Where is marianne faithfull today

Oh, yeah. How am I going to live on this planet without Hal Willner? How is anybody? I wish he was alive. Actually, my grandson — Oscar, my Oscar — is making a little film about him. I think it will be lovely. What makes a good collaborator for you?

Warren Ellis is just such a genius and Nick, too. What Warren did with the poetry is wonderful. I am at home on the planet. I did love Paris I must say. But my son really wanted me to come back to London. I think he deserved it. Of all the people I love in my life, and I love Nicholas very much, I think he got the least of me.

He has every right to ask me to give him more and I want to. What do you feel younger generations could learn from yours? I would say, ideally, to be kind to yourself and compassionate to yourself and others. If you can, stay in the moment. I mean that gets harder, of course, as you get older, but I still try.

Related Stories. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator. You know, I loved Mick and Keith, and Charlie, and Ronnie actually, but … it took me years before I accepted it, that this was me, that I was meant to do this, it was my destiny, my fate. She had reason to feel resentful.

I was just cheesecake, really, terribly depressing. Faithfull would be a repository for any surplus material Jagger and Richards might write, and a light entertainer: a pretty, posh girl whose niche would be essaying folk songs for a Saturday night variety show audience.

At their worst, the results were catastrophic, but occasionally, something of Faithfull shone through, a wintry melancholy that powered her singles This Little Bird and Go Away From My World, where her vocal injected rather too much sadness and yearning into theoretically lightweight songs. But her singing career ground to a halt in Can you think of one?

Her record label withdrew her gritty single Something Better, horrified by its B-side Sister Morphine, a depiction of addiction so bleak it was evidently written by someone who knew of what they spoke. When the Rolling Stones recorded it, they removed her name from the writing credits, ostensibly because they knew any money she made from it would be spent on drugs they eventually reinstated her name in the s.

She broke up with Jagger and slid further into addiction. I was quite smart enough to realise that I had a lot to learn. I watched the best people working and how they worked and, because of Mick, I guess, I watched people writing, too — a brilliant artist at the top of his game. I watched how he wrote and I learned a lot, and I will always be grateful. Everything you think she is, she is.

But it was the English literature exams she studied for as a teenager that inspired a deeper fascination with lyrical poetry. And I realized, looking back, that I was really influenced by her.

I was in the choir, and I had a lovely voice. It affected me very much. And it still does. Indeed, She Walks in Beauty is a record she has been carrying inside of her for more than a half-century. I ask her if she feels there is some deep connection between the s counterculture and the 19th-century Romantics.

I never thought of that. And being very young and silly, I was drawn to everything that was as decadent as possible.