Marianne Faithfull News

Rating: * * * * Once known as "the only country band" on Flying Nun , this ongoing project of Brian and Maryrose Crook has progressively taken a darker and deeper path the past decade.

Susan Boyle's cover of the Rolling Stones classic Wild Horses was for many viewers the highlight of last night's X Factor show.

During these decades, Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid accompanied over 250 bands and singers.

If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to fill at least a dozen Perez Hilton blog posts or at least one story in Us Weekly.

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

When it comes to extracting free labor from famous cinematic figures, it would be hard to top Francesco Vezzoli.

COOL: Brando makes his mark. 1953: Marlon Brando turns the motorcycle jacket into a fashion classic in "The Wild One." 1967: Brigitte Bardot sings a song called "Harley-Davidson" and poses with the inspiration in over-the-knee leather boots and matching leather shorts.

WHEN I first heard Marianne Faithfull's beautiful Ballad of Lucy Jordan I was sold on seeing the wonders of the world, before life passed me by.

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.