Blur’s Damon Albarn on getting “quite lairy” with Marianne Faithfull

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Blur‘s Damon Albarn has recalled his time with the late Marianne Faithfull and shared that they used to get “quite lairy”.The death of the iconic singer and actor was confirmed yesterday (January 30) by her representatives who announced that she had “passed away peacefully in London” at the age of 78, “in the company of her loving family.”Mick Jagger shared a personal message to his former partner while Metallica described her as “fearless” and Morrissey said she “brought us all closer”.

Sir Paul McCartney also shared a tribute, describing Faithfull as “beautiful and sweet”. A number of other artists and admirers shared tributes to Faithfull, a range of which you can find here.Albarn recently reflected on his time with Faithfull in a chat with The Guardian, sharing how they met in the early 00s.

At the time, Blur bassist Alex James would hang with her a lot and invited Albarn to a studio on the Goldhawk Road.“I think we were all in a high party mode at the time.

I sat down and had quite a good banter with her straight away,” he told the outlet.He continued: “We were quite lairy with each other.