A unique new album of poetry and music featuring Marianne Faithfull, set to music by Warren Ellis and with Nick Cave, Brian Eno, and Vincent Ségal. Marianne Faithfull and Warren Ellis uniquely team up to rediscover some of the great poems of the 19th century (Byron, Shelley, etc.). They reinvent "spoken word" records and remind us of what is beautiful in the world we live in now and what we might lose. Marianne Faithfull releases one of the most significant albums of her life and extraordinary career with composer and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis. It was recorded just before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown – during which the singer herself was infected and nearly died. With her musical friends and family, 'She Walks in Beauty' fulfills Faithfull’s long-held ambition to record an album of poetry with music. Delving into her past, it is a record that draws on her passion for English Romantic poets, a passion she nurtured at St Joseph’s Convent School before leaving for London at age 16. There, she entered the world of As Tears Go By, Mick Jagger, and the Rolling Stones, setting her on the dark path of pop stardom. The iconography and outrage of the 60s followed, as did her later battles with addiction before her 1979 return to powerful female and artistic autonomy with Broken English.
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