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The World’s Marco Werman asks 60′s icon Marianne Faithfull about her favorite music. Faithfull’s in the middle of a brief tour of the US for her recent album, Easy Come, Easy Go.

Marianne Faithfull

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Singer Marianne Faithfull’s been called the first rock chick, a 1960s icon, and an honorary Rolling Stone. Her career has also been grist for the British tabloid mill: dated Mick Jagger, overdosed from drugs, music comeback, beat breast cancer. Now she’s got a new album out — of other people’s songs — and she’s in the middle of a brief tour of the US. The World’s Marco Werman sat down with Marianne Faithfull to ask her a simple question.