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The Baroness’ Daughter, Pop Star Angel, Rock Star Girlfriend…
Marianne Faithfull: “I felt it was quite a legitimate thing to do, considering my circumstances. It was total anonymity, something I hadn’t known since I was seventeen. And as a street addict in London I finally got it. The street was where I chose to live and it was one of the best times of my life because I had no telephone and no address. I had nothing, and even though nobody knew who I was they still treated me like a human being, and for that I was eternally grateful. From the outside, my time on the street may seem like a fall from grace, but for myself I knew I was on my path.”
Marianne Faithfull ,1968, by Cecil Beaton.
David Bailey, with Christine Keeler, Penelope Tree and Marianne Faithfull, gathering around his saraband for the Sixties, Goodbye Baby and Amen, 1969.
“She is lissome and lovely, with long blonde hair and a shy smile, and she confesses quietly to a liking for people who are ‘long-haired and socially conscious’. She likes Marlon Brando, Woodbine cigarettes, poetry and going to the ballet, and she loves to wear long evening dresses. She is a shy, wistful girl with a waif-like beauty all of her own…”
- Andy Wickham’s press release for “As Tears Go By”
Mick and Marianne, Groovy Times.
Marianne Faithfull with little Nicholas watching the Stones play Hyde Park, 1969.
Mick and Marianne, London airport.
On the streets of London.
Marianne Faithfull and David Bowie performing “I Got You Babe” on the Midnight Special TV show at the Marquee Club in London, October 1973.
Marianne Faithfull at her Broken English photo session with Dennis Morris, 1979.
Marianne Faithfull by Ian Dickson.
“The Baroness’ Daughter, Pop Star Angel, Rock Star Girlfriend… even after the brutal bashing I’d given them, these demon dolls of myself would not go away. You couldn’t just shed them by cutting off your hair or getting fat. Even getting arrested or becoming a junkie in the street didn’t do it. Those things didn’t change the image, they just modified it. I was not the tarnished Pop Star Angel: ‘Baroness’ Daughter On Public Drunkenness Charges’, ‘Jagger’s Ex Says Drugs Are Behind Her Now’. Images as indelible as these can only be changed by replacing them with more compelling ones. By the mid-seventies I had reluctantly come to the conclusion that if I was ever to obliterate my past I’d have to create my own Frankenstein, and then become the creature as well.”
- Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull