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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Pearson, Tanya
Titre(s) : Why Marianne Faithfull matters [Texte imprimé] / Tanya Pearson
Édition : First edition
Publication : Austin [Texas] : University of Texas Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (179 pages) ; 18 cm
Collection : Music matters ; 007
Lien à la collection : Music matters
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
"Marianne Faithfull has been an actress and model as well as a musician who has released
more than a dozen albums over five decades. She first entered the public sphere in
1964 with the song "As Tears Go By," which also was recorded by the Rolling Stones,
and she is still best known to some people as Mick Jagger's girlfriend of the late
60s. As her autobiographies attest, Faithfull was involved with the Stones for years
-- as both "muse" and co-writer of songs like "Sister Morphine" -- and lived a rock-n-roll
life for a long time. Her punk-influenced album of 1979, Broken English, was widely
praised but by the late 1980s she had re-invented herself as a chanteuse. She managed
to kick her heroin addiction by the mid 80s and has continued to make music and act
in films, and has been the subject of numerous tributes and recipient of several lifetime
achievement awards. Tanya Pearson's manuscript looks at Faithfull's life and art,
which resonates with her on multiple levels: "as an avid fan, a recovered addict,
a feminist, a musician, a gay, perpetually single woman, and a professional historian."
The narrative is mostly chronological, divided into three parts, with short sketches
devoted to specific experiences or songs. Part one covers Faithfull's rise to It Girl
of the Swinging 60s, the infamous drug bust at Keith Richards's house, her breakup
with Mick Jagger and subsequent fall after the inevitable slut-shaming. Part two focuses
on the depths of her heroin addiction, and eventual resurrection with Broken English.
Part three brings us up to the present, with MF as survivor and icon, sober and sui
generis. For the author, this is Faithfull's most interesting period and the era that
produced her greatest work. Throughout the book, Pearson inserts herself as a sort
of narrator, one who has walked some similar roads and been inspired by MF even when
their literal circumstances were very different. She's not so much equating herself
and her subject, but using her own experience as a way to understand Faithfull's life
and work. So, for instance, when discussing Faithfull's first record after getting
sober, Pearson talks about how difficult it is to plumb one's emotional depths in
the early stages of recovery, which made it impossible for Pearson herself to write
songs. This leads into the story of Faithfull's Strange Weather, which is composed
of covers and songs written for her by other people. The book concludes with a discography
and list of films"
Sujet(s) : Faithfull, Marianne (1946-....)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
782.421 66092 (23e éd.) = Rock (chansons) - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781477321164. - ISBN 1477321160. - ISBN 9781477323489 (erroné). - ISBN 9781477323496
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb469098754
Notice n° :
FRBNF46909875
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Women are born cultural archaeologists ; I. The It Girl of the swinging
sixties ; Parents ; The British Invasion ; Pop stardom ; Breasts ; Wild horses
couldn't drag me away ; It's all over now, Baby Blue ; II. Falling from grace ;
Trauma is a gateway drug ; A punk comeback ; III. The chanteuse ; Strange weather
; The 90s: a good decade for women in rock ; Before the poison ; In my own particular
way ; Capricorn ; Love in the time of coronavirus ; Epilogue: Memory, "show me
the dick".