Marianne and Mick were bad choices for each other, but then I think Mick is a bad choice for most women (unless you're a Nicaraguan heiress with no worries). She has proven to be very strong and resilient, and she's still gorgeous and a great artist, I profoundly admire her.
A great documentary. Marianne Faithfull is so inspiring with her music and also how she came out on the other side from her drug abuse. It takes a strong person to do so and also to stay clean for so many years. When I look for someone that I can rely on I turn to Marianne Faithfull and her songs lyrics. Her songs help me a lot. I have autism and life gets hard very often, but it helps to have a great family, friends and also some artists that you can relate to in some sort of way. :)
I love her with every fibre of my being and find her talking about her life experiences so utterly complelling and beautiful. So genuine and truly passionate about her music and the arts ....❤
Man, her early singing voice is something else! Her vibrato is absolutely stunning and effortless, beautiful... Shame she lost that part of her. I do still love Broken English too however. "...And we were right out of Mars Bars..." 😄
In her Autobiography Marianne describes such an experience when she overdosed on sleeping tablets in Australia. It was not that long after Brian Jones sad death and she talked about meeting him on a spiritual plane and it was extremely emotional. I truly believe every word of her experience then as she discusses it with such depth and passion and felt thankful and healed following a talk with Brian in that hazy realm. ❤
So here she says Sister Morphine is about a man after a car accident. In Catching Fire, she says it's about Anita Pallenberg trying to get clean once she found out she was pregnant. Maybe started one way and went another once the boy got involved...
No sympathy. How many followed the path of this early "influencer" and destroyed lives around them ? How many young people found it all glamorous... When it was really just morouse, selfish, and dangerous . So she survived. All applause. How many in HER WAKE Did Not ? No sympathy here. Only disdain.
All comments below offer nothing but accolades. As though the "delicate tea cup" would shatter if the waters boiled too hot, and accountability came calling.
