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Express Tribune
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Marianne Faithfull, legendary pop star and survivor, dies at 78
Marianne Faithfull, the iconic pop star who transitioned from being Mick Jagger's muse to a gritty survivor, has died at the age of 78 in London. Known for her ethereal beauty and haunting voice, Faithfull's early career in the 1960s was marked by her hit 'As Tears Go By' and her romantic involvement with Jagger. However, her life took a darker turn as she battled addiction, homelessness, and personal tragedy, including a suicide attempt and a tumultuous public persona. Despite these struggles, Faithfull reinvented herself in the 1970s, finding new respect as a cabaret artist. Her 1979 album Broken English earned her critical acclaim for its raw and gritty sound, a stark contrast to her early pop hits. Songs like 'Why D'Ya Do It?' became anthems of her tumultuous journey, cementing her as a symbol of survival and transformation. Throughout her career, Faithfull recorded over 20 albums and also made notable appearances in film and theater, including roles in The Girl on a Motorcycle and Hamlet. Later in life, she continued to release music, collaborating with artists like PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. Despite battling breast cancer and hepatitis C, Faithfull remained a beloved figure in the music world until her death. She is survived by her son, Nicholas Dunbar, and her grandchildren. Faithfull's story remains a testament to resilience, as she navigated both the glitz of fame and the depths of personal struggles, ultimately emerging as a revered artist in her own right.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marianne Faithfull, British singer and Rolling Stones muse, dies at 78
Marianne Faithfull, a singer and actress known for hits like "As Tears Go By," died Thursday, a spokesperson confirmed. She was 78. "It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull," a statement provided to USA TODAY read. "Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed." A cause of death was not provided. Faithfull's music rose to popularity in the 1960s, and helped helm the female wing of the British invasion, a term for U.K. artists becoming popular in the U.S. commonly associated with The Beatles. Her musical career − a prolific and scandal-ridden five decades marked by confessional lyrics, and albums across several genres − ran parallel to growing success on the screen. With films like "Hamlet," "The Girl on a Motorcycle" and, much later, Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette," Faithfull proved her talent for storytelling was not limited to her own life. Both a household name and a victim of her circumstances, Faithfull's story was punctuated by a bouts of tragedy. Her experiences with homelessness and drug addiction made the longevity of her career a true phoenix story. Faithfull met Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in her teens, according to The Guardian, kicking off a fruitful and fraught period of collaboration with the band − in particular, frontman Mick Jagger. Oldham asked Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards to pen Faithfull's debut single "As Tears Go By" in 1964 which went on to become one of her most famous tracks. In 1965, Faithfull married artist John Dunbar, with whom she had a son, but soon left the marriage to be with Jagger, the outlet reports. In the four-year relationship that ensued, she became a muse for one of the biggest rock bands in the world and fell into a worsening spiral of drug addiction. In a miraculous fall from the height of fame, Faithfull lost custody of her child and wound up homeless on the streets of London. Speaking on those years, she told Details magazine in 1993: "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 1967 she pulled off a comeback with "Dreamin' My Dreams," a country album, which barely made ripples in Britain but became a cult success in Ireland. Faithfull became fully clean and sober until over a decade later. Releasing a total of 21 studio albums, Faithfull collaborated with artists like Emmylou Harris, Beck and Metallica. If you or someone you know is struggling with substance use disorders, you can call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357. The service is free, confidential and available in English and Spanish. This story has been updated to include additional information. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Marianne Faithfull dead: Rolling Stones muse, British singer was 78
The Guardian
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers
On the screen and also in life, Marianne Faithfull experienced something similar to her contemporary Anita Pallenberg – the condescension of being treated like an icon or a muse. Maybe her very real success in music ruled her out of a serious acting career in the eyes of some, but Faithfull for a while occupied the epicentre of the late-60s pop culture zeitgeist, for an intense flashbulb moment she found herself in the overlapping worlds of music, movies and the explodingly important world of celebrity itself. The famous photograph of her in 1967 on a couch between Alain Delon and Mick Jagger absolutely captures her magnetism: Delon is entranced by her, Jagger (her boyfriend) is jealous, looking grumpily down: she and Delon were starring together in The Girl on a Motorcycle by the British cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff in which she was the super-sexy rock chick in a leather body suit whose zipper Delon would lasciviously pull down with his teeth. Around the same time, Jean-Luc Godard gave her a prominent cameo in his archly anti-American Made in USA, singing her chart-topping single As Tears Go By in a cafe, a song that mysteriously becomes the soundtrack to the main characters' tensions and discontents. Godard homed in on her brand identity as a muse for the modishly rebellious Britrock invasion of America and the world – but Godard favoured her as a follower of the bad-boy Stones, not the goody-two-shoes Beatles. She had also appeared in the trendspotting comedy I'll Never Forget What's'isname, from director Michael Winner about that most fashionable of figures: an ad man. She was enigmatic goddess Lilith in Kenneth Anger's experimental Lucifer Rising. These were not films that made great demands on Faithfull's acting skills, although she certainly had them, as could be seen in Tony Richardson's filmed version of his stage production of Hamlet, in which Faithfull was a poignantly frail Ophelia opposite Nicol Williamson's prince and Anthony Hopkins' king – singing beautifully. But perhaps it was her destiny in later years (like Pallenberg) to get small parts, some in productions where her presence facilitated financial backing. She was briefly in a 1974 mystery horror called Ghost Story, with Vivian MacKerrell, who inspired the figure of Withnail in Withnail and I. She was briefly in the 90s crime drama Shopping and in Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy. But a lot of the time it was a question of affectionately and respectfully intended iconic cameos, intended at some level to conjure up the authority of that 60s buzz: Gus Van Sant put her in his short Le Marais in 2006 as part of the Paris, Je T'Aime anthology and the same year Sofia Coppola made her the Empress Maria Theresa, mother of Kirsten Dunst's Marie Antoinette in her film of that name. But she was also prominent (unfortunately) in that somewhat bizarre British movie Irina Palm from 2008 in which she plays an older woman who turns to sex work to pay for her grandson's operation, taking advantage of her silky palms – giving hand relief via glory holes in a sex clubs to men who never see her. It was a film that briefly gave rise to a prize called the Irina Palm d'Or for the most entirely unsatisfactory British film. Perhaps Faithfull is a figure from music and pop culture from the lost swinging age rather than cinema, but without the movies she would not have been so potent.
The Guardian
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Marianne Faithfull – a life in pictures
Marianne Faithfull posing for portraits in 1965 Photograph: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy With her first husband, John Dunbar, an artist and co-founder of the Indica gallery, London in 1965 Photograph:Photograph: Terry Mealy/Mirrorpix Performing on The Tom Jones Show in 1966 Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock With the director Jean-Luc Godard and actor Anna Karina on set in Paris in 1966 during the filming of the French crime comedy film Made in USA. Marianne plays herself as a singer in a cafe, The song she sings is As Tears Go By Photograph: Reporters Associes/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Backstage with her boyfriend Mick Jagger after her first night performance as Irina in Chekhov's Three Sisters' at the Royal Court theatre in London in April, 1967 Photograph:Photograph: Marc Sharratt/Shutterstock With the director Michael Winner on the set of the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Filming The Girl on a Motorcycle in 1967 Photograph: Bill Zygmant/Shutterstock Faithfull leaving court in June 1967 when her boyfriend, Jagger, was sentenced to three months in jail on narcotics charges. The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was sentenced to a year in prison Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive With her co-star Alain Delon in the 1968 film The Girl on a Motorcycle, directed by Jack Cardiff Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy Arriving at court with Mick Jagger in 1969 to face charges of possessing marijuana. The couple were arrested during a police raid at Jagger's Cheyne Walk home in London Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive As Ophelia in the 1969 film adaptation of Hamlet with Nicol Williamson in the lead role Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy With her mother, Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso, at their cottage in 1970 Photograph: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Pictured with her son Nicholas, at home in Aldworth, Berkshire in 1971 Photograph: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Wearing a dress by the British designer Ossie Clark in 1973 Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns With David Bowie at a live recording of The 1980 Floor Show for the NBC Midnight Special TV show, at the Marquee club in London in October 1973. Photograph:At her wedding to Ben Brierly, a punk musician from the band the Vibrators in 1979 Photograph: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy The cover of the 1979 album Broken English. The photograph was taken by the British photographer Dennis Morris Photograph: Vinyls/Alamy At the Dorchester hotel in London in 1980 Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images Performing at the Dominion theatre in London in 1982 Photograph: David Corio/Redferns On stage during Roger Waters' concert version of The Wall in Berlin on 21 July 1990. The concert commemorated the fall of the Berlin Wall and a recording of it was released as the live album The Wall – Live in Berlin Photograph:Photograph:With the British musician Johnny Marr performing on stage during the Here, There And Everywhere: a Concert For Linda tribute to Linda McCartney at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1999 Photograph:With Jarvis Cocker of Pulp performing at the Barbican, London in 2002 Photograph:At the Berlin international film festival in 2007 Photograph:At her home in Paris in 2018 Photograph: Yann Orhan Photograph: Rosie Matheson
USA Today
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Marianne Faithfull, British singer and Rolling Stones muse, dies at 78
Marianne Faithfull, a singer and actress known for hits like "As Tears Go By," died Thursday, a spokesperson confirmed. She was 78. "It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull," a statement provided to USA TODAY read. "Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed." A cause of death was not provided. Faithfull's music rose to popularity in the 1960s, and helped helm the female wing of the British invasion, a term for U.K. artists becoming popular in the U.S. commonly associated with The Beatles. Her musical career ran parallel to growing success in acting with films like "Hamlet," "The Girl on a Motorcycle," and much later, Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette." Remembering those we lost: Celebrity Deaths 2025 Both a household name and a victim of her circumstances, Faithfull's story was punctuated by an unusual amount of tragedy. Her bouts with homelessness and drug addiction made the longevity of her career a phoenix's story. Faithfull met Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in her teens, according to The Guardian, kicking off a fruitful and fraught period of collaboration with the band − in particular, frontman Mick Jagger. Oldham asked Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards to pen Faithfull's debut single "As Tears Go By" in 1964 which went on to become one of her most famous tracks. In 1965, Faithfull married artist John Dunbar, with whom she had a son, but soon left the marriage to be with Jagger, the outlet reports. In the four-year relationship that ensued, she became a muse for one of the biggest rock bands in the world and fell into a worsening spiral of drug addiction. In a miraculous fall from the height of fame, Faithfull lost custody of her child and wound up homeless on the streets of London. In 1967 she pulled off a comeback with "Dreamin' My Dreams," a country album, becoming clean and sober over a decade later. Releasing a total of 21 studio albums, Faithfull collaborated with artists like Emmylou Harris, Beck and Metallica.
