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A year ago, during the first wave, Marianne Faithfull almost died.
She was infected with Corona.
“I was in a dark place.
It must have been death, "said the singer later in the" Guardian ".
Her interview read like a poem by Shelley, Byron or Keats.
She loves the English romantics.
"She Walks in Beauty" is the name of her album from the year of the pandemic, which begins with "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron and ends with Alfred Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" in an unfulfilled longing for death.
Marianne Faithfull with Mick Jagger, 1969
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Marianne Faithfull no longer sings, she speaks.
Music is also played, by Warren Ellis, who otherwise works for Nick Cave, Cave plays the piano himself, and Brian Eno underlines the poems with distant sounds.
Today men are their muses.
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Since she was the girl with the Rolling Stones in the sixties, she has been the mother of all muses to music historians.
The eternal groupie.
The circumstances were different even then: Marianne Faithfull came as a senior daughter into the world of middle-class music-making sons and not only taught them the classics of poetry.
Marianne Faithull with Warren Ellis, 2021
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She wrote “Sister Morphine”, became addicted, almost died and, when she was resurrected, set to music Brecht, Shakespeare and all those English who she now recites on “She Walks in Beauty” while the older men make music for her.
“She believes in the lyrics.
It's her world that she inhabits, ”says Warren Ellis.
Marianne Faithfull says of her album, with which she also tells the history of gender roles in the music business from her point of view, the response of the verses is getting stronger over the years: “Because today I have life experience.
And about death experiences.
Many times."