In those early years, she worked with Jean-Luc Godard and played Ophelia in Hamlet on screen and stage, but incidents like the Stones drug bust at Richards’ house, where she was found wrapped naked in a rug (much to the delight of the tabloids) and then the whole subsequent Mars Bar rumour (“a dirty old man’s fantasy.
No doubt about it, there was a judgement of Faithfull throughout her life that was way different to other Sixties icons, one that gave lie to any kind of equality in the peace and love era.
Marianne Faithfull was the ultimate counter-culture icon Marianne Faithful’s life was that of the ultimate counter-cultural icon, with all the highs and lows that may suggest.
Just 24 she later said, “People were compassionate and kind, and it was the first time I realized that human beings are much kinder than I thought.” She met Francis Bacon there and became friends.
He always like older women!” she later said, “The essence of the punk thing was anyone can go and do it if they want to, and you don’t have to be incredibly rich and grand, you can just do it.
