1. Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was an English singer and actress who achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her UK top 10 single "As Tears Go By".
83 Facts About Marianne Faithfull
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Marianne Faithfull became one of the leading female artists of the British Invasion in the United States.
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Marianne Faithfull's 1965 debut studio album Marianne Faithfull, released simultaneously with her studio album Come My Way, was a huge success and was followed by further albums on Decca Records.
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Marianne Faithfull's popularity was enhanced by roles in films, including I'll Never Forget What's'isname, The Girl on a Motorcycle and Hamlet.
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Marianne Faithfull's popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s, when she became anorexic, homeless and addicted to heroin.
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Marianne Faithfull followed this with a series of studio albums including Dangerous Acquaintances, A Child's Adventure and Strange Weather.
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Marianne Faithfull received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women's World Awards, and in 2011 she was made a of the by the government of France.
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Marianne Faithfull was born at the old Queen Mary's Maternity House in Hampstead, London.
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Marianne Faithfull's father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British intelligence officer and professor of Italian literature at Bedford College, London University.
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Marianne Faithfull had been a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
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Marianne Faithfull's father met Eva through his intelligence work for the British Army, which brought him into contact with her family.
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Marianne Faithfull's family lived in Ormskirk, Lancashire, while her father completed a doctorate at Liverpool University.
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Marianne Faithfull was a charitably subsidised pupil at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Convent School, Reading, where she was for a time a weekly boarder.
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Marianne Faithfull married John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in Cambridge, with Peter Asher as the best man.
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Marianne Faithfull began a much-publicised relationship with Mick Jagger that same year and left her husband to live with him.
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Marianne Faithfull's voice is heard on The Beatles' song "Yellow Submarine".
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Marianne Faithfull was found wearing only a fur rug by police executing a drug search at Redlands, Keith Richards's house in West Wittering, Sussex.
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In 1968, Marianne Faithfull, by now addicted to cocaine, gave birth to a stillborn daughter while returning from Jagger's country house in Ireland.
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In 1968, Marianne Faithfull appeared in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus concert, giving a solo performance of "Something Better".
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Marianne Faithfull ended her relationship with Jagger in May 1970 after starting an affair with Anglo-Irish nobleman "Paddy" Rossmore.
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Marianne Faithfull lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her attempting suicide.
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Marianne Faithfull lived on London's Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa.
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Marianne Faithfull squatted in a Chelsea flat without hot water or electricity with her then-boyfriend Ben Brierly of the band the Vibrators.
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Marianne Faithfull later shared flats in Chelsea and Regent's Park with Henrietta Moraes.
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In 1979, the same year that she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Marianne Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English, her most critically hailed album.
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Marianne Faithfull, in her autobiography, commented that her fluid yet rhythmic reading of Williams' lyric was "an early form of rap".
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Marianne Faithfull performed the song during a guest appearance in an episode in the fourth season of Absolutely Fabulous.
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Marianne Faithfull discussed her interpretation of the song in a 2007 interview on ITV's The South Bank Show.
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Marianne Faithfull began living in New York City after the release of Dangerous Acquaintances in 1981.
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In 1985, Marianne Faithfull performed "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" on Hal Willner's tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill.
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Marianne Faithfull's restrained readings lent themselves to the material and this collaboration informed several subsequent works.
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In 1987, Marianne Faithfull dedicated a "thank you" to Tose on the album sleeve of Strange Weather: "To Howard Tose with love and thanks".
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In 1987, Marianne Faithfull ventured into jazz and blues on Strange Weather, which was produced by Willner.
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In 1988, Marianne Faithfull married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, and they divorced in 1991.
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When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera The Wall live in Berlin in July 1990, Marianne Faithfull played the part of Pink's overprotective mother.
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Alanna Nash of Stereo Review commended the musicians whom Marianne Faithfull had chosen to back her: Longtime guitarist Reynolds was joined by former Band member Garth Hudson and pianist Dr John.
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The album contained Marianne 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.
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Marianne Faithfull sang "Love Is Teasin", an Irish folk standard, with The Chieftains on their album The Long Black Veil, released in 1995.
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Marianne Faithfull sang a duet and recited text on the San Francisco band Oxbow's 1997 album Serenade in Red.
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Marianne Faithfull sang interlude vocals on Metallica's song "The Memory Remains" on their 1997 album Reload and appeared in the song's music video.
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In 1998, Marianne Faithfull released A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology, a two-disc compilation that chronicled her years with Island Records.
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Marianne Faithfull released several albums from the late 1990s into the 2000s that received positive critical response, beginning with Vagabond Ways, which was produced and recorded by Mark Howard.
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Marianne Faithfull's renaissance continued with Kissin Time, released in 2002.
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In 2007, Marianne Faithfull collaborated with the British singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf on the duet "Magpie" from his third album The Magic Position, and wrote and recorded a new song for the French film Truands called "A Lean and Hungry Look" with Ulysse.
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On 4 November 2007, the European Film Academy announced that Marianne Faithfull had received a nomination for Best Actress for her role as Maggie in Irina Palm.
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Articles published at that time hinted that Marianne Faithfull was looking to retire and was hoping that money from Songs of the Innocence and Experience would enable her to live in comfort.
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On 5 March 2009, Marianne Faithfull received the World Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2009 Women's World Awards.
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On 26 October 2009, Marianne Faithfull was honoured with the Icon of the Year award from Q magazine.
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On 31 January 2011, Marianne Faithfull released her 18th studio album, Horses and High Heels, in mainland Europe to mixed reviews.
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On 23 March 2011, Marianne Faithfull was awarded the Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest cultural honours.
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Marianne Faithfull reunited with Metallica in December 2011 for their 30th anniversary celebration at the Fillmore where she performed "The Memory Remains".
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In 2012, Marianne Faithfull recorded a cover version of a Stevie Nicks track from the Fleetwood Mac album Tusk as part of a Fleetwood Mac tribute project.
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In September 2014, Marianne Faithfull released an album of all-new material, titled Give My Love to London.
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Marianne Faithfull started a 12-month 50th anniversary tour at the end of 2014.
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Marianne Faithfull had ideas for a follow-up for Give My Love to London, but had no intention of recording new material for at least a year and a half.
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Marianne Faithfull was accompanied with musical arrangements by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal.
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On 14 March 2025, the single "Burning Moonlight", which was co-written by Marianne Faithfull, was released; the single is from an EP of the same name, which was released for Record Store Day later in 2025.
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The EP features a re-recorded version of She Moved Thru' The Fair, a song Marianne Faithfull previously recorded in 1966.
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In 1999, Marianne Faithfull ranked 25th on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll.
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Marianne Faithfull was featured in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's'isname.
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In London 1969 at the Round House, Marianne Faithfull played Ophelia in Hamlet, later filmed as Hamlet.
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Marianne Faithfull's television acting in the late 1960s and early 1970s included The Door of Opportunity, adapted from W Somerset Maugham's story, followed by August Strindberg's The Stronger, and Terrible Jim Fitch by James Leo Herlihy.
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Marianne Faithfull appeared as God in two guest appearances on the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
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Marianne Faithfull appeared in Patrice Chereau's Intimacy, and in 2004, in Jose Hayot's Nord-Plage.
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Marianne Faithfull appeared as Empress Maria Theresa in Sofia Coppola's 2006 biopic Marie Antoinette.
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Marianne Faithfull starred in the film Irina Palm, released at the Berlinale film festival in 2007.
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Marianne Faithfull was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress for her work in the film.
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Marianne Faithfull lent her voice to the 2008 film Evil Calls: The Raven, but it was recorded several years earlier when the project was titled Alone in the Dark.
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Marianne Faithfull appeared in the 2008 feature documentary by Nik Sheehan on Brion Gysin and the dreamachine, titled FLicKeR.
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In 2008, Marianne Faithfull toured readings of Shakespeare's sonnets, drawing on the "Dark Lady" sequence.
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In 2011 and 2012, Marianne Faithfull had supporting roles in the films Faces in the Crowd and the film Belle du Seigneur.
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Marianne Faithfull starred in a production of Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins at Landestheater Linz, Austria.
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The first abortion was in 1965, when she had become pregnant by Gene Pitney; the procedure was still illegal in the United Kingdom at the time and Marianne Faithfull stated that she had a hard time dealing with the guilt.
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Marianne Faithfull began to feel better once her son was born the year after.
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In later years, Marianne Faithfull's touring and work schedule were interrupted by health problems.
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In October 2007, on the UK television program This Morning, Marianne Faithfull disclosed that she suffered from hepatitis C, which had first been diagnosed 12 years earlier.
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Marianne Faithfull discussed both the cancer and hepatitis diagnoses in greater depth in her memoir Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
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On 30 May 2014, Marianne Faithfull suffered a broken hip after a fall while vacationing on the Greek island of Rhodes and underwent surgery.
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Marianne Faithfull continued to smoke and was not able to quit until 2019, later regretting that she had not done so sooner.
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On 4 April 2020, it was announced that Marianne Faithfull was hospitalised in London for pneumonia following a positive COVID-19 test.
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Marianne Faithfull initially thought she would be unable to sing again after the effects of the coronavirus on her lungs, and she continued to suffer memory loss because of it.
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Marianne Faithfull worked on her breathing and undertook singing practice as a part of her recovery.
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Marianne Faithfull died in London on 30 January 2025, at the age of 78.