music friday: marianne faithfull

We saw her a couple of times in the early-80s ... as I said elsewhere today, "She looked like she sounded, a tough cookie who'd been to a few too many rodeos. She radiated star power." For people of our age, she was an icon, and then she was an icon for a second time.

In 1978, the Rolling Stones released Some Girls, their last great album. In 1979, Marianne Faithfull released Broken English. I thought at the time there was delicious irony in the fact that, even then, I knew the Stones would never again release an album as good as the one Marianne had just put out there. I was right.

Comments

[Tomás]

This inspired me to listen to Some Girls this morning. It is their last great album, start to finish.

[Steven Rubio]

One last irony, that Marianne's death prompted a Some Girls revival :-).