Mick Jagger’s ex-lover Marianne Faithfull, 77 explains why ‘sex was hotter and more repressed’ in the 1960s – as the counterculture icon lambasts modern ‘hipster lite’ culture
Sex was better in the 1960s, claims Marianne Faithfull.
The rock singer and counterculture icon denounced today’s “hipster lite” culture.
In contrast, Mick Jagger’s ex-girlfriend praised the ‘old bohemia, when art was ‘more intense, purer’ and ‘sex was hotter too’.
Writing in The Oldie magazine, the now 77-year-old said: ‘What the hell happened to Bohemia?
‘It took a hundred years for poets, painters and talented ne’er-do-wells to create something, and only twenty years for slick pseudo-hipsters to screw it all up.
“It’s the curse of hollow tinsel bohemia.
Mick Jagger’s ex-lover Marianne Faithfull claims sex was better in the 1960s
Jagger’s former girlfriend (pictured with him in 1967) praised the ‘old Bohemia, when art was ‘more intense, purer’ and ‘sex was hotter too’.
“Everyone is cool and no one knows what the hell that means. It’s just ready-to-wear bohemia… consumer cool.’
She continued: ‘I was happier in old Bohemia.
‘Art was more intense, purer. Sex was also hotter – more repressed.
“And there was a real intellectual bohemian instead of the hipster-lite culture we have today.
‘It was much smaller, much more authentic.
‘I need a time machine to take me back to when writer Caroline Blackwood was a dear friend – an inspiration, mentor and role model of the strangest kind.’
Jagger’s ex-lover said she missed artist model Henrietta Moraes, along with painter Francis Bacon – both ‘examples’ of a bygone bohemian life
She said she missed artist model Henrietta Moraes – who was the “epitome” of the bohemian life that is now gone – and painter Francis Bacon.
‘I was really bad at being a junkie – it was a humiliating experience – but apparently not humiliating enough.
“The Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher explained to me that the problem with my life becoming the basis for a feature film was that it wasn’t bad enough.
‘I thought I had really degraded myself, but apparently not. I guess I wasn’t thinking about the film rights.
‘Take me back to old Bohemia.’