Marianne Faithfull Interview 1978

[verbaud]

More than alcohol & tobacco, heroin roughens the voice as it slacks the vocal chords. And having lived on the street for 2 years in London, her voice got rougher as well. Listen to early Billie Holiday, then her sessions in the 50's she did with Verve after yrs of heroin use. Her voice was quite harsh compared to early recordings. It's a trade off. Marianne chose material that would work with her "new" voice.

[Zephyesa]

she was a true english beauty

[BigDuke6ixx]

I see where Harry Enfield got the character Waynetta from.

[kaylortheawesome]

her 1968 performance she sounds completely different in comparison to her 1970s vids with working class hero. what happened to her voice?

[printerudell]

I find her voice very compelling. Very sexy indeed.

[choquera]

she looks high...

[SHMUJEW]

she turned into a skank whore

[skipper8257]

@SHMUJEW

Oh you know her. How nice.

[shellylovelace]

this is my fave of the interviews from this period if you find anymore please let me know courtney xx

[discomadame]

She looks great here even though she probably did some heroin... I LOVE HER!

[bwoyrough]

Does anyone have a copy of the documentary she did in Jamaica?? aired on Uk TV 1992 ish.... PLEASE message me if you have a copy.....

[stevobath]

@jayroper2000 Youre an idiot if you believe that boring old story. Pathetic

[donadthegonad]

@jayroper2000 wow! what a pathetic cunt. Trolling Marianne Faithful videos just to repeat your little wank fantasy over and over.

[maggiefaithfull]

 is there any way you could upload this in better quality? 280px is truly horrific

[verbaud]

Deep into heroin at this point. She survived. Loved her since we were both teens. I still HATE HEROIN. I still love Marianne.

[lenrfrjyatnrfq]

Its so ugly when people especially young women smoke

[lenrfrjyatnrfq]

she was deeply on heroin at the time.

[MrRobin14669]

@lenrfrjyatnrfq Are you sure? She looks quite healthy.

[ROWBRONCO]

That lady got such a horrible smoker voice!! pfffff just OWFUL!!

Apparently they used to think during those times that a smoker voice was sexy!!

...... not anymore I hope so.

And she's a singer? ha ha ha ha ha ha!! (lol) OH REALLY? How unsexy!!

[2lovs4music]

Why the Hell do Singers SMOKE!!

[67psych]

She went thru The Drug thing ect & still looks Gorgeous here! She was only 33 here!Very Inteligent woman!!

[ploops100]

the ballard of lucy jordan

[38dragoon38]

She looks like Waynetta Slob but sounds like Princess Margaret.

[sclapione]

@38dragoon38 omg *snorts*

[desert3347]

Too bad "singers" ruin their voices by smoking. Marianne's voice was starting to show the signs of it, but back then, people just didn't know the repercussions of anyting encluding drugs, alcohol. Absoloultly love her music!

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

Yes, that was a good interview and she hasnt really changed in the way she answers questions i can see. She thinks carefully, and almost prods the interviewer  or dares him to ask the hard questions.

[ManfredDeJesus]

That was a good interview, nicely handled by the interviewer as well

[afdba]

so THATS where vicky pollard got her sence of style.

[ItsMeSanne]

Her first hit was 'As tears go by'... amazing number!

[dennis789111]

what a dummy

[Lancaster730]

what was her first hit ?

[chatham43]

@Lancaster730 .....as time goes by......or this little bird.......

[MsMishy13]

@chatham43 As Tears Go By

[chatham43]

@MsMishy13 ..my mistake....must have been thinking of Casablanca for some reason................

[afacethatcouldsell]

@chatham43 It was originally titled As Time Goes BY but time was changed to tears and there you go!

[ratrodralphy]

@Lancaster730 her cunt

[hunkabuggy]

@ratrodralphy I hear it has a lot in common with your mouth. kinda looks the same

[deepenhancer]

She was under drugs at that time.

[mikethekhotmailcom]

That smoking did her voice no favors. Too bad as she made such a sweet sound 12 years earlier.

[BlackMonk66]

It seems like she's affecting less of a persona here than she usually seems to do in interviews. Usually, she has an aristocratic air. It's still here, and is probably part of her real personality, but isn't as exaggerated.

[Zahnbuersteundpasta]

in this days it was allowed to smoke during an interview... that's interesting.

i like her face a lot. she looks very serious, but also very fragile...

[Faelsun]

See now shes in her 30s and thats when women can get interesting.

[marinasvetaeva01]

well not too much cool. She is friend back to mike & keith who stole her Sister Morphine when she was homeless and spoke bad about Brian when he accepted in his home when she left her hsbd and son.

[helenawf]

Nobody managed to find the end of this interview?

Who is the interviewer and who braodcasted this?

[jennsboys]

Wow - I had never seen this or even seen a photo of her from this interview. She looks like she's about to jump out of her skin, I think.

[SoberGeorge]

@jennsboys I can't blame her. This cat doing the interview is a bit confrontational. It sounds more like an interrogation.

[AKMAC82]

@SoberGeorge yeah it does...very bizarre.

[JEROME02100]

i was eighteen lol

[mmimtc]

she's so cool

[swooningtree]

she is STUNNING here

[antidisenstable]

You're right.

[angelicasin]

yea thanks for this. it's sometimes hard to bridge the gap between the marianne we know now, and the marianne from the mid 60's, as there is not much footage of her inbetween. we need more!

[PAULLONDEN]

Indeed....so interesting,

At this juncture(no pun intended) she was already about to get out of her lowpoint,

and record 'Broken English'

[crazedwitch2]

thanks for uploading this. Is there a bit missing from the end?

[chatham43]

.....unfortunately yes. Alas this is all I could find.

[CaptainBluebear08]

Marianne, thnx for 'Ulrike Meinhof', who was murdered today (May9), 33 years ago now. In prison.

[timquinn66]

Thank you for this post ! I've really wanted to see more interviews of her around this time (late 70s and early 80s)