Marianne Faithfull News

Marianne Faithfull has never been much for nostalgia throughout a roller-coaster career that's found her constantly reinventing herself.

Marianne Faithfull has never been much for nostalgia throughout a roller-coaster career that's found her constantly reinventing herself.

There's cult value to spare in Stephen Weeks's 1974 film a ' an effective, thoroughly creditable MR James-esque tale of a stately home haunting.

Yo ho ho: Marianne Faithfull performs pirate ballads and sea shanties in Rogues Gallery , a one-night-only concert at the Sydney Arts Festival.

There are more things in heaven and earth the Schaubuehne theatre company of Berlin brings director Thomas Ostemeier's visceral production of Hamlet to the festival.

Join Scotland on Sunday columnist Dani Garavelli from 2pm GMT today for an online chat about the issues of the day.

Click on the green button to watch a picture slideshow of images from the Q Awards 2009.

Tony Award winners Chita Rivera and Leslie Uggams, as well as Tony nominees Martha Plimpton, Jeanine Tesori and singer-songwriter Nellie McKay are on the bill for Lincoln Center's 2010 American Songbook Series at the Allen Room.

ROCK royalty descended on London's Grosvenor House Hotel for the Q Awards and despite the ceremony finishing at a rather un-rock'n'roll 4pm, the party carried on late into the night in the capital's pubs and clubs.

My October has been bookended by two music events that are wonderful demonstrations of extraordinary generosity.

Whoever said the Q Awards were predictable is going to be ordering a large slice of the most humble pie.

She was the Sixties pin-up whose beauty bewitched Mick Jagger and inspired some of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs, but Marianne Faithfull has revealed that she hates the way she looks, can't bear to see photographs of herself and is still dealing with the damaging effects of being catapulted to fame at a young age.

The Beatles flee from crowds of screaming fans on a 1964 tour to pose at a Scottish country hotel, carrying umbrellas and looking pensive under a grey sky.

The Beatles flee from crowds of screaming fans on a 1964 tour to pose at a Scottish country hotel, carrying umbrellas and looking pensive under a gray sky.

Nucleus Films have announced the UK DVD release of Ghost Story on 9th November 2009.

A new exhibition of photographs from the 1960s will celebrate the pop acts and rock bands who helped create 'swinging London'. Beatles to Bowie: the 60s Exposed which opens at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Thursday, features iconic pictures of Sixties stars by leading photographers including Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson, David Bailey ...

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Listening to Marianne Faithfull's 1964 hit "As Tears Go By" and then her 1979 track "Why'd Ya Do It?" is as bracing as a bucket of ice water in the face.

I was expecting a dark-brown telephone voice, perhaps an impatient bark from Lynn Barber , the English journalist whose memoir of a formative seduction by an older man as a schoolgirl in early-1960s London inspired the buzzed-about new film An Education .

It would be hard to create a fictional character more fantastic than Marianne Faithfull.