Marianne Faithfull

[selenak]

Often, singers lose their voices as they get older, or at least partially; some, however, gain them. Along with charisma and personality. Take Marianne Faithfull.

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[kalypso_v]

Saw Marianne the other day in the 1998 documentary The Brian Epstein Story (she clearly liked him very much and said he was the manager who really cared about his clients. Also that there hadn't been any a phenomenon like Lennon or Jagger before, and she and Brian thought the closest (to Mick) was Nijinsky or Valentino).

Woman's Hour on Radio Four just had an interview with Astrid Kirchherr, who's about to have a retrospective in Liverpool. The rest of the programme is still going on but it should be available to listen again later.

[selenak]

First of all, thank you for the link! I hadn't heard Astrid Kirchherr's voice before, though I had read the occasional interview.

Secondly, re: Brian Epstein and Marianne about same, Alistair Taylor once said she had a crush on him. :) And yes, he was the anti-cliché of the cynical manager and cared all too much. Poor Brian. BTW, I finally tracked down The Hours and Time and managed to watch it. The actor who plays him really amazingly looks and sounds like him! Also, good film, and Ian Hart is again excellent.

[kalypso_v]

I'd love to see The Hours and the Times again! Maybe I should order it. I remember taking a friend to see it in London when it came out, and then realising I'd taken her to two films with gay themes and she probably thought I was trying to chat her up!

[selenak]

If you're not fuzzy about the format. (Some of the comments are amazing, though, like the one concluding "so that's why John Lennon let his hair grow long". Though that in turn is nothing compared with "did the Beatles hate America?" (question beneath a Back in the USSR vid) or the rants about Obama (in the vids about Paul getting the Gershwin award recently) on about how John would never have supported him (Obama, not Paul).)

Back to The Most Tragic Manager Ever: as yesterday was the anniversary of poor Brian's death, here he is two months before that, looking happy, for there were those moments, too:

[kalypso_v]

I can get it for £4.89, so I'll probably do that (though I'm useless at watching DVDs - I bought Infamous the week of Amy's Choice and still haven't got round to it yet - I suppose my attitude is a bit like Amy's to her wedding and I can go on enjoying the thought that a love scene between Toby Jones and Daniel Craig is awaiting me indefinitely. I did finally watch Blackpool, though - I took it round to julesjones's three weekends running. We solemnly - well, not very solemnly, come to think of it - rewatched These Boots Were Made For Walking at the end of every evening).

Commenters do tend to be insane, don't they?

I noticed the documentary was being shown very close to the anniversary - though it was part of a Beatles' evening on BBC Four, so I couldn't quite work out if that was the reason or not. He did have the sweetest smile - if Marianne had a crush I can understand it completely.