Marianne Faithfull, renowned as a British pop star, muse, and survivor of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, passed away peacefully in London surrounded by her family. Faithfull's career spanned decades, marked by her raw talent, collaborations with the Rolling Stones, and personal struggles.
Faithfull passed away Thursday in London, her music promotion company Republic Media said.NEW YORK — Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78.
She and Jagger began seeing each other in 1966 and became one of the most glamorous and notorious couples of “Swinging London,” with Ms. Faithfull once declaring that if LSD “wasn’t meant to happen, it wouldn’t have been invented.” Their rejection of conventional values was defined by a widely publicized 1967 drug bust that left Jagger and Richards briefly in jail and Ms. Faithfull identified in tabloids as “Naked Girl At Stones Party,” a label she would find humiliating and inescapable.
On her own, the London-born Ms. Faithfull specialized at first in genteel ballads, among them “Come Stay With Me,” “Summer Nights,” and “This Little Bird.” But even in her teens, Faithfull sang in a fragile alto that suggested knowledge and burdens far beyond her years. Her voice would later crack and coarsen, and her life and work after splitting with Jagger in 1970 was one of looking back and carrying on through emotional and physical pain.
“The threads of a dozen little scenes were invisibly twining together,” she wrote in her memoir. “All these people — gallery owners, photographers, pop stars, aristocrats and assorted talented layabouts more or less invented the scene in London, so I guess I was present at the creation.”
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