Music – Marianne Faithfull: How a faith

To survive the Rolling Stones could be difficult, but the wrong guy in the 1960s was clearly Bob Dylan, wrote Marianne Faithfull in 1995 in her autobiography. In 1969 she sang “Sister Morphine”, the song had composed Jagger/Richards for her, the text came from her. It took ages for the band to recognize the recognized. Even if the song was about an injured person in the hospital, the title agreed: »When I was 39, I looked around, and I noticed that almost all my friends had stopped taking hard drugs. Only I was still the complete junkie. I suddenly seemed very stupid, as weird, ”said Faithfull when she was 60, the” Brigitte “.

First the swinging sixties were, then disappointment, depression and also temporary homelessness came. In 1979 then the big comeback with “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” and a voice that went through marks and legs: “You, the seemingly defensible, protect your audience with this defenselessness, (…) The heart is already broken, what is going on anyway, what is it Otherwise, it is like breathing and exhaling «(Wiglaf Droste). Later, Metallica and Nick Cave also called and they sang with them, but also Brecht and Weill. It had to be her voice that everyone wanted to hear to somehow feel themselves. And in 2007 she turned “Irina Palm” over a pretty random and late sex worker. When she hears the word “whore” for the first time, she frowns in great ways and an old -fashioned way her forehead, but she quickly needs a lot of money, because she wants to save her terminal grandson. She also creates, so to speak in no time. A simple idea is made by a mainstream film, in a touching way, which is very doubtful at the beginning.

Marianne Faithfull always looked as if you never had to think much about her. A heroine over all time. She always seemed beyond any doubt. Like a belief – in the good in pop music. She died on Thursday, at the age of 78.