Faces of Smack: Marianne Faithfull
To be fair, the evolution of this face and body owes something to nicotine as well. But as Nan Darien said in Vanity Fair, “I don’t see the appeal of heroin. Does the weight stay off?”
Before:
After:
This is what Courtney Love can only dream of becoming. Oh, and she does.
Fun fact: when the producer who first got Marianne under contract reported the fact to his boss, his exact words were, “I saw an angel with big tits, so I signed her.” There are worse decisions in the history of music.
The producer who said those words was Andrew Loog Oldham, then the manager of the Rolling Stones.
Well he WOULD say that, wouldn’t he?
It’s the voice that gets me. Frankly, she looks pretty good considering (even now, and that’s after breast cancer.) Though compared to the angel voice, I kind of like the croak…
Both her voices are fabulous. I spent far too long looking for her sixties version of the Ballad of Lucy Jordan on YouTube yesterday.