Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones91裸聊视频� greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78.
Faithfull passed away Thursday in London, her music promotion company Republic Media said.
91裸聊视频淚t is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull,91裸聊视频� a company spokesperson said in a statement. 91裸聊视频淢arianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed.91裸聊视频�
The blonde, voluptuous Faithfull was a celebrity before turning 17, homeless by her mid-20s and an inspiration to peers and younger artists by her early 30s, when her raw, explicit 91裸聊视频淏roken English91裸聊视频� album brought her the kinds of reviews the Stones had received. Over the following decades, her admirers would include Beck, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, although her history would always be closely tied to the Stones and to the years she dated Mick Jagger.
91裸聊视频淚 am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull,91裸聊视频� Jagger wrote on Instagram. 91裸聊视频淪he was so much a part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress.91裸聊视频�
One of the first songs written by Jagger and Keith Richards, the melancholy 91裸聊视频淎s Tears Go By,91裸聊视频� was her breakthrough hit when released in 1964 and the start of her close and tormented relationship with the band.
She and Jagger began seeing each other in 1966 and became one of the most glamorous and notorious couples of 91裸聊视频淪winging London,91裸聊视频� with Faithfull once declaring that if LSD 91裸聊视频渨asn91裸聊视频檛 meant to happen, it wouldn91裸聊视频檛 have been invented.91裸聊视频� Their rejection of conventional values was defined by a widely publicized 1967 drug bust that left Jagger and Richards briefly in jail and Faithfull identified in tabloids as 91裸聊视频淣aked Girl At Stones Party,91裸聊视频� a label she would find humiliating and inescapable.
91裸聊视频淥ne of the hazards of reforming your evil ways is that some people won91裸聊视频檛 let go of their mind91裸聊视频檚 eye of you as a wild thing,91裸聊视频� she wrote in 91裸聊视频淢emories, Dreams and Reflections,91裸聊视频� a 2007 memoir.
Jagger and Richards often cited bluesmen and early rock 91裸聊视频榥 rollers as their prime influences, but Faithfull and her close friend Anita Pallenberg, Richards91裸聊视频� longtime partner, also opened the band to new ways of thinking. Both were worldlier than their boyfriends at the time, and helped transform the Stones91裸聊视频� songwriting and personas, whether as muses or as collaborators.
Faithfull helped inspire such Stones songs as the mellow tribute 91裸聊视频淪he Smiled Sweetly91裸聊视频� and the lustful 91裸聊视频淟et91裸聊视频檚 Spend the Night Together.91裸聊视频� It was Faithful who lent Jagger the Russian novel 91裸聊视频漈he Master and Margarita91裸聊视频� that was the basis for 91裸聊视频淪ympathy for the Devil91裸聊视频� and who first recorded and contributed lyrics to the Stones91裸聊视频� dire 91裸聊视频淪ister Morphine,91裸聊视频� notably the opening line, 91裸聊视频淗ere I lie in my hospital bed.91裸聊视频� Faithfull91裸聊视频檚 drug use helped shape such jaded takes on the London rock scene as 91裸聊视频淵ou Can91裸聊视频檛 Always Get What You Want91裸聊视频� and 91裸聊视频淟ive with Me,91裸聊视频� while her time with Jagger also coincided with one of his most vulnerable love songs, 91裸聊视频淲ild Horses.91裸聊视频�
On her own, the London-born Faithfull specialized at first in genteel ballads, among them 91裸聊视频淐ome Stay With Me,91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频淪ummer Nights91裸聊视频� and 91裸聊视频淭his Little Bird.91裸聊视频� But even in her teens, Faithfull sang in a fragile alto that suggested knowledge and burdens far beyond her years. Her voice would later crack and coarsen, and her life and work after splitting with Jagger in 1970 was one of looking back and carrying on through emotional and physical pain.
She had become addicted to heroin in the late 91裸聊视频�60s, suffered a miscarriage while seven months pregnant and nearly died from an overdose of sleeping pills. (Jagger, meanwhile, had an affair with Pallenberg and had a baby with actor Marsha Hunt). By the early 91裸聊视频�70s, Faithfull was living in the streets of London and had lost custody of the son, Nicholas, she had with her estranged husband, the gallery owner John Dunbar. She would also battle anorexia and hepatitis, was treated for breast cancer, broke her hip in a fall and was hospitalized with COVID-19 in 2020.
She shared everything, uncensored, in her memoirs and in her music, notably 91裸聊视频淏roken English,91裸聊视频� which came out in 1979 and featured her seething 91裸聊视频淲hy91裸聊视频檇 Ya Do It91裸聊视频� and conflicted 91裸聊视频淕uilt,91裸聊视频� in which she chants 91裸聊视频淚 feel guilt, I feel guilt, though I know I91裸聊视频檝e done no wrong.91裸聊视频� Other albums included 91裸聊视频淒angerous Acquaintances,91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频淪trange Weather,91裸聊视频� the live 91裸聊视频淏lazing Away91裸聊视频� and, most recently, 91裸聊视频淪he Walks in Beauty.91裸聊视频� Though Faithfull was defined by the 1960s, her sensibility often reached back to the pre-rock world of German cabaret, and she covered numerous songs by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, including 91裸聊视频淏allad of the Soldier91裸聊视频檚 Wife91裸聊视频� and the 91裸聊视频渟ung91裸聊视频� ballet 91裸聊视频淭he Seven Deadly Sins.91裸聊视频�
Her interests extended to theater, film and television. Faithfull began acting in the 1960s, including an appearance in Jean-Luc Godard91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频淢ade In U.S.A.91裸聊视频� and stage roles in 91裸聊视频淗amlet91裸聊视频� and Chekhov91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频淭hree Sisters.91裸聊视频� She would later appear in such films as 91裸聊视频淭he Girl on a Motorcycle,91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频淢arie Antoinette91裸聊视频� and 91裸聊视频淭he Girl from Nagasaki,91裸聊视频� and the TV series 91裸聊视频淎bsolutely Fabulous,91裸聊视频� in which she was cast as 91裸聊视频� and did not flinch from playing 91裸聊视频� God.
Faithful was married three times, and in recent years dated her manager, Francois Ravard. Jagger was her most famous lover, but other men in her life included Richards (91裸聊视频渟o great and memorable,91裸聊视频� she would say of their one-night stand), David Bowie and the early rock star Gene Pitney. Among the rejected: Bob Dylan, who had been so taken that he was writing a song about her, until Faithfull, pregnant with her son at the time, turned him down.
91裸聊视频淲ithout warning, he turned into Rumpelstiltskin,91裸聊视频� she wrote in 91裸聊视频淔aithfull,91裸聊视频� published in 1994. 91裸聊视频淗e went over to the typewriter, took a sheaf of papers and began ripping them up into smaller and smaller pieces, after which he let them fall into the wastepaper basket.91裸聊视频�
Faithfull91裸聊视频檚 heritage was one of intrigue, decadence and fallen empires. Her father was a British intelligence officer during World War II who helped saved her mother from the Nazis in Vienna. Faithfull91裸聊视频檚 more distant ancestors included various Austro-Hungarian aristocrats and Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a 19th century Austrian whose last name and scandalous novel 91裸聊视频淰enus in Furs91裸聊视频� helped create the term 91裸聊视频渕asochism.91裸聊视频�
Faithfull91裸聊视频檚 parents separated when she was 6 and her childhood would include time in a convent and in what she would call a 91裸聊视频渘utty91裸聊视频� sex-obsessed commune. By her teens, she was reading Simone de Beauvoir, listening to Odetta and Joan Baez and singing in folk clubs. Through the London art scene, she met Dunbar, who introduced her to Paul McCartney and other celebrities. Dunbar also co-founded the Indica Gallery, where John Lennon would say he met Yoko Ono.
91裸聊视频淭he threads of a dozen little scenes were invisibly twining together,91裸聊视频� she wrote in her memoir. 91裸聊视频淎ll these people 91裸聊视频� gallery owners, photographers, pop stars, aristocrats and assorted talented layabouts more or less invented the scene in London, so I guess I was present at the creation.91裸聊视频�
Her future was set in March 1964, when she attended a recording party for one of London91裸聊视频檚 hot young bands, the Rolling Stones. Scorning the idea that she and Jagger immediately fell for each other, she would regard the Stones as 91裸聊视频測obby schoolboys91裸聊视频� and witnessed Jagger fighting with his then-girlfriend, the model Chrissie Shrimpton, so in tears that her false eyelashes were peeling off.
But she was deeply impressed by one man, Stones manager Andrew 91裸聊视频淟oog91裸聊视频� Oldham, who looked 91裸聊视频減owerful and dangerous and very sure of himself.91裸聊视频� A week later, Oldham sent her a telegram, asking her to come to London91裸聊视频檚 Olympic Studios. With Jagger and Richards looking on, Oldham played her a demo of a 91裸聊视频渧ery primitive91裸聊视频� song, 91裸聊视频淎s Tears Go By,91裸聊视频� which Faithfull needed just two takes to complete.
91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 an absolutely astonishing thing for a boy of 20 to have written,91裸聊视频� Faithfull wrote in her 1994 memoir. 91裸聊视频淎 song about a woman looking back nostalgically on her life. The uncanny thing is that Mick should have written those words so long before everything happened. It91裸聊视频檚 almost as is if our whole relationship was prefigured in that song.91裸聊视频�
