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From pop stardom through the depths of addiction to her punk-rock comeback, Marianne Faithfull's life captures rock 'n' roll at its most decadent and its most destructive. Faithfull's first hit, 1964's "As Tears Go By," opened doors to the hippest circles in London. There she frolicked with the most luminous of the young, rich, and reckless, including Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.
Her legendary affair with Mick Jagger produced one hit single, "Sister Morphine," and countless headlines. Faithfull left the relationship a strung-out junkie. Struggling to kick drugs and revive her musical career, she recorded Broken English in 1979, an edgy, hard-hitting, critical triumph. As honest in her autobiography as in her music, Faithfull is a searing, intimate portrait of a woman who examines her adventures and misadventures without flinching, without apology.
- Sales Rank: #284443 in eBooks
- Published on: 2000-06-06
- Released on: 2012-08-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Early in this engrossing if somewhat disturbing autobiography, rock 'n' roll star Faithful remarks, "The ony way I could handle being on tour with all these weird people was to treat it as a sociological study." This approach aptly describes her dissection of her own life as well. Faithful is more analytical, ironic, self-scrutinizing and literate than most celebrity autobiographers. Writing with Dalton ( Mr. Mojo Risin' ), she depicts with penetrating insight the world of "free love, psychedelic drugs, fashion, Zen, Nietzsche, tribal trinkets, customized Existentialism, hedonism and rock 'n' roll" that absorbed her energies from the beginning of her singing career as a teenager in 1960s London. From her tumultuous four-year relationship with Mick Jagger through her descent into junkydom to her "comeback" in the late '70s as a punk-rock diva, Faithful embodies rock culture at both its most glamorous and most destructive. A self-described "victim of cool," she is nevertheless a tough (and often astutely feminist) commentator on the underside of the rock 'n' roll dream. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A searing autobiography by one of rock 'n' roll's most tragic and romantic figures. A descendant of Austrian novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the beautiful Faithfull was discovered by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Oldham in 1964 and became an instant pop celebrity with her recording of the brooding ``As Tears Go By,'' a song Oldham asked Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to write for her. In a short time, Faithfull had become an internationally famous music and movie star, but she had little control over her image or artistic output. With the aid of rock biographer Dalton (Mr. Mojo Risin': Jim Morrison, the Last Holy Fool, 1991, etc.), she describes her struggle against the passive ``Angel Doll'' persona foisted on her by the press and her relationship to the Stones, especially Jagger, for whom she left husband John Dunbar in 1966. A dark romanticism- -what she calls a ``Walter Pater aestheticism,'' replete with flashes of everything from astrology to black magic--pervades the narrative, which is chock-full of encounters with pop legends (John Lennon is ``amusingly cruel''; Allen Ginsberg ``has never been hip''). Faithfull, who's had her own share of same-sex dalliances, suggests it was sexual tensions among the highly repressed Stones that gave them their manic energy: ``Who was the great love of [Jagger's] life? Actually, I think it was Keith.'' The tone is both compelling and pathetic as Faithfull details two decades of drug abuse and numerous lonely attempts to escape her addiction. From watching a lover commit suicide to recent singing and acting successes on her own terms, Faithfull has lived enough for three or four people--yet she is only 47. Despite some trite prose (``Things were happening so fast and we were changing with them''), this holds greater interest than any other recent book about the Stones and their circle. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The most honest rock memoir yet published. (Entertainment Weekly)
An eyewitness account of the folks who made the decade go round.... Everything's here, everything but the excuses. (Newsweek)
Once accused of being part of a coven of witches surrounding the warlock Mick Jagger, pop goddess Marianne Faithfull is wickedly funny and down to earth in this indispensable record of the Swinging London scene. (Details)
Compulsively candid, wickedly revealing.... A kaleidiscopic portrait of high times, bed-hopping, chart-topping, and name-dropping guaranteed to keep even the most jaded reader up late. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Sex, Drugs and some Rock and Roll.
By Thomas R. Clarke
This book mainly revolves around the story of Marianne's substance abuse. There are some interesting sections about her interactions with the Stones and Bob Dylan for example but always in the frame work of drugs. Her main association with the Rolling Stones was her involvement with Mick. Brian and Keith are also in the story quite a bit. Missing almost altogether are Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts who barely get a mention. It seems those two were not really part of the Stones social scene, at least in her view. The book is a fairly interesting look at the 60's and 70's time period, but the unending tales of drug abuse do become somewhat tedious. She is also not at all shy about throwing in many details of her sex life.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
One of the best from a rock 'n' roll survivor - Faithfull has seen it all
By Surferofromantica
A fascinating book that describes the life of Marianne Faithfull and her many, many affairs, as well as a bit of her musical journey; there's also a lot about Faithfull's observations of the Rolling Stones, from her vantage point of having been with at least three of them (her buddy Anita Pallenberg has the same point of view, having also been with Brian, Jagger and Richards; unfortunately, she hasn't written her autobiography yet). Faithfull is married, with a child and a hit record when she's barely 20, her husband the beatnik hipster John Dunbar, who was actually much more hip and far deeper into stuff than Mick or Keith were in 1962. Life was a roller coaster of meeting people, getting famous, and then not turning back from that life ever again, from time to time getting frantic, getting crazy, getting up, collecting families to attach herself to since she didn't have a proper one herself, never responsible about money except for the early days with Dunbar when she was the only one bringing any into their young household. Small wonder she got messed up.
Faithfull sometimes comes off like a princess, but she more often seems like a wise sage, and perhaps the smartest person to have ever come out of the Stones camp. Her earliest memories are recounted at the beginning, along with some interesting tales of her eccentric parents (amazingly, her goofy British father is even more extreme than her Austrian mother, a haughty but penniless aristocrat).
The book is full of great anecdotes, like being on tour in the UK with Roy Orbison (who expected her to jump in with him), and a young Graham Nash when he was in the Hollies ("even I had enough sense to not be with him"). There are long descriptions of various trips and other mental journeys ("Sleep was out of the question. I lay down on the bed, but found that when I shut my eyes I could see right through my eyelids."). There's nearly a whole chapter about meeting the hip young Bob Dylan on his first visit to London, when he held court with the Beatles fawning at his feet, and fools like Donovan were mocked mercilessly. She describes being on tour, with Jimmy Page and Jackie DeShannon romping next door (Page had been a session man on "As Tears Go By" - "He played on almost all my sessions in the sixties. He was very dull in those days"). In 1965 she was on tour with a bunch of bands, including the Mannish Boys, whose lead singer was a young Bowie. Faithfull devotes most of the chapter "What's A Sweetheart Like You..." to a description of her first meeting with Bob Dylan, which happened just after she found out that she was pregnant and had gotten engaged to John Dunbar. Rejecting Dylan's advances, she gets into an intellectual discussion with him that sounds very Dylanesque:
"How can you take a guy who wears glasses seriously," she quotes him saying. "Only undertakers and college professors and grandmas and people who can't even see what's in front of their noses wear glasses. He's an intellectual jerk, that's the worst kind of jerk there is."
Ha ha ha... They meet again a few more times, later on to discuss her album Broken English song by song. Slowly, she slips into the Stones' orbit, first by being with Brian, then Keith, and eventually Mick, with whom she stays several fateful years (during which she provided the inspiration for several songs, also co-writing at least one song). Faithfull has great descriptive passages in her text about the Stones:
Where Brian [Jones] was soft, malleable, vague and unstable, everything about Keith [Richards} was angular, flinty, compact, hard, disctinct. The hatchet face, chiselled, rock-hard features, Indian scout's eyes that bore through everything. The mysterious rider appearing out of nowhere. Hypnotic, sinister, disturbing. A cursed-by-fate intensity, set off against gorgeous clothes, self-mocking humor and a sardonic turn of phrase.
Later, in the photo captions, she describes Keith again: "Bourbon to hand, switchblade in his boot, guitar across his back and the law at his heels - Keith Richards is rock 'n' roll." Mick she describes in many different ways:
There is quite a perverse side to Mick and it's no accident that his anguished relationships produced some great songs. Mick is so grounded as a person he never loses his footing. He can be right there next to the person falling off the edge but not slip himself. For a songwriter, this is a very useful talent. He is able to observe the car crash at the moment of impact and escape unscathed - a quality that is extremely exasperating for the victims. I always envied Keith and Anita because they looked into the jaws of death together. It was never like that with Mick and me.
She has her fun with Mick. "Like Ronald Reagan, he had learned to play a character more copmlex than his own." Ouch!! "The most indelible misconception to come out of Let It Bleed was the silly notion of Mick as the disciple of Satan. A devotee of satin, perhaps," and she describes the origins of "Sympathy for the Devil" in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, which the well-read Faithfull had given Jagger a copy of. There's a hilarious encounter between Jagger and the Labour MP Tom Driberg:
"My dear boy, we wouldn't expect you to attend to the day-to-day ephemera of the House. Not at all. We see you more as, uh, a figure-head, like, you know..."
"The Queen?" said Mick, completing his sentence.
"Precisely!"
What a scream. the conversation is full of "funny chat and zinging questions", but when it founders, "in an awkward moment of silence Dribert looked at Mick's shorts and suddenly said 'What an enormous basket you have.'" Oh la la!!!
This was all happening around the time that Eric Clapton was giving Jagger guitar lessons (?!?!).
She recounts the weekend that she and Jean de Bretueil went to Paris and he sold Jim Morrison the dose that killed him (some sources claim that he had done the same thing for Janis Joplin!). They ran for Morocco. "Jean saw himself as a dealer to the stars. Now he was a small-time guy in big trouble. He was very young. Had he lived, he might have turned into a human being."
Faithfull describes her life on the street in London, living on top of a bombed-out wall in a squat, and how she found some sort of truth there, eventually pulling herself out to resume her musical career, and possibly going straight eventually. Here the story starts to peter out, as celebrities like the Rolling Stones seldom show up, and Bob Dylan only makes an occasional appearance (Dylan never forgot their first encounter, and their reunion is peculiar. "I idolized Dylan, but to be idolized by Dylan is a very different thing... an unnerving thing. Terrifying, really, as if the Minotaur had taken a liking to you."). But in her new phase, we somewhat un-grounded as we no longer know or understand her co-conspirators. But her description of her remarkable life is always strong and fascinating, if somewhat maddening, tragic and pathetic as she makes herself a burden on friends, family and state. But she still does have several great anecdotes in her, such as the one of getting blotto with the Von Bülow's, and trying on shoes from Sonny's staggering collection. "I passed out and was found lying on the bed wearing pair number 57." She appeared in a documentary with Robert Michum, who gave her a classic movie era screen kiss in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard, and eventually became a grandmother. "Oscar looks just like me and therefore is the best thing ever." And that's that.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Disturbing Entertainment
By Wedloe
An interesting read and an insider's view of 'Swinging London' of the '60s. For me personally those were the best parts of the book...and in fact, make up the setting for 80% of Marianne Faithfull's story. On the other hand, this person was so tormented on so many levels by so many, that there were times I had difficulty reading through it. An uncommonly beautiful woman, and an intriguing mix of naivete and sexiness, she was a perfect model for the times...and everyone knew it and everyone wanted her. If only half of the reported drug use is true, there would be doubt as to her ability to recall accurately, so one must keep that in mind as you read the story. But it is a fascinating story of a fascinating time. She candidly recalls the strengths, the foibles, and the adventures of the members of an entourage that can only be described as rock royalty. Faithfull's eyewitness story of the Rolling Stones' rise to fame includes many anecdotes about their direction, inner-group dynamics, their management, even songwriting. Her 'post-Jagger' life is included here as well, including descriptions of several near-death experiences with her drug use. Towards the end of the story, Ms Faithfull describes finally reclaiming her life, but I still couldn't shake my impression that the wolf is still just outside her door. I'm pulling for her; she's an incredible person who deserves better. This is a good read, but be ready for some rough rides.
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