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Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single " As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the
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in the United States. Born in
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, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a
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party, where she was discovered by
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. Her debut album ''
Marianne Faithfull Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single " As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British I ...
'' (1965) (released simultaneously with her album '' Come My Way'') was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on
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. From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with
Mick Jagger Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer and songwriter who has achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and one of the founder members of the rock band the Rolling Stones. His ongoing songwriting partnershi ...
. Her popularity was further enhanced by her film roles, such as those in '' I'll Never Forget What's'isname'' (1967), '' The Girl on a Motorcycle'' (1968), and ''
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'' (1969). However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s. During that time she was
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, homeless, and a heroin addict. Noted for her distinctive voice, Faithfull's previously melodic and higher-registered vocals (which were prevalent throughout her career in the 1960s) were affected by severe
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, coupled with persistent drug abuse during the 1970s, permanently altering her voice, leaving it raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. This new sound was praised as "whisky soaked" by some critics and seen as having helped to capture the raw emotions expressed in Faithfull's music. After a long commercial absence, Faithfull made a comeback with the 1979 release of her critically acclaimed album ''
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.'' The album was a commercial success and marked a resurgence of her musical career. ''Broken English'' earned Faithfull a nomination for the
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and is often regarded as her "definitive recording". She followed this with a series of albums, including ''
Dangerous Acquaintances ''Dangerous Acquaintances'' is the eighth studio album by English singer Marianne Faithfull. It was released on 1 September 1981 by Island Records. The album was seen by reviewers as a disappointing follow-up to Faithfull's '' Broken English'', ...
'' (1981), '' A Child's Adventure'' (1983), and '' Strange Weather'' (1987). Faithfull also wrote three books about her life: '' Faithfull: An Autobiography'' (1994), ''Memories, Dreams & Reflections'' (2007), and ''Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record'' (2014). Faithfull is listed on VH1's "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" list. She received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women's World Awards and was made a ''Commandeur'' of the ''
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'' by the government of France.


Early life


Ancestry

Faithfull was born in
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, London. Her half-brother is artist
Simon Faithfull Simon Faithfull (born 1966 in Ipsden, Oxfordshire) is an English artist based in Berlin and London. His work has been widely exhibited in both international solo and group exhibitions, including Musee des Beaux Arts (Calais), Fabrica (Bright ...
. Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a
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officer and professor of Italian Literature at Bedford College of London University. Faithfull's mother, Eva, was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian nobleman, Artur Wolfgang,
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von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953). Eva chose to
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herself as Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso. Eva had been a ballerina for the
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Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo
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and
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.Faithfull, Marianne. ''Memories, Dreams and Reflections'', Fourth Estate. 1 October 2007; Faithfull's mother had been born in
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and moved to
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in 1918. The family of Sacher-Masoch had secretly opposed the Nazi regime in Vienna. Faithfull's father's intelligence work for the British Army brought him into contact with the family, and he thus met Eva, his future wife. Faithfull's maternal grandfather had aristocratic roots in the
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, while Faithfull's maternal grandmother was
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. Faithfull's maternal great-great-uncle was
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, whose erotic novel, '' Venus in Furs,'' spawned the word "
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." In regard to her roots in the Austrian nobility, Faithfull discovered on the British television series '' Who Do You Think You Are?'' that the title used by family members was
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von Sacher-Masoch, the corresponding English title being that of
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, an inherited knighthood.


Childhood

Her family lived in
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, Lancashire, while her father completed a doctorate at
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. She spent some of her early life at the
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at
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, Oxfordshire, formed by John Norman Glaister, where her father, who was also instrumental in its foundation, lived and participated. Her parents divorced when she was six years old, after which she moved with her mother to Milman Road in
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. Her primary school was in
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. Living in reduced circumstances, Faithfull's girlhood was marred by bouts of
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. She was a charitably subsidised (bursaried) pupil at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Convent School, Reading, where she was, for a time, a weekly boarder. While at St Joseph's, she was a member of the
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's student group.


Singing career


1960s

Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a
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performer in coffeehouses.Faithfull, Marianne. ''Faithfull: An Autobiography'' Boston: Little, Brown; 1994. She soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met
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, who discovered her. Her first major release, " As Tears Go By", was written and composed by Jagger, Keith Richards, and Oldham, and became a chart success. (The Rolling Stones recorded their own version one year later, which also became successful.) She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights", and " Come and Stay With Me". Faithfull married John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in
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with
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as the
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. The couple lived in a flat at 29 Lennox Gardens in
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just off
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, London SW1. On 10 November 1965, she gave birth to their son, Nicholas. She left her husband shortly after to live with Mick Jagger. In 1966 she took Nicholas to stay with
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and
Anita Pallenberg Anita Pallenberg (6 April 1942 – 13 June 2017) was a German-Italian actress, artist, and model. A style icon and "It Girl" of the 1960s and 1970s, Pallenberg was credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones: she was the romantic partner of the ...
in London. During that time period, Faithfull started smoking
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and became best friends with Pallenberg. She also began a much-publicised relationship with Mick Jagger that same year. The couple became notorious and largely part of the hip
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scene. She is heard on
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' song " Yellow Submarine". She was found wearing only a fur rug by police executing a drug search at
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's house in
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,
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. In an interview 27 years later with
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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
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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
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, miscarried a daughter (whom she had named Corrina) while retreating to Jagger's country house in
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. Faithfull's involvement in Jagger's life would be reflected in some of the Rolling Stones's best known songs. "
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", featured on the 1968 album '' Beggars Banquet,'' was partially inspired by ''
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,'' written by Mikhail Bulgakov, a book which Faithfull introduced to Jagger. The song "
You Can't Always Get What You Want "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones 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'' ...
," on the 1969 album ''
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,'' was supposedly written and composed about Faithfull; the songs " Wild Horses" and "
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" on the 1971 album ''
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'' were also allegedly influenced by Faithfull, and she co-wrote "
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" (the writing credit for the song was the subject of a protracted legal battle that was ultimately resolved with Faithfull listed as co-author). In her autobiography, Faithfull said Jagger and 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. In 1968, Faithfull appeared in ''
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'' concert, giving a solo performance of "Something Better".


1970s

Faithfull ended her relationship with Jagger in May 1970, after initiating an affair with Anglo-Irish nobleman "Paddy" Rossmore, and she lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her attempting suicide. Faithfull's personal life went into decline, and her career went into a tailspin. She made only a few appearances, including an October 1973 performance for
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with
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, singing
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's "
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". Faithfull lived on London's
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streets for two years, suffering from
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and
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. Friends intervened and enrolled her in an
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programme. She failed at controlling or stabilising her
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at that time. In 1971, producer
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found her on the streets and made an attempt to revive her career, producing part of her album '' Rich Kid Blues''. The album was shelved until 1985. Severe
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, coupled with persistent drug abuse during this period, permanently altered Faithfull's voice, leaving it cracked and lower in pitch. While the new sound was praised as "whisky soaked" by some critics, journalist John Jones, of the '' Sunday Times'', wrote that she had "permanently vulgarised her voice". In 1975 she released the
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-influenced record ''Dreamin' My Dreams'' (a.k.a. ''Faithless''), which reached No.1 on the
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. Faithfull moved into a squat without hot water or electricity in
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with then-boyfriend Ben Brierly, of the
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band
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. She later shared flats in Chelsea and
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with Henrietta Moraes. In 1979, the same year she was arrested for marijuana possession in
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, Faithfull's career returned full force with the album ''
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'', one of her most critically hailed albums. Partially influenced by the punk explosion and her marriage to Brierly in the same year, it ranged from the
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sounds of the title track, which addressed terrorism in Europe (being dedicated to
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), to the punk-
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rhythms of "Why D'Ya Do It?", a song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by
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. The musical structure of this song is complex: though on the surface hard rock, it is a
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in 4/4 time, with an opening electric guitar riff by
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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
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". ''Broken English'' was also the album which revealed the full extent of Faithfull's drinking and drug use and its effect on her singing voice, with the melodic vocals on her early records being replaced by a raucous, deep voice which helped capture the raw emotions expressed in the album's songs.


1980s

Faithfull began living in New York after the release of the follow-up to ''Broken English'', ''
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'', in 1981. The same year, she appeared as a vocalist on the single "Misplaced Love" by
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, which charted in Australia. 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 stopped. A disastrous appearance on ''
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'' was blamed on too many rehearsals, but it was suspected that drugs had caused her vocal cords to seize up. '' Rich Kid Blues'' (1985) 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
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's tribute album '' Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill''. Faithfull's restrained readings lent themselves to the material, and this collaboration informed several subsequent works. In 1985, she was at the
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Clinic in
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for rehabilitation. She then received treatment at
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in Belmont,
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. While living at a hotel in nearby
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, Faithfull started an affair (while still married to Brierly) with a
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(
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and drug dependent) man, Howard Tose, who later committed suicide by jumping from a 14th floor window of the flat 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 finalised that year. In 1995, she wrote and sang about Tose's death in "Flaming September" from the album '' A Secret Life''. In 1987, Faithfull again reinvented herself, this time as a jazz and blues 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" 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
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'' magazine, but she came to terms with it as well as with her past. In a 1987 interview with Rory O'Connor of ''
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'', Faithfull declared, "forty is the age to sing it, not seventeen." The album of covers was produced by
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after the two had spent numerous weekends listening to hundreds of songs from the annals of 20th-century music. They chose to record such diverse tracks as
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's "
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" and " Yesterdays", written by Broadway composers
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and
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. The work also includes tunes first made notable by such blues luminaries as
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and
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;
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wrote the title track. In 1988, Faithfull married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, but they divorced in 1991.


1990s

When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the
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''
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'' live in
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in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's overprotective 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. Ann's Cathedral in
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. The 13 selections include "Sister Morphine", a cover of
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's "Les Prisons du Roy", and "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
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member
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and pianist
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. 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 greying, jaded contessa." ''A Collection of Her Best Recordings'' was released in 1994 by Island Records to coincide with the release of the Faithfull autobiography; the two products originally shared the same cover art. It contained Faithfull's updated version of "As Tears Go By" from '' Strange Weather,'' several cuts from ''Broken English'' and '' A Child's Adventure'' and a song written by
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scheduled for inclusion on an Irish AIDS benefit album. This track, " Ghost Dance", suggested to Faithfull by a friend who later died of AIDS, was made with a trio of old friends: Stones' drummer Charlie Watts and guitarist
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backed Faithfull's vocals on the song, while
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coproduced it. The retrospective album also featured one live track, "Times Square", from ''Blazing Away'' as well as a new Faithfull original, "She", penned with composer and arranger Angelo Badalamenti to be released the following year on '' A Secret Life'', with additional songs co written with Badalamenti. Faithfull also sang "Love is Teasin," an Irish folk standard, with
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on their album
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, released in 1995. Faithfull sang a duet and recited text on the
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band
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's 1997 album Serenade in Red. Faithfull also sang interlude vocals on Metallica's song "
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" from their 1997 album '' Reload'' and appeared in the song's music video; the track reached No. 28 in the U.S. (No.3 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart) and No.13 in the UK. As her fascination with the music of
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-era Germany continued, Faithfull performed in ''
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'' at the
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,
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, playing
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. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, '' Twentieth Century Blues'' (1996), which focused on the music of
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and
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as well as Noël Coward, followed in 1998 by a recording of ''
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'', with the
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, conducted by
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. A hugely successful concert and cabaret tour accompanied by Paul Trueblood at the piano, culminated in the filming, at the
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, of the DVD ''Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill''. 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
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s and unreleased tracks. Faithfull's 1999 DVD ''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 and Mick Jagger, and brief interviews with Keith Richards. It concluded with footage from a 30-minute live concert, originally broadcast on
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for the series ''
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''. That same year, she ranked 25th in '' VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll''. Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) wrote the song "Incarceration of a Flower Child" portraying Syd Barrett in 1968; it was never recorded by Pink Floyd. The song was eventually recorded by Faithfull on her 1999 album ''
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''.


2000s

Faithfull released several albums in the 2000s that received positive critical response, beginning with ''
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'' (1999), which was produced and recorded by Mark Howard. It included collaborations with
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, Emmylou Harris, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, and writer (and friend)
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. Later that year she sang "Love Got Lost" on Joe Jackson's '' Night and Day II''. Her renaissance continued with '' Kissin Time'', released in 2002. The album contained songs written with Blur, Beck, Billy Corgan,
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, Dave Stewart, David Courts and the French pop singer
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. On this record, she paid tribute to
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(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''. The album was primarily a collaboration with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, though Damon Albarn and
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also contributed. ''Before the Poison'' received mixed reviews from both ''
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'' and ''
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''. In 2005 she recorded (and co-produced) "Lola R Forever", a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Lola Rastaquouere" with Sly &
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for the tribute album ''
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''. In 2007, Faithfull collaborated with the British singer-songwriter,
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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. 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 ''
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''. The show also included the
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song "Don't Forget Me", "Marathon Kiss" from
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and a version of the traditional "Spike Driver Blues". Articles published at that time hinted Faithfull was looking to retirement and was hoping that money from ''Songs of the Innocence and Experience'' would enable her to live in comfort. She said: "I'm not prepared to be 70 and absolutely broke. I realised 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." However, she still lived in her flat in Paris (located in one of the most expensive streets of the capital) and had a house in County Waterford, Ireland. Recording of '' Easy Come, Easy Go'' commenced in New York City on 6 December 2007; the album was produced by
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who had previously recorded ''Strange Weather'' in 1997. A version of
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's "Dear God Please Help Me" from his 2006 album, ''
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'' is one of the songs featured. In March 2009, she performed "The Crane Wife 3" on ''
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''. In late March, she began the Easy Come, Easy Go tour, which took her to France, Germany, Austria, New York City, Los Angeles and London. On 16 April 2009, while preparing to board a
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flight at London's
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bound for a concert appearance in
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, François Ravard, accompanying Faithfull, was detained and then later arrested. In a statement, British Airways said: "A male customer became aggressive and abusive at check-in when he was refused travel on a flight from Gatwick to Bologna. He appeared to be intoxicated on arrival at check-in. In such circumstances, an assessment is made as to whether the passenger is fit to travel. When he was refused travel, he became physically and verbally abusive. Police were called and he was arrested. Such behaviour will not be tolerated." Faithfull, however, had not been drinking and was allowed to board. The pair was flying to Italy on a leg of her world tour promoting '' Easy Come, Easy Go''. According to her spokesperson, "Marianne was at Gatwick airport but was not involved in any way in the situation that occurred and she managed to travel on to Bologna as planned. Her gig tonight there will go ahead as planned, and Francois travelled from Britain to join her yesterday. Marianne hadn't been drinking at the time of the incident and she does not drink alcohol. She is enjoying life and loving it as she is sober and clean." On 3 May 2009, she was featured on '' CBS News Sunday Morning'' and interviewed by Anthony Mason in the "Sunday Profile" segment. Both in-studio and on-the-street (New York City) interview segments with Faithfull and Mason were interspersed with extensive biographical and musical footage. In November, Faithfull was interviewed by Jennifer Davies on
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, where she described the challenges of being stereotyped as a "mother, or the pure wife". Because of this, she insisted, it has been hard to maintain a long career as a female artist, which, she said, gave her empathy for
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when they met recently. In 2010, she was honoured with the Icon of the Year award from Q magazine.


2010s

On 31 January 2011, Faithfull released her 18th studio album '' Horses and High Heels'' in mainland Europe with mixed reviews. The 13 track album contains four songs co-written by Faithfull; the rest are covers of mainly well known songs such as
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's "Goin' Back" and
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' "Past, Present, Future". A UK CD release was planned for 7 March 2011. Faithfull supported the album's release with an extensive European tour with a five-piece band, arriving in the UK on 24 May for a rare show at London's Barbican Centre, with an extra UK show at Leamington Spa on 26 May. On 7 May 2011, she appeared on BBC Radio 2's ''
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''. She reunited with Metallica in December 2011 for their 30th anniversary celebration at
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where she performed "
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". In 2012, Faithfull recorded a cover version of a Stevie Nicks track from the Fleetwood Mac album ''
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'' as part of a Fleetwood Mac tribute project. The track "
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" was released on 14 August 2012 as part of the tribute album ''
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''. On 22 June 2013, she made a sell-out concert appearance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, with jazz musician
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playing guitar, as a part of Meltdown Festival curated by
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. In September 2014, Faithfull released an album of all-new material, titled ''
Give My Love to London ''Give My Love to London'' is the 20th solo album by British singer Marianne Faithfull. The 11-track album was released on 29 September 2014 on the Dramatico and Naïve record labels. In America and Canada, it was issued on 10 November by Easy ...
.'' She started a 12-month 50th anniversary tour at the end of 2014. During a webchat hosted by ''
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'' on 1 February 2016, Faithfull revealed plans to release a live album from her 50th anniversary tour. She also had ideas for a follow-up for ''Give My Love to London,'' but had no intention of recording new material for at least a year and a half. Faithfull's most recent album, ''
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'', was released in November 2018. It featured Rob Ellis,
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, Nick Cave,
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, and Mark Lanegan.


2020s

A spoken word album titled ''She Walks in Beauty'' was released in May 2021. She is accompanied with musical arrangements by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal. The album sees her recite the 19th-century British Romantic poets.


Achievements

In 1999, Faithfull ranked 25th on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll. On 4 November 2007, the
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announced that Faithfull had received a nomination for Best Actress, for her role as Maggie in ''
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''. At the 20th annual
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ceremony held in Berlin, on 1 December 2007, Faithfull lost to Helen Mirren. On 5 March 2009, Faithfull received the World Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2009 Women's World Awards. "Marianne's contribution to the arts over a 45-year career including 18 studio albums as a singer, songwriter and interpreter, and numerous appearances on stage and screen is now being acknowledged with this special award."Marianne Faithfull
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The award was presented in Vienna, with ceremonies televised in over 40 countries on 8 March 2009 as part of International Women's Day. On 23 March 2011, Faithfull was awarded the
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, one of France's highest cultural honours.


Awards and nominations

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Health

Faithfull's touring and work schedule has been repeatedly interrupted by health problems. In late 2004 she called off the European leg of a world tour, promoting '' Before The Poison'' after collapsing on stage in
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, and was hospitalised 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. 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 beaten the disease, Faithfull made her public statement of full recovery. In October 2007, Faithfull stated she suffered from hepatitis C on the UK television programme '' This Morning'', 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 Reflections.'' On 27 May 2008, Faithfull released the following blog posting on her MySpace page, with the headline "Tour Dates Cancelled" and credited to FR Management – the company operated by her boyfriend/manager François 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 six months." In August 2013, Faithfull was forced to cancel a string of concerts in the US and
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following a back injury while on holiday in California. On 30 May 2014, Faithfull suffered a broken hip after a fall while on holiday on the Greek island of
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and underwent surgery. Afterwards, an infection developed at the site of the prosthesis, causing Faithfull to cancel or postpone parts of her 50th anniversary tour for additional surgery and rehabilitation. On 4 April 2020, it was announced that Faithfull was in hospital in London receiving treatment for
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after having tested positive for
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. Her management company reported that she was "stable and responding to treatment". On 21 April she was discharged following a three-week hospitalisation. In a brief statement, Faithfull publicly thanked the hospital staff who "without a doubt" saved her life. She initially thought that she would not be able to sing again after the effects of the coronavirus on her lungs and continued to suffer memory loss because of it. However, she has since been working on her breathing and undertaking singing practice as a part of her recovery.


Discography


Filmography

* 2005: ''Live in Hollywood'' (USA, 110 minutes) directed by Mark Lucas (this is the film of her concert in Spring 2005 at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, California during the US leg of her 40th anniversary celebration tour, including the best songs from her (then) recent album ''Before The Poison'' (2005), songs such as
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's "
Working Class Hero "Working Class Hero" is a song by John Lennon from his 1970 album ''John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band'', his first album after the break-up of the Beatles. Theme Stridently political, the song is a commentary on the difference between social clas ...
" and Roger Waters's "Incarceration Of A Flower Child" and hits such as "
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" is a song by American poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein. It was originally recorded in 1974 by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, with the name spelled "Jordon". The song describes the disillusionment and mental deter ...
", "Guilt", " As Tears Go by", "Broken English" and "
Sister Morphine "Sister Morphine" is a song written by Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Faithfull released the original version of the song as the B-side to her Decca Records single "Something Better" on 21 February 1969. A different ver ...
"; musicians: Lew Soloff, Fernando Saunders, Barry Reynolds, Courtney Williams; released by Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd on 20 September 2005, the 2-disc (CD + DVD) set includes a 30-minute interview with Marianne Faithfull as a bonus featured on the DVD; the set includes the main concert on both DVD and CD; DVD total timing: 2h23min.; tracklisting: 1. Trouble In Mind, 2. Falling From Grace, 3. Mystery Of Love, 4. Ballad Of Lucy Jordan, 5. She, 6. No Child Of Mine, 7. Last Song, 8. Kissin' Time, 9. Times Square, 10. Working Class Hero, 11. Incarceration Of A Flower Child, 12. Strange Weather, 13. Guilt, 14. As Tears Go By, 15. Sister Morphine, 16. Crazy Love, 17. Broken English, 18. Why D'ya Do It) * 2016: ''Marianne Faithfull – Fleur d'âme'' (France, 62 minutes) directed by
Sandrine Bonnaire Sandrine Bonnaire (; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for ''À Nos Amours'' (1983), the César Award for Best Actr ...
(this is a Marianne Faithfull video portrait and interview by French actress Sandrine Bonnaire)


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
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's '' Three Sisters'', at the
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, London, in which she played Irina, co-starring with
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and
Avril Elgar Avril Elgar Williams (1 April 1932 – 17 September 2021) was an English stage, radio and television actress. Early life and career Elgar was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. She trained at the London Old Vic Theatre School ...
. The year before she had played herself in Jean-Luc Godard's film '' Made in U.S.A.''. Faithfull featured in the 1967 film '' I'll Never Forget What's'isname'',
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receiving top billing, opposite
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, notably becoming the first actor to use "fuck" in the dialogue of a mainstream studio picture. In the French television film ''
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'', starring
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, Faithfull sang Serge Gainsbourg's "Hier ou Demain". 1968 found a fetishist portrayal, a black leather-clad motorcyclist in the French film ''La Motocyclette'' (English titles: '' The Girl on a Motorcycle'' and ''Naked Under Leather'') opposite Alain Delon, and 1969
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's '' Lucifer Rising'', her role
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. In London 1969 at the
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, Faithfull played
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to
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's
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in
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. The production was filmed, ''
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'',
Tony Richardson Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer whose career spanned five decades. In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film ''Tom Jones''. Early ...
director. Her stage work also included Edward Bond's ''
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'' at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in which she played a lesbian
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, ''
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'' at St Martin's Theatre in the West End opposite Simon Williams, ''Mad Dog'' at
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opposite
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, ''A Patriot for Me'' by '' John Osborne'', at the Palace Theatre,
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and the role of Lizzie Curry in N. Richard Nash's ''The Rainmaker'', which toured the UK and in which Faithfull's co-star was
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. Other film roles in the 1970s included Sophy Kwykwer in Stephen Weeks's ''Ghost Story'' (AKA ''Madhouse Mansion''), released on a newly mastered DVD in the UK in 2009, and Helen Rochefort in ''Assault on Agathon''. Her television acting in the late 1960s and early 1970s included ''The Door of Opportunity'' (1970) with
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, adapted from
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's story, followed by
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's ''
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'' (1971) with
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, and ''Terrible Jim Fitch'' (1971) by
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, which once more paired Faithfull with Nicol Williamson. In 1991, she played the role of
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in ''
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'' at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Later she performed
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's "The Seven Deadly Sins" with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, 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 ''
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'' opposite friend
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, with another close friend,
Anita Pallenberg Anita Pallenberg (6 April 1942 – 13 June 2017) was a German-Italian actress, artist, and model. A style icon and "It Girl" of the 1960s and 1970s, Pallenberg was credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones: she was the romantic partner of the ...
, playing the Devil. In 2004 and 2005, she played the Devil in
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' and
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' musical, ''
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'', directed by Robert Wilson, which opened at London's Barbican Theatre, toured to San Francisco, but from which she was forced to withdraw prior to performances at the Sydney Festival, owing to exhaustion. In 2001 Faithfull appeared with Lucy Russell and
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in C.S. Leigh's ''Far From China''. She has also appeared in
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's ''
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'' (2001) and, in 2004, in Jose Hayot's ''Nord-Plage''. Faithfull appeared as Empress Maria Theresa in
Sofia Coppola Sofia Carmina Coppola (; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and actress. The youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, she made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed ...
's 2006 biopic, '' Marie Antoinette''. She starred in the film ''
Irina Palm ''Irina Palm'' is a 2007 tragicomedy film directed by Sam Garbarski and starring Marianne Faithfull and Miki Manojlović. It is a co-production of five countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Germany and France). The film premiered at t ...
'', released at the
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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 and the
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, entitled FLicKeR. In 2008, Faithfull toured readings of Shakespeare's sonnets, drawing on the "Dark Lady" sequence. Her accompanist was the cellist
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. In 2011 and 2012 Faithfull had supporting roles in the films '' Faces in the Crowd'' and ''
Belle du Seigneur ''Belle du Seigneur'' is a 1968 novel by the Swiss writer Albert Cohen. Set in Geneva in the 1930s, the narrative revolves around a Mediterranean Jew employed by the League of Nations, and his romance with a married Swiss aristocrat. The novel is ...
''. Faithfull starred in a production of
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's ''
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'' at Landestheater Linz, Austria. The production ran from October 2012 to January 2013. On 18 September 2013, Faithfull was featured in the genealogy documentary series, '' Who Do You Think You Are?'', tracing her family's roots, in particular her mother's side of the family in pre
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.


TV and filmography

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, , - , 1971 , ''The Stronger'' , , TV film with
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Assault on Agathon ''Assault on Agathon'' is a 1975 drama film directed by László Benedek and starring Nico Minardos, Nina van Pallandt, Marianne Faithfull and John Woodvine. It is based on a novel by Alan Caillou. Premise Cabot Cain is a Western secret agent ...
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Paris, je t'aime ''Paris, je t'aime'' (; ''Paris, I love you'') is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements (districts). The 22 director ...
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Irina Palm ''Irina Palm'' is a 2007 tragicomedy film directed by Sam Garbarski and starring Marianne Faithfull and Miki Manojlović. It is a co-production of five countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Germany and France). The film premiered at t ...
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Stage work

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The Collector ''The Collector'' is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhous ...
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Wyvern Theatre The Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, opened in 1971. It is managed on behalf of Swindon Borough Council by Wyvern Theatre Ltd, a subsidiary of HQ Theatres Ltd. The auditorium has 635 seats, all designed to be within 70 feet ...
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The Threepenny Opera ''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a " play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, '' The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with mu ...
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Work as an author

* '' Faithfull: An Autobiography'', Marianne Faithfull (1994), Cooper Square Press * ''Memories, Dreams & Reflections'', Marianne Faithfull (7 July 2008), Harper Perennial * ''Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record'', edited by Marianne Faithfull and Francois Ravard, Contribution by
Will Self William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Sel ...
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Terry Southern Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to ...
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Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and We ...
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References


Further reading

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'', 1 September 1996, p. 18. An interview with Faithfull in which she specifically denies the notorious
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Epinions.com entry on Marianne Faithfull


External links

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Marianne Faithfull fansite

Faithfull Forever – Inspired by Marianne Faithfull

Innocence and Experience: Marianne Faithfull at Tate Gallery Liverpool
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