do.
@xCowsCanFly She came from a troubled and essentially broken home, and was terribly mistreated by her first husband, a drug person, and was worked like crazy.
personally, this interview gave me more respect for A voice, than any other star did.. One who Survived being a STAR.. and stayed an authentic person, WHO can say this? most woman of HER Capacity did commit Suicide! = life not worth 4 all 2 live? when all stars would survive like she did.. there would have been less arrogance, supression and more true & sincere kindness among showbiz stars
watching this makes me realise that when i think my life sucks, it really doesnt. when i think that not having friends, or that my parents are never home, or feeling lonely and worthless and thinking that life is pointless, is bad. it's nothing compared to what she has gone through. living on the streets. that mustve been hard. :( maybe i should just grow up.
Oh, thanks. I guess I didn't read the autobiography carefully enough. Also, in England I guess it's a little bit different than in the States. I lived in England when I was child and people there are a lot less impersonal than in the U.S. People over there are more likely to help each like that.
I haven't seen the movie "Factory Girl" yet. I have to see it. It sounds like it's quite interesting. I think there is a film on Warhol and his gang too. I can't think of the name of it right now.
I'm glad she didn't end up in a really bad way during that time, although she did say in her autobiography that she had two front teeth knocked out by a worker at a drug rehabilation clinic (I think that's what it was). It's awful what goes on in places like that. I'm surprised that there weren't friends looking for her during the time she was on the streets. I guess it's hard to find a street person though.
@xCowsCanFly That's such a genuine thing to say :) I visited London recently and made a point of visiting the same alley in which she lived and was thinking the exact same thing.
I'm looking for it too. I never recorded it. There are some episodes of Behind the Music that you can actually buy from VH1. I'm trying to look into whether you can purchase the episode.
Dont know...the only reason I think it could be true is because she also went into a bit of detail about how surprised she was when he said it...who knows (though I've kinda cringed at the thought of Keith knowing that bit was in the book!)
Yeah, but I'm glad there is an audience for her post 60's songs and that she's still performs sometimes. Her voice may not be as good as it was before but at least she's still working in the music business. Her voice before was so beautiful and what happened to it is quite tragic.
@ColdCaseSweetHeart Please don't forget Nico, I know that she was a model once and supposedly died of a heroin overdose, but her voice has an amazing range and is truly haunting, for instance in the song: It was a pleasure, then . . . I going to check her out on wikipedia. peace .
Marianne's story is sad. I think she could have been a really big singer if she hadn't given up her career while she was with Mick Jagger and then completely walked away from anything do with the music business after the break up. What a waste!
Now, Sonia, there are many kinds of music in this world and just because YOU don't care for some of them doesn't mean that they "suck". If you people who post these witless, negative comments would look around you, (perhaps starting with the wonderful comments on this video by the people who DO appreciate singers like Marianne Faithfull), maybe you'd see that there is quite a bit out there, beyond your narrow definitions, that is quite beautiful.
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Marianne was from a well to do family. She'd been married and had a son {Nicholas} prior to meeting Jagger. When Marianne met Jagger and when Anita met Keith the girls were both better connected to the world of drugs and hipness than Mick or Keith. Marianne through the art world and Anita through modeling. Marianne became an addict because she became an addict. She made her own choices. I don't see it as some tragic, dramatic story. Addiction is nothing if not boring. It is nothing glamourous.
They hype it up like. Jagger "ruined" Marianne and Warhol "ruined" Sedgwick. Don't think so.
@@BacknMetro Marianne takes full responsibility never blamed anyone.
@@Taryngracia No, she never played the victim. Others tired to pin that on her but she never did. She's a strong woman. Quite intelligent too.
They bring, snobbery,clasism,Frivolity and pretencius bullshit that no one cares, i hate both
That girl has lived and I love her strengh her book is really worth reading
What's it called?
Faithfull, An Autobiography
@@helenapontes5832 loved it
This made me cry... I have so much respect for her that she went clean.
look at her beautifull eyes, she may get older and older but her eyes will still be beautifull and charming
Read her book. Fascinating stuff. She's not a symapthetic character, and certainly no victim. She admits her lifestyle ruined her looks and voice.
She was not a very nice or responsible person. Stone's record executives urged Jagger to leave her, fearing her instability would somehow impact negatively on the Stones.
The oddest statement is, that while she slept with everyone and anyone, she said she wasn't interested in sex. Huh?
The way she speaks reminds me of Edie Sedgwick, minus the English accent. Beautiful woman, seems very honest.
Omg u so right
Def reminds me of edie
I love her, she's very talented. Even though her voice is quite ruined, I still find it very beautiful. I'm into this rough, scratchy element in it, not only in her voice. I even like Tom Waits' voice sometimes.
What I think is that in her case, and I hear it whenever I listen to "post-crisis" records of hers - espacially live records - this roughness gives her voice something dramatic to it, a lot of feeling. And I love it.
Her life is so fascinating
that woman still looks so gooood
You don't fall in love with someone based on physical appearance and I think Bianca was beautiful but actually its been said he didn't love Bianca the way he loved Marianne.
She´s one strong woman. She was so angelic when she was young. So beautiful and what a voice she had. I still like her and her voice now even if her voice is more hoarse today than what is was back in the 1960´s. So glad that she made it through her battle with drugs. She´s a great inspiration on how you can change your life for the better (when you become clean from drugs). Her most recent album is amazing. :)
She's a lot more interesting than Jagger is these days.
You are so enlightened to be given another chance Marianne
She's an indirect descendant of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Apparently, masochism still runs in her family.
incredibly beautiful
I think she explains that a bit in her autobiography. It was very hard for her to get drugs (having no money) so it was mainly through other addicts like herself, who who sympathetic and sensitive to her plight. One of the main ones was Alex Trocchi who she describes as a 'great drug guru'. Back then you could also get prescribed heroin through the NHS programme. She stayed on her wall until her old producer found her and helped her get back on her feet.
she come through the other side a strong woman !
this is amazing. thank you so much!
I think I figured out how she managed to get drugs without having money. She either became really good friends with the dealers or became their girlfriend. She was with Tony Sanchez (dealer) and Jean deBretuil (dealer) before she was on the streets.
Also, in an interview I read she admitted that she borrowed money from her mother when she was on the streets. So she probably wasn't entirely penniless during that time as she sometimes claims.
Marianne was gorgeous and elegant coming down the plane.
Marianne Faithfull was descended from aristocracy but she actually came from a comfortable middle class home she didn't grow up in wealth.
What a stunning woman who's been through hell and back, seemingly over men? It's never that simple though is it, I mean there's always more to the story. It Is her story to tell however she likes. I'm so glad I've found her though as I'm truly mesmerized over her beauty and her talent.
His infedilities is one of the reasons. Also, she lived in Jagger's shadow. Jagger didn't want her to spend too much time on her career when she with him. She explains why she left Jagger in her autobiography. Also, after she left him, she had gained weight (about 50 pounds) because she was drinking . Jagger tried to win her back but was appalled by her appearance. That's when she realized that Jagger valued the women he took as his girlfriend for superficial reasons.
They were kids
Well jagger is pretty ugly herself i never like her in inside and outside ,ugly and shallow,actually everybody in that circle after faithfull and pallenberg arrive became snobs and pretencius with his art galleries and bullshit
I always loved her.
She is amazing.
Thank you for posting this.
George Vreeland Hill
I think it a miracle that she is still alive, the whole genre were living for the 'moment', as some do now of course.
I think her singing is great. I am sure that the it is easy to slip into that lifestyle if you ever give up.
Must be strong to have survived all that abuse!
you wouldnt find much better looking than her in her youth..
So wonderful woman....
Its very good that Marianne its alive and so powerfull yeat.
Life teach much things to her.
Now she´s so well.
A survivor from a crazy and glorious time that change the word.
I like her earlier stuff too though love the stuff she started putting out from the mid-70s onwards, where her songs became just a little more aggressive, and her years of smoking, drinking and drug use changed her voice to the deeper raucous voice she has today.
not sure...it would seem these could be lyrics from her 'This Little Bird', however that line is not in the song.
The band Hellfire also has a song called 'Little Bird', which has the line 'Don't fly so high little bird'.
I absolutely love Marianne, was she the healthiest or the greatest person in her past? Not at all, but she came out of it, a healthier better person. And that within itself, makes me admire her music and just her in general, even more.
1:12 - 1:15 That simple sigh shows the agony and pain she was feeling for about 20 years, messing around with the Stones, without the Stones, with sex,drugs and rock n' roll. Just the memories of these, hurt her.
God, love her ravaged voice, her accent and her views mostly.
Actually she did stay with friends from time to time, and the guy that got her to record "Rich Kids Blues " literally found her on the street, and gave her a place to live. I hope that helps some. I read her biography and watched her dvd. Really interesting stuff.
The article in which Marianne says she borrowed money from her mother when she was on the streets is called "The Curse of the Multiplying Mariannes (David Dalton Talks to Marianne Faithfull Part 1: The Scattered Selves)".
I think a lot of people would agree that she had a very beautiful voice. However, folk music doesn't appeal to everybody. I think most of her early songs are very well written and a hundred times better than the songs you hear nowadays. I have one of her greatest hits compilations with her songs from the mid to late '60s. It's quite a good collection of songs.
A girl to die for.
I'm sad that beauty is a double-edged sword. Men f*ck up beautiful women with their lust and desire - I'm not judging, it's human instinct - but many have no self-control. No wonder so many attractive women run away spiritually and mentally. Being an object of unrelenting desire is a killer.
Depend the Man you find, not all Man are bad, marianne choices were horrible, so we just couldn't blame guys
I tend to agree she wasn't entirely penniless the whole time. She also had 1/3 of the royalties of 'Sister Morphine' to help her through some of those lean years!
i fucking love this women. she british like me and i love her she real and this women have laid out her burden and gone on with her life. shes true blue. she's real. i wish more people were real like her. so the jack and coke is getting to me. but this women is true rock and roll and she dont fake it. i wish we had more stars like marianne faithful. i met the rolling stones but to meet marianne faithful would be so mucb better
Brian was murdered by Frank Thorogood, who confessed on his deathbed.
Marianne doesn't look bad at all here. People age, differently, genetically. It's all about weather one finds her attractive or not. But, men, on average, age a little better so even the prettiest gal in her youth gets old before her time, in, my, humble, opinion.
1/3 of the royalties for Sister Morphine per year is probably a lot more than what I earn per year right now!! She also said that people took pity on her when she was on the streets. I don't remember where I read it. I may have read it in her autobiography. I can imagine that it was so because she was so young at the time.
Hey, she got through it & shes alive & well.
These are the sources for the interviews with Marianne Faithfull. 1. "Faithfully Marianne Convent girl, Mick's chick, junkie, but Marianne Faithfull isn't an if-only person" (6/22/07) which is in the Entertainment section on The (London) Times site. 2. "The Curse of the Multiplying Mariannes (David Dalton Talks to Marianne Faithfull - Part 1: The Scattered Selves)" which is on the gladyflyonline site. David Dalton helped her write her autobiography.
Producer Mike Leander found her on the streets and helped her record "Rich Kid Blues" in 1971. That album was shelved until 1985. Her voice had changed a lot during the time the album was made because of cocaine abuse and smoking (according to Wikipedia site). With her album "Broken English" in 1979, she found success again. She could have been a major recording artist/actress but she lost so many years because she was either playing housewife w/Jagger or heavily into drugs.
oh pleez she left her husband child for mick; dont blame him. we all have choices in our lives
Taking acid never made any sense unless your name was Timothy Leary or Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass now). These guys were scientists. The rest of us were innocents.
I think that's the name of the song - "Don't fly too high my little bird". I don't know if it was ever sung by Marianne Faithfull. One of the songs she's singing in this video is called "This Little Bird". She's singing it in the very beginning of the video.
Yep , all that is true. Also, one guy found her and recorded "Rich Kid Blues" and got her kind of back on track. I agree , reading about her is fascinating !
A fantastic read-Marianne is the real thing. Read it. One of the best autobiographies i have read
In the article "Faithfully Marianne Convent girl, Mick's chick, junkie, but Marianne Faithfull isn't an if-only person" (6/22/07) (in the Entertainment section on The (London) Times site), Marianne explains why her friends couldn't find her when she was on the streets. She also explains why she was living on the streets. You can put main part of the title of the articles in the search engine & the article will be listed. In this case, search for "Faithfully Marianne".
AND, everyone is going on about how her voice went to pot, but her speaking voice in this friggin' interview isn't much different from miley cyrus' singing voice, and the world can't get enough of THAT little poptart!
@TheWerewolf64 ~ That's exactly how I feel. Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jaggar, Keith Richards, etc. They were all part of the history of rock n' roll in the 1960's. It's common for younger generations to suggest that the 60's had no more relevance than any other era but nothing could be farther from the truth. The struggle for social consciousness, for peace in Vietnam, the assassinations of the Kennedy's and King, the Moon landing, the music, the politics, the war ~ it was all life changing.
Don't forget mexico and latín América, not everything was america
I ALWAYS LOVE YOU MARYANNE 💞💞💞🇨🇦🌹
i loved her in "Irina Palm" - I admire her very much
You're probably right. Thank you.
Yes people were kind to you on the street because you were young and pretty and famous. A normal so and so may not have fared as well as you.
I adore this magnificent, humane woman
go for ever maryanne
She did everything that was available at the time..heroin,cocaine, pot, LSD & alcohol..she was so fragile, but turned it around & became an Iron Butterfly..She's Great.
It's 'This Little Bird', from 1965.
I read her autobiography too. Didn't she say that when she was on the streets, she would go to stay with her mother from time to time? In an interview, Marianne said that her friends wouldn't be able to find her when she on the streets.I guess they didn't hang out in the part of town. Also, in another interview Marianne said she borrowed money from her mother during that time. I'd really like to see the "Dreaming My Dreams" dvd. Her life is quite fascinating!
You can get the movie on DVD and also its soundtrack on Amazon. I'm noy sure if it can be shipped outside of North America. The UK has its own version of Amazon. I haven't checked the UK Amazon website yet for the film's availability.
found the article, very interesting, thank you very much!!!
marianne, love, to that degree is poison for some of us. thank god you came thru it
i read in a magazine that when they were in australia filming ned kelly and she went into hospital mick was by her side when she woke up and the first thing she said was "wild horses couldn't drag me away" and then he wrote the song, i guess it makes sense "i watched you suffer" like he watched her suffer, i dont know how true it is though, i mean its a good story and why not make up and awesome story for a beautiful song? its better if you believe it i think
I'm trying to answer my own as why to Marianne's friends may not have been looking for her when she on the streets. In show business, you can be famous at one moment and a has-been the next day. I used to sing at a small club and when I was younger and I had a lot of fans at that time. When I stopped singing at the club, my fans completely disappeared. Unfortunately, it's a line of work in which you have very few real friends.
Curse those that bring the drugs to those among us, the weakest, the young, and the needy.
I understand the song Wild Horses now.
She was a pretty girl.I want to read her biography.She was an artist in her own right. :)
I justed wanted to clarify what I wrote earlier. I had written that I couldn't remember where I had read about how people reacted to her being on the streets. In her autobiography, it's stated "I threw myself on the mercy of the street people and did they ever come through." (p. 211, Faithfull) Also, it's stated "A friend of Pamela Mayall's took pity on me and introduced me to the writer Alexander Trocchi...Alex was just what I needed at that moment-a great drug guru" (p.212, Faithfull).
'This Little Bird' from 1965. That question gets asked a lot so have now put the song title in the video.
It's not that medical advice about drugs wasn't available. That's somewhat true. My father is a Chemist. The hazards of working with certain carcinogenic chemicals in the laboratory were not known until the 1980's. But I was alive in the late sixties. I was only 6 or 7 years old then. By the time I was 10, I knew about the dangers of taking drugs like marijuana. I think so many people took drugs back then that it became the "in" thing to do.
@xCowsCanFly She came from a troubled and essentially broken home, and was terribly mistreated by her first husband, a drug person, and was worked like crazy.
personally, this interview gave me more respect for A voice, than any other star did.. One who Survived being a STAR.. and stayed an authentic person, WHO can say this? most woman of HER Capacity did commit Suicide! = life not worth 4 all 2 live?
when all stars would survive like she did.. there would have been less arrogance, supression and more true & sincere kindness among showbiz stars
watching this makes me realise that when i think my life sucks, it really doesnt. when i think that not having friends, or that my parents are never home, or feeling lonely and worthless and thinking that life is pointless, is bad. it's nothing compared to what she has gone through. living on the streets. that mustve been hard. :(
maybe i should just grow up.
I got the impression from Marianne's autobiography that it was her drug problems that ended their relationship.
Oh, thanks. I guess I didn't read the autobiography carefully enough. Also, in England I guess it's a little bit different than in the States. I lived in England when I was child and people there are a lot less impersonal than in the U.S. People over there are more likely to help each like that.
@clairounette67 Performance by Donald Cammel the 3 in the bath are Mick Jagger Anita Pallenberg and little Michelle Breton
I haven't seen the movie "Factory Girl" yet. I have to see it. It sounds like it's quite interesting. I think there is a film on Warhol and his gang too. I can't think of the name of it right now.
I'm glad she didn't end up in a really bad way during that time, although she did say in her autobiography
that she had two front teeth knocked out by a worker at a drug rehabilation clinic (I think that's what it was). It's awful what goes on in places like that. I'm surprised that there weren't friends looking for her during the time she was on the streets. I guess it's hard to find a street person though.
@xCowsCanFly That's such a genuine thing to say :) I visited London recently and made a point of visiting the same alley in which she lived and was thinking the exact same thing.
Please add automatic subtitles to the second part, as in the first part.
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII
That is true, the ultimate responsibility belongs to those that take them.
I'm looking for it too. I never recorded it. There are some episodes of Behind the Music that you can actually buy from VH1. I'm trying to look into whether you can purchase the episode.
@kissmekate59 I just saw that movie tonight...she's a great actress and looks good for her age!!
Dont know...the only reason I think it could be true is because she also went into a bit of detail about how surprised she was when he said it...who knows (though I've kinda cringed at the thought of Keith knowing that bit was in the book!)
Mariam Abdullah the book is called FAITHFULL pleaase read it
If she was penniless and living on a wall, how did she get money to buy drugs? She never explains that, not in this interview or in her autobiography.
I know the movie you are talking about.... I found it at video ezy about 10 years ago here in Australia NSW (should have kept it)sorry I am no help
belle personne...
ah Michlimania, it isn't like she is dead or unemployed or something. i believe she is doing quite well these days ... singing and acting.
its the most dangerous psychogical experience.
She had rich girl problems. There's nothing heroic about that.
Yeah, but I'm glad there is an audience for her post 60's songs and that she's still performs sometimes. Her voice may not be as good as it was before but at least she's still working in the music business. Her voice before was so beautiful and what happened to it is quite tragic.
5:35 I thought that was Anita!?
From where is the interview , the interviewer and the differents sequences ( the sequence in the bath is from a movie or from Mariane private life) ?
The bathtub scene shows
Anita Pallenberg, not Marianne.
It's part of a film called Performance.
@ColdCaseSweetHeart Please don't forget Nico, I know that she was a model once and supposedly died of a heroin overdose, but her voice has an amazing range and is truly haunting, for instance in the song:
It was a pleasure, then . . . I going to check her out on wikipedia. peace .
@joesphx19 No one forces you to take them, though.
@joeyrider thank you :)
Marianne's story is sad. I think she could have been a really big singer if she hadn't given up her career while she was with Mick Jagger and then completely walked away from anything do with the music business
after the break up. What a waste!
Now, Sonia, there are many kinds of music in this world and just because YOU don't care for some of them doesn't mean that they "suck". If you people who post these witless, negative comments would look around you, (perhaps starting with the wonderful comments on this video by the people who DO appreciate singers like Marianne Faithfull), maybe you'd see that there is quite a bit out there, beyond your narrow definitions, that is quite beautiful.