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The Crown Princess of swinging London whose tumultuous affair with Mick Jagger nearly destroyed her: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on the turbulent life of Marianne Faithfull
A unique chanteuse, a chronicler of her era and once proclaimed the most beautiful woman of her generation, Marianne Faithfull was the Crown Princess of Swinging London.
A unique chanteuse, a chronicler of her era and once proclaimed the most beautiful woman of her generation, Marianne Faithfull – who has died aged 78 – was the Crown Princess of Swinging London. The guitarist claimed in his autobiography that he was so stoned, when he opened the door to Chief Inspector Gordon Dineley and 17 officers from the West Sussex Constabulary, that he thought they were dwarfs in identical costumes. It included the searing Ballad Of Lucy Jordan, establishing her as a genuine artist, feted during the second half of her life by admirers from PJ Harvey and Nick Cave to Blur and Pulp.
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