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Marianne Faithfull

Barney Hoskyns, AnOther Magazine, Fall 2001

ON THE TOP floor of a Georgian townhouse, a punt away from the Lansdowne Road rugby stadium, one of rock's greatest female icons bends down to check on the rack of lamb roasting in the oven. She is shoeless in a denim skirt, very blonde and voluptuous, loosened by two glasses of the "very good red wine" delivered to her by film director Patrice Chereau.

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