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Marianne Faithfull: ‘I always knew I was something quite extraordinary’ – archive, 1979
31 October 1979: The singer talks about her career and comeback album Broken English
Fifteen years ago she recorded As Tears Go By, the first of her string of breathy, insubstantial pop hits, but even at her most successful she was never taken seriously – more as a curiosity, Jagger’s pretty girlfriend with the posh voice, and then the convent girl turned junkie. Happily, Island has made other arrangements for bringing it out, as this album finally proves that Marianne can write, and sing (this time with a compelling, cracked voice) with enough flair and invention to set her in the British contemporary vanguard. These include John Lennon’s Working Class Hero (“just because I’ve always wanted to do it”), and, also released as a single, Shel Silverstein ’s Lucy Jordan (“about a mad housewife – a story, so I can act it.”).
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