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Mick Jagger's ex-lover Marianne Faithfull, 77 explains why 'sex was hotter and more repressed' in the 1960s - as the counterculture icon lambasts modern 'hipster lite' culture


The former girlfriend of Mick Jagger hailed a bygone era when art was 'more intense, purer' and 'sex was hotter, too', adding there was a 'genuine intellectual bohemia'.

'I need a time machine to take me back to when the writer Caroline Blackwood was a dear friend - an inspiration, mentor and role model of the oddest sort.' The ex-lover of Jagger said she missed artists' model Henrietta Moraes along with painter Francis Bacon - both 'epitomes' of a bygone bohemian life 'The Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher explained to me that the problem with my life becoming the basis for a feature film was that it wasn't bad enough.

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