Marianne Faithfull Live in Hollywood (DVD + CD)

In the heady days of swinging London, Marianne Faithfull was a waifish mod singing orchestral pop versions of Rolling Stones songs. In the late 1970s, she reemerged as a shockingly blunt post-punk feminist armed with track marks and obscenity-laced confessionals. More recently, Faithfull has transformed herself into a whiskey-voiced cabaret singer feted by alt-rock acolytes like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and PJ Harvey. This program captures every facet of the chameleonic chanteuse with a concert recorded at Hollywood's Henry Fonda Theater in spring of 2005, performing a selection of songs from her 2004 album BEFORE THE POISON as well as older classics like "Broken English," "Ballad of Lucy Jordan," and the absolutely scathing "Why D'ya Do It."