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Marianne Faithfull spent most of the 1970s strung out on heroin and hoovering coke, so when she dropped "Broken English" on the world in 1979, it knocked everyone on their ass. The angelic voice that sang "As Tears Go By" in the mid sixties was replaced by a haggard, bleak moan, every bit of earned over years of living on the streets and just trying to get high. The album is just unbelievably real, visceral stuff, including her legendary cover of John Lennon's "Working Cla... MORE
