Sheâs Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And Sheâs (Thankfully) Still Here.
The British musician has had several brushes with death in her 74 years. But Covid-19 and its long-haul symptoms didnât derail her latest project: a spoken-word tribute to the Romantic poets.
“You don’t want to get this, darling,” Marianne Faithfull said of Covid-19. “Really.”Credit.Danny Kasirye for The New York Times
By Lindsay Zoladz
April 22, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
Several times in her 74 years of life, Marianne Faithfull has boomeranged from the brink of death.
First there was the summer of 1969, when she overdosed on Tuinal sleeping pills in the Sydney hotel room she was sharing with her then-boyfriend, Mick Jagger; as she slipped under, she had a long conversation with his recently deceased bandmate, Brian Jones, who had drowned in a swimming pool about a week prior. At the end of their spirited talk, Jones beckoned her to hop off a cliff and join him in the beyond. Faithfull decl