Marianne Faithfull

It is almost compulsory to love the idea of quintessential rock survivor Marianne Faithfull, but harder to be crazy about the real person. The ravaged voice that makes her an object lesson in the dangers of hedonism palls more quickly than you would think in a live setting - even when the setting is an austerely beautiful church with cameras filming it all for broadcast in April on BBC4. Faithfull was promoting a new album of covers, Easy Come, Easy Go, and admitted to fears of "fucking up" at i...

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