Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was born on 29 December 1946 and is an English rock singer.
75 Facts About Marianne Faithfull
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Marianne Faithfull achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.
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Marianne Faithfull's debut album Marianne Faithfull was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on Decca Records.
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Marianne Faithfull's popularity was further enhanced by her film roles, such as those in I'll Never Forget What's'isname, The Girl on a Motorcycle, and Hamlet.
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Marianne Faithfull followed this with a series of albums, including Dangerous Acquaintances, A Child's Adventure, and Strange Weather.
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Marianne Faithfull is listed on VH1's "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" list.
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Marianne Faithfull received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women's World Awards and was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France.
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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 of London University.
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Marianne Faithfull's mother had been born in Budapest and moved to Vienna in 1918.
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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 spent some of her early life at the commune at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, formed by John Norman Glaister, where her father, who was instrumental in its foundation, lived and participated.
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Marianne Faithfull's parents divorced when she was six years old, after which she moved with her mother to Milman Road in Reading.
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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 began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk music performer in coffeehouses.
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Marianne Faithfull soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene.
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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 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 Keith Richards's house in West Wittering, Sussex.
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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 is bisexual and during the 60s had relationships with both men and women.
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Marianne Faithfull ended her relationship with Jagger in May 1970, after initiating an affair with Anglo-Irish nobleman "Paddy" Rossmore, and she 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 failed at controlling or stabilising her addiction at that time.
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Severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during this period, permanently altered Marianne Faithfull's voice, leaving it cracked and lower in pitch.
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Marianne Faithfull moved into a squat without hot water or electricity in Chelsea with then-boyfriend Ben Brierly, of the punk 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 she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Marianne Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English, one of her most critically hailed albums.
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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 began living in New York after the release of the follow-up to Broken English, 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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Marianne Faithfull then received treatment at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.
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In 1987, Marianne Faithfull dedicated a "thank you" to Tose within the album package of Strange Weather, on the back sleeve: "To Howard Tose with love and thanks".
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In 1987, Marianne Faithfull again reinvented herself, this time as a jazz and blues singer, on Strange Weather, produced by Willner.
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In 1988, Marianne Faithfull married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, but 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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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" from their 1997 album Reload and appeared in the song's music video; the track reached No 28 in the US and No 13 in the UK.
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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 in 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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Articles published at that time hinted Marianne Faithfull was looking to retirement and was hoping that money from Songs of the Innocence and Experience would enable her to live in comfort.
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On 31 January 2011, Marianne Faithfull released her 18th studio album Horses and High Heels in mainland Europe with mixed reviews.
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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 is accompanied with musical arrangements by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal.
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In 1999, Marianne Faithfull ranked 25th on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll.
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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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At the 20th annual European Film Awards ceremony held in Berlin, on 1 December 2007, Marianne Faithfull lost to Helen Mirren.
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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 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's touring and work schedule has been repeatedly interrupted by health problems.
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Less than two months after she declared having beaten the disease, Marianne Faithfull made her public statement of full recovery.
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In October 2007, Marianne Faithfull said she suffered from hepatitis C on the UK television programme This Morning, and that she had first been diagnosed with the condition 12 years before.
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Marianne Faithfull discusses both the cancer and hepatitis diagnoses in further depth in her second memoir, Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
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On 30 May 2014, Marianne Faithfull suffered a broken hip after a fall while on holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes and underwent surgery.
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On 4 April 2020, it was announced that Marianne Faithfull was in hospital in London receiving treatment for pneumonia after having tested positive for COVID-19.
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Marianne Faithfull initially thought that she would not be able to sing again after the effects of the coronavirus on her lungs and continued to suffer memory loss because of it.
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In London 1969 at the Round House, Marianne Faithfull played Ophelia to Nicol Williamson's title role in Hamlet.
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Marianne Faithfull's television acting in the late 1960s and early 1970s included The Door of Opportunity with Ian Ogilvy, adapted from W Somerset Maugham's story, followed by August Strindberg's The Stronger with Britt Ekland, and Terrible Jim Fitch by James Leo Herlihy, which once more paired Faithfull with Nicol Williamson.
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Marianne Faithfull appeared as God in two guest appearances in the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous opposite friend Jennifer Saunders, with another close friend, Anita Pallenberg, playing the Devil.
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Marianne Faithfull has 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 lent her voice to the 2008 film Evil Calls: The Raven, although this was recorded several years earlier when the project was still titled Alone in the Dark.
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Marianne Faithfull has appeared in the 2008 feature documentary by Nik Sheehan on Brion Gysin and the dreamachine, entitled 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 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.