“Before heading north to Warwick Arts Centre and Marianne Faithfull”
So… what do we know about Marianne Faithfull?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“Before heading north to Warwick Arts Centre and Marianne Faithfull”
So… what do we know about Marianne Faithfull?
THIS LEADEN PAUL
Related to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer of Venus In Flares (q.v.). Seems to have had a lot of songs written about her, including the Undertones track Mars Bar. Still not dead.
19 November 2015
bobby svarc
Girl on a motorcycle or was she honor blackman?
19 November 2015
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
Marianne Faithfull was definitely not Honor Blackman. She was the Girl on a Motorcycle however. I read her autobiography at the same time as Ray Davies’s – Ray recounts a brief but passionate affair, Marianne mentions meeting Ray once. The wacky old drug crazed 60s eh?
19 November 2015
Bobby SVARC
It was a 1960’s joke, not a very good one I agree.
19 November 2015
Dickhead in quicksand
Inherited an Austrian title of nobility. Never actually wore a Mars Bar. Best interpreter of Kurt Weill since Lotte Lenya. Her version of Working Class Hero is up there with Lennon’s. Some of her songs are definitely NSFTC (not safe for the convent).
19 November 2015
peter mcornithologist
Marianne covered the heartbreaking “Rosie Rosie” which was a Ray Davies composition. I have been in love with her for 51 years. There I said it.
19 November 2015
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
@bobby – missed that completely, sorry!
19 November 2015
Dirk Hofman
Has appeared in stage productions written by Brecht and Bill Burroughs, played God in a popular TV comedy..
22 November 2015
Eugene C
The original title for Girl on a Motorcycle was Naked under Leather. Someone is bound to contradict this.
23 November 2015
Peter mcornithologist
Claimed that her boyfriend at the time, Jean de Breteuil, was in some way responsible for the death of Jim Morrison.
3 April 2016
dr desperate
Not in the best of health at the moment, apparently.
5 April 2020
Alice van der meer
Won a pub quiz once thanks to her – it was one of those 10 points if you guess from the first clue, 7 from the second etc questions, and the landlord who was on our team (not sure why – was it a league, I wonder) said “Oooh – she used to live here!”. And she did – which explains the Sacher-Masoch buried in the churchyard there, it’s her mother.
The chap who founded the school for nutty kids I went to hung around with her father. Small world.
5 April 2020
dr desperate
Happy 75th birthday, Marianne.
29 December 2021