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Marianne Faithfull (born December 29, 1946 in Hampstead, London, England) is a British singer and actress whose career spans over four decades.

Biography

Faithfull was born Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull to a British military officer father named Major Glynn Faithfull and the Baroness Eva Erisso, a Viennese noblewoman of half Jewish and half noble Austrian descent, coming from the Habsburg dynasty. Faithfull attended a Roman Catholic girls school.

Faithfull began her singing career in 1964 (see 1964 in music) after being discovered at a Rolling Stones launch party by pop music producer Andrew Loog Oldham. Her first hit, "As Tears Go By", was penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights" and "Sister Morphine" which she co-wrote with Mick Jagger.

Marianne Faithfull married artist John Dunbar in 1965 and that same year gave birth to a son named Nicholas. The marriage was short-lived however, and Faithfull began a much publicized relationship with Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. The relationship with Jagger lasted throughout the late 1960s and has become notorious for a fictitious incident involving a Mars Bar. Faithfull has repeatedly and vehemently denied the incident in interviews, and her account has been publicly corroborated by Bill Wyman and Keith Richards. In 1968 Faithfull miscarried a daughter named Corrina at seven months gestation.

After splitting up with Jagger in 1970, Faithfull briefly stopped recording and nursed a drug addiction. She moved to Dublin in the middle of the 1970s and had quite a success with Dreaming my Dreams. She returned in 1979 (see 1979 in music) with Broken English. A record that defined her and fitted perfectly with the times. Broken English also saw Marianne emerge as a songwriter of some ability with powerful songs on follow up albums Dangerous Acquaintances and A Child's Adventure. Marianne's success continued throughout the 1980s, culminating with Strange Weather (1987), her most critically lauded album of the decade.

Faithfull’s musical career had a second fillip during the early 1990s with the recording of the live album "Blazing Away" and performances of the work of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. She released a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins and also performed in The Threepenny Opera. Her interpretation of the music of this era has been critically acclaimed and led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues, and a successful concert and cabaret tour.

In 1994 she published her autobiography, entitled Faithfull. The next year she recorded A Secret Life, with songs written with Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch's composer.

Faithfull also sang backup vocals on Metallica's song "The Memory Remains" from their 1997 album ReLoad.

Faithfull's 1999 DVD Dreaming my Dreams contains material about her childhood and parents, good historical video footage going back to 1964, and interviews with the artist and several women friends who have known her since she was a young girl. There are sections on her relationship with first husband John Dunbar and with Mick Jagger and brief interviews with his fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards, with whom she has remained on friendly terms since the 1960s. The DVD concludes with a 30-minute live concert.

The new millennium has seen Faithfull's talent flourish, with every album recieving critical plaudits. In 2000 she released the Vagabond Ways. which was hailed as one of the finest of her career, and certainly showed her songwriting reaching a new peak. Her rennaisance continued with Kissin'Time (2002), with songs written with Beck, Billy Corgan, Jarvis Cocker, Dave Stewart, David Courts, and the French pop singer Etienne Daho. On this record, she paid tribute to Nico (with "Song for Nico") whose work she admired, and showed a strong sense of humour with the autobiographical "Sliding Through Life on Charm." This was followed in 2004 by Before the Poison, a collaboration with PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Damon Albarn and Jon Brion. It was considered by many critics to be the best work of her career, though to much of the public Broken English remains her definitive record.

With a recording career that spans over four decades, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona; Experimenting in vastly different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as David Bowie, The Chieftans, Tom Waits, Lenny Kaye, and Pink Floyd.

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