Marianne Faithfull: ‘I was in a dark place. Presumably it was death’ – The Guardian

Marianne Faithfull is on the phone from her home in Putney, south-west London. She sounds exactly like you would expect: as husky as her singing on every album she has made for the past 40 years and, as the daughter of a baroness, very posh. Her vocabulary is unmistakably that of someone who came of age in the 1960s: exasperation is expressed in sentences that begin: Oh, man; things that vex her are a drag. But before we begin, she offers a pre-emptive apology. Her memory, she says, isnt what it…

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