AP - Nov 9, 2009
Marianne Faithfull has never been much for nostalgia throughout a roller-coaster career that s found her constantly reinventing herself. But when her band played As Tears Go By on her fall U.S. concert...
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She was an amazing talent, a young singer with a wonderful voice who wrote beautiful songs. But she was no beauty, plus flat-chested and overweight to boot. Remembering the aspiring star, music executive...
More »AP - Nov 6, 2006
Marianne Faithfull has made a full recovery from breast cancer and plans to resume a postponed world tour, her spokesman said Monday. Faithfull, a 1960s icon who once dated Mick Jagger, canceled her...
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Two decades after releasing her first album, French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is issuing a follow-up. That 1986 debut, Charlotte Forever (Philips), was written by Gainsbourg s late father, singer...
More »Reuters - Dec 9, 2004
The Rolling Stones recently concluded recording sessions for a new album in Paris with producer Don Was, who worked with them on their two previous studio releases. The band will reconvene in the New...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of commercially successful Grammy Award contenders...
More »Reuters - Jun 8, 2004
Guitarist Robert Quine, one of punk rock s most daring soloists, was found dead Saturday in his New York apartment. He was 61. According to close friend and guitar maker Rick Kelly, who discovered Quine...
More »Reuters - Jan 2, 2004
Universal Music Group, the world s largest record label, is teaming up with satellite broadcaster DirecTV and business partners behind a prominent pornography video company to launch a music channel featuring...
More »USRN - Aug 14, 2002
(8/14/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- Out this week is Kissin Time, a new release from British pop diva Marianne Faithfull. Best known for her 1964 hit rendition of the Rolling Stones As Tears Go By, the former Mick...
More »USRN - Oct 27, 1997
(10/8/97) - Gothic 19th century poet Edgar Allen Poe is the new, unlikely honoree of a double tribute album coming out next month. Closed On Account Of Rabies features artists as diverse as Iggy Pop,...
More »USRN - Oct 13, 1997
(10/13/97) - Former Mick Jagger gal pal, Swinging London icon and Broken English songstress Marianne Faithfull is joining metalheads Metallica on a new song for the follow-up to Metallica s last album...
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