Year One

This is a Penguin 60s book of 48 pages and is an excerpt from her autobiography Faithfull.
This excerpt is about Faithfull and The Stones - 1960s London, her career taking off at the same speed her marriage to John Dunbar was collapsing. Her version - as a drug-addled artist, he had no income and was living off Faithfull's earnings, and wasn't keen on her becoming involved in drugs (to protect her income). More and more she went out to spend time with her friends and obtain her own drugs! Primarily it was Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg whose flat she ended up at. Keith Richards was inevitably hanging about there, and Mick Jagger was around and about too. The rest is history, and well publicised history too I guess.

I enjoyed this, and would be tempted to read the whole biography given the chance - mainly because I am a Stones fan, and haven't really read much about them, although the promiscuity in the '60s probably doesn't make any of these characters look good, it was what the '60s were about. Faithfull doesn't pull any punches, and why would she, when well after this chapter she shares her downward spiral into drug addiction (albeit not in this excerpt).

Very well selected excerpt.
5 stars.