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November 30, 2004

Faithfull Brings PJ, Cave

P.J. Harvey, Nick Cave guest on new record
September 28, 2000

Quote of the Day

The Anti-Role Model
September 19, 2000

Quote of the Day

Faithfull on Life
November 23, 1998

MARIANNE FAITHFULL

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Easy Come Easy Go

A role model for surviving a druggy, tabloid-hunted British youth with creative grace intact (attention, Amy Winehouse), Marianne Faithfull confirms her status as matriarch on this brilliantly programmed covers set. Billie Holiday's "Solitude" nuzzles a lonely Neko Case song, while Bessie Smith pla...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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Biography

As Mick Jagger's late-'60s squeeze, Marianne Faithfull played the archetypal Brit-rock-star girlfriend: pale, blond, regal, hip. And this daughter of an Austrian noble could sing -- notably, at 18, Jagger-Richard's lovely "As Tears Go By." A few other hits followed, but by 1966, she was finished as a soft-voiced popster. Greatest Hits chronicles this period; Faithless is a reissue of her '70s pop...

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