Marianne Faithfull Tried to Seduce Me with Her Dark Eyes and Smoky Voice ; (What Was a Man to Do?)

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Fixing me with her dark, seductive eyes, Marianne Faithfull said in her sultry, smoky voice: 'Do you want to have sex with me?' What was a man to do? She was 32, a legendary Sixties rock icon and the former girlfriend of Mick Jagger. I was a 21-year-old photographer, who had barely made his way in the world.

It was 1979: a decade after Marianne's affair with Mick Jagger had ended, leading her into a spiral of drug addiction, anorexia and a suicide attempt. I had managed to persuade Island Records to allow me to shoot the cover of her comeback album, Broken English, after the big guns of the time, David Bailey, Barry Lategan and Clive Arrowsmith, had failed to produce the perfect image.

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Marianne Faithfull Tried to Seduce Me with Her Dark Eyes and Smoky Voice ; (What Was a Man to Do?)

I booked the studios and Marianne arrived at 8.30pm. From the beginning, she seemed determined to test me.

'Do you know who I am?' she said.

'Of course,' I replied.

'This will make you,' she said confidently.

'I must have a drink. Let's go to the pub.' We went to a pub opposite Notting Hill Tu...

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