Because even when you’re Mick Jagger, sometimes you’re not the most interesting man in the room. Delon’s style makes Jagger’s mismatched socks, beat down shoes and scruffy coif look entirely adolescent. Hell, Delon even has that uncanny French knack for turning a cigarette into a desirable accessory, while Mick is dreaming of the advent of the cell phone. Either way, Marianne’s in the proverbial catbird seat. Taken in 1967, at a discussion with director Jack Cardiff on his film The Girl On A Motorcycle, starring Faithfull and Delon.
Baby Jane Holzer dancing at a party a Al Roon’s health club. NYC, 1965.
Make me a deal and make it straight
All signed and sealed, I’ll take it
To Robert E. Lee I’ll show it
I hope and pray he don’t blow it ’cause
We’ve been around a long time just try try try tryin’ to
Make the big time
Take me on a roller coaster
Take me for an airplane ride
Take me for a six days wonder but don’t you
Don’t you throw my pride aside besides
What’s real and make believe
Baby Jane’s in Acapulco We are flyin’ down to Rio
Throw me a line I’m sinking fast
Clutching at straws can’t make it
Havana sound we’re trying hard edge the hipster jiving
Last picture shows down the drive-in
You’re so sheer you’re so chic
Teenage rebel of the week
Flavours of the mountain steamline
Midnight blue casino floors
Dance the cha-cha through till sunrise
Open up exclusive doors oh wow!
Just like flamingos look the same
So me and you, just we two got to search for something new
Far beyond the pale horizon
Some place near the desert strand
Where my Studebaker takes me
That’s where I’ll make my stand but wait
Can’t you see that Holzer mane?
What’s her name Virginia Plain
First, David Fincher takes on the world of 80’s music videos and now Scorsese and Jagger do the 70’s NYC music scene. Someone get the poppers and coke spoons ready.
Years ago, I read Marianne Faithfull’s autobiography, Faithfull: An Autobiography. The document chronicles her journey from aristocratic roots to pop star followed by her transformation into vilified Rock and Roll druggie and deviant succubus (including what actually transpired during the Rolling Stones bust and it’s infamous Mars candy bar story), her rock bottom homeless junkie days and eventually her triumphant recovery. Clearly a fascinating read for those interested in the inner workings of celebrity, addiction and general Rock and Roll excess. As much as I enjoyed the read, I found it somewhat troublesome that so much of the book focused on The Rolling Stones. I love the Rolling Stones. I’ve read at least ten Stones bios and am always interested to glean some new tidbit of information on Rock and Roll’s greatest band, however, I felt that Faithfull was downplaying her own significant contribution to music, in favor of what might be more saleable stories of The Stones, and Jagger in particular. While The Stones material was, of course, entertaining, I was reading the book because it was by and about Marianne Faithfull, foremost. Anyway, it’s well worth adding to your “music bios to be read” list.
she finally received a co-writing credit on this
Faithfull and Bowie!
The titular piece from her 1979 LP
Auteur, Derek Jarman’s, short for three songs from the Broken English LP.
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