- Title: My Generation: Sixties Girls
- Date: 13th December 1997
- Summary: BRIT GIRLS: Marianne Faithfull Best remembered for her starring roles in the true adventures of The Beatles and The Stones, Marianne Faithfull's journey from daughter of the aristocracy to heroin addict via pop stardom is an extraordinary story. Spotted by Andrew Loog Oldham, then manager of the Stones, Faithfull had her first hit aged seventeen with Jagger and Richard's 'As Tears Go By'. Originally a folk singer, the contrast between her innocent convent-girl image and the material Oldham asked her to record (particularly 'Come and Stay With Me') caused considerable controversy at the time, and when her teenage marriage to John Dunbar ended - he was father of her son Nicholas - she started a relationship with Mick Jagger. Her success took her into films and the theatre. She starred alongside Alain Delon in the racey Girl On a Motorcycle movie, appeared in Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Royal Court, and played Ophelia in Tony Richardson's film of Hamlet (with Nicol Williamson). Her life changed dramatically during her four-year relationship with Jagger. She was present at the drug arrests of Jagger and Richard in 1967. Her own career went into decline and her downward spiral into heroin addiction was poignantly described in Keith Richard's 'Sister Morphine'. By the end of 1969 her relationship with Jagger was over. In May she'd been arrested for drug possession with Jagger and Brian Jones died on 3rd July. Five days later she tried to take her own life. She was still only twenty-two. Faithfull, fifty this year, now lives in Ireland. She remains a pop icon and cult figure - an against-all-odds survivor. She's a grandmother and occasional performer. She has made repeated attempts at comebacks since the '70s, including her well received album 'Broken English'. '20th Century Blues', her current take on the Brecht/Weill canon of songs, is attracting a new cult following.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Entertainment
- Producer:Unspecified
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:13/12/1997
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s