POP 053/ Thursday, 23 July 2009
Today’s Pop is Hanna. She is not Hannah. Hanna is just a vision on your TV screen, just something conjured from a dream. Like Marianne Faithfull under a Super Trouper in perfect Chanel…
Picture by Princess Julia
Marianne takes the stage dressed in head to toe Chanel, with the air of posh girls school Headmistress, but the sort you know would get tipsy on sherry at the end of term. Perfect. She rips through a setlist that encompasses the new ‘Crane Wife Three’, ‘Down From Dover’, the old ‘Broken English’, ‘Sister Morphine’ and the damn fabulous ‘Why D’ya Do it’, belting them out with her signature wonky tuned drone; the voice that’s chuffed on a zillion fags. No one can touch her – she’s been there, got the T-shirt, (which is so worn out she put it in the bin ages ago anyway) and is now so firmly ensconsed in the “Grande Damme” era that it would be hard to imagine her any other way.
The bottom line – there’s not many people that can sing a forty year old song about falling in love (‘As Tears Go By’) and then follow it up with ‘that was pretty, now here’s something a little dirty’ and then break into ‘Why d’ya do it she said, why d’ya let her suck your cock’…
Take note. This is how it’s done.
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- 23.07.09 / 12am
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- Chanel, Marianne Faithfull
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