Marianne Faithfull is a singer, songwriter, and actress whose work helped define the cultural revolution of the 1960s and beyond. Having begun her career as a folk singer in small venues around London, Faithfull was discovered by the Rolling Stones' producer Andrew Loog Oldham, and went on to a successful career of more than twenty albums merging folk with rock and pop music. Since the 1960s she has collaborated with such icons as the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Emmylou Harris, Joe Jackson, Blur, Beck, and Nick Cave, among many others. Alongside her music, Faithfull has maintained a critically successful career as an actor in theatre, film, and television, having worked with such luminaries as Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Delon, and Sofia Coppola. She lives in Paris.
“In a new photo memoir, the author pays tribute to one of rock 'n'
roll's most iconoclastic women.” –Harper’s Bazaar
"50 Years of Tears: Marianne Faithfull's Amazing Second
Act. This gorgeous coffee-table book captures a pop icon from
the Swinging Sixties to today." –Rolling Stone
“Even when others are inclined to whitewash the past, Marianne
Faithfull has never been shy about anything. It’s part of what
makes her memoir so compelling, her photo book so appealing (tucked
among a British Vogue fashion shoot, pictures by Cecil Beaton,
Bruce Weber, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Bailey, are scrapbooked
tear-outs of some of her most scandalous press), and her songs so
refreshingly raw.” –Vogue
“What is so fascinating about Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record
is that it is not at all what one expects. The expectation was for
this tale to be about the 60s pop idol and emblem of the go-go 60s
fashion youth quake, how she fell into a life of drugs and despair,
and how she clawed her way back to success; that assumption was
quickly proven incorrect—to great surprise and enjoyment. What also
sets apart Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record is that it is
written by the subject...The book comes off as a badge of honor for
her that indeed she had one helluva life despite the pitfalls and
the highs and lows of her personal and professional lives.
Faithfull allows us to enter her life through an amazing assortment
of personal photos as well as those that appeared in the media.
Again, to bring this into a more intimate recounting of her life,
the photos are accompanied by captions written in her own,
idiosyncratic hand. Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record is
something that educates, informs, and entertains all at once.” –New
York Journal of Books
"The British singer assembled." personal pics and the work of
photographers like Steven Meisel and Anton Corbijn (and an intro by
Salman Rushdie) in a memoir timed to the 50th anniversary of her
debut single, “As Tears Go By.” –Billboard.com
“[One of] Best Fall Books. The Youthquake poster child who went
from Mick Jagger’s muse to musical icon in her own right brings us
along for the wild journey.” –Elle
“…the publication of a glorious coffee table book published by
Rizzoli...” –Another Man Magazine
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