For the past 50 years, Marianne Faithfull has been one of the music world’s most singular characters: a Swinging London teen icon and mid-’60s girlfriend of Mick Jagger, a notorious heroin addict who revived her career in 1979 with the landmark Broken English and, most of all, a singer with an unmistakable voice who has released some 20 albums. Now 67, she’s marking 2014 with one of her best -- September’s Give My Love to London (Naive/Easy Sound), filled with collaborations with Brian Eno, Nick Cave and more -- and a fascinating photo book, A Life on Record (published Nov. 4 on Rizzoli) featuring pictures of famous friends including Allen Ginsberg, Paul McCartney and Van Morrison. But even after compiling the book, Faithfull has lots more to say about her unexpected relationships through the years.
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