{"id":2011,"date":"2025-01-31T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:02:55","slug":"marianne-faithfull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/2025\/01\/31\/marianne-faithfull\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Faithfull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_code module_class=&#8221;custom-cat&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"fp-mojo-presents\"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"fp-col-1\"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->\t\t<pee class=\"tac text-white bold\">Mojo<\/pee><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"fp-col-2\"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->\t\t<pee class=\"tac text-grey bold\">Interview<\/pee><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_code][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;article-title&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_text_color=&#8221;#111111&#8243; header_font_size=&#8221;68px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;40px||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p1\">\u201cI got out very quickly. Much as I love The Rolling Stones, they\u2019re not my life.\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;intro-text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In remembrance of <strong>Marianne Faithfull<\/strong>, who has sadly passed away aged 78, MOJO revisits our last interview with Faithfull, icon of the swinging \u201960s and so much more\u2026 Lonely, bereaved, in pain, Faithfull began work on her penultimate album Negative Capability with a mission to transform her trials into beautiful catharsis. In 2018, she invited MOJO to join her on the journey. Read how Nick Cave, Yoko Ono \u2013 even Keith and Mick \u2013 lent support and why Warren Ellis was in tears by the end. \u201cIt\u2019s the most honest album I\u2019ve ever made,\u201d she told <strong>Kris Needs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/01\/MARIANNE_FAITHFULL33700Yann_Orhan.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;MARIANNE_FAITHFULL33700Yann_Orhan&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood morning, darling!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Faithfull is on the phone from her Paris apartment. The husky voice is grained with experience of a life lived, the personal battles she\u2019s fought and, now, the physical pain that challenges her daily. It\u2019s also an instantly recognisable part of the fabric of the pop culture revolution whose aftermath we still inhabit.<\/p>\n<p>Your correspondent first met Faithfull at a Soho restaurant in 1979 for her first interview after completing Broken English, the album that brought her in from the cold after periods of addiction and homelessness. Once the crown princess of the \u201960s, the Redlands bust \u201cMiss X\u201d who co-composed The Rolling Stones\u2019 Sister Morphine and inspired her boyfriend Mick Jagger to write Sympathy For The Devil, she carried a luminous charisma all of her own, funny and clever and tough as the ancient leather jacket she huddled in. Always more than Jagger\u2019s muse, she could rightly declare, \u201cBoy, was he lucky to have me around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s been a rough few years for Faithfull; her health has been poor and her spirits beset by the deaths of close friends. Four years ago, Give My Love To London, her 20th solo studio album, testified to continuing creative vigour. Collaborations with Nick Cave, Steve Earle, Anna Calvi, Pat Leonard \u2013 even Roger Waters \u2013 made for a dramatic, unique listening experience that drew on Faithfull\u2019s rich and rarefied life and outlook, but it was beginning to look like her last.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a surprise \u2013 a good one \u2013 to learn that Faithfull is planning on writing and recording her 21st, and more thrilling still that she intends to keep MOJO informed, at key intervals, of her progress. Along the way, we\u2019ll be afforded a uniquely intimate insight into a record that reflects on departing old friends \u2013 especially fellow Stones accomplice Anita Pallenberg \u2013 Faithfull\u2019s loneliness living in Paris and hopes that love can still come around. The results, framed by ornately sensitive musical backdrops by musical familiars including a returning Cave, will beg comparison with the late-life works by Johnny Cash or Leonard Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most honest album I\u2019ve ever made,\u201d she\u2019ll admit. \u201cI\u2019ve always tried not to reveal myself. But there\u2019s nothing like real hardship to give you some depth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;pull-quote&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_2_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_2_text_color=&#8221;#111111&#8243; header_2_font_size=&#8221;46px&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">\u201cI was desolate when Anita died. I can\u2019t tell you how much I miss her.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 2, \u00a02017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marianne is on the blower again, with news of a recent afternoon tea with the Richards family after the Stones\u2019 No Filter tour hit Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just magical, with Marlon and Lucy, Angela and all their children,\u201d she says, still elated. \u201cThen Keith turned up! It was very moving because we were in mourning for Anita really. It was a great loss to all of us. I was so moved by how kind the Richards family were to me after Anita died. I felt like I was part of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Meanwhile, work has begun on the album which, says Faithfull, will be produced by Bad Seed Warren Ellis and PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis (who both worked on Give My Love To London) with help from keyboardist-composer Ed Harcourt and Faithfull\u2019s live band guitarist Rob McVey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have gone mad without Rob Ellis,\u201d says Faithfull. \u201cAs I\u2019m writing I really need someone to talk to. I used to talk to Anita but that\u2019s over now. Rob just was there, helping me, finding me people to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s intended that the bulk of the recording will take place at La Frette studios just outside Paris, where Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds\u2019 Skeleton Tree and parts of Arctic Monkeys\u2019 Tranquility Base Hotel &amp; Casino were cut. \u201cIt\u2019s a live-in situation,\u201d says Faithfull. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be great fun to be with the band. It\u2019ll be very different, this record. It\u2019s very acoustic, almost folky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, pain in all its guises will be a major factor and a major theme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got this terrible arthritis,\u201d says Faithfull. \u201cIt\u2019s in my left shoulder, arm and hand. I recovered from all those awful things, like the broken back and the hip and bone infection. That was bad enough, then I got this terrible arthritis. My mother had it too so it\u2019s genetic I think. I\u2019m left-handed. That makes it hard for me to write or type. It\u2019s awful, man, but I get through. But I\u2019m much more willing now to go out. I\u2019ve been in retreat, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pain, too, is in Faithfull\u2019s latest writing \u2013 reflections on the void created by the deaths of \u201cdear old friends\u201d including Pallenberg, publisher Richard Neville, writer Heathcote Williams, guitarist Martin Stone, and Australia-based artist Martin Sharp, who designed the \u201960s Cream album sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always write about what\u2019s happening with me and that\u2019s what has been going on,\u201d she says. \u201cThe songs are so sad, because it\u2019s been so hard. Don\u2019t Go was the first one I wrote, about Martin Stone. He was in a band called Mighty Baby and became a great friend who I got to know through AA meetings. I didn\u2019t know anything about his music career. It wasn\u2019t the sort of music I liked! He had to stop the music business because of the drugs and drink, then had a second career as a rare books dealer. Ed Harcourt wrote the tune and it\u2019s beautiful. Don\u2019t Go is about Anita too. I was desolate when she died. I can\u2019t tell you how much I miss her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pallenberg ended her days living back at Redlands, making paintings that now adorn Marianne\u2019s apartment walls. Faithfull wonders if her old friend ever truly escaped the Stones\u2019 orbit. \u201cShe was much more wrapped up in that world than I was,\u201d says Faithfull. \u201cI got out very quickly. I was the first to go and thank God; not that I don\u2019t love and admire them, but I know I couldn\u2019t have handled it. Much as I love the Rolling Stones, they\u2019re not my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back on the album front, songs and song ideas are piling up. In fact, it\u2019s already clear that Faithfull won\u2019t be able to fit them all in. Mark Lanegan has contributed one called They Come At Night. \u201cIt\u2019s about the [2015] killings in Paris,\u201d she says, \u201ca terrible business. I sang it at the Bataclan and they\u2019d just wiped the blood off the walls. We were the first people to go there and do a show \u2013 an extraordinary experience. I got this idea from [producer] Hal Willner that every 70 years it\u2019s like the Nazis have come back: Trump, Isis and the whole Brexit thing is part of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen there\u2019s a song I\u2019ve always loved by the Pretty Things called Loneliest Person In The World \u2013 but it\u2019s incredibly sad! And a lovely one called Don\u2019t Let Your Brown Eyes Dry. I got a postcard from Yoko [Ono], who\u2019s been wonderfully supportive through this last six years of terrible shit that\u2019s happened to me. She sent a postcard with an eye on it that just said, \u2018Don\u2019t let your eyes dry.\u2019 I thought, \u2018That\u2019s a song.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faithfull wants to record two traditional English folk songs she remembers her linguist father singing when she was a little girl: Three King\u2019s Men Bold and Long Years Ago: \u201cWe used to go camping in the New Forest and I would sit at his feet and he would play songs on his guitar.\u201d Rob Ellis has been to Cecil Sharp House to get the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>And she\u2019s just written another new song with Ed Harcourt called No Moon In Paris. \u201cIt\u2019s beautiful but also very sad. So now I can see what\u2019s needed \u2013 something a bit more positive, and not so sad. I\u2019m coming out of my sadness now. There\u2019s a lot more to do and we\u2019re gonna do it. We\u2019re not recording until January.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob Ellis, who\u2019s worked with Marianne for five years as what he describes as \u201ccollator and archivist\u201d, says Warren Ellis wants to revisit Witches\u2019 Song from Broken English but he\u2019s yet to put the idea to Marianne.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWhat\u2019s so interesting is that she\u2019s looking back to her childhood,\u201d he says, \u201cat the same time dealing with getting older and her friends dying. Every time we speak she\u2019s keen to get more uptempo songs in there but however much we try they don\u2019t seem to be coming. There\u2019s this very thoughtful, melancholy thing going on. She\u2019s really struggling with her arthritis, especially as the weather\u2019s getting cold. But everyone\u2019s getting excited about starting work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 28, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a recent bout of bronchitis, Marianne has recorded early Tyrannosaurus Rex song Organ Blues for a Marc Bolan tribute album produced by her friend and former producer Hal Willner, that will also feature contributions from U2, Nick Cave, Marc Almond and JG Thirlwell. \u201cI knew Marc when he was Mark Feld,\u201d says Marianne. \u201cHe was a sweetie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Faithfull\u2019s first recording session since 2014, and for her convenience Willner\u2019s team brought the studio to her Montparnasse apartment. \u201cI was nervous but it turned out well,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was very informative. I got a clearer idea of what I\u2019ve got to deal with on the stamina level; how long I can go before I have to rest or go for a walk. Those kinds of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other business, she enthuses about Fleur D\u2019Ame (Flower Of The Soul), the recent Faithfull documentary directed by Sandrine Bonnaire. \u201cIt\u2019s turned out very well but I had a nightmare doing it. I hate those things really. I find them so invasive. She had a preconceived idea of me as a rebel. That\u2019s not what I\u2019m doing. All that\u2019s over and finished. I have surrendered. She was very disappointed. It was like a terrible kind of fencing game to the death, but I won. She kept trying to make me lose my temper and I wouldn\u2019t. I suppose she thinks that makes good cinema! I stayed charming the whole way through and it drove her crazy. In the end this documentary turned out as I wanted it. I won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;pull-quote&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_2_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_2_text_color=&#8221;#111111&#8243; header_2_font_size=&#8221;46px&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">\u201cI was desolate when Anita died. I can\u2019t tell you how much I miss her.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>December 20, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing continues apace. Faithfull has penned new ballads of an intensely personal nature, including Misunderstanding and My Particular Way. \u201cI wrote some at the last minute, almost on the hoof. My Own Particular Way is my call for someone to come and love me; please send me someone to love. That\u2019s for Warren really. It\u2019s not a love affair, of course, but Warren and I fell in love. Our whole relationship is all about music. I just love working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another heartbreaking tribute to Pallenberg, Born To Live, which contains the line, \u201cTo die a good death is my dream \/ Born to live and die forever loving you.\u201d There\u2019s also a Nick Cave co-write \u2013 The Gypsy Faerie Queen \u2013 although it took some wrangling. \u201cIt\u2019s a little miracle,\u201d says Faithfull. \u201cI asked him if he would put music to it and he wrote back saying, \u2018I\u2019m so busy.\u2019 I said, \u2018I understand, sorry to bother you.\u2019 Then he just wrote back, \u2018Thank you so much for understanding; here\u2019s the song.\u2019 It\u2019s just gorgeous; sung by Puck and the gypsy faerie queen who walks the land with her black thorn staff, wears moleskins and a crown of rowanberries, and is followed by Puck everywhere. She doesn\u2019t speak any more, she sings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faithfull also has a title for her album. Negative Capability is taken from a letter written by John Keats to his brother about William Shakespeare. \u201cIt means the ability Shakespeare had of being able to look at something from all points of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marianne will turn 71 in nine days\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0January 15, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recording takes place over two weeks at La Frette. Producers Warren and Rob Ellis, guitarist Rob McVey and Ed Harcourt spend a week recording backing tracks before Marianne arrives to sing her vocals; usually two tracks a day. \u201cShe just goes in and sings, has one or two shots at it and that\u2019s it; you\u2019re not getting any more,\u201d says Warren.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIn spite of my terrible pain, it was lovely to be with everybody,\u201d says Faithfull. \u201cI realised that what really helps me is being with people, especially them. I love my band more than anyone has ever loved a band. The recording was wonderful. The studio was this old, old house\u00a0\u2013 beautiful. For me, it was very hard but something magical was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nick Cave arrives to join the band, singing backing chorales and playing piano. \u201cIf there\u2019s anyone I can depend on, it\u2019s Nick Cave. I don\u2019t know what it is but we are so lucky that we can write such beautiful songs together and I love his voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They revisit As Tears Go By, Marianne\u2019s first single, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in 1964 and re-recorded on 1987\u2019s Strange Weather. \u201cIt\u2019s the third time I\u2019ve done it and it will be the last time,\u201d she declares. \u201cI wanted it to be better than both other versions and it is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s such an extraordinary song for teenagers to write,\u201d reflects Warren Ellis. \u201cTo hear her singing it now was really something. Rob and myself were really keen that she try it. And she wanted to do It\u2019s All Over Now, Baby Blue. It just felt really right to revisit those songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witches\u2019 Song \u2013 Warren\u2019s idea \u2013 has become a psychedelic mantra, with Cave on backing vocals, and there\u2019s a heavy irony (at least, on this album) in the line \u201cdeath is far away and life is sweet\u201d. But Marianne is not initially convinced. \u201cThey\u2019re all raving about it,\u201d she reasons. \u201cI haven\u2019t understood why yet. It takes me a bit of time to get these things. This bloody little album has its own life. It\u2019s like a book; the songs go their own merry way and there\u2019s not much you can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some tracks fall by the wayside, including the Yoko postcard (\u201cI couldn\u2019t get that quite right; it\u2019ll have to be on the next one\u201d) and Nick Cave advises against the childhood folk songs. \u201cMy voice just isn\u2019t up to it now \u2013 sad but true. It would have been lovely but Nick said, \u2018Don\u2019t bring yourself down by trying to do these because it\u2019s gonna hurt you.\u2019 He was right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marianne makes up for it with a devastating take of No Moon In Paris, a beautiful bare bones confessional in which she sings with fragile honesty, \u201cWhat can I do but pretend to be brave and pretend to be strong when I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recalls Warren Ellis, \u201cShe came down to the studio and said, \u2018I want to do No Moon In Paris.\u2019 The way she does it is in the control room, with the backing track coming through the speakers. She was sitting in the corner on a chair with a microphone. She did that vocal and there was silence. The whole place was in tears. Everybody was hanging on to anything they had their hands on. I was so overcome I had to go up to my room for half an hour. Then I went down and she said, \u2018Was that alright?\u2019 It was quite funny; she\u2019d absolutely destroyed the whole room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It happens again with Born To Live, except this time it\u2019s Marianne who feels the emotional blow. \u201cAll these memories came back hard. When I sang that, Anita appeared, right there in front of me. That\u2019s the thing about all these songs. They\u2019re not just about these people; they\u2019re about everybody who\u2019s been going through this stuff. It\u2019s so hard to lose your loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 19, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While recording vocal drop-ins at her apartment Faithfull insists on redoing As Tears Go By. Ultimately, it\u2019s her signature song, so she wants to get it right from her current perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just wasn\u2019t good enough,\u201d she insists, \u201cand that one has to be as perfect as it can be. I am 71. My voice is not what it was the first time I did it and it\u2019s wasn\u2019t as sad and tragic as the second time when I did it with Hal Willner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest version passes muster, however. \u201cIt\u2019s in full possession of all my understanding and faculties. I really understand the song and that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 1, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ten degrees below zero here and I\u2019m feeling it,\u201d shivers Marianne on the phone. \u201cEven in the flat I\u2019ve got on a coat and a scarf. It\u2019s like after the Second World War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s still concerned about the high melancholia quotient on<br \/>Negative Capability and thinking Don\u2019t Go \u2013 her memorial to Pallenberg and Martin Stone \u2013 \u201cmight be just one tragic death song too far.\u201d She will design the running order before the album\u2019s mastered (\u201cOne of my great talents is sequencing\u201d) but she\u2019ll still take convincing of the quality of what she\u2019s just achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWarren is the first person to tell me \u2018This is awesome!\u2019 and I couldn\u2019t understand him! Didn\u2019t believe him, thought he was mad! But now I\u2019m starting to see it\u2026 It\u2019s turned out fantastic. The person who really can\u2019t believe it is me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 19, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I mention to Marianne that it\u2019s almost exactly 50 years since I witnessed the Stones return to the stage at the NME Pollwinners Concert at the old Empire Pool, Wembley. At their penultimate live performance with Brian Jones in the band, they played the soon-to-be-released Jumpin\u2019 Jack Flash; Faithfull was in the front row. \u201cI was there with Anita,\u201d she remembers. \u201cWe were trying to be nice to Brian. We felt sorry for Brian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest on Negative Capability is that she\u2019s decided not to include the Pretty Things song. \u201cThere\u2019s too much loneliness on this album!\u201d she announces. \u201cThat\u2019s a very nice song but it was written by very young people and it doesn\u2019t fit the rest of the album. A lot of people liked it but I just knew it wasn\u2019t right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 24, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marianne is overjoyed that Mick Jagger checked out her grandson Oscar Dunbar\u2019s band Khartoum at Camden\u2019s Dingwall\u2019s and charmed the dressing room. The youngsters were consequently drafted to play the after-show party at one of the Stones\u2019 London gigs. \u201cThe war is over,\u201d she declares.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with Negative Capability completed, she can reflect upon her recent journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had terrible accidents and I\u2019m really damaged,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s changed my life forever. I\u2019m in a lot of pain and worked really hard to get strong so I can do my work. The great miracle is I was able to make this record. All I have to do now is get over my fear that people won\u2019t like it. It\u2019s loneliness, but actually love is what it\u2019s really about.<\/p>\n<p>The new album coincides with Come And Stay With Me, an Ace Records collection of her first run of Decca singles,\u00a0 gathered chronologically, A-sides and B-sides, for the first time. At the end of the \u201970s, as she fought to grasp the reins of her career, Marianne would reflexively dismiss her \u201960s releases. Now they encapsulate the era she once embodied. But that\u2019s almost beside the point. Faithfull is still creating music, on her own terms, and it\u2019s the most moving of her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI know, it\u2019s funny isn\u2019t it?\u201d she says. \u201cEverything is a complete coincidence. It\u2019s like something greater than me is directing this. The universe or something. Seems to be my time, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared in MOJO 299.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI got out very quickly. Much as I love The Rolling Stones, they\u2019re not my life.\u201dIn remembrance of Marianne Faithfull, who has sadly passed away aged 78, MOJO revisits our last interview with Faithfull, icon of the swinging \u201960s and so much more\u2026 Lonely, bereaved, in pain, Faithfull began work on her penultimate album Negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-mojo-interview"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"akindell","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}