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Marianne Faithfull (born 29th December 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and actress whose career spans more than four decades.

Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London, to a military officer father, 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 after being discovered at a launch party for The Rolling Stones by pop music producer Andrew Loog Oldham. Her first hit, “As Tears Go By”, was written by Mick Jagger[1] 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 Jagger).

Faithfull married artist John Dunbar in 1965, and in that same year gave birth to a son named Nicholas. The marriage was short-lived however, and Faithfull began a much publicised relationship with Mick Jagger. The relationship with Jagger lasted throughout the late 1960s. After they split up 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”, which reached the top of the Irish pop charts.
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    March 2012

  • thainafalci

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    March 2012

  • maybemaggie

    Faithfull and A Stranger On Earth are two really good compilations for starters. As for full albums Broken English and Before The Poison are incredible!

    February 2012

  • CaseyDeAnn

    With what album should I start?

    February 2012

  • maybemaggie

    Horses And High Heels as she'd say herself. A lot of optimism on there... maybe Dangerous Acquaintances?

    February 2012

  • rainy-dog

    oh, here's a good one: what's marianne's happiest album? i vote for dreamin' my dreams.

    February 2012

  • maybemaggie

    It's true about Summer Nights and Downtown (and the Shalala Song as well), but to me the others are very melancholic or like a romantic movie without a happy end. It's probably up to one's own interpretation ... interesting comparison with 90s Marianne. I had to think about it for a bit, but I suppose Video Games, Born To Die and Summertime Sadness have a similar production to "A Secret Life", very dark.

    February 2012

  • rainy-dog

    i suppose a lot of her early songs are melancholic to an extent, but i would cite "come and stay with me", "downtown", "plaisir d'amour", "can't you hear my heartbeat", "summer nights", "i have a love" and others as examples of happy songs in both sound and subject matter. there's even a sunny bouncinees to a lot of the sad ones. if anything, lana del rey probably has more in common with 90s marianne. she's still nowhere near faithfull's level of artistry and pathos, though. maybe in time.

    February 2012
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Marianne has been made a Commander of the Arts and Letters in France

26 Mar 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/mariannefaithfullofficial

Marianne has been made a Commander of the Arts and Letters in France, one of the country's highest cultural honours. Frédéric Mitterrand, the French Minister of Culture and Communication, …

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