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Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78

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Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78

Marianne Faithfull, who went from being a fresh-faced, feather-voiced pop star, as well as muse and girlfriend of Mick Jagger, to a homeless heroin addict, only to re-emerge radically altered in her early 30s as a critically acclaimed cabaret performer singing songs of dark honesty, died on Thursday in London. …

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Stanley Booth, Music Journalist Who Loved the Blues, Dies at 82

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Stanley Booth, Music Journalist Who Loved the Blues, Dies at 82

In late 1967, the music journalist Stanley Booth was on assignment to write about the Memphis soul sound for The Saturday Evening Post when he watched Otis Redding and the guitarist and producer Steve Cropper sit on folding chairs at Stax Records in Memphis as they composed “(Sittin’ on) The …

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