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Article: `Faithfull' Represents Pop Culture Run Amok
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 27, 1995
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It's uncertain whether Marianne Faithfull will be remembered as more
than a blip in the history of 20th century pop culture. But based on
her autobiography, Faithfull, with David Dalton (Little, Brown,
$11.95), any future profile of the British singer-songwriter and
ex-girlfriend of Mick Jagger will remember her as an unrepentant,
promiscuous hedonist and druggie.
Faithfull (her real name) was a rebellious teen attending a
convent school when she jumped into the English pop scene of the
1960s. By then, her mother, a descendent of Austro-Hungarian
royalty, had separated from her father, a retired English military
officer who was running a utopian commune.
Their daughter, an only ...