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paragraph_text: 1990s
  
  When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera The Wall live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's overprotective mother. Her musical career rebounded for the third time during the early 1990s with the live album Blazing Away, which featured Faithfull revisiting songs she had performed over the course of her career. Blazing Away was recorded at St. Ann's Cathedral in Brooklyn. The 13 selections include "Sister Morphine", a cover of Edith Piaf 's "Les Prisons du Roy", and "Why D'Ya Do It?" from Broken English. Alanna Nash of Stereo Review commended the musicians whom Faithfull had chosen to back her: Longtime guitarist Reynolds was joined by former Band member Garth Hudson and pianist Dr. John. Nash was impressed with the album's autobiographical tone, noting that "Faithfull's gritty alto is a cracked and halting rasp, the voice of a woman who's been to hell and back on the excursion fare which, of course, she has." She extolled Faithfull as "one of the most challenging and artful of women artists," and Rolling Stone writer Fred Goodman asserted: " Blazing Away is a fine retrospective – proof that we can still expect great things from this greying, jaded contessa."
  
  A Collection of Her Best Recordings was released in 1994 by Island Records to coincide with the release of Faithfull's autobiography; they originally shared the same cover art. The album contained Faithfull's updated version of "As Tears Go By" from Strange Weather, several cuts from Broken English and A Child's Adventure and a song written by Patti Smith which had been scheduled for inclusion on an Irish AIDS benefit album. This track, " Ghost Dance ", suggested to Faithfull by a friend who later died of AIDS, was made with a trio of old friends; Stones' drummer Charlie Watts and guitarist Ron Wood backed Faithfull's vocals on the song and Keith Richards co-produced it. The retrospective album featured one live track, "Times Square", from Blazing Away, as well as the Faithfull original "She", written with composer and arranger Angelo Badalamenti. It was released the following year on A Secret Life, with additional songs co-written with Badalamenti. Faithfull sang "Love Is Teasin", an Irish folk standard, with The Chieftains on their album The Long Black Veil, released in 1995. During this time she sang a duet with John Prine on the song "This Love Is Real" on Prine's album Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings. Faithfull sang a duet and recited text on the San Francisco band Oxbow 's 1997 album Serenade in Red. She sang interlude vocals on Metallica 's song " The Memory Remains " on their 1997 album Reload and appeared in the song's music video. The track reached No.13 in the UK, No. 28 in the U.S. (No.3 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart).
  
  As her fascination with the music of Weimar -era Germany continued, Faithfull performed in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, playing Pirate Jenny. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues (1996), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as well as Noël Coward, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. A hugely successful concert and cabaret tour, accompanied by pianist Paul Trueblood, culminated in the filming at the Montreal Jazz Festival of the DVD Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill.
  
  In 1998, Faithfull released A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology, a two-disc compilation that chronicled her years with Island Records. It featured tracks from her albums Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, A Child's Adventure, Strange Weather, Blazing Away, and A Secret Life, as well as several B sides and unreleased tracks.
  
  Faithfull's 1999 DVD Dreaming My Dreams contained material about her childhood and parents, with historical video footage going back to 1964, and included interviews with the artist and several friends who had known her since childhood. The documentary included sections on her relationship with John Dunbar and Mick Jagger, and brief interviews with Keith Richards. It concluded with footage from a 30-minute live concert, originally broadcast on PBS for the series Sessions at West 54th. The same year, she ranked 25th in VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll.
  
  Roger Waters of Pink Floyd wrote the song "Incarceration of a Flower Child" as a portrayal of Syd Barrett in 1968, although it was never recorded by Pink Floyd. The song was recorded by Faithfull on her 1999 album Vagabond Ways.
  
  When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera The Wall live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's overprotective mother. Her musical career rebounded for the third time during the early 1990s with the live album Blazing Away, which featured Faithfull revisiting songs she had performed over the course of her career. Blazing Away was recorded at St. Ann's Cathedral in Brooklyn. The 13 selections include "Sister Morphine", a cover of Edith Piaf 's "Les Prisons du Roy", and "Why D'Ya Do It?" from Broken English. Alanna Nash of Stereo Review commended the musicians whom Faithfull had chosen to back her: Longtime guitarist Reynolds was joined by former Band member Garth Hudson and pianist Dr. John. Nash was impressed with the album's autobiographical tone, noting that "Faithfull's gritty alto is a cracked and halting rasp, the voice of a woman who's been to hell and back on the excursion fare which, of course, she has." She extolled Faithfull as "one of the most challenging and artful of women artists," and Rolling Stone writer Fred Goodman asserted: " Blazing Away is a fine retrospective – proof that we can still expect great things from this greying, jaded contessa."
  
  A Collection of Her Best Recordings was released in 1994 by Island Records to coincide with the release of Faithfull's autobiography; they originally shared the same cover art. The album contained Faithfull's updated version of "As Tears Go By" from Strange Weather, several cuts from Broken English and A Child's Adventure and a song written by Patti Smith which had been scheduled for inclusion on an Irish AIDS benefit album. This track, " Ghost Dance ", suggested to Faithfull by a friend who later died of AIDS, was made with a trio of old friends; Stones' drummer Charlie Watts and guitarist Ron Wood backed Faithfull's vocals on the song and Keith Richards co-produced it. The retrospective album featured one live track, "Times Square", from Blazing Away, as well as the Faithfull original "She", written with composer and arranger Angelo Badalamenti. It was released the following year on A Secret Life, with additional songs co-written with Badalamenti. Faithfull sang "Love Is Teasin", an Irish folk standard, with The Chieftains on their album The Long Black Veil, released in 1995. During this time she sang a duet with John Prine on the song "This Love Is Real" on Prine's album Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings. Faithfull sang a duet and recited text on the San Francisco band Oxbow 's 1997 album Serenade in Red. She sang interlude vocals on Metallica 's song " The Memory Remains " on their 1997 album Reload and appeared in the song's music video. The track reached No.13 in the UK, No. 28 in the U.S. (No.3 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart).
  
  As her fascination with the music of Weimar -era Germany continued, Faithfull performed in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, playing Pirate Jenny. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues (1996), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as well as Noël Coward, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. A hugely successful concert and cabaret tour, accompanied by pianist Paul Trueblood, culminated in the filming at the Montreal Jazz Festival of the DVD Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill.
  
  In 1998, Faithfull released A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology, a two-disc compilation that chronicled her years with Island Records. It featured tracks from her albums Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, A Child's Adventure, Strange Weather, Blazing Away, and A Secret Life, as well as several B sides and unreleased tracks.
  
  Faithfull's 1999 DVD Dreaming My Dreams contained material about her childhood and parents, with historical video footage going back to 1964, and included interviews with the artist and several friends who had known her since childhood. The documentary included sections on her relationship with John Dunbar and Mick Jagger, and brief interviews with Keith Richards. It concluded with footage from a 30-minute live concert, originally broadcast on PBS for the series Sessions at West 54th. The same year, she ranked 25th in VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll.
  
  Roger Waters of Pink Floyd wrote the song "Incarceration of a Flower Child" as a portrayal of Syd Barrett in 1968, although it was never recorded by Pink Floyd. The song was recorded by Faithfull on her 1999 album Vagabond Ways.