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Daily Mail
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Twist in death of Marianne Faithfull as records show pop icon and Rolling Stones muse died without a will and left tiny estate to her family
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull who was the lover of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger for four years in the 1960s left an estate worth just £35,000. Faithfull who died aged 78 on January 30 this year became the ultimate rock chick, inspiring Stones songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. She also had flings with two other Stones – Keith Richards and Brian Jones – as well as David Bowie, but she resisted the advances of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. Her life spiralled out of control due to heroin addiction and homelessness in the early 1970s before she resurrected her career with a string of new albums including Broken English in 1979. Probate records revealed today that Faithfull who was married and divorced three times died intestate without leaving a will. Under intestacy rules, her entire estate of £43,000, reduced to a net figure of £35,000 after deduction of liabilities, will be inherited by her only son Nicholas Dunbar. Faithfull died after years of suffering multiple health problems, including bulimia, breast cancer and emphysema caused by decades of smoking. She was hospitalised for 22 days when she contracted Covid-19 in 2020 and was not expected to survive, but she pulled through, releasing her 21st album, She Walks in Beauty, a year later. Faithfull's grant of probate revealed she was living at the time of her death in the Denville Hall care home for members of the theatrical profession in Northwood, north west London. She reportedly moved into care in 2022. The singer was born in Hampstead, north London, on December 29, 1946, little more than a year after the Second World War. Her mother Eva was a Hungarian, half-Jewish baroness and former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis, while her father Major Robert Glynn Faithfull was a colourful character who had been a MI6 agent before becoming a professor of Italian literature. It was often suggested that Faithfull's free spirit came from her childhood at a country house called Braziers Park, in Oxfordshire, which her father turned into a commune where promiscuity reigned. Her mother later moved with her to a terraced house in Reading and sent her to a Roman Catholic boarding school. It was during this time that she started pursuing a singing career, performing in coffee bars in Reading. Her big break came in 1964 when she was just 17 and attended a Rolling Stones party where she was spotted by the band's producer Andrew Loog Oldham who helped her to release her haunting debut single As Tears Go By in the same year. The wistful ballad had been written by Jagger and his songwriting partner Keith Richards, but Oldham gave it to her because he did not think it was suitable for the Stones. Faithfull went on to release a string of captivating singles including Come Stay With Me, This Little Bird, Summer Nights and a cover of The Beatles' Yesterday. Despite having turned down Bob Dylan when he came to London in 1965, she began a high-profile four-year relationship with Jagger in 1966. One of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs, Sympathy For The Devil, was inspired by a Russian novel called The Master And Margarita, introduced to Jagger by Faithfull. As a couple, they epitomised the Swinging Sixties and attracted huge interest in the media, including lurid headlines. Faithfull was aged just 20 when police found her wearing nothing but a fur rug during a drugs bust at Richards' luxury Sussex home Redlands in 1967. The raid prompted a less than salubrious rumour that Jagger had been performing a sex act on Faithfull at the time, involving a Mars bar. Faithfull always insisted that the story had been made up, describing it in her autobiography as 'a dirty old man's fantasy'. Her popularity was enhanced by acting roles which starring in the Chekov play Three Sisters alongside Glenda Jackson at London's Royal Court in 1967 Faithfull was credited with being the first person to say 'f***' in a mainstream film, when she appeared in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's'isname. Her most famous screen role was in the lead tole of the 1968 film The Girl On A Motorcycle in 1968, which was noted for being America's first X-rated film. But drugs took a toll on her and her relationship with Jagger disintegrated as her pop career hit the buffers. Her decline was documented in the Stones' song Sister Morphine which she co-wrote with Jagger and Richards for the band's 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Faithfull lost custody of her son and went into a coma after a suicide attempt as she remained in the grip of heroin addiction which led to her being effectively homeless and living for two years in a squat in Soho. But her fighting spirit helped her make a musical comeback in 1979 with her album Broken English, and its signature song The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan. Her years of hard living, as well as severe laryngitis and drug abuse had left her voice sounding raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. Critics described her tone as 'whisky soaked', and helping to capture the raw emotions expressed in her music, drawing on jazz and blues in particular. Her other albums included Dangerous Acquaintances in 1981, which ended with the searing song Truth, Bitter Truth. Marianne pictured in 1968 on the set of The Girl On A Motorcycle She also played God in two episodes of the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, and the devil in William Burroughs' and Tom Waits' musical, The Black Rider. Faithfull's final album She Walks In Beauty in 2021 featured her reciting the works of British romantic poets to music arranged by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal. She received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women's World Awards in 2009, and was also made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. Faithfull was first married briefly to artist John Dunbar in 1965, then Ben Brierly of punk band the Vibrators from 1979 to 1986, and actor Giorgio Della Terza from 1988 to 1991 Jagger paid tribute to her after her death, describing her as 'a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress', and saying he was 'so saddened' by her loss. Richards also posted that he was 'so sad' following her death while Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood posted pictures on Instagram of himself with her, along with captions saying: 'Farewell dear Marianne', and 'Marianne will be dearly missed. Bless her xx'. Faithfull's long-time friend, the BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris, called her an 'encapsulation of the sixties'. He said that 'people began to see her as an artist, as a creator', although she was initially known as Jagger's girlfriend.
New York Times
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull
Image Credit... Danny Kasirye for The New York Times We lost one of the true greats last week when Marianne Faithfull died at age 78. A pop star turned punk rocker turned cabaret chanteuse, Faithfull was also a style icon, an actress with remarkable screen presence and a wonderfully unfiltered memoirist, among many other things. She will be greatly missed — but what a life she lived! Today's playlist is a celebration of Faithfull's long and varied musical career, which began at 17 — when she was signed on sight by the Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham — and stretched until her late 70s. I had the honor and pleasure of interviewing Faithfull in 2021, around the release of what is now the final album she released in her lifetime, 'She Walks in Beauty,' which found her reciting Romantic poetry atop compositions produced by her friend and collaborator Warren Ellis. She was then recovering from a nasty bout of Covid-19 that had put her in a coma, but her resilience was something to behold. That toughness and durability was a through line of her career, as she sprung back from multiple near-death experiences and returned with music that seemed supercharged by those struggles. She was a bold, intuitive and one-of-a-kind artist, as you'll hear on the following 10 tracks. Also, apologies for this newsletter going out a day late. My personal advice: Steer clear of that norovirus! Thankfully I'm now on the mend and The Amplifier will return to its regular schedule on Friday. Til then! It is the evening of the day, Lindsay Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marianne Faithfull – best known for song As Tears Go By – dies, aged 78
Marianna Faithfull, a singer and actress known for her hit song As Tears Go By, has passed away at the age of 78. A spokesperson for the singer said: "It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull. Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed." The singer started her career in 1964 when she was discovered by music manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Marianne had been attending a party hosted for The Rolling Stones at the time. A year later, she released her self-titled debut album, which became a critical and commercial hit. The album contained some of her best-known songs, including As Tears Go By, which was co-written with the Rolling Stones, and Come and Stay With Me. She released five more albums during the 1960s, but due to a turbulent personal life, she then underwent a period of silence. She returned to the music scene with her 1976 album, Dreamin' My Dreams, but it was her 1979 album, Broken English, which revitalised her career. The album also contained some of Marianne's most personal songs, as she addressed her drug and alcohol addictions. The star continued to experiment with her musical style throughout the rest of her life. Her final album, She Walks in Beauty, was released in 2021 and focused on putting music to some of Britain's most iconic love poems. Marianne acted on both the screen and theatre and she made her professional acting debut in 1967 in a production of Three Sisters. Other notable theatre roles include Ophelia in a 1969 production of Hamlet and as Alice in the 1973 showing of Alice in Wonderland. On the silver screen, she appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A., where she made a cameo appearance singing As Tears Go By. The star leant her voice to Absolutely Fabulous where she played God over three episodes and her final role was as the narrator in 2023's Wild Summer. One of her most-famous roles was as Maggie in 2007's Irina Palm. Marianne played a grandmother who turned to sex work in order to fund her grandson's medical treatment and her role saw her nominated as Best Actress at the European Film Awards. Marianne was the ex-girlfriend of The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, with the pair having dated for four years. Marianne fell pregnant with their daughter, Corinna, however, seven months into the pregnancy she tragically miscarried. Marianne was still married to music producer John Dunbar when she dated Mick, with the couple divorcing in 1966. The singer subsequently married The Vibrators singer Ben Brierly in 1979, with the pair splitting in 1986. Her third marriage was to actor Giorgio Della Terza, with the pair walking down the aisle in 1988 before splitting in 1991. Reflecting on her love life in 2011, she said: "I've had a wonderful life with all my lovers, and husbands." However she joked that Giorgio "was a nightmare". Marianne was a mother-of-one, welcoming her first son, Nicholas, with her husband John. Marianne lost custody of Nicholas after news emerged of her drug addictions. The pair were thankfully able to reconcile, with the star calling her son "sensible". Through Nicholas, she is a grandmother to Noah, Oscar and Eliza. Marianne's life was marked by her drug addictions and in 1967, she was discovered in just a fur rug when police conducted a drug search at Keith Richards's home. Reflecting on the experience with Details, she shared: "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." During the 1970s, she spent two years living on the streets of SoHo, while she was addicted to heroin. She told the Guardian in 2018: "My answer to everything was to get as stoned as possible and live on the street, which made me sort of unattractive." Her life was plagued by other health issues, with the star calling off the European stint of her 2004 tour after collapsing on stage while in Madrid. In 2006, Marianne was diagnosed with breast cancer, thankfully, as the illness was caught early, she was given the all-clear just two months later. In 2012, she went public with her diagnosis of hepatitis C. Speaking on This Morning, she said: "I have hepatitis C and the worst thing for that is alcohol. I found out about 12 years ago. I was incredibly lucky. I shouldn't be alive - I know that. "Life has become much more precious to me and my health has become much more precious to me. I do not miss the drugs. I suppose it would be nice to have a glass of wine or something but it really would not be good for my health." In 2020, the star contracted COVID-19 and pneumonia. She was released from hospital three weeks later, and she thanked the staff who "without a doubt" saved her life. Reflecting on the experience a year later, she said: "Three things: the memory, fatigue and my lungs are still not OK – I have to have oxygen and all that stuff. The side-effects are so strange. Some people come back from it but they can't walk or speak. Awful."
