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(BMG) Faithfull is on impeccable form in beautiful settings by Ellis of the Romantic poetry beloved of her youth ‘Making even the most familiar texts sound fresh’: Marianne Faithfull. Photograph: Rosie Matheson ‘Making even the most familiar texts sound fresh’: Marianne Faithfull. Photograph: Rosie Matheson Sun 2 May 2021 08.00 EDT She Walks in Beauty marks the culmination of Marianne Faithfull’s longstanding love of the Romantic poets, first kindled at convent school i...

Rolling Stone Menu April 30, 2021 11:47AM ET The Last Word: Marianne Faithfull on Fame’s Dark Side and the Evolution of ‘As Tears Go By’ The singer also discusses poetry, drugs, Mick Jagger, and the advice she lives by By Illustration by Mark Summers for Rolling Stone Marianne Faithfull has lived several lifetimes in her 74 years. She was only 17 when the pop song  “As Tears Go By” turned her into a star overnight in 1964, and she was in her early twenties when he...

Today’s culture warriors should read Keats’s poetry, and absorb a timeless truth Two hundred years on from his death, the Romantic poet’s idea of ‘negative capability’ has much to tell the petty ideologues of 2021 The poet John Keats, painted in his final years by his friend Joseph Severn (detail) Credit: Alamy In this febrile climate, there is one Romantic poet to whom we should all turn. It’s not Shelley (too self-consciously prophetic), it’s not Wordsworth (too likely to tip in...

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— Mari...

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 pre...