Ten songs to understand Marianne Faithfull
The legend of Marianne Faithfull is one of those destined not to disappear in the meanders of the time. Discovered in the sixties by the visionary Philibusiere Andrew Loog Oldham, Stones’ manager at the time, immediately entered the pop arena with his usa as the rumor – but he also became Mick Jagger’s partner, falling into a spiral of excesses and drug addiction. After a long absence from the scenes, he returned in the seventies with a new creative vein but, above all, a voice completely distorted by years of smoke and stravizi: roca, gloomy, deep and traits broken. But capable of giving very strong emotions. Here is a selection of 10 key songs to explore his career and his very personal parable.
“Sister Morphine” (1969)
“Like My Way” (1965)
“As tears go by” (1987)
“Ingactration of a Flower Child” (1999)
“Broken English” (1979)
“Kissin Time” (2002)
“Ballad of the soldier’s wife” (1985)
“Mother Wolf” (2014)
“The Old House” (2011)
“Before the Poison” (2005)
