
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
August 1964, the Americans are in Vietnam, Bob Dylan turns the Beatles onto marijuana (allegedly), The Rolling Stones’ live show in The Hague is stopped after fans go wild after 15 minutes and Mick Jagger’s girlfriend of the day, Marianne Faithfull topped the charts in the UK with her version of As Tears Go By.

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
August 1964, the Americans are in Vietnam, Bob Dylan turns the Beatles onto marijuana (allegedly), The Rolling Stones’ live show in The Hague is stopped after fans go wild after 15 minutes and Mick Jagger’s girlfriend of the day, Marianne Faithfull topped the charts in the UK with her version of As Tears Go By. Faithfull, a former folkie, would release two albums – one pop/one folk – on the same day the following year (both of which will be available on Lost Tunes very soon) and her Stones’ affiliation had made her a media celebrity of the day. Fifteen years on, Marianne had moved on from Mick, acted in movies and released a string of albums before he post-punk, fag-addled masterpiece, 1979’s Broken English. Two years prior she’d been holed up in a country folk vein but this new album, following the musical turbulence of the mid-‘70s, had allowed her to create a truly special album that covered social issues, personal trials and everyday life laid bare. ‘Broken English’ examined her Catholic upbringing, drug use, infidelity, the class system and the place of women in the world, the delivery, with occasional disruptive synths majored on her growling, groggy vocal that became her trademark, a damaged rasp with a soulful range that told it like it was and recast her a million miles from the pastoral elegance of her 1965 debut and the simple charm of As Tears Go By. Some 44 years since As Tears Go By first elevated her to public attention, her tour earlier this year was cancelled and a message from her management revealed that: "Due to general mental, physical and nervous exhaustion doctors have ordered Marianne Faithfull to immediately cease all work activities and rehabilitate. The treatment and recovery should last around six months, we all wish Marianne a speedy recuperation period and look forward to her new album release and tour in 2009." After being diagnosed as suffering from the disease hepatitis C in October last year, this protracted lay off was to be expected but, as Lost Tunes rolls out over the next few months we’ll be adding many of her classic tracks and, the more the team hears them the more the idea of Dame Marianne Faithfull makes sense. A true broken English icon, no less. Marianne Faithful - Broken English


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