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What a life she lived. Tragic, harrowing and exhilirating in equal measure.
"Her mother was Baroness Eva Sacher-Masoch, a Hungarian, half-Jewish former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis in World War II. Her father was Major Glyn Faithfull, an eccentric British MI6 agent turned professor of Italian literature. The stage was set for an unusual childhood..."
"She was still in school when she met the Rolling Stones in 1964, just as, she says, "London was ready to embrace free love, psychedelics, fashion, Zen, Nietzsche, tribal trinkets, customized existentialism, hedonism and rock-and-roll." She described Mick was "a cheeky little yob"; but she wasn't about to fall for him, not yet. But Jagger and Richards wrote a song for her to record, "As Tears Go By," and the 17-year-old schoolgirl found herself transformed into a pop star."
In one sense, she was another Stones casualty, like Anita Pallenberg. If you played with them, you were playing with fire...
Her resurrection from a junkie living rough on the streets to return to making music, poetry and performing live was quite remarkable. I loved Broken English when it came out.
Easy there fella. All the Jews and Arabs who live in Israel are 'semites'. Others have said it, but you're dangerously close to crossing a line with your posts in this thread my friend.
It's funny how some people will seek any opportunity to peddle their favourite theories, often going wildly off topic - and it's happened in this thread, despite Clive's pleas.
Mr Sheen's post about 'Neutral Moresnet' made me think of Konigsberg, another one of those geopolitical anomalies that not a lot of people know about (as Michael would say). Now known as Kaliningrad, it is the capital of the Russian province of the same name, that exists wholly outside of Russia, sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic Coast. Must be weird living there. I read this about getting there by car:
"The road system is extensive in the Kaliningrad region; however, they are not always well-maintained, and sometimes it is hard to get around because of absence of signage indicating directions/destinations (especially in the city). On large roads, signs are displayed in Cyrillic and Roman letters.
"Driving rules are generally the same as in most European countries, but many do not follow the rules, especially during rush hour in the city. Beware of the traffic police because they like to stop foreigners and often expect bribes."
Agreed, it was painful listening to him. I enjoyed some aspects of Rogue Heroes, the historical elements and taking on board the incredible truth of what the SAS achieved - which was vividly brought to life - but all the silly stuff, epitomised by the ultra glamourous Algerian French agent, showing up at the front line in her chic outfits and so on, blew it for me. Even though they put the disclaimer at the beginning: this is NOT a history lesson...
Meanwhile, on a very different tack, I've finally got round to watching The Detectorists. What a delight.
When we moved into our new flat in 1962, my mum bought an LEC fridge with a small freezer compartment. It looked like those trendy Smeg fridges you see today.
She moved to Yorkshire with her partner in 1984 and took the fridge with her. The last time I went to see her partner (mum died several years ago), the fridge was still going strong. That's 63 years it's been running, and even the freezer compartment still works!
I'd left my daughter with friends who lived just off Askew Road. When I went to pick her up after the game, they said: what happened? We all heard this enomous roar.
That's right, the roar was so loud, they heard it over a mile away!
Ah, the old Bridge. It still haunts my dreams. I must have walked back and forth over it well over 10,000 times, on my way to school and back, on my way to the delights of West London.
The current bridge was actually opened in 1887, designed by the famous Joseph Bazalgette, he of sewers fame. The orginal, the first suspension bridge over the Thames, was built in 1828, and designed by William Tierney Clark, who lived and died in Hammersmith and also designed the Széchenyi Chain Bridge across the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. The first bridge linking Buda and Pest...
The eminent Mr DMM of this site and I went there recently to pay homage to the old thing.
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