Marianne Faithfull was one of the figures of gala figures in the 1960s rock music, she had a grace that she played on all magazine cover in the world-even a moving acting talent was born in her.
And yet, she said it again and again, the Grande Dame of Rock Music took care that she would always ask for her relationship with Mick Jagger in interviews.
Marianne Faithfull managed to feel brilliantly in the DNA of the skirt in her more than 40 years of career – without only using the clichés. Her sometimes elegant and sometimes research new editions of foreign compositions always remained very personal interpretations, shaped by their own fate.
Above all, the singer did not leave a genre live: she tickled the punk, lost herself in Country, even tried hipHop. Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Roger Waters supported them with songs – and Faithfull always succeeded in leaving the feat, not a single song for (unwanted) parody.
Not too long ago she answered the Rolling Stone the question of her most important records – and the musician decided with hers Fave Raves to forego everything that came onto the market after the 70s.
Marianne Faithfull’s favorite plates
- Billie Holiday – “Lady in Satin”
- Duke Ellington – “Ellington at Newport”
- John Coltrane – “A Love Supreme”
- Miles Davis – “Kind of Blue”
- Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Are You Experience?”
- The Beatles – “Revolver”
- The Rolling Stones – “Exile on Main Street”
- The Velvet Underground – “The Velvet Underground and Nico”
- Aretha Franklin – “Aretha Arrives”
- Neil Young – “Harvest”