Faithfull: An Autobiography by Marianne Faithfull, David Dalton (With)

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Marianne Faithfull debuted on the sixties London pop scene with her 1964 hit As Tears Go By.

Publishers Weekly

Early in this engrossing if somewhat disturbing autobiography, rock 'n' roll star Faithful remarks, ``The ony way I could handle being on tour with all these weird people was to treat it as a sociological study.'' This approach aptly describes her dissection of her own life as well. Faithful is more analytical, ironic, self-scrutinizing and literate than most celebrity autobiographers. Writing with Dalton ( Mr. Mojo Risin' ), she depicts with penetrating insight the world of ``free love, psychedelic drugs, fashion, Zen, Nietzsche, tribal trinkets, customized Existentialism, hedonism and rock 'n' roll'' that absorbed her energies from the beginning of her singing career as a teenager in 1960s London. From her tumultuous four-year relationship with Mick Jagger through her descent into junkydom to her ``comeback'' in the late '70s as a punk-rock diva, Faithful embodies rock culture at both its most glamorous and most destructive. A self-described ``victim of cool,'' she is nevertheless a tough (and often astutely feminist) commentator on the underside of the rock 'n' roll dream. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour. (Aug.)

Product Details

• ISBN: 0815410468
  
• ISBN-13: 9780815410461
• Format: Paperback, 320pp
• Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing, LLC
• Pub. Date: June 2000
• Sales Rank: 263,970