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Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an award-winning English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  singer, songwriter
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
, actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse
Drug abuse

Drug abuse has a huge range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect....
 in the 1970s. After a long commercial absence, she returned late in 1979 with the landmark album, Broken English. Faithfull's subsequent work, very frequently the subject of great critical acclaim, has at times been overshadowed by her personal history.

Over the course of her long recording career, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona, experimenting in different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti is an Italian-American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for movie director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive ....
, Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
, David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Nick Cave
Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, Painting, and occasional film actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984 in music, who have become critically acclaimed for their fascination with American roots music....
, The Chieftains
The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Ireland musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Folk music of Ireland popular around the world....
, Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker is an England musician, best known for fronting the band Pulp . Through his work with the band, Cocker became one of the key players in the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s....
, Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan

William Patrick Corgan, Jr. is an United States of America singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet. Corgan is the vocalist and lead guitarist for alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins....
, Marcella Detroit
Marcella Detroit

Marcella Detroit is a singer, musician and songwriter. She was a member of the band Shakespears Sister, along with Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama....
, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
, PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan....
, Antony Hegarty
Antony Hegarty

Antony Hegarty is an England-Ireland singer-songwriter, best known for being the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons....
, Rupert Hine
Rupert Hine

Rupert Neville Hine is an England musician and also a prolific producer in the synth pop era, helming albums by Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones , Saga , The Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins, Stevie Nicks, Chris de Burgh, Suzanne Vega, Rush , Duncan Sheik, and...
, Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson may refer to:* Joe Jackson , American football player* Joe Jackson , English musician* Joe Jackson, Sr. , clown* Joe M. Jackson, United States Air Force officer and Medal of Honor recipient...
, Alex James
Alex James (musician)

Steven Alexander James is an England musician, songwriter and journalist best known as the bass guitar player and occasional vocalist of band Blur ....
, Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye

Lenny Kaye is an United States guitarist, composer and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith....
, Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois is a Canada record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club , U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Scott Weiland, Sin?ad O'Connor, Robbie Robertson, the Neville Brothers, Chris...
, Sean Lennon
Sean Lennon

Sean Taro Ono Lennon is an United States singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono....
, Metallica
Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
, John Prine
John Prine

John Prine is an United States country music/folk music singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s....
, Barry Reynolds, Keith Richards
Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
, Sly and Robbie
Sly and Robbie

Sly and Robbie are one of reggae's most prolific and long lasting production teams. The rhythm section of drummer Lowell Dunbar and bass guitarist Robert Shakespeare started working together in the mid 1970s, after having established themselves separately on the Jamaican music scene....
, Teddy Thompson
Teddy Thompson

Teddy Thompson is a United Kingdom Folk music and Rock music musician. He released his first album in 2000 in music and has been producing music ever since....
, Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
, Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
, Roger Waters
Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
, Steve Winwood
Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
 and Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf is an England singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf plays many instruments including harp, clavinet, harpsichord, guitar, piano, autoharp, organ , Appalachian dulcimer, clavichord, harmonium, accordion, theremin, ukulele, viola, and violin....
.

hfull was born Marian Evelyn Faithfull in Hampstead
Hampstead

Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is situated within Inner London....
, London.






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Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an award-winning English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  singer, songwriter
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
, actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse
Drug abuse

Drug abuse has a huge range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect....
 in the 1970s. After a long commercial absence, she returned late in 1979 with the landmark album, Broken English. Faithfull's subsequent work, very frequently the subject of great critical acclaim, has at times been overshadowed by her personal history.

Over the course of her long recording career, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona, experimenting in different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti is an Italian-American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for movie director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive ....
, Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
, David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Nick Cave
Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, Painting, and occasional film actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984 in music, who have become critically acclaimed for their fascination with American roots music....
, The Chieftains
The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Ireland musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Folk music of Ireland popular around the world....
, Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker is an England musician, best known for fronting the band Pulp . Through his work with the band, Cocker became one of the key players in the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s....
, Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan

William Patrick Corgan, Jr. is an United States of America singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet. Corgan is the vocalist and lead guitarist for alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins....
, Marcella Detroit
Marcella Detroit

Marcella Detroit is a singer, musician and songwriter. She was a member of the band Shakespears Sister, along with Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama....
, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
, PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan....
, Antony Hegarty
Antony Hegarty

Antony Hegarty is an England-Ireland singer-songwriter, best known for being the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons....
, Rupert Hine
Rupert Hine

Rupert Neville Hine is an England musician and also a prolific producer in the synth pop era, helming albums by Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones , Saga , The Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins, Stevie Nicks, Chris de Burgh, Suzanne Vega, Rush , Duncan Sheik, and...
, Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson may refer to:* Joe Jackson , American football player* Joe Jackson , English musician* Joe Jackson, Sr. , clown* Joe M. Jackson, United States Air Force officer and Medal of Honor recipient...
, Alex James
Alex James (musician)

Steven Alexander James is an England musician, songwriter and journalist best known as the bass guitar player and occasional vocalist of band Blur ....
, Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye

Lenny Kaye is an United States guitarist, composer and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith....
, Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois is a Canada record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club , U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Scott Weiland, Sin?ad O'Connor, Robbie Robertson, the Neville Brothers, Chris...
, Sean Lennon
Sean Lennon

Sean Taro Ono Lennon is an United States singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono....
, Metallica
Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
, John Prine
John Prine

John Prine is an United States country music/folk music singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s....
, Barry Reynolds, Keith Richards
Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
, Sly and Robbie
Sly and Robbie

Sly and Robbie are one of reggae's most prolific and long lasting production teams. The rhythm section of drummer Lowell Dunbar and bass guitarist Robert Shakespeare started working together in the mid 1970s, after having established themselves separately on the Jamaican music scene....
, Teddy Thompson
Teddy Thompson

Teddy Thompson is a United Kingdom Folk music and Rock music musician. He released his first album in 2000 in music and has been producing music ever since....
, Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
, Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
, Roger Waters
Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
, Steve Winwood
Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
 and Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf is an England singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf plays many instruments including harp, clavinet, harpsichord, guitar, piano, autoharp, organ , Appalachian dulcimer, clavichord, harmonium, accordion, theremin, ukulele, viola, and violin....
.

Early life

Faithfull was born Marian Evelyn Faithfull in Hampstead
Hampstead

Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is situated within Inner London....
, London. Her father, Major Dr. Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British military officer and college professor in psychology. Her mother, Baroness
Baroness

Baroness can refer to:*The female equivalent of the nobility title Baron*Baroness , a metal band from Savannah, Georgia*The Baroness, a fiction book series by Paul Kenyon...
 Eva Erisso von Sacher-Masoch
Eva Erisso

Baroness Eva Erisso was an Austrians aristocrat.Born Eva Hermine von Sacher-Masoch, Freiin Erisso she was the grandniece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the mother of Marianne Faithfull....
 was originally from Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, with noble roots from the Habsburg Dynasty and Jewish ancestry on her maternal side. Erisso was a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht

was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
 and Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill , was a Germany, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the theatre....
. Faithfull's maternal great-great-uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown at his time for his stories of Galicia life and Romanticism novels....
, the infamous 19th century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs

Venus in Furs is a novella by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the best known of his works. The novel was part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain....
, spawned the word "masochism". In regard to her roots in nobility, Faithfull commented in March, 2007 prior to beginning the European leg of her tour, "I'm even going to Budapest, which is nice because I'm half English and half Austro-Hungarian. I've inherited the title Baroness Sacher-Masoch — it comes from one of my great uncles who gave his name to masochism."

The family originally lived in Ormskirk
Ormskirk

Ormskirk is a market town in West Lancashire Lancashire, England. It is situated north of Liverpool, and southwest of Preston....
 a market town in West Lancashire 13 miles NE of Liverpool
Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
 while her father completed a doctorate at Liverpool University. She spent some of her early life at the commune formed by her father at Braziers Park
Braziers Park

Braziers Park, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire is a country house and Grade II* listed building, built in the late 17th century , and modelled in the Strawberry Hill, London Gothic Revival architecture style of renaissance architecture by Daniel Harris on behalf of Isaac George Manley in 1799....
, Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire....
. After her parents divorced, when she was six years old, she moved with her mother to Reading, Berkshire
Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between London and Swindon off the M4 motorway....
. Living in rather reduced circumstances, Faithfull's girlhood was marred by bouts with tuberculosis and her charity-boarder status at St Joseph's Convent School
St Joseph's Convent School

St Joseph's Convent School is an independent mainly girl's school in Reading, Berkshire, England. It is a Catholic day school for girls aged 3 to 18 and boys aged 3 to 7....
. While at St. Joseph's, she was also a member of the Progress Theatre
Progress Theatre

Progress Theatre is a theatre company owning and managing its own theatre on The Mount, in Reading, Berkshire, Berkshire, England, close to University of Reading....
's student group.

Music career and personal life


1960s

Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk music
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 performer in coffeehouses. Faithfull emerged as a fashionable, vivacious teenager and soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
' launch party with John Dunbar
John Dunbar

John Dunbar is a United Kingdom artist, Collecting and former gallerist best known for his connections to the 1960s art and music scene. Jennifer Dunbar Dorn is his sister....
 and there a chance meeting with Andrew Loog Oldham
Andrew Loog Oldham

Andrew Loog Oldham is an England rock and roll record producer, impresario and author. He was manager of The Rolling Stones in the 1960s, taking a Flaming style inspired by Phil Spector....
, who discovered Faithfull. Her first major release, "As Tears Go By
As Tears Go By (song)

"As Tears Go By" is a song written by The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, and their manager Andrew Loog Oldham and most popularly recorded by British singer Marianne Faithfull in 1964....
", was penned by Oldham, Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
 and Keith Richards
Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
, and became a chart success. She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights" and "Come and Stay With Me". Faithfull married artist John Dunbar
John Dunbar

John Dunbar is a United Kingdom artist, Collecting and former gallerist best known for his connections to the 1960s art and music scene. Jennifer Dunbar Dorn is his sister....
 on 6 May 1965 at Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
 with Peter Asher
Peter Asher

Peter Asher was born on 22 June 1944 in Willesden, London, then part of Middlesex, England. He is a guitarist, singer, Talent manager and record producer....
 as the best man
Participants in wedding ceremonies

Wedding ceremony participants , also referred to as the wedding party, or the bridal party, include the bride and groom , maid of honor, bridesmaids, best man, groomsmen, flower girls, page boys and ringbearer....
. The couple lived in a flat at 29 Lennox Gardens in Belgravia
Belgravia

Belgravia is a district of central London in the City of Westminster, situated to the south-west of Buckingham Palace. Belgravia is approximately bounded by Knightsbridge to the north , Grosvenor Place and Buckingham Palace Road to the east, Pimlico Road to the south, and Sloane Street to the west....
 just off Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge is a road which gives its name to an exclusive district lying to the west of Central London. The road runs along the south side of Hyde Park, London, west from Hyde Park Corner, spanning the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
, London SW1. On 10 November 1965 she gave birth to their son, Nicholas. She then: "...left her husband to live with Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
...'
and told the 'New Musical Express' that: 'My first move was to get a Rolling Stone as a boyfriend. I slept with three and decided the lead singer was the best bet".

In 1966 she took their son to stay with Brian Jones
Brian Jones

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an England guitarist and founding member of the England rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, fashionable Mod image, Recreational drug use excesses and his 27 Club....
 and Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg

Anita Pallenberg is a model , actor and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1979....
 in London. During that time period, Faithfull started using marijuana
Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as Marijuana or marihuana, or ganja , is a psychoactive drug extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, or more often, Cannabis sativa subsp....
 and became best friends with Pallenberg. She also began a much publicized relationship with Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
 that same year. The couple became notorious and largely part of the hip Swinging London
Swinging London

Swinging London is a catchall term applied to dynamic cultural trends in the United Kingdom, centred in London, in the second half of the 1960s....
 scene. She was found by British police while on a drug search at Keith Richards
Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
' house in Redlands
Redlands

Redlands can refer to:...
, while wearing only a fur rug. In an interview 27 years later with A. M. Homes for Details, Faithfull discussed her wilder days and admitted that the drug bust-fur rug incident had ravaged her personal life: "It destroyed me. To be a male drug addict and to act like that is always enhancing and glamorising. A woman in that situation becomes a slut and a bad mother". In 1968 Faithfull, by now addicted to cocaine
Cocaine

Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
, miscarried a daughter (whom she had named Corrina) while retreating to Jagger's country house in Ireland.

Faithfull's involvement in Jagger's life would be reflected in some of the Rolling Stones' best-known songs. "Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil

"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by The Rolling Stones which first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1968 album Beggars Banquet....
", featured on the album Beggars Banquet
Beggars Banquet

Beggars Banquet is an LP released in 1968 by The Rolling Stones. It marked a return to the band's R&B roots, generally viewed as more primal than the conspicuous Psychedelic rock of Their Satanic Majesties Request....
 (1968), was in part inspired by The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheism Soviet Union....
, by Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian novelist and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for the novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century....
, a book which Faithfull introduced him to. The song "You Can't Always Get What You Want
You Can't Always Get What You Want

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the Rolling Stones released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone in its 2004 list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."...
" on the Let It Bleed
Let It Bleed

Let It Bleed is an album by English rock music band The Rolling Stones, released in December 1969. The follow up to Beggars Banquet , it appeared shortly after the band's The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969....
 album (1969) was written about Faithfull; the songs "Wild Horses
Wild Horses (song)

"Wild Horses" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Rolling Stone ranked it at #334 in its "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2004....
" and "I Got the Blues
I Got The Blues

"I Got the Blues" is a song from the the Rolling Stones 1971 album Sticky Fingers.Written by singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, "I Got the Blues" is a slow-paced, ravished song....
" on the 1971 album Sticky Fingers
Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers is an album by English Rock music band The Rolling Stones, released in April 1971. It is the band's first release on the band's newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records, after having been contracted since 1963 with Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the US....
 were also influenced by Faithfull, and she herself wrote "Sister Morphine
Sister Morphine

"Sister Morphine" is a song originally released as a single in 1969 in music by British singer Marianne Faithfull and later popularized by the rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, found on their 1971 in music album release Sticky Fingers....
". (The writing credit for the song was the subject of a protracted legal battle; the resolution of the case has Faithfull listed as co-author of the song.) In her autobiography, Faithfull said Mick Jagger and Keith Richards released it in their own names so that her agent did not collect all the royalties and proceeds from the song, especially as she was homeless and battling with heroin addiction at the time. Faithfull appeared on the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus TV show, giving a solo performance of "Something Better".

1970s

Faithfull dissolved her relationship with Jagger in May 1970, and lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her mother attempting suicide. Marianne's personal life went into decline, and her career went into a tailspin. She only made a few appearances, including a 1973 performance at NBC with David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, singing Sonny Bono
Sonny Bono

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an United States record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades....
's song (recorded in 1965 by Sonny and Cher) "I Got You Babe
I Got You Babe

"I Got You Babe" is a 1965 number-one hit single by United States rock music duo Sonny & Cher....
".

Faithfull lived on London's Soho
Soho

Soho is an area in the centre of the West End of London of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It is an entertainment district which for much of the later part of the 20th century had a reputation for its sex shops as well as its night life and film industry....
 streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatry illness that describes an eating disorder characterized by extreme low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight....
. Friends intervened and enrolled her in an NHS
National Health Service (England)

File:NHS-Logo.svgThe National Health Service is the name of the Publicly-funded health care in England . The NHS provides healthcare to anyone normally resident in the United Kingdom with most services free at the point of use for the patient though there are charges associated with eye tests, dental care, prescriptions, and many aspects...
 drug programme, from which she could get her daily fix on prescription from a chemist (pharmacy). She was one of the program's most notorious failures, neither controlling nor stabilizing her addiction as the NHS intended. In 1971, producer Mike Leander
Mike Leander

Michael George Farr professionally known as Mike Leander was an arranger and record producer for Decca Records in the 1960s and Bell Records in the 1970s and worked with such artists as Marianne Faithfull, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Joe Cocker, The Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lul...
 found her on the streets and made an attempt to revive her career, producing part of her album Rich Kid Blues. The album would be shelved until 1985.

Severe laryngitis coupled with persistent cocaine abuse during this period permanently altered the sound of Faithfull's voice, leaving it cracked and lower in pitch. While the new sound was praised as "whiskey-soaked" by some critics, journalist John Jones of the (London) Sunday Times wrote that she had "permanently vulgarized her voice". In 1975 she released the country
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
-influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams, which reached the top of the Irish Albums Chart
Irish Albums Chart

The Irish Albums Chart is the Republic of Ireland music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track....
. Faithfull moved into a squat
Squatting

Squatting is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not Land ownership and tenure....
 without hot water or electricity in Chelsea
Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an area of south-west London, England, bounded to the south by the River Thames, where its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along the Chelsea Embankment, Cheyne Walk, Lots Road power station and Chelsea Harbour....
 with her then-boyfriend Ben Brierly, of punk
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 band The Vibrators
The Vibrators

The Vibrators are a long-lived British punk rock band that formed in 1976 in music....
.

Faithfull's career returned full force in 1979 (the same year she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway) with the album Broken English, one of her most critically hailed album releases. The album was partially influenced by the punk explosion and on her marriage to Brierly in the same year. In addition to the punk-pop sounds of the title track (which addressed terrorism
Terrorism

Terrorism, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, is the systematic use of terror, "violent or destructive acts committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands." At present, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism....
 in Europe, being dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a Germany left-wing militant. She cofounded the Red Army Faction in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly left-wing magazine konkret....
), the album also included "Why D'Ya Do It", a punk-reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
 song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by Heathcote Williams
Heathcote Williams

John Henley Jasper Heathcote-Williams is an England poet, actor and playwright. He is also an intermittent painter, sculptor and long-time conjuror....
. The musical structure of this song is complex; though on the surface hard rock, it is a tango
Tango (dance)

Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after that....
 in 4/4 time, with an opening electric guitar riff by Barry Reynolds in which beats 1 and 4 of each measure are accented on the up-beat, and beat 3 is accented on the down beat. Faithfull, in her autobiography, commented that her fluid yet rhythmic reading of Williams' lyric was "an early form of rap". Broken English also revealed an astonishing change to Faithfull's singing voice. The melodic vocals on her early records were replaced with a raucous, deep voice, affected by years of smoking, drinking and drug use.

1980s

Faithfull began living in New York after the release of the follow-up to Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances
Dangerous Acquaintances

Dangerous Acquaintances is an 1981 album by British artist Marianne Faithfull. The work was seen by reviewers as a disappointing follow-up to Faithfull's Broken English, as the album trades the angry and controverse alternative New Wave music arrangements of the previous one for a more mainstream rock texture, using over a dozen sessi...
, in 1981. Despite her comeback, she was still battling with addiction in the mid-1980s, at one point breaking her jaw tripping on a flight of stairs while under the influence. In another incident her heart actually stopped. A disastrous appearance on Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
 was blamed on too many rehearsals, but it was suspected that drugs had caused her vocal cords to seize up. Rich Kid Blues (1984) was another collection of her early work combined with new recordings, a double record showcasing both the pop and rock 'n' roll facets of her output to date. In 1985, Faithfull performed "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" on Hal Willner
Hal Willner

Hal Willner is an United States music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He is best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles ....
's tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill

Lost In The Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill is a 1985 in music tribute album to German-American composer Kurt Weill. It was executive-produced by Hal Willner and John Telfer, and produced by Hal Willner and Paul M....
. Faithfull's restrained readings lent themselves to the material, and this collaboration informed several subsequent works.

In 1985, she was at Hazelden
Hazelden

The Hazelden Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Center City, Minnesota. Hazelden has facilities in Minnesota , Oregon, Illinois and New York....
 Clinic in Minnesota
Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
 for rehabilitation. She then received treatment at McLean Hospital
McLean Hospital

McLean Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and ground-breaking neuroscience research....
 in Belmont, Massachusetts. While living at a hotel in nearby Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
, Faithfull started an affair (while still married to Brierly) with a dual diagnosis
Dual diagnosis

The term dual diagnosis is used to describe the Comorbidity condition of a person considered to be suffering from a Mental disorder and a substance abuse problem....
 (mentally ill and drug dependent) man, Howard Tose, who later committed suicide by jumping from a 14th floor window of the apartment they shared. In 1987, 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". Faithfull's divorce from Brierly was also finalized that year. In 1995, she wrote and sang about the experience of Tose's death in "Flaming September" from the album A Secret Life.

In 1987, Faithfull again reinvented herself, this time as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 singer, on Strange Weather, also produced by Willner. The album became her most critically lauded album of the decade. Coming full circle, the renewed Faithfull cut another recording of "As Tears Go By
As Tears Go By

As Tears Go By is a Hong Kong films of 1988 Cinema of Hong Kong that was the directorial debut of Wong Kar-wai. Critics have compared the film to Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, as the central plot revolves around a small time gangster trying to keep his smaller-time gangster friend out of trouble....
" for Strange Weather, this time in a tighter, more gravelly voice. The singer confessed to a lingering irritation with her first hit. "I always childishly thought that was where my problems started, with that damn song," she told Jay Cocks
Jay Cocks

Jay Cocks is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time magazine, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before graduating to film writing....
 in Time
Time (magazine)

Time is a weekly United States newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition is published from London....
, but she came to terms with it as well as with her past. In a 1987 interview with Rory O'Connor of Vogue
Vogue

As a noun, vogue suggests transient fashionability, hence phrases such as vogue word.Vogue can also refer to:* Vogue , a fashion magazine** Vogue , the British edition...
, Faithfull declared, "forty is the age to sing it, not seventeen. The album of covers was produced by Hal Willner
Hal Willner

Hal Willner is an United States music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He is best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles ....
 after the two had spent numerous weekends listening to hundreds of songs from the annals of twentieth-century music. They chose to record such diverse tracks as Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It with Mine
I'll Keep It with Mine

"I'll Keep It With Mine" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964, first officially released on Nico's Chelsea Girl album in 1967. Dylan recorded the song at least twice: once solo on piano, a version released on the Biograph_ retrospective , and again with a band on January 27, 1966 , first released on The_Bootleg_Series_Volumes_1-3__1961...
" and "Yesterdays," written by Broadway composers Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The work also includes tunes first made notable by such blues luminaries as Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
 and Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith was an United States blues singer.The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists....
; latter-day beat-virtuoso Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
 penned the title track. In 1988, the singer married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, but they divorced in 1991.

1990s

When Roger Waters
Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
 assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera
Rock opera

A rock opera is a musical work that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are unrelated to each other in terms of storyline....
 The Wall
The Wall

The Wall is a rock opera presented as a double album by the England progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in late 1979. It was subsequently performed live, with elaborate theatrical effects, and made into Pink Floyd The Wall ....
 live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's over-protective 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. Anne's Cathedral in Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
. The 13 selections include "Sister Morphine," a cover of Edith Piaf
Édith Piaf

?dith Piaf was a France singer and cultural icon of partly algeria and Italy descent who "is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer." Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads....
's "Les Prisons du Roy," and the controversial "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
Dr. John

Dr. John is the stage name of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. , a pianist, singer, and songwriter, whose music spans, and often combines, blues, boogie woogie, and rock and roll....
. Nash was also impressed with the album's autobiographical tone, noting "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. The reviewer 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 graying, jaded contessa.

As her fascination with the music of Weimar
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
-era Germany continued, Faithfull released a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins and performed in The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera is a Musical theatre by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher....
. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues, which focused on the music of Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill , was a Germany, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the theatre....
 and Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht

was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
, and a successful concert and cabaret tour.

A Collection of Her Best Recordings was released in 1994, containing Faithfull's original version of "As Tears Go By," several cuts from Broken English, and a song written by Patti Smith
Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
 scheduled for inclusion on an Irish AIDS
AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the HIV ....
 benefit album. This track, "Ghost Dance", suggested to Faithfull by a friend who later died of AIDS, was made with a trio of old acquaintances: Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
 drummer Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is the drummer of The Rolling Stones. He is also a jazz bandleader and commercial artist. Watts is sometimes referred to as "The Wembley Whammer" when introduced by Mick Jagger during a concert....
 and guitarist Ron Wood
Ron Wood

Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood is an England Rock music guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Rolling Stones and Faces ....
 backed Faithfull's vocals on the song, while Keith Richards
Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
 coproduced it. The retrospective album also featured one live track, "Times Square," as well as Faithfull's return to songwriting with "She," penned with composer and arranger Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti is an Italian-American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for movie director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive ....
. The next year she recorded A Secret Life, with more songs written with Badalamenti. Faithfull also sang background vocals on Metallica's
Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
 song "The Memory Remains
The Memory Remains

"The Memory Remains" is a song by Metallica from their 1997 album ReLoad. It was first performed live in a "jam" version on July 2, 1996. The song is about a once-great, now forgotten celebrity who is desperate to regain her fame but is driven half-mad with her obscurity....
" from their 1997 album ReLoad
Reload (album)

Reload is the title of an album, released in 1999 by Wales singer Tom Jones .After a lengthy career, and a notable absence from the music charts for several years, Jones resurrected his career with this album of 15 cover versions and 2 original tracks recorded as duets with current artists....
 and appeared in the song's music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
; the track reached #28 in the U.S. (#3 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart) and #13 in the UK.

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
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
 Dreaming My Dreams contained material about her childhood and parents, with historical video footage going back to 1964 and interviews with the artist and several friends who have known her since childhood. The documentary included sections on her relationship with John Dunbar
John Dunbar

John Dunbar is a United Kingdom artist, Collecting and former gallerist best known for his connections to the 1960s art and music scene. Jennifer Dunbar Dorn is his sister....
 and Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
, and brief interviews with Keith Richards
Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
. It concluded with a 30-minute live concert. That same year, she ranked #25 in VH1
VH1

VH1 is an United States cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in television, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slighter older demographic than its sister channel, focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music....
's 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll
.

2000s

Faithfull has released several albums in the 2000s that received positive critical response, beginning with Vagabond Ways
Vagabond Ways

Vagabond Ways is a rock album by Marianne Faithfull. This is her first album of original material since A Secret Life . This work, produced by Daniel Lanois and Mark Howard, is a balladry-like extension of her then neo-cabaret persona, interpreting songs by herself and legendary songwriters of her generation, like Pink Floyd's Roger W...
 (2000). It included collaborations with Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois is a Canada record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club , U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Scott Weiland, Sin?ad O'Connor, Robbie Robertson, the Neville Brothers, Chris...
, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
, Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
's Roger Waters
Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
, and writer (and friend) Frank McGuiness. Later that year she sang "Love Got Lost" on Joe Jackson's
Joe Jackson (musician)

Joe Jackson is an England musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, described as a unique and critically acclaimed recording artist, whose five Grammy Award nominations span 1979 to 2001....
 Night and Day II
Night and Day II

Night and Day II is an album by Joe Jackson , released in 2000 in music, in a revisiting yet seemingly "inverse" style of his famous Night and Day ....
 album.

Her renaissance continued with Kissin' Time
Kissin' Time

Kissin' Time is a 2002 studio album by veteran United Kingdom musician Marianne Faithfull....
, released in 2002. The album contained songs written with Blur (title track), Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
, Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan

William Patrick Corgan, Jr. is an United States of America singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet. Corgan is the vocalist and lead guitarist for alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins....
, Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker is an England musician, best known for fronting the band Pulp . Through his work with the band, Cocker became one of the key players in the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s....
, Dave Stewart
David A. Stewart

David Allan Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart is an England born British musician and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics....
, David Courts, and the French pop singer Étienne Daho
Étienne Daho

?tienne Daho is a France singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981....
. On this record, she paid tribute to Nico
Nico

Christa P?ffgen was a German musician, Model , actress, and Warhol Superstar who is best known by her stage name Nico. She is renowned for both her tenure in The Velvet Underground and for her work as a solo artist....
 (with "Song for Nico"), whose work she admired. The album also included an autobiographical song she co-wrote with Cocker, called "Sliding Through Life on Charm".

In 2005, she released Before the Poison
Before The Poison

Before the Poison is the eighteenth studio album by Marianne Faithfull, recorded in 2003 and released in 2005....
. The album was primarily a collaboration with PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan....
 and Nick Cave
Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, Painting, and occasional film actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984 in music, who have become critically acclaimed for their fascination with American roots music....
, though Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn, , is a Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter and record producer whose eclectic musical style and observational lyrics have made him one of England's most successful musicians of the past 20 years....
 and Jon Brion
Jon Brion

Jon Brion is an United States rock and roll and pop music multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer....
 also contributed. In 2005, André Schneider
André Schneider

Andre Schneider is a writer and actor. He was born on 10 March, 1978, in Hildesheim, Germany.Schneider made his first impression as a stand-up comedian in Great Britain and Ireland, before he chalked up a string of parts in international film productions, such as The Tulse Luper Suitcases and Deed Poll ....
 performed a cover version of her song "The Hawk", and she recorded (and co-produced) "Lola R Forever", a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg was a France singer-songwriter, actor and Film director. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality made him difficult to categorize....
 song "Lola Rastaquouere" with Sly
Sly Dunbar

Lowell "Sly" Fillmore Dunbar was born on 10 May 1952, in Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica.Working together with Robbie Shakespeare, Sly and Robbie are considered one of the world's premier rhythm sections for their work in the field of reggae....
 & Robbie for the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited

Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited is a tribute album to the works of late French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. First released on Virgin Records in 2005, it consists of English language cover versions of Gainsbourg songs, performed by a diverse array of contemporary artists....
. In 2007, Faithfull collaborated with the British singer/songwriter, Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf is an England singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf plays many instruments including harp, clavinet, harpsichord, guitar, piano, autoharp, organ , Appalachian dulcimer, clavichord, harmonium, accordion, theremin, ukulele, viola, and violin....
 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.

Faithfull currently resides in Paris, with her manager and boyfriend François Ravard.

In March 2007 she returned to the stage with a touring show entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience. Supported by a trio, the performance had a semi-acoustic feel and toured European theatres throughout the spring and summer. The show featured many songs she had not performed live before including "Something Better", the song she sang on The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
' Rock & Roll Circus. The show also included the Harry Nilsson
Harry Nilsson

Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
 song "Don't Forget Me" which features the line "When we're old and full of cancer, it doesn't matter now, come on, get happy" seen as a celebration of her surviving the disease.

Recent articles hint Faithfull is looking to retirement, in hopes money from Songs of the Innocence and Experience, will enable her to live in comfort. The 60-year-old said: "I’m not prepared to be 70 and absolutely broke. I realized last year that I have no safety net at all and I’m going to have to get one. So I need to change my attitude to life, which means I have to put away 10 per cent every year of my old age. I want to be in a position where I don’t have to work. I should have thought about this a long time ago but I didn’t."

Recording of her studio album Easy Come, Easy Go
Easy Come, Easy Go (Marianne Faithfull album)

Easy Come, Easy Go is a studio album by England singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull, which was released in the European Union on November 10, 2008....
 commenced in New York City on 6 December 2007; the album is produced by Hal Willner
Hal Willner

Hal Willner is an United States music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He is best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles ....
 who also produced her 1987 album Strange Weather. A version of Morrissey
Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey , known primarily as Morrissey, is a British singer-songwriter. After a short stint in the punk rock band The Nosebleeds in the late 1970s, he rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths....
's Dear God Please Help Me from his 2006 album, Ringleader of the Tormentors
Ringleader of the Tormentors

Ringleader of the Tormentors is Morrissey's eighth solo album, which debuted at number one in the UK album charts and number twenty-seven in the US....
 is one of the songs featured, and the album is available both a standard 10 song cd and as an 18 song cd-dvd combination. A collectible vinyl pressing is also available. The EU release on Naive was November 10, 2008.

On January 20, 2009 the blog on Faithfull's MySpace page announced: "The US, UK and Australian release dates for Marianne's new album are as follows...US release: March 17th, 2009 on Decca
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
, UK release: March 16th, 2009 on Dramatico, Australian release: February 14th, 2009 on Shock records.

Acting career

In addition to her music career, Faithfull has had a career as an actress in theatre, television and film.

Her first professional theatre appearance was in a 1967 stage adaptation of Chekhov
Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian Short story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature....
’s Three Sisters
Three Sisters (play)

Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1900 in literature and first produced in 1901, It is considered one of Chekhov's major plays....
, at the Royal Court
Royal court

Royal court, as distinguished from a court of law, may refer to:*Noble court, the household or entourage of a monarch or other ruler*Royal Court , a theatre in Liverpool, England...
, London, in which she played Irina, co-starring with Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson

Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
 and Avril Elgar. Before that she played herself in Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris....
's movie Made in U.S.A.
Made in U.S.A. (film)

Made in U.S.A is a 1966 Cinema of France film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Greatly inspired by the Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep and unofficially based on the novel The Jugger, by Richard Stark , it stars Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre L?aud, L?szl? Szab? and Yves Afonso....
. Faithfull has also appeared in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name alongside Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
 (where she notedly became the first person to say "fuck
Fuck

Fuck is an English word that, as a transitive verb, means "to have sexual intercourse with". It also has various metaphorical meanings:*The verb "to be fucked" can mean "to be cheated" ....
" in a mainstream studio picture), in the French television movie Anna
Anna

Anna, Anne, or Ann may refer to:*Anna , a female given name...
, starring Anna Karina
Anna Karina

Anna Karina is a Denmark-born French film actress....
 (in which Faithfull sang Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg was a France singer-songwriter, actor and Film director. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality made him difficult to categorize....
's 'Hier ou Demain', a video available on YouTube), as a leather-clad motorcyclist in the 1968 French film La Motocyclette (English titles: Girl on a Motorcycle and Naked Under Leather) opposite Alain Delon
Alain Delon

Alain Delon is a C?sar Award-winning French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 he was garnering comparisons to famed French actors such as G?rard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean....
, and in Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger is an American Underground film Experimental film and author....
's 1969 film Lucifer Rising
Lucifer Rising

Lucifer Rising may refer to:* Lucifer Rising , an album by the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass.** "Lucifer Rising", a song by Candlemass from the above album....
, in which she played Lilith
Lilith

Lilith is a mythology female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 4000 BC....
. In 1969, Faithfull played Ophelia opposite Nicol Williamson
Nicol Williamson

Nicol Williamson is a Scotland actor who was described by England playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando"....
's Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
, directed by Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson

Tony Richardson was an England theatre and Academy Award-winning film film director and film producer.Richardson was born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist....
 and featuring Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh People film, theater and television actor. Considered by many to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is best known for his portrayal of cannibalism serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 in film blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs , its sequel, Hannibal ,...
 as Claudius.

Her stage work also included Edward Bond
Edward Bond

Edward Bond is an England playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of the play Saved , the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the United Kingdom....
s
Early Morning at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in which she played a lesbian Florence Nightingale, The Collector at St. Martin's Theatre in the West End opposite Simon Williams
Simon Williams

Simon Williams may refer to:*Simon Williams , English actor best known for playing James Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs*Simon Williams , bassist and backup singer to ska-punk band Goldfinger...
,
Mad Dog at Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in the vicinity of Swiss Cottage, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing....
 opposite Denholm Elliott
Denholm Elliott

Denholm Mitchell Elliott, Order of the British Empire was a distinguished England actor of theatre and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits....
,
A Patriot for Me by John Osborne
John Osborne

John James Osborne was an England playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of The Establishment. The stunning success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
, at Watford
Watford

Watford is a town and Non-metropolitan district in Hertfordshire, England, situated 19 miles northwest of London and within the bounds of the M25 motorway....
 Palace Theatre and
The Rainmaker, which toured the UK and in which Marianne's co-star was TV actor Peter Gilmore
Peter Gilmore

Peter Gilmore is a United Kingdom actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Captain James Onedin in the BBC Television period drama The Onedin Line....
. Other film roles in the 1970s included Stephen Weeks's
Ghost Story (AKA Madhouse Mansion) and Assault on Agathon.

Her television acting in the late 1960s and early 1970s included
The Door of Opportunity (1970) with Ian Ogilvy
Ian Ogilvy

Ian Raymond Ogilvy is an England film and television actor....
, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham , Order of the Companions of Honour was an English language playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s....
's story, followed by
Strindberg
Strindberg

Strindberg may refer to:People* August Strindberg , Swedish dramatist and painter* Nils Strindberg , Swedish photographer* Anita Strindberg , Swedish actor...
s The Stronger (1971) with Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland

Britt Ekland is a Sweden actress long resident in the United Kingdom. Best known for her role as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun , her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and for her high-profile social life....
, and Terrible Jim Fitch (1971) by James Leo Herlihy
James Leo Herlihy

James Leo Herlihy was an United States novelist, playwright and actor.Born into a working class family in Detroit, Michigan, Herlihy is known for his novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down and his play Blue Denim, all of which were adapted for the screen....
, which once more paired Faithfull with Nicol Williamson.

In 1993, she played the role of Pirate Jenny in The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera is a Musical theatre by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher....
 at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Later she performed The Seven Deadly Sins with the Vienna Radio Symphony, a CD of which was released in 1998.

She has played both God and the Devil. She appeared as God in two guest appearances in the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous is a BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning British sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders and co-starring Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks....
 opposite friend Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Jane Saunders is a BAFTA Award and Emmy Award-winning England comedienne, screenwriter and actress.She first came into widespread attention in the 1980s and the early 1990s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama....
, with another close friend, Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg

Anita Pallenberg is a model , actor and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1979....
, playing the Devil. In 2004 and 2005, Marianne herself played the Devil in William Burroughs's and Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
's musical, The Black Rider
The Black Rider

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a self-billed "musical fable" in the avant-garde tradition created through the collaboration of theatre director Robert Wilson , musician Tom Waits, and writer William S....
, directed by Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson (director)

Robert Wilson is an United States of America avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'"....
, which opened at London's Barbican Theatre, toured to San Francisco, but from which Marianne was forced to withdraw prior to performances at the Sydney Festival, owing to exhaustion.

In 2001 Faithfull appeared with Lucy Russell and Lambert Wilson
Lambert Wilson

Lambert Wilson is a France actor. He is recently known for his portrayal of Merovingian in The Matrix movies....
 in C.S. Leigh's Far From China. She has also appeared in Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau

Patrice Ch?reau is a France opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and Television producer....
's Intimacy
Intimacy (2001 film)

Intimacy , directed by Patrice Chereau, featuring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox. In London, a bartender who has regular, casual sex with a mysterious woman every Wednesday, becomes curious about her life and spies on her, with unintended consequences for their relationship....
 (2001) and, in 2004, in Jose Hayot's Nord-Plage. Faithfull appeared as Empress Maria-Theresa
Maria Theresa of Austria

Maria Theresa was the List of rulers of Austria, List of rulers of Hungary, List of rulers of Croatia, Queen of Bohemia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany and a Holy Roman Emperor by marriage to Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor....
 in Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actor, film producer and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two being Lina Wertm?ller and Jane Campion....
's 2006 biopic, Marie-Antoinette, in which the most affecting aspects of her performance were her spoken voice-overs. She starred in the film Irina Palm
Irina Palm

Irina Palm is a tragicomedy film starring Marianne Faithfull and Miki Manojlovic. It is a co-production of five countries . The film premiered, to great acclaim, at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival....
, released at the Berlinale film festival in 2007. Faithfull plays the central role of Maggie, a 60-year-old widow who becomes a sex worker to pay for medical treatment for her ill grandson.

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. She has appeared in the 2008 feature documentary by Nik Sheehan on Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin

Brion Gysin was a Painting, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique used by William S....
 and the Dreamachine
Dreamachine

The dreamachine is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain....
, entitled .

In October 2008, Marianne's website and MySpace page announced Marianne's tour of readings of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and death....
, drawing on the "Dark Lady" sequence. Marianne's accompanist on the tour is the cellist Vincent Segal.

Career as a diarist

In 1994, she published an autobiography, entitled Faithfull, in which she discusses her early life, career, drug addictions, experimentation with bisexuality
Bisexuality

Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or physical attraction to people of both genders , or a bisexual orientation. People who have a bisexual orientation "can experience sexual attraction, emotional, and affectional attraction to both their own sex and the opposite sex"; "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social i...
 and significant relationships with her parents, the various Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan.

In 2007, Faithfull released a second volume of autobiography called Memories, Dreams and Relections. The book, published by Fourth Estate (an imprint of HarperCollins
HarperCollins

HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company....
), was a more personal history than Faithfull and contains a wide range of material, including a detailed early history of her mother's life in Austria, her recollections of friends who have passed away, and her assessments of various recent health issues.

Nominations and awards

On 4 November 2007, the European Film Academy
European Film Academy

The European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European film director who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988....
 announced that Faithfull had received a nomination for Best Actress, for her role as Maggie in Irina Palm. At the 20th annual European Film Awards ceremony held in Berlin, on 1 December 2007, Faithfull lost to Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren, Order of the British Empire is a multi-award winnning English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career....
.



On March 5, 2009, Faithfull received the World Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2009 . "Marianne’s contribution to the arts over a 45 year career including 23 albums as a singer, songwriter and interpreter, and numerous appearances on stage and screen is now being acknowledged with this special award." The award was presented in Vienna, with ceremonies to be broadcast in over 40 countries on March 8, 2009 as part of International Women's Day
International Women's Day

International Women's Day is marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women....
.

Health


In the past five years, Faithfull's touring and work schedule has been interrupted 3 times due to various health issues.

In late 2004 she called off the European leg of a world tour, promoting Before The Poison
Before The Poison

Before the Poison is the eighteenth studio album by Marianne Faithfull, recorded in 2003 and released in 2005....
 after collapsing onstage in Milan, and was hospitalized for exhaustion. The tour resumed later and included a US leg in 2005.

In September 2006, she again called off a concert tour, this time after she was diagnosed with breast cancer
Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the Cell of the breast in women and men. Worldwide, breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer after lung cancer and the fifth most common cause of cancer death....
. The following month, she underwent surgery in France and no further treatment was necessary owing to the tumour having been caught at a very early stage. Less than two months after she declared having the disease, Faithfull made her public statement of full recovery.

On 11 October 2007 Faithfull admitted to having the disease Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a Blood-borne disease infectious disease that is caused by the hepatitis C virus , affecting the liver. The infection is often asymptomatic, but once established, chronic infection can cause inflammation of the liver ....
 on UK television programme This Morning
This Morning (TV series)

This Morning is a United Kingdom daytime television programme created by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV1. It first aired from Granada's Albert Dock Studios in Liverpool on 3 October 1988....
, and that she had first been diagnosed with the condition 12 years before. She discusses both the cancer and Hepatitis diagnoses in further depth in her second memoir, Memories, Dreams and Relections.

On 27 May 2008, Faithfull released the following blog posting on her MySpace
MySpace

MySpace is a social network service website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally....
 page, with the headline "Tour Dates Cancelled" and credited to FR Management - the company operated by her boyfriend/manager Francois Ravard: "Due to general mental, physical and nervous exhaustion doctors have ordered Marianne Faithfull to immediately cease all work activities and rehabilitate. The treatment and recovery should last around 6 months, we all wish Marianne a speedy recuperation period and look forward to her new album release and tour in 2009."

Discography


Filmography

  • Made in U.S.A.
    Made in U.S.A. (film)

    Made in U.S.A is a 1966 Cinema of France film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Greatly inspired by the Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep and unofficially based on the novel The Jugger, by Richard Stark , it stars Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre L?aud, L?szl? Szab? and Yves Afonso....
     (1966)
  • Anna (1967)
  • I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name (1967)
  • Three Sisters (1967)
  • La Motocyclette / The Girl on a Motorcycle
    The Girl on a Motorcycle

    The Girl on a Motorcycle is a 1968 in film French film staring Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring, and Catherine Jourdan....
     (a.k.a. Naked Under Leather) (1968)
  • Rock and Roll Circus (1968/Released 1996)
  • Hamlet
    Hamlet (1969 film)

    Hamlet is a 1969 in film British film adaptation of Hamlet, starring Nicol Williamson as Prince Hamlet. It was directed by Tony Richardson and based on his own stage production at the The Roundhouse theatre in London....
     (1969)
  • Lucifer Rising
    Lucifer Rising (film)

    Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was completed in 1972 in film and starred British singer Marianne Faithfull, but only widely distributed in 1980, and critically panned....
     (1972)
  • Madhouse Mansion (1974)
  • Assault on Agathon (1975)
  • The Turn of the Screw (1992) (narration)
  • When Pigs Fly (1993)
  • Shopping
    Shopping (film)

    Shopping is a 1994 in film film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson about a group of United Kingdom teenagers who indulge in Joyride and ramraiding....
     (1994)
  • Moondance (1995)
  • Crimetime (1996)
  • Intimacy
    Intimacy (2001 film)

    Intimacy , directed by Patrice Chereau, featuring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox. In London, a bartender who has regular, casual sex with a mysterious woman every Wednesday, becomes curious about her life and spies on her, with unintended consequences for their relationship....
     (2001)
  • Far From China (2001)
  • Nord-Plage (2004)
  • A Letter to True (2004)
  • Paris, je t'aime
    Paris, je t'aime

    Paris, je t'aime is a 2006 in film film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities including American, British and French....
     (2006)
  • Marie Antoinette
    Marie Antoinette (2006 film)

    Marie Antoinette is a 2006 Academy Award winning biographical film, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It is loosely based on the life of Marie Antoinette in the years leading up to the French Revolution....
     (2006)
  • Irina Palm
    Irina Palm

    Irina Palm is a tragicomedy film starring Marianne Faithfull and Miki Manojlovic. It is a co-production of five countries . The film premiered, to great acclaim, at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival....
     (2007)
  • Evil Calls: The Raven aka Alone in the Dark (2008)


Books

  • (with David Dalton) Faithfull: an autobiography. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000 (first appeared 1994), ISBN 0815410468
  • Memories, Dreams and Reflections. HarperCollins UK, 2008 (first appeared 2007), ISBN 9780007245819


Further reading

  • Stieven-Taylor, Alison (2007). . SYD. Rockpool Publishing. ISBN 9781921295065
  • "As years go by." The Independent
    The Independent

    The Independent is a United Kingdom Compact newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is nicknamed the Indy, with the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, being the Sindy....
    , 1 Sept 1996, p. 18. An interview with Faithfull in which she specifically denies the notorious Mars Bar incident.


External links



No reliable sources found to indicate she identifies as bi.Category:Bisexual musicians