“That’s what he said: ‘I’ve killed Jim Morrison.’ He provided the gear”: Marianne Faithfull saw the best and worst of the late 60s and early 70s music scene

Marianne Faithful posing for a photograph in 1979.

The late Marianne Faithfull, who died on January 30 at the age of 78, spent much of the 60s at the centre of the British music scene. In 2011, as she prepared to release her latest album, Horses And High Heels, she looked back on her friendship with such luminaries as the Rolling Stones and The Beatles – and the rumours about what really happened the night Jim Morrison died.