Marianne Faithfull: The 60s were fun but also hard
Marianne Faithfull found the 1960s “difficult” The ‘As Tears Go By’ singer – who left her husband John Funbar to embark on a relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger in 1966 – saw her career take off during the decade but also developed a drug addiction, and looking back now, although she had “fun” at the time, it wasn’t quite as smooth-sailing as other people remember. Speaking to the new issue of Uncut magazine, she said: “I did have fun in the 60s but I also found it really hard. “I never quite get that – everybody goes on and on about how great the 60s were. I thought they wer...