y brother Howard just told me about the death of one of our shared divas, the amazing Marianne Faithfull. She so easily might not have made it to 78 or even 38 with the wild life she lived as a young English lass, girlfriend of Mick Jagger. She was the first to record "As Tears Go By."
She seems sort of chilly and impassive in this clip, in a Catherine Deneuve sort of way, but my hunch is she was just frightened!
She had a career resurgence in the 90s which is when Howard introduced me to her. Her voice sounded quite different by then. Here's a live recording of her doing "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." Her voice sounds like the boulevard of broken dreams!
Howard shared two quotes by her, possibly paraphrases:
"Of course I have regrets, I'm not stupid."
"Let's admit it, most of the songs of the 60s were written about me."
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