She spent 22 days “struggling for her life” before she was eventually discharged. A spokesman for the singer said: “Marianne is very grateful to all the NHS staff who cared for her at the hospital and, without doubt, saved her life.” The album is a mixture of music and spoken word with songs based on poems by Shelly, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Dylan Thomas. Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg and Keith Richards. pic.twitter.com/Vbjqg57xWF Marianne Faithfull (@Faithfull M) August 14, 2020 Marianne said she had taken inspiration from poetry that had accompanied and inspired her “all her life.”
Negative Capability, another collaboration with Ellis. Faithfull’s sometime collaborator Nick Cave will feature on
She Walks in Beauty. Other guests include Brian Eno, cellist Vincent Ségal, and producer-engineer Head.
Faithfull recorded the album at the beginning of COVID-19 lockdowns, working with Ellis to produce songs based on poems by Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Thomas, according to a press release. Faithfull was hospitalized with the virus in March and, as the press release notes, struggled for her life. “[Marianne] is very grateful to all the NHS staff who cared for her at the hospital and, without doubt, saved her life,” read a statement given upon her release in April last year.