British singer, actress, and muse Marianne Faithfull, known for her collaborations with the Rolling Stones and her iconic status as a symbol of the 1960s counterculture, has died at the age of 78.
FILE – British actress and singer Marianne Faithfull poses during a photo-call for her movie ‘Irina Palm’ at the 57th International Film Festival Berlin ‘Berlinale’ in Berlin, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007. 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 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 Faithfull identified in tabloids as “Naked Girl At Stones Party,” a label she would find humiliating and inescapable.
FILE – Daniel Hechter, 28-year-old French fashion designer, uses pop singer Marianne Faithfull as a model to display one of his latest creations, at the French Chamber of Commerce in London, England on Jan. 19, 1967. FILE – British singer Marianne Faithfull, left, U.S. actress Kirsten Dunst, center with sunglasses, and German model Claudia Schiffer attend the Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2008 ready-to-wear fashion collection designed by German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and presented in Paris, Friday Oct. 5, 2007. FILE – Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones pop-group and actress Marianne Faithfull on May 29, 1969, after police arrested them at a house in Chelsea, London.
She shared everything, uncensored, in her memoirs and in her music, notably “Broken English,” which came out in 1979 and featured her seething “Why’d Ya Do It” and conflicted “Guilt,” in which she chants “I feel guilt, I feel guilt, though I know I’ve done no wrong.” Other albums included “Dangerous Acquaintances,” “Strange Weather,” the live “Blazing Away” and, most recently, “She Walks in Beauty.
Faithfull’s heritage was one of intrigue, decadence and fallen empires. Her father was a British intelligence officer during World War II who helped saved her mother from the Nazis in Vienna. Faithfull’s more distant ancestors included various Austro-Hungarian aristocrats and Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a 19th century Austrian whose last name and scandalous novel “Venus in Furs” helped create the term “masochism.
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