Kissin Time Returns Marianne Faithfull to Us
Beck, Blur, Jarvis Cocker and Billy Corgan are among the stellar artists who have contributed to Marianne Faithfull's new album, Kissin Time, which is released by Hut Recordings on Monday 4th March 2002. The album her first in almost three years is a series of collaborations and specially commissioned songs from an illustrious line-up of Faithfull devotees. Marianne has written the lyrics to eight of the songs. The full track listing is: Sex with Strangers. Lyrics by Marianne Faithfull and music by Beck. Produced by Beck in Los Angeles. Sex with Strangers is also the album¹s first single, to be released on Monday 18th February 2002 The Pleasure Song. Recorded in Paris with Etienne Daho and Les Valentins Like Being Born.
Another collaboration with Beck, recorded in Los Angeles I¹m On Fire. Co-written and recorded with ex-Smashing Pumpkins vocalist, Billy Corgan Wherever I Go. Written and produced by Billy Corgan Song for Nico. Written by Marianne in collaboration with Dave Stewart Sliding Through Life on Charm. Written by Jarvis Cocker from a song title suggested by Marianne Faithfull. The lyrics to Sliding Through Life on Charm are based on Marianne¹s autobiography, published in 1994. The song was recorded with Pulp Love & Money. Written by Marianne Faithfull and David Courts, a longtime collaborator responsible for Vagabond Ways, the title song from her last album Nobody¹s Fault. A Beck song that originally appeared on his Mutations album. Beck revisits the song, playing guitar and producing Marianne¹s version which also features Beck¹s band Kissin Time. Co-written by Marianne and Damon Albarn, the song was recorded with Blur.
Who is Marianne Faithful?
Marianne Faithfull is rock and roll history, the ultimate rock chick and a muse to stars from Mick Jagger to Beck and Blur. She's a singer, with top ten hits like "This Little Bird" and "Come and Stay With Me", an actress in classic movies like The Girl on a Motorcycle and a writer with an autobiography and songs on the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers and on her own brilliant albums. Marianne Faithfull is a legend.
After some pretty hard times and the split with Jagger, whose girlfriend she was in the glory days of the 60s (much to the delight of the tabloids who loved her exquisite looks and racy lifestyle), Marianne released Broken English in 1979. It was an unmitigated triumph. An extraordinary album, with vocals that sounded like they had crawled over broken glass, a quality showcased on the heart-breaking single, "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan", Broken English found itself on most Records of the Year lists by the beginning of 1980.
Marianne continued recording, releasing Strange Weather, a collection of classic songs all put through the Faithfull mill, in 1987 and was pronounced to be on genius form. Then in 2002, having returned to acting, Faithfull geared up to release what many believe to be her most interesting album to date, a collection of collaborations with some of the world's most outstanding musicians: Beck, Dave Stewart, Blur, Jarvis Cocker, all eager to work with the woman who has seen it, done it, written it, sung it.
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