Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5345326.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ent ertainment/5345326.stm</a> Apparently they caught it early, which is good news.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I know this will seem weird but I could swear that I heard about this years ago. I can't remember where or when but when I saw the thread title, my first reaction was, "wow, now there's some old news". I wonder who I am thinking about if it isn't Marianne Faithfull.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice She's definitely had an exciting life so far... Here's to many more years for Ms. Faithfull... Keep rockin'!
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Faithfull has had one helluva life. Despite it all, she still looks good staring at 60. There were time when that wasn't the case. Last I read about her, her finaces weren't the best and Jagger, apparently sentimental after all, would help out to the extent Faithfull would let him whenever the need arose. It's another indication of how old some of us are getting when we read about things like this.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder One more thing- For reasons I can't explain, I always thought she had one of the coolest names. Faithfull is actually her father's name.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Okay, another thing. From Wikipedia: "Marianne also had a certain amount of responsibility in some of The Rolling Stones' biggest classics. "Sympathy for the Devil", featured on the album Beggars Banquet (1968), had the lyrics written by Jagger when inspired by a book introduced to him by Faithfull: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. Two songs of the Stones' 1971 album Sticky Fingers have direct or indirect Faithfull's presence. "Wild Horses"' chorus ("wild horses couldn't drag me away") was originally a phrase said by Marianne right after she went out of coma in 1969, after suffering an 150-barbiturate overdose in an Australian hotel; and "Sister Morphine"'s lyrics were entirely written by her, but she just was credited as a co-writer of the song after a legal battle."
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 "Now every time I see your ---- I see her ---- in my bed. 'WHY'D YOU DO IT?!', I SAID!!!" One of my all-time favorite songs. So raw. So passionate. So painful. Good luck, Marianne!
Originally Posted By DAR I think she sang on the Memory Remains by Metallica a few years ago. Her portion was very eerie.
