Between 1964 and 1970 Faithfull was a pop star, part of British rock royalty. The lows began with her use of narcotics and ended with time spent as a homeless junkie.
At a point in time, years after the height of her celebrity, Marianne Faithfull was talking to an acquaintance about an invitation to a photographic exhibition in Berlin.
The highs are pretty well known. A period she describes in remarkably philosophical terms. Through her association with the Stones she's often remembered only as a music person. Early on though her real aspiration was to be taken seriously as an actress, taking theatrical roles in Chekhov's Three Sisters and Shakespeare's Hamlet.Photo shows Marianne Faithfull shot from the neck up wearing a white frilly top and smiling in front of a blue backdrop
As it turned out, the drugs the police found in an item of Mick's clothing were actually Faithfull's. Strategically he said nothing believing that while a drug possession charge might not hurt a rock star, it would certainly destroy her stage career. It was a narrow escape made all the more remarkable because just a year before Faithfull had written the lyrics to an as yet unreleased Stones song called Sister Morphine, that tells the harrowing story of a morphine addict lying in a hospital bed craving the next fix.
Gathering a team of top flight musicians, a sympathetic producer and an array of songs the album combined her best literary instincts with a the bristling energy of punk and new wave music.
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