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Title: Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull, David Dalton ISBN: 0-8154-1046-8 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful book by a fascinating woman
Comment: I dont quite know what to write. I want to say the right thing because I've always found Marianne Faithfull intriguing and beautiful and I want to do her book justice. It was a wonderful read which is surprising for me because i usually don't read autobiographys but when I saw it was hers I just had to read it.Mariannes story was wonderful,it could have been a novel.I was so pleased to find that it was beautiful and truthful and not at all spiteful or trashy.I have a CD of her music and it is so gorgous. Her voice is world weary but romantic,I think she must be the most romantic woman of all time.I saw her in Hamlet and she was so wonderful in it, everytime I read the play she becomes Ophelia. I know it was a bad time in her life but i loved reading about her romance with Mick Jagger and her description of "swinging London." Although Iam guilty of idealizing her one of the things I like best about her is that she is someone you can relate to and she doesnt try to hide behind a mask. Another thing I really like about her is that she has excellent taste in books. Oscar Wilde is also my favorite author.This is a lovely book and its a shame that its out of print. Faithful is an intriguing,fascinating woman with a wonderful sense of humor.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great memoir by a powerful woman
Comment: Faithfull follows the life of Marianne Faithfull from the mid-60s London rock scene through the 1980's punk scene. She tells her side of her love affairs with Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. Each of them are portrayed with sincerity and honesty. You can feel the love she had for each of them in her descriptions of their times together. Her descent into years of drug addiction takes up most of the book. To hear her description of it it is surprising that she survived. So it is a miracle that she has been able to live to tell the tale so well. There is a wonderful account of her comeback musical career in the 80s. The book is full of the famous sex, drugs and rock n roll of the period. Yet Faithfull doesn't dwell on the details of any of these three. I came away with the image of a strong woman who talks honestly and directly of a life that took a sad turn into drug addiction.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sliding through life on charm
Comment: She was the quintessential rock girlfriend in the 60s, the young woman envied by everyone -- men wanted her, and women wanted to be her. Now Marianne Faithfull offers her own side of the story of during and after that time, with dry wit and fractured nostalgia. If you ever heard the stories about Marianne, then hear what she has to say.
Marianne Faithfull was born the daughter of an idealistic British gentleman and a haughty countess, and schooled in a convent that sheltered her from the outside world. All that went out the window when she came into contact with the blossoming rock'n'roll scene, and was recruited by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Oldham into recording pop song "As Tears Go By." Soon afterwards, Marianne was wooed by rock star Mick Jagger, and left her husband to live with Jagger.
At first, it seemed fantastic; Marianne lived in a haze of drugs, music and glamour with Jagger, the doomed Brian Jones, darkly intriguing Keith Richards, and the fascinating Anita Pallenberg. It was a time of rebellion, shifting sexuality, drugs and general strangeness. But criminal trials, addictions and Jagger's dalliances caused cracks in their relationship. After Marianne and Jagger broke up, she descended into heroin addiction, and her son was taken away. But she pulled herself up out of her addiction and released a new kind of music -- music that reflected her past, in all its darkness.
Marianne's memoir is refreshingly just and honest -- she gives people like Jagger their due, only speaking badly when it's called for. She not only speaks out on the sexism of the press toward her (and their revolting, idiotic Mars bar story), but also about the hideous consequences it almost had for her mother Eva. Looking back on the fur rug and the handling of Marianne's presence, it's hard to believe that such ghastly mishandling of the facts could take place and actually be believed for so long. When the press turned on the Stones, they also turned on Marianne.
And she's the first to admit (many times) that she's made mistakes; if anything, she seems harder on herself than anyone else, recognizing when she should have done better, spoken up, acted differently. (Such as when she blasted Jagger during an emotional moment) What's more, she offers greater insight into Richards, Jagger, Pallenberg, Bob Dylan and others -- not just about them, but the effect they had on people around them. (Richards' Byronic presence, Jones' tormented baby pictures, Pallenberg's hypnotic effect -- all these are amazing insights) And she doesn't pretend that her post-junkie life and romantic relationships were idyllic -- there are low points and high points, stumbles and falls. But it's inspiring to see her releasing new music and overcoming her past problems.
The writing is wonderfully vivid, reading almost like a novel at times; Faithfull intersperses her rockspeak with literary and mythologic references (the Lady of Shalott is mentioned multiple times) that give "Faithfull" added sophistication. She also doesn't glorify the drug use that almost killed her; it's pretty horrifying for awhile there despite her initial romantic ideas about it. Faithfull also demonstrates a dry sense of humor that made me chuckle. (Lacking a true finale, she ends the book with cooking tips)
A weaker woman than Marianne Faithfull might have been killed by all she's gone through. But her rise again is an inspiring and honest one, and "Faithfull" is a must-read for fans of rock and roll.
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Title: Ready, Steady, Go! : The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London by Shawn Levy ISBN: 0767905881 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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