Photograph courtesy of Patrick Swirc It is 34 years since Island Records released Broken English, Marianne Faithfull's seventh album in the 14 years since she had first emerged into the public eye in the not-yet-Swinging early to mid-Sixties. Both chunks of time are significant, the 34 because the album has barely dated a jot and the 14 because of the transformation which Faithfull had undergone ('suffered' might be a better word) since her career began. In 1965, when the 19-year-old actor and singer released her debut album Come My Way, her image was one of a helpless pop waif, made slightly interesting by her links to European aristocracy. That soon changed: over the years between Come My...
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