I never knew that I could come to admire Marianne Faithfull as much as I do now. She survived and stands as proof that you can come back from the absolute depths of self destruction.
I was, in 1984, living in a small Studio Apartment on 9th Street and 2nd Avenue in the East Village in Manhattan and as I was doing Cold Turkey and I had no idea one of the loves of my young life was doing the same thing in the same City at the same time. Broken English became one of my main theme songs. Ive loved here since we were 20 year olds in old London Town back in the late 1960s. Now all these years later we can see what survivors look like. in 2019.
Glad she's rid herself of the poison chains of drugs and that their son is doing well. The family and loved ones of addicts are as much the victims of addiction as the addict is and it is nice to hear the stories of healing all around. The emergence of the Stones was a couple generations before me but I grew up with their albums playing on a record player and I still like the old songs today. I didn't know Marianne's story before today, she was beautiful then and she's still beautiful today, thanks for posting.
I love her honesty. A great story. I'm glad she decided to stick it out and come through the other end of the tunnel. God bless her. Thanks for posting the 5 parts of this.
I was lucky enuf to have been there at St. Anne's Church in Brooklyn when they filmed Blazing Away. The first night (I attended both nights) I waited outside for an eternity until she came outside, and got to meet her. It was the thrill of my life!
Thank you for sharing this interview!!! It has been in its own way very inspiring and I must say what a woman too. much can be said but alas I shall just recall an old greek saying."καλιος αργα παρα ποτε" something like better late than never.
A fantastic documentary of Marianne, I am so glad she eventually got rid of those dreadful drugs which almost cost her life.. I loved her in her teenage days and her singing..Many guys had a crush on her, but she came across as an innocent girl destroyed by drugs...I cant help sorry for her..and hopes she survives for many more years
Its interesting how her voice changed. From virginal and pre drugs to now after being driven like the snow. It shows what she went through more than anything else i think.
Until I stumbled on to Marianne Faithfull on youtube the only thing I'd ever hear about her was the song "As Tears go by". What a fascinating person!!! The videos of her singing when she was very young blew me away. She just stood there hardly moving, but who cared because you were so fixated on her face and voice. So sweet, so confident, so pretty. For the last couple of hours i have located all of her songs I could on RUclips and saved them to my favorite file.
I wonder if she still loves Mick... she said she loved him, but didn't use the present tense. When they were arriving in Australia, he was walking far ahead of her and I didn't see him anywhere after she overdosed. I love her speaking voice, but I'm not a big fan of her singing, although I was when she first started out. As a smoker myself, I know smoking is partially responsible for the change. If I could say just one thing to her it would be; although you put your body through so much destruction, you're still as beautiful as you were when I first saw you on a TV show that goes way back. The only difference is that you're much wiser now. xox
I ran out of space below. I just wanted to comment on the 5 part interview. It sadden me to hear what a tough life Marianne has lived, but I was comforted in the fact that she is fine with it. It has certainly been a very interesting life full of accomplishments. I wish her all the success and happiness in the future. Thank you for posting this interview
Marianne Faithfull is 68 years (December 29, 1946) and looks a thousand times better than me. Beautiful to this day! And such refreshing honesty and talent and beauty all rolled into one. She is a REAL survivor, and her own "greatest work of art." What a way to put it. Fabulous.
not so diff than any of us) she just had different weaknesses. richer kids have richer toys. I'm so happy you put this all together i don't know anyone that couldn't relate either from the weakness point of view and how weaknesses can consume a person or by the raw knowledge of knowing when your skimming the bottom of the barrel. there is only 1 way to go... up. Bless you Marriane
She one of these kind of people that l l tend to see (or superimpose) others in her face. l see Edie Sedgwick in the troubled "Poor little Rich Girl" way. l see Tina Weymouth in the punk years. l can even see the medieval way about her like the way l do Rick Wakeman. She's like a bunch of people _visually_. Mostly l understand how difficult it must have been to overcome the 'bondage of self'. And love her art Glad she made it!!
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.” William Blake Thank you so much for sharing this.
Marianne is so intelligent and articulate and has so much class even after all she's been through. So cool to hear Keith giving her a compliment too :) Thanks for posting this!
The way she talks is so honest, like her or not it’s very refreshing that she’s honest, just so different from people today who measure everything they say to make sure it comes across right.
When people mention the great female rock and roll singers, Joan Jett and Ann Wilson are always mentioned. But Marianne Faithfull should be near the top of the list. She's just badass without all the frills. Her sensitivity and unbridled honesty, for me, are the reasons she transcends the stereotypical shite about being some kind of contrived rocker chick.
So fine song❤❤Years go by😢and a very strong women she is ti get out 😢😢that bad life with drogs Who coukd have kill her to the end😢buth she live in this 2024❤❤❤😊
How poignant it is when she sings 'As tears go by' at t the end. At the beginning it is sweet and pure and at the end there seems to be a more reflective worldy persona.
I love Keith Richards' comment: "She's got some guts that girl.... apart from a great pair of tits..... ....I love you darling" So lovely to see two ex heroin addicts alive and well and clean and still great friends. She should've got with Keith instead of Mick, he wouldn't have left her a mess
Marianne had a serendipitous career that continued despite habitual drug abuse and homelessness. Nothing that happened to her was by design. She even adopted a dark persona due to circumstances beyond her control.
I think it is instructive to listen to Mick Jaggers' lyrics to the songs from and about the time that was spent around Marianne. "Baby you're out of time Under my thumb Wild horses - this last one written after she came out of her coma from her suicide attempt.
Tom Tall, out of time didn’t mean their relationship had run its course. The English language is very complex and out of time means she was of another time. It could be that he was referring to her simple, uncomplicated way of thinking when she was a young girl; that she was very different from the other groupies they were surrounded by.
Might be because of her catholic herritage ?......anyway ..the English didn't turn their back on her , she was always welcome ,and produced her best work on English soil......she just decided to relocate to a different country for a while ,which happened to be Ireland , probably because of family ties....
The English didn’t turn their back on her (neither did the Scots, the Welsh or the Northern Irish, by the way). The money making machine that was the pop industry back then abandoned her and the gutter press destroyed her. They had demonised her to such an extent that it became impossible to write anything complimentary about her or her music.
I wonder how long her correspondence with Roger Waters has been, considering that he wrote the lyrics for Incarceration of a Flower Child a long, long time ago, from what I've read. It does have his earlier PF voice... Anyway, love Marianne!
i can't think of the birth of popularity of The Stones w/o Marianne i just don't understand why Mick Jagger didn't get her to a doctor/ rehab? ......Then he takes the stone house she, her mom and Nicolas were living in for years.....and truly loved and needed away from them. With all his money? Why not help the lady who helped get him famous- Charity begins at home. I love his music, but as a person i think he lacks Empathy - total lack of empathy. So how to teach our beloved,admired Mick Empathy- he's pretty old -can he change, grow, learn? Hope he makes atonement, t not just to his kids but the women like Marianne - She WAS the "Butterfly in the Wheel" Bless the Stones and all the women and children they produced. In God I hope they take care of them....Wo sad watching Marinane. We all loved her when the "British Invasion" took over !!!!! Still love them....but can't reconcile what Muck did to Marianne.
Sir Jogger is too busy fucking his next 20 year old conquests ,while producing mostly nothing of worth since 1980.......(which The Stones' set list proves)..... All the while lapping up that second hand appreciation from adoring starstruck crowds , the kind who hassle him at airports ,and his bodyguard has a day job protecting him from...... Meanwhile throwing his band's legacy to the dogs ....untill his heart inevitably will give up on him . All with great 'help' from his partners in grime.......
My first heart throb,even before i even knew what a heart throb was, i was about 9 years old back then but i have to be honest and say she sings better than Yoko Ono any day ..and more talented and still better looking also
Ha Ha Yes, I agree about the Yoko comments. But this woman has trodden a difficult path through life and has come out of it all a mellow and well rounded character, which is very admirable in the circumstances. People may say that she chose that path, but I think we all make mistakes in life. To her credit she doesn't blame anyone else now, she just takes it all on the chin and accepts responsibility herself. There is much to commend about Marianne Faithfull.
I really like Marianne and don't want to be disrespectful but I really don't think she can sing a one hit wonder written by Mick and Keith and I think she was deluded because of the drugs I think she should have stayed with an acting career I do admire her for surviving everything she went through I feel she was used by Mick Jagger and many more people in the industry and stupid hippie dippy shithead's for her beauty I can't stand Mick Jagger he was a snake then and still is. I wish Marianne all the best happiness and peace in her life she deserves it💗
Read about how he treated his wife, Jerry Hall when they divorced (she had finally had enough of his affairs). He informed the world that their amazing wedding (some remote island somewhere) was not in fact legal and that he had always known. It was a way for him to stop her getting a fair financial settlement. The fact that it made his children illegitimate didn’t bother him at all; holding on to his money was all that mattered. He is a real slimy bottom feeder.
I never knew that I could come to admire Marianne Faithfull as much as I do now. She survived and stands as proof that you can come back from the absolute depths of self destruction.
I was, in 1984, living in a small Studio Apartment on 9th Street and 2nd Avenue in the East Village in Manhattan and as I was doing Cold Turkey and I had no idea one of the loves of my young life was doing the same thing in the same City at the same time.
Broken English became one of my main theme songs.
Ive loved here since we were 20 year olds in old London Town back in the late 1960s. Now all these years later we can see what survivors look like. in 2019.
Glad she's rid herself of the poison chains of drugs and that their son is doing well. The family and loved ones of addicts are as much the victims of addiction as the addict is and it is nice to hear the stories of healing all around. The emergence of the Stones was a couple generations before me but I grew up with their albums playing on a record player and I still like the old songs today. I didn't know Marianne's story before today, she was beautiful then and she's still beautiful today, thanks for posting.
This documentary made me emotional. What a remarkable lady
I love her honesty. A great story. I'm glad she decided to stick it out and come through the other end of the tunnel. God bless her. Thanks for posting the 5 parts of this.
I always loved Marianne Faithful So glad she's doing well :)
What an interesting and well done documentary. My esteem for Marianne Faithful has gone even further up.
Gorgeous person - loved this doco. Authentic!
Gotta fucking love Marianne! She can make me laugh, and make me cry and she is one of a kind.
Good job Marianne! You are so brave.
My absolute favourite singer!
I was lucky enuf to have been there at St. Anne's Church in Brooklyn when they filmed Blazing Away. The first night (I attended both nights) I waited outside for an eternity until she came outside, and got to meet her. It was the thrill of my life!
Thank you for sharing this interview!!! It has been in its own way very inspiring and I must say what a woman too. much can be said but alas I shall just recall an old greek saying."καλιος αργα παρα ποτε" something like better late than never.
Does mick still love her?!
A fantastic documentary of Marianne, I am so glad she eventually got rid of those dreadful drugs which almost cost her life..
I loved her in her teenage days and her singing..Many guys had a crush on her, but she came across as an innocent girl destroyed by drugs...I cant help sorry for her..and hopes she survives for many more years
such a strong woman
Its interesting how her voice changed.
From virginal and pre drugs to now after being driven like the snow. It shows what she went through more than anything else i think.
Michelle Kealy My thoughts exactly!
Love the gritty sound. So raw it moves you
Thumbs up Marianne, and thank you for uploading these great interview's..
She has a new fan!
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.... 💞💞💞🌟🌟🌟🎤
Love “Broken English “, Great Album
Amazing person.
Great series. Thanks so much for uploading!
wonderful documentary ... enjoyed every moment.
Wow! This has been so cool. I'd read her book. It was spellbinding. Like Marianne. 🇬🇧✌🏻✌🏻
I loved this interview. Thank you.
Until I stumbled on to Marianne Faithfull on youtube the only thing I'd ever hear about her was the song "As Tears go by". What a fascinating person!!! The videos of her singing when she was very young blew me away. She just stood there hardly moving, but who cared because you were so fixated on her face and voice. So sweet, so confident, so pretty. For the last couple of hours i have located all of her songs I could on RUclips and saved them to my favorite file.
I wonder if she still loves Mick... she said she loved him, but didn't use the present tense. When they were arriving in Australia, he was walking far ahead of her and I didn't see him anywhere after she overdosed. I love her speaking voice, but I'm not a big fan of her singing, although I was when she first started out. As a smoker myself, I know smoking is partially responsible for the change. If I could say just one thing to her it would be; although you put your body through so much destruction, you're still as beautiful as you were when I first saw you on a TV show that goes way back. The only difference is that you're much wiser now. xox
Happy birthday MARIANNE FAITHFULL! (December 29, 1946)
Ireland and the Irish saved her 🇮🇪🍀👌😍, well done marriane 👍😊❤️
and yet mick still remains as popular as ever strange
Not Sure range at all. He’s Mick Jagger, and Marianne has nothing but good things to say about him!
I ran out of space below. I just wanted to comment on the 5 part interview. It sadden me to hear what a tough life Marianne has lived, but I was comforted in the fact that she is fine with it. It has certainly been a very interesting life full of accomplishments. I wish her all the success and happiness in the future. Thank you for posting this interview
Thoughtful and beautiful.
Marianne Faithfull is 68 years (December 29, 1946) and looks a thousand times better than me. Beautiful to this day! And such refreshing honesty and talent and beauty all rolled into one. She is a REAL survivor, and her own "greatest work of art." What a way to put it. Fabulous.
And how does she manage to keep singing and living while smoking all the while? I had to quit before cigarettes killed me!
@@CatherineSTodd Good genes.
Her autobiography is riveting.
not so diff than any of us) she just had different weaknesses. richer kids have richer toys. I'm so happy you put this all together i don't know anyone that couldn't relate either from the weakness point of view and how weaknesses can consume a person or by the raw knowledge of knowing when your skimming the bottom of the barrel. there is only 1 way to go... up. Bless you Marriane
Excellent set of videos. She is so out front and honest.
She one of these kind of people that l l tend to see (or superimpose) others in her face. l see Edie Sedgwick in the troubled "Poor little Rich Girl" way. l see Tina Weymouth in the punk years. l can even see the medieval way about her like the way l do Rick Wakeman. She's like a bunch of people _visually_. Mostly l understand how difficult it must have been to overcome the 'bondage of self'. And love her art Glad she made it!!
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.” William Blake
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Marianne is so intelligent and articulate and has so much class even after all she's been through.
So cool to hear Keith giving her a compliment too :)
Thanks for posting this!
Such a beautiful soul
Marianne is so fabulous as a performer, an artist and a woman. So smart n funny n strong.
inspiring!!!
Agree excellent documentary 👌
The way she talks is so honest, like her or not it’s very refreshing that she’s honest, just so different from people today who measure everything they say to make sure it comes across right.
When people mention the great female rock and roll singers, Joan Jett and Ann Wilson are always mentioned. But Marianne Faithfull should be near the top of the list. She's just badass without all the frills. Her sensitivity and unbridled honesty, for me, are the reasons she transcends the stereotypical shite about being some kind of contrived rocker chick.
So fine song❤❤Years go by😢and a very strong women she is ti get out 😢😢that bad life with drogs Who coukd have kill her to the end😢buth she live in this 2024❤❤❤😊
How poignant it is when she sings 'As tears go by' at t the end. At the beginning it is sweet and pure and at the end there seems to be a more reflective worldy persona.
🙏😇La voz angelical 😇🙏
♥️Dios esta contigo ♥️
this documentary makes me more fan than i am!
I love Keith Richards' comment:
"She's got some guts that girl....
apart from a great pair of tits.....
....I love you darling"
So lovely to see two ex heroin addicts alive and well and clean and still great friends. She should've got with Keith instead of Mick, he wouldn't have left her a mess
Strange Weather great album indeed
What an amazing woman and she beat the dreaded heroin and that's not easy for anyone
What a beautiful lady, Angelic
Far more revealing and intimate than her autobiography. My heart aches f or her.
Marianne had a serendipitous career that continued despite habitual drug abuse and homelessness. Nothing that happened to her was by design. She even adopted a dark persona due to circumstances beyond her control.
♥️Marianne ♥️
🙏 💪BY STRONG 💪 🙏
A Great Lady
My sympathy ends when they take down the innocent with them. She had a little boy who loved and depended on her.
I think it is instructive to listen to Mick Jaggers' lyrics to the songs from and about the time that was spent around Marianne.
"Baby you're out of time
Under my thumb
Wild horses - this last one written after she came out of her coma from her suicide attempt.
Tom Tall, out of time didn’t mean their relationship had run its course. The English language is very complex and out of time means she was of another time. It could be that he was referring to her simple, uncomplicated way of thinking when she was a young girl; that she was very different from the other groupies they were surrounded by.
Three British women of similar qualities and mystique that stole my heart: Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithful and Princess Diana.
impressing person - amazingly undisguised
This bio has some parts cut out of it (yes, I know it's in 5 parts but there are bits cut off). The full bio is somewhere on youtube.
Her greatest Hit - "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" is missing!
she´s so great. I´ll write a song about her......for sure I will.
Interesting how the English turned their backs on her but the Irish took her in. Speaks volumes doesn't it?
Might be because of her catholic herritage ?......anyway ..the English didn't turn their back on her , she was always welcome ,and produced her best work on English soil......she just decided to relocate to a different country for a while ,which happened to be Ireland , probably because of family ties....
The English didn’t turn their back on her (neither did the Scots, the Welsh or the Northern Irish, by the way). The money making machine that was the pop industry back then abandoned her and the gutter press destroyed her. They had demonised her to such an extent that it became impossible to write anything complimentary about her or her music.
The English are a cold bunch. They'll kick you when you're down. Goes to the class system.
Wow, this guy is playing a DX7. Respect.
I think she is self-indulgent. Nothing is her fault
Combine Harvester springs to mind
AND NOW 1999-2012
Her voice is just like Bette Davis
C'mon, Keith knows her and he was just kidding with an old friend. They both conquered junk and Mick Jagger so let them say what they want.
I wonder how long her correspondence with Roger Waters has been, considering that he wrote the lyrics for Incarceration of a Flower Child a long, long time ago, from what I've read. It does have his earlier PF voice... Anyway, love Marianne!
Marianne is a very interesting pop artist
The car ride through the cloud makes the comment.
Sorry😢Tears go by i mean😢❤❤❤
i can't think of the birth of popularity of The Stones w/o Marianne i just don't understand why Mick Jagger didn't get her to a doctor/ rehab? ......Then he takes the stone house she, her mom and Nicolas were living in for years.....and truly loved and needed away from them.
With all his money? Why not help the lady who helped get him famous- Charity begins at home. I love his music, but as a person i think he lacks Empathy - total lack of empathy. So how to teach our beloved,admired Mick Empathy- he's pretty old -can he change, grow, learn? Hope he makes atonement, t not just to his kids but the women like Marianne - She WAS the "Butterfly in the Wheel"
Bless the Stones and all the women and children they produced. In God I hope they take care of them....Wo sad watching Marinane. We all loved her when the "British Invasion" took over !!!!! Still love them....but can't reconcile what Muck did to Marianne.
Sir Jogger is too busy fucking his next 20 year old conquests ,while producing mostly nothing of worth since 1980.......(which The Stones' set list proves).....
All the while lapping up that second hand appreciation from adoring starstruck crowds , the kind who hassle him at airports ,and his bodyguard has a day job protecting him from......
Meanwhile throwing his band's legacy to the dogs ....untill his heart inevitably will give up on him .
All with great 'help' from his partners in grime.......
La Chasse spirituelle
ouch.
Interesting, charming, a successful singer, a successful actress - 4 things you'll never be.
My first heart throb,even before i even knew what a heart throb was, i was about 9 years old back then but i have to be honest and say she sings better than Yoko Ono any day ..and more talented and still better looking also
Ha Ha Yes, I agree about the Yoko comments. But this woman has trodden a difficult path through life and has come out of it all a mellow and well rounded character, which is very admirable in the circumstances. People may say that she chose that path, but I think we all make mistakes in life. To her credit she doesn't blame anyone else now, she just takes it all on the chin and accepts responsibility herself. There is much to commend about Marianne Faithfull.
Yoko Ono ?? A Singer ?? I don't think so.
What a legend! I just wish the autograph I have from her was not made out to a Larry. Sigh!
I really like Marianne and don't want to be disrespectful but I really don't think she can sing a one hit wonder written by Mick and Keith and I think she was deluded because of the drugs I think she should have stayed with an acting career I do admire her for surviving everything she went through I feel she was used by Mick Jagger and many more people in the industry and stupid hippie dippy shithead's for her beauty I can't stand Mick Jagger he was a snake then and still is. I wish Marianne all the best happiness and peace in her life she deserves it💗
Mick the dick
Read about how he treated his wife, Jerry Hall when they divorced (she had finally had enough of his affairs). He informed the world that their amazing wedding (some remote island somewhere) was not in fact legal and that he had always known. It was a way for him to stop her getting a fair financial settlement. The fact that it made his children illegitimate didn’t bother him at all; holding on to his money was all that mattered. He is a real slimy bottom feeder.
What a Rich life she had !
Yes she does have a tattoo of a bluebird on her hand.
El 😈 Demonio 👿
❗️quiso ruinar tu voz ❗️
I sing better than she.
she should have retired her voice daummm
That's your opinion.I love husky voiced women. Marianne sounds great.
Her voice is damaged..
Not damaged, but different, and brilliant.
Her older voice is completely different from her young voice and is horrible!!!
impressing person - amazingly undisguised
impressing person - amazingly undisguised