3 Songs Marianne Faithfull Wrote for Other Artists
"I do not write things to help myself," said Marianne Faithfull when asked if songwriting helped her at all.
âIt doesnât help me,â Marianne Faithfull bluntly said when asked if songwriting âhelpedâ her. âWhat is this? Fâking therapy?â she added. âI do not write things to help myself.â
Despite a non-remedial tie to songwriting, Faithfull still has a hand in penning a long line of her songs, straight out of her 1965 eponymous debut with âTime Takes Timeâ and co-writing her 1969 single âSister Morphine,â with Keith Richards and Mick Jaggerâlater released by the Rolling Stonesâ Sticky Fingersâand âWhy DâYa Do It?,â âWitchesâ Song,â and the title track of Broken English a decade later with her bandmate and longtime collaborator and co-writer Barry Reynolds.
From the â80s through the 2010s, Faithfull wrote into her Dangerous Acquaintances, A Childâs Adventure, A Secret Life with Angelo Badalamenti, Vagabond Ways, Give My Love to London, and Negative Capability.
Marianne Faithfull is seen backstage before her performance at LâOlympia on November 20, 2014, in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/French Select/Getty Images)More collaborations spanned projects with Roger Waters and Emmylou Harris, Metallicaâs âThe Memory Remainsâ in 1997, and the 2005 collaborative album with Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, Before the Poison. She also co-wrote songs with Dave Stewart, Beck, Blur, and Pulp for her 2002 album Kissinâ Time, sang with Patrick Wolf on his âMagpieâ in 2007, and spoke through works of British Romantic poetry on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Warren Ellisâ 2021 album She Walks in Beauty.
Along with a 60-year career of songs and writing three memoirs: Faithfull: An Autobiography (1994), Memories, Dreams & Reflections (2007), and Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record (2014), Faithfull also co-wrote several songs for other artists. Hereâs a look behind three of them.
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Written by Marianne Faithfull and Barry Reynolds
When Grace Jones was working on her fourth album Warm Leatherette in 1980, she started collaborating with Reynolds, who contributed the song âBullsâtâ and played guitar on the album. By the time Grace Jonesâ 1981 album Nightclubbing was piecing together, Reynolds returned, co-writing two tracks, âArt Groupieâ (with Jones) and the closing âIâve Done it Againâ with Faithfull.
I was on the first ship to PeruCharted all the courses like all sailors doFirst to cross the Mason-Dixon lineOverseeing wetbacks for good Californian wine
And Iâve done it again, done it again, done it againAnd Iâve done it again, done it again, done it again
I was there when Jenny Lind first sangFirst to feel the cold Alaskan white manFirst to take a trip on sledFirst to vote for Roosevelt back in â33
Reynolds later went on to co-write âIâve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)â for Jones, along with the B-side of her 1982 album Living My Life album, and âWell Well Wellâ from her 2008 album Hurricane.
Written by Marianne Faithfull and Barry Reynolds
Before joining Marianne Faithfullâs band in 1976, Barry Reynolds was in several bands including Pacific Drift, which released one album in 1970, and Blodwyn Pig with Jethro Tullâs Mick Abrahams, before releasing his first single âOutsiders Point of Viewâ in â74.
In 1982, Reynolds also released his first and only solo album I Scare Myself, featuring two songs co-written by Faithfull: âIronyâ and the anthemic âOver Here (No Time for Justice).â
Over here Iâll damage themBefore they damage meOver here commit them allTheyâll never be believedNo right for justiceNo right for peaceNo right for justiceNo right for peaceOver here, weâre standing clearMy voice gives me awayOver here, weâre running wildWhatever games we playNo time for justiceNo time for peaceNo time for justiceNo time for peace
In 2022, Reynolds recalled first connecting to Faithfull in the â70s through a friend in Fleetwood Mac. âI really wasnât interested, because the only thing I knew about Marianne was that she was Jaggerâs girlfriend,â said Reynolds. âShe was incredibly beautiful, but I thought âAs Tears Go Byâ was a weak song and it wasnât the music that I liked at all. I went down to the rehearsal and I met Marianne and we instantly became friends.â
At this time, said Reynolds, Faithfull wasnât considered a songwriter. âShe did write the lyrics to âSister Morphine,â but she was never credited for it,â added Reynolds. âI remember saying âWe should really sit down and write something,â and we wrote two songs. There was a very risquĂ© poem written by a friend of ours (Heathcote Williams) called âWhy DâYa Do Itâ, and I put the music towards it and Marianne kind of rapped it.â
Reynolds was a key songwriting partner for Faithfull through her 1983 album A Childâs Adventure and returned to her side again 16 years later for Vagabond Ways.
Photo: Marianne Faithfull at the Bottom Line, New York, Nov. 30, 1987. (Rita Barros/Getty Images)
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