#marianne oldham

[costumeloverz71]

Mary Denning (Marianne Oldham) Green dress.. The Living and The Dead (2016).. Costume by Phoebe De Gaye.

[bluesrocknrollingstones]

some 60s Nederland newsletter clippings I found on Delpher.nl

[omg-hellgirl]

In the turbulent crosscurrents of the Stones, someone has always had to be "it." Now it was my turn. The stability of the group from the very beginning has always depended on Mick's demonization of someone in the inner circle. First it was Brian, then Andrew and now it was happening to me. After I got out, Anita suddenly became the malevolent evil-doer. She was demonized beyond belief. People, to this day, suspect all this dark stuff about Anita. Ridiculous.

After Anita was gone it was only a matter of time before Keith became "it."

Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography.

[jonesbrianshining]

Marianne Faithfull and Andrew Loog Oldham (manager and producer)

Marianne Faithfull's early days with the Rolling Stones in 1964

[filosofablogger]

♫ As Tears Go By ♫ (Redux)

I seem to play this one about every three years!  Tonight, I am just too tired and burned out to go in search of a new one to play, so I hope you’ll enjoy this “oldie but goodie”! This song was written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham, and was one of the first original compositions by Jagger and Richards, as until that point The Rolling Stones had…

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Brian Jones, Nicky Browne, Tara Browne, Paul Getty Jr, Talitha Getty & Anita Pallenberg photographed by Michael Cooper in Ireland on Tara's 21st birthday, 1966🥀🍃🍂

"The first time I met Robert was in Ireland when he was chaperoning Mick, Keith, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg at Desmond Guinness's superb Georgian castle, Leixlip, near Dublin. Mick and Marianne were lording around the grounds like the old money Mick was not. It was amazing how quickly he laundered himself from a terraced house in Dartford to a very large castle in Ireland. It had taken the Guinnesses a hundred and fifty years to achieve the same transformation. It took Mick fifteen months." -Andrew Loog Oldham🥀🍃

Via @weirdtvland on Instagram🍂

[shakespearenews]

Jack Laskey as Oberon and Marianne Oldham as Titania in our 2023 production. Photographer: Helen Murray.

We tend to assume that fairies are white, or at least that Shakespeare thought they were. Not so. Many fairies in folklore are explicitly described as dark skinned, or swart. Perhaps that’s why it made sense to display indigenous peoples as fairies...

...Titania appears elsewhere in Shakespeare’s imagination as the goddess of witches in Macbeth, called Hecate. If we take seriously the claims of the text as we have it, and read it as an integral whole, a strand of the play opens up which is otherwise obscure, a strand which we may dislike because it threatens to connect Macbeth with the most troubling and egregious fantasies of continental witchcraft, and so fingering the stage as one of the proximate causes of the leakage of Continental witchcraft beliefs into English and Scottish witch trials. ‘Pale Hecate’ and her dark offerings are, after all, what ‘witchcraft celebrates’. This Hecate is pale because she is the waning moon, the goddess of the darkest night. Lyrically and figuratively, the play connects her with witches, witches who were called ‘feyries’ by Holinshed. The weird sisters’ interest in babies and the disappearance of Lady Macbeth’s suckling also connect Hecate back to Titania.

[mannymuc]

Is This What I Get...?

Is That What I Get For Loving You - The story of the Marianne Faithfull-Mick Jagger relationship?

No, it.s a song by famous 1960s writer team Gerry Goffin-Carole King and recorded by Faithfull with Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and Phil Spector at the helm.

In March 1967 it was released as single on DECCA (Europe) and LONDON (USA). On the right side of this collage is an advertsing for US trade papers as Billboard or Cashbox

[natequarter]

thoughts on the production of richard iii i watched on saturday:

elizabeth woodville. in sunglasses. you agree.

their richard was great. the bleach blonde look was a bit jarring, but great! honestly he looked a little bit like the victorian portrait of the princes in the tower

no idea what was going on with the outfits, but it worked. basically about half of it was traditional elizabethany (that's a word now) and the other half was modern. it worked really well on richard and richard, but occasionally it was slightly odd

the actor playing george was great!

i was fine with the choice to have an abled actor play richard. i seriously do not care. after all, they cast a disabled actor to play anne! what did annoy me far more was the choice to strip references to his disability from their script. it's one thing to play around with casting (awesome), but another thing to handle it by shying away from the actual content of the play. shakespeare's plays are complicated and, in this case, profoundly ableist. to me it feels worse to shy away from engaging with the nuance of his legacy than to simply cast abled actor (especially since this is hardly the first time it's happened!)

there was a skit where a pigeon kept on flying onto the stage and richard kept pointing at it, which is exactly what he should do because i firmly believe shakespeare's richard is, at heart, a massive troll

the play was, well, played less as a tragic history and more as a wacky comedy, which made it fun but a little bit jarring, since richard in a fake plastic six pack and a shiny green jacket is not quite as intimidating as a moody man dressed all in black

having watched a macbeth production last year which did something similar with how it was staged, it was strangely reminiscent of the scottish play; there were very strong echoes of the structure of that version of macbeth, especially in how the murder of the princes (contrasted with the murder of macduff's children) and the murder of george (contrasted with the murder of banquo) played out. macbeth also showed up half-naked (HOT) in that play, which i don't think helped! then again they are loosely similar plays even without the similarities in staging, so...

margaret of anjou is real and she can hurt you. i say this because when they brought out henry vi's body it was cartoonishly unrealistic and i laughed when they dumped it down the trapdoor in the middle of the stage

the actor who played elizabeth woodville (marianne oldham) was so hot oh my god your hand in marriage please ma'am. still thinking about her

on the other hand elizabeth of york was doubled with the (clearly preteen) edward v, which was. creepy. arguably it works but i really wish they'd just doubled her with anne instead

they cut out (young) richard being an incredibly creepy child and making his grandmother go "wtf" :(

richmond was, as per usual, incredibly boring, buuut he had a jacket with lots of patches/colourful bits of sewing! on the back of it he had the red rose, the white rose and a golden rose, which was fun!

he was also basically the only man in the play, in the sense that the rest of the actors were either women or nonbinary (the actor playing rivers)

beautiful butch buckingham. no really he was in a waistcoat the whole time. it was great. AND he and richard (the elder) slow danced at one point! fun plotting with your lesbian murder boyfriend

the gender going on was great fun. also they put edward iv in roman armour. that happened.

seriously elizabeth was gorgeous stunning beautiful pretty every word under the sun for the most beautiful woman ever. look at her. send tweet

[bluehome91]

“As Tears Go By” is a song written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Marianne Faithfull, Mick’s soon-to-be girlfriend, recorded and released it as a single in the United Kingdom in 1964. The next year, The Stones released their own version, which was included on their album “December’s Children (And Everybody’s)” and as the B-side to their single “19th Nervous Breakdown.” This song became “a metaphor for being old” according to Mick and was “the least Stones song” according to Keith. This symphonic ballad contrasted greatly with their previous blues-derived rock hits. The song is simply about the narrator being stirred by the simple things in life, something riches can’t buy. Here is a clip of The Stones performing the song on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1966, overdubbed by their studio recording.

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[sassiesillie]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe (2023).

Top to Bottom: Vinnie Heaven as Demetrius and Sarah Finigan as Egeus; Francesca Mills as Hermia and Sam Crerar as Lysander; Marianne Oldham as Titania and Mariah Gale as Bottom; Isobel Thom as Helena and Francesca Mills as Hermia. Photos by Helen Murray. 3 of the 4 main lovers are played by nonbinary/trans actors, a Hermia with achondroplasia, plus plenty of genderbent casting.

[bluesrocknrollingstones]

Collection beginning of Marianne's recording career

These are from Sotheby's and there are two photos by John Dunbar

[omg-hellgirl]

can you talk more about the power struggle between Mick and Brian? Especially when that dynamic shifted? And what do you think Keith's role in this was (do you agree with Marianne abt whoever allied with Keith had the power in the band?)

*UPDATE 03/16/2024: Read until the end for updates on my reading.*

Well, it's important to highlight that as some like to point out, it may all be just "gossip", so you choose what to believe. I'm merely reposting what I DID read. I'm not taking the book I use as a reference as a bible and I'm not saying that EVERYTHING happened exactly that way, so if anyone has a complaint, it's NOT my fault (I didn't write the damn book) and I don't care.

I plan to buy Keith Richards' autobiography to read and then consolidate some of my opinions and discover things that differ from stories told out there. Until then, most of what I know and think comes from others.

According to Christopher P Andersen's book, Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger, Mick and Brian (who at the time was known as Elmo Lewis) met at a Jazz club in Ealing. He and Keith were impressed by Brian's ability to play guitar and went to talk to him as soon as the show ended.

According to the book, within weeks what would come to be known as The Rolling Stones was formed and that the choice of the name was a deliberate choice by Brian and that initially the other members of the band didn't like the name.

By then, this is set in early 1962 and in addition to Brian, Mick and Keith, two musicians called Dick Taylor and Ian Stewart were also in the band. Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts would come later, respectively.

Despite gathering a respectable amount of audience, Mick was not committed to the band and was still studying at the London School of Economics. He moved into a two-bedroom apartment at 102 Edith Grove with Keith and Brian (the stories about that apartment, honestly, I was shocked).

It is said that they did not have money to run the electric heater and that all three of them slept together in a double bed to keep warm. For certain types of behavior (not necessarily at bedtime), Mick was called King's road queen by Keith and Brian.

Somehow the narrative begins to explain how Mick began to feel jealous of Brian for stealing Keith from him. While Mick was studying and had classes all day, Keith and Brian were alone in the apartment, rehearsing. When it got cold, Keith and Brian would lie down together to stay warm.

Mick also received an allowance from his parents and had money to eat at restaurants, which he did alone, while Brian and Keith had to "crash neighborhood parties in search of food or break into neighbors’ apartments so they could rifle through dresser drawers looking for‘spare change."

Basically, Brian and Keith were very close and Mick supposedly wanted to break them up (it is also said that Mick realized that Brian was determined to replace him with the singer P. P. Pond). Mick’s attitudes were: Seduced Pat Andrews, the mother of Brian’s son Julian, and Brian himself.

Now, here it gets confusing because it is said that instead of messing with Brian emotionally, it was Mick who was messed with. Although it is not detailed how. It was Anita Pallenberg who spoke about this. She is mentioned as "it was from Brian that Pallenberg learned the details of his relationship with Mick."

“Brian did break up a lot of things by actually going to bed with Mick,” Pallenberg said. “And I think Mick always resented him for having fallen for it. In later years, there have always been rumors about Mick being gay, but then it was as if Brian violated Mick’s privacy by revealing his weak side.”

There is nothing more said about this. It is also said that "While Mick commanded the spotlight, Brian worked tirelessly behind the scenes to land the Stones a record deal. He enlisted the help of his friend Glyn Johns, a recording engineer at IBC Studio, in cutting a five-song demo. When seven record companies rejected it outright, no one was more devastated than the mercurial Mr. Jones."

ALSO

"While Peter Jones listened politely, each repeatedly interrupted the other, making it painfully evident that Mick and Brian were locked in a fierce battle for the title of team leader."

This Peter Jones was a journalist linked to a record company, and that was the impression he had of them. The 1964 interview I captioned shows Brian interrupting Mick as he speaks, it's interesting. They definitely competed.

According to the book, Brian tried to get rid of Mick again when he formed (on behalf of the group, which showed that Brian was at the forefront of things as a leader) a partnership with Andrew Oldham.

Brian Jones handled negotiations for the Stones, and Brian’s first suggestion was that Mick, his archrival in the group, be booted out. Oldham’s business partner, Eric Easton, agreed. “This Jagger fellow,” Easton said, “just can’t sing.” Oldham’s response was swift and unequivocal. “You are both,” he told Brian and Easton, “completely insane.”

The beginning of the end between Keith and Brian and the beginning of the power shift that would be followed by Brian's heavy drug use and lack of commitment to rehearsals and shows was when Brian moved out of the apartment he shared with Keith and Mick to live with his girlfriend Linda Lawrence.

Oldham, acknowledged by Keith to be both “a fantastic hustler” and “an incredible bullshitter,” rushed in to fill the power vacuum created by Brian’s abrupt exit.

Explaining it in detail would make it even longer but basically Brian started using a lot of drugs and missing rehearsals and even concert dates; It got to the point where it was a miracle that he showed up and they no longer counted on Brian's presence at rehearsals.

Not to mention that some shows were sold as “Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones". The one who the fans thought was the leader must have had a direct impact on the dynamics within the group.

Say what you want about Marianne but I think she has a place to speak. I believe she meant that Keith, as the third founder (Bill and Charlie came later and probably didn't have as much say in the decisions at the beginning), the third wheel, had decisive power. If Mick and Brian were at odds, whoever Keith supported had the advantage. So yes, I see logic in the reasoning.

Also, Brian and Keith's relationship naturally began to deteriorate along with Brian and Anita's relationship and Keith's infatuation with the woman. At one point, it also brought him closer to Mick.

I hope this has clarified something for you, XOXO

*If there is something different in Life, Keith's autobiography, which I haven't read yet, I am inclined to believe his direct words more.

UPDATE 03/16/2024: I started reading Keith's autobiography, and there are some disagreements with the information in Christopher P. Andersen's book. I advise, after reading this, to read this.

[therobertfrasergang]

Philip Townsend on Robert Fraser

From 2Stoned, by Andrew Loog Oldham (2003):

Philip Townsend was a photographer in the 1960s, taking the first official photographs of The Rolling Stones, thanks to his friendship with Andrew Loog Oldham. In Oldham's book he talks about Robert Fraser:

Mick, Brian and, to a lesser extent, Keith could now achieve their need to mix with the nobs. Up to now old money had kept themselves to themselves, but now they were bored and needed entertaining and the new rock stars could provide all they needed — and the drugs as well. The main go-between was a rich, stupid, gay and untalented twit called Robert Fraser. He was an art and drug dealer with an address book full of the same kind of people as him. He soon became the Beatles’ and the Stones’ best friend. While he was the son of a self-made banker he had wormed his way into the old money crowd.

The first time I met Robert was in Ireland when he was chaperoning Mick, Keith, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg at Desmond Guinness’s superb Georgian castle, Leixlip, near Dublin. Mick and Marianne were lording around the grounds like the old money Mick was not. It was amazing how quickly he laundered himself from a terraced house in Dartford to a very large castle in Ireland. It had taken the Guinnesses a hundred and fifty years to achieve the same transformation. It took Mick fifteen months.

One wonders if the feeling was mutual.

[celtic-cd-releases]

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[beatdisc]

For the first time in 12 years we can officially say ... Happy Dirty Three new album day!!

Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are (a) back, (b) tangled in seaweed, and (c) not wasting another minute – as nothing is guaranteed. For their first album in over a decade – yep, it’s been since 2012’s Toward the Low Sun – they flew in, got together and started playing. End of story. What else is there to say or do but that?

The Dirty Three – Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White – formed up in Melbourne in 1992, to play with guitar drums and violin or viola, and within a couple years, they’d broken out – out of Australia, out of anything else they might have been inside of, to boot – and got worldwide. Over the next ten years, they toured over and over the planet, ceaseless like, and cut seven albums along the way.

After this, their unique style of play, fitted together like puzzle pieces, was decoupled, more often than not, and pieced together in many other, fruitful collaborations with many other esteemed talents including Bill Callahan, Cat Power, Nick Cave, Marianne Faithfull, Will Oldham, PJ Harvey, Courtney Barnett &Kurt Vile and so many more. Over the past 20 years, they’ve gotten together a few times, renewed the vow, revved the engines and played some shows, or made an album. Like now.

Dirty Three - Love Changes Everything. Out today and in-stock on Limited Red Vinyl LP ($50) and Digipack CD ($25). The vinyl edition comes packaged with a very snazzy poster as pictured.