The guitarist Billy Gibbons called the “barbaric pirate”
Billy Gibbons was able to fuse traditional blues with modern funk elements within ZZ Top, which was widely influenced by the ...
Marianne Faithfull Made an Art of Upending Expectations
The singer, who died on Thursday at 78, spent decades in the spotlight exercising a very specific and subversive power.
Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress, 1946-2025
In the description of her superb 1994 memoir Faithfull, she was bedevilled by “grotesque contracts, lying, cheating crafty legalisms, mad and bungling managers and barbaric schedules”. Relief of a ...
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Marianne Faithfull’s 10 Most Essential Songs (Critic’s Picks)
The Rolling Stones’ manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, discovered her, which lead to Mick Jagger (eventually her romantic partner) and Keith Richards co-penning her debut single “As Tears Go By.” ...
Irish Sun5d
Inside Marianne Faithfull’s turbulent four-year relationship with Mick Jagger as singer & actress dies aged 78
She was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham and would go on to become recognised as one of the most original British female singer-songwriters. Before this, the artist had been scoring low-level ...
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Sixties icon Marianne Faithfull dies aged 78
The singer got her first break in 1964, after being discovered by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Her first hit "As Tears Go By" written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, was followed ...