Photos of the day

Two interesting photos with some of my heroines, caught in the youth, long before they achieved success and equilibrium.

Marianne Faithfull (pictured here in 1974. by Torbjörn Calvero) was still classy, beautiful woman although at this point her personal problems completely eclipsed whatever music career she had in previous decade, when she graced British pop charts with her folksy, innocent ditties like “As Tears Go By”. I truly love this photo - what a beautiful woman - and it is a stunning transformation from virginal, pre-Raphaelite image she had not long ago.

Even though Tina Turner often confidently exploited her sex bomb image, I was always aware that this was never serious - you could tell she is a unrepentant tomboy fooling around for the sake of fun - on this early 1960s picture she is of course, pouting as some glamorous Hollywood star where in reality her life was far from glamour. Along with her than-husband Ike and the whole entourage of backing musicians, she was touring trough chitlin circuit  of segregated music scene, which included nightly bus travels and at least two concerts per day. Whatever public perception of her might have been, Tina was in fact hard-working, no-nonsense mother hen and even The Rolling Stones were surprised to discover that behind the stage she was indeed simple, good-natured country girl.