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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.
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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rainy-dog wrote:
i don't think dangerous acquaintance is as happy as the bright production first made me think, but it's probably up there. i guess most of marianne's music is melancholic. who needs happy songs, anyway?
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maybemaggie wrote:
Horses And High Heels as she'd say herself. A lot of optimism on there... maybe Dangerous Acquaintances?
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rainy-dog wrote:
oh, here's a good one: what's marianne's happiest album? i vote for dreamin' my dreams.
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maybemaggie wrote:
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.
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rainy-dog wrote:
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.
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maybemaggie wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/Marianne+Faithfull/+images/12772365 voooote <3
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maybemaggie wrote:
I find Lana Del Rey's music reminiscent of Marianne's early stuff such as This Little Bird or As Tears Go By, because she's singing about lost love and death backed by sad, melancholic melodies. That's what Marianne did in her early years. I really can't think of any happy Marianne song from the 60s. Even if the music is upbeat the lyrics will usually be the opposite.
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mrsean20 wrote:
which ones?
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Tr1xx wrote:
Is it imagination, or are some of her songs vaguely similar to new material by Lana Del Rey ?
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mrsean20 wrote:
amazing
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Alfa-Beta wrote:
My favourite person ever.
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http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Marianne+Faithfull/+images/72947040 . vote :)
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BowieFreak wrote:
One of my favourite persons ever.
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ruttie88 wrote:
I can't believe that many people still regard her as the ex of a Stone. I mean, come on! She built an entire stunning artistic career on her own! She's a legend and an inspiration. [2]
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RockyRevolution wrote:
shes so great in "irina palm".
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SantiagoOo wrote:
Happy Birthday!
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metawirt2 wrote:
Happy Birthday Milady!
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now_is_blessed wrote:
Gainsbourg, from 1991 to 2011 http://noisyexistence.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/gainsbourg-from-1991-to-2011/
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okaira wrote:
this little bird ♥
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Feb
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Marianne Faithfull - Les Sonnets de Shakespeare
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The Music of The Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971
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Marianne Faithfull ("The Seven Deadly Sins")
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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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Marianne has been made a Commander of the Arts and Letters in France
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