SINGER Marianne Faithfull has worked with Nick Cave on a new album – her first since surviving Covid-19.
Many of the tracks on her album, She Walks in Beauty, will feature the Brighton-based musician on piano.
The album, a collaboration with Nick’s Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis, was completed after the first coronavirus lockdown.
It comes after Marianne was hospitalised with Covid-19 in April last year.
I am delighted to announce 'She Walks In Beauty', the new album from myself and @warrenellis13 will be released on April 30th.
— Marianne Faithfull (@Faithfull_M) January 15, 2021
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She spent 22 days “struggling for her life” before she was eventually discharged.
A spokesman for the singer said: “Marianne is very grateful to all the NHS staff who cared for her at the hospital and, without doubt, saved her life.”
The album is a mixture of music and spoken word with songs based on poems by Shelly, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Dylan Thomas.
Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg and Keith Richards. pic.twitter.com/Vbjqg57xWF
— Marianne Faithfull (@Faithfull_M) August 14, 2020
Marianne said she had taken inspiration from poetry that had accompanied and inspired her “all her life.”
She said: “I wasn’t in doubt. I’ve been thinking about it for so long, this album, it’s been in my head for so long.
“I think I really knew exactly what I wanted. I just picked the poems I really loved, and I can’t help but say I think I was very lucky. We got it.”
The album is set to be released on April 30 and has been produced by Nick’s Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis.
Other guests include musician and producer Brian Eno and cellist Vincent Ségal.
Nick and Marianne have been long-time collaborators, having worked together on her albums Negative Capability and Give My Love to London.
Marianne Faithfull, 73, achieved popularity in the sixties under the guidance of the Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Long Oldham.
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