But the combination often proves too bleak. Unlike 2002's Kissin Time, which matched Faithfull with Beck, Billy Corgan and other alt-rock types,...

"I'm very much a child of my time," Faithfull, now 57, says about the relationship to her relatively younger collaborators. "They...

Marianne faithfull deserves better. She deserves respect not only because she lived to tell about her time in the Rolling Stones' orbit but also because she recorded two of the best albums of the 1970s and '80s, Broken English (1979) and Strange Weather (1987). At a time when even minor bands are getting the full-bore, remastered, remixed, lovingly annotated and packaged multidisc luxury box-set...