Marianne Faithfull has died (January 30, 2025)


I haven't seen The Girl on a Bicycle, but she's also in Kenneth Anger's curious occult short film Lucifer Rising (1972). The soundtrack was originally supposed to have been by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, but Anger found him too drug-addled, so he contracted Bobby Beausoleil of the Manson family, who ended up recording it from prison. It's a wonderful psychedelic tapestry by Beausoleil, and superior to Page's soundtrack work on the Charles Bronson movie Death Wish.

Marianne Faithfull enters in the Stonehenge portion at 14:40. Donald Cammell (director of Performance) is in it as Osiris in the first, Egyptian portion.

 

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