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It's been a little over a year since Marianne Faithfull passed away at the age of 78, and Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, Anna Calvi, Rufus Wainwright, and more gathered on Wednesday (March 18) at London's Barbican Centre to perform at a tribute concert for her to celebrate the release of a new documentary about the singer and actress called Broken English.
The Pulp frontman sang "Sliding Through Life On Charm" from her 2002 album Kissin Time. Orton performed the Rolling Stones' "Sister Morphine," which Faithfull wrote with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, as well as "As Tears Go By" which was written for her by Jagger, Richards, and Andrew Loog Oldham. Wainwright covered Faithfull's 1985 collab with Christopher John Spedding called "Ballad Of The Soldier's Wife." Calvi did the 2014
Give My Love To London track "Falling Back" along with the 1979 Broken English title track.
The house band featured Colin Greenwood of Radiohead, Rob Ellis, Adrian Utley of Portishead, and Anna Phoebe. Watch footage from the evening below.
Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Anna Calvi, Nadine Shah, Samantha Morton, and Ed Harcourt paid tribute to the late rock singer Marianne Faithfull last night. They were backed by a band featuring Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) and Adrian Utley (Portishead) under musical director Rob Ellis. The event at London’s Barbican Centre celebrated the release of a new Faithfull documentary ‘Broken English.’
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