Profile
Marianne Faithfull
Singer and Former Lover of Mick Jagger
Female
Born
Dec 29, 1946
Age
66
Hometown
Hampstead
Genres
Jazz + Folk music...
Performed With
Metallica + Andre...
Record Label
Anti Records
Other Names
Marianne Evelyn F...
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. During the first two-thirds… Read More
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Romance
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François RavardDated 2006
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Giorgio Della TerzaMarried 1988 - 1991
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Howard ToseFling 1985
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Ben BrierlyMarried 1975 - 1986
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Jean De BreteuilDated 1971
News + Updates
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Rock Icons Sing Pirate Songs On 'Son Of Rogues Gallery'NPR - Mar 21, 2013
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Phil Ramone And Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 263Huffington Post - Jan 18, 2013
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The Original "Biker Babe"Huffington Post - Nov 23, 2012
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Mick Jagger And Marianne Faithfull Preferred Reading To SexMonsters and Critics - Nov 19, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1946
Birth
Born on December 29, 1946.
TEENAGE
Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk music performer in coffeehouses.
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Faithfull married artist John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in Cambridge with Peter Asher as the best man.
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From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Rolling Stones' lead singer, Mick Jagger.
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TWENTIES
1968
21 Years Old
In 1968 Faithfull, by now addicted to cocaine, miscarried a daughter (whom she had named Corrina) while retreating to Jagger's country house in Ireland.
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1970
23 Years Old
Faithfull ended her relationship with Jagger in May 1970, and she lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her attempting suicide.
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1971
24 Years Old
In 1971, producer Mike Leander found her on the streets and made an attempt to revive her career, producing part of her album Rich Kid Blues.
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1975
28 Years Old
In 1975 she released the country-influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams, which reached No.1 on the Irish Albums Chart.
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THIRTIES
1979
32 Years Old
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 albums.
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1981
34 Years Old
Faithfull began living in New York after the release of the follow-up to Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, in 1981.
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In 1985, Faithfull performed "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" on Hal Willner's tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill.
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FORTIES
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".
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1988
41 Years Old
In 1988, Faithfull married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, but they divorced in 1991.
1990
43 Years Old
When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera The Wall live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's overprotective mother.
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1994
47 Years Old
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.
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FIFTIES
1997
50 Years Old
Faithfull also sang background vocals on Metallica's song "The Memory Remains" 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 Weimar-era Germany continued, Faithfull performed in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, playing Pirate Jenny. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues (1996), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins, with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
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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.
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In 2005, she released Before the Poison.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
In 2007, Faithfull collaborated with the British singer/songwriter, Patrick Wolf 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.
On 31 March 2009, Faithfull performed "The Crane Wife 3" on The Late Show.
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On 31 January 2011, Faithfull released her 18th studio album Horses and High Heels in mainland Europe with mixed reviews from the most important media.
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