Best known for her gravelly voice and sultry image, the singer and actress and former associate of the Rolling Stones has died.
Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London’s swinging ’60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and COVID-19, has died at the age of 78 after a singing career that began as a teenager and lasted until her 70s.
But she got better, and within a year, she finished the album she had been working on before falling sick,, a collection of Romantic-era poems read by her and set to music in collaboration with Warren Ellis of the Dirty Three and the Bad Seeds. Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was born on December 29, 1946, in London to a British intelligence officer who interrogated prisoners of war. Her mother was closely related to the Austrian aristocracy.
There, she met Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who launched her popular music career and brought her into the band’s inner circle. The incident permanently earned her a place in rock ‘n’ roll legend, but Faithfull later pointed out that she had not, in fact, been taking part in a wild orgy, as British tabloid reports suggested; she had been taking a bath when the police entered the house, and grabbed the nearest thing, a rug, to cover up.
As the 1960s ended, Faithfull’s life of glamour faded quickly, and she spent two years living on the streets of London as an anorexic heroin addict after she and Jagger split in 1970. But among the squalor, she found an upside.
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