Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star who inspired and helped write part of the The biggest songs of the Rolling Stones died at the age of 78.
Faithfull died Thursday in London, said his Republic Media music promotion company in a press release at CBS News.
“It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, composer and actress Marianne Faithfull,” said her spokesperson. “Marianne died peacefully in London today, with her loving family. We will miss it a lot.
Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London, in December 1946. She was a folk singer who, one day, met the manager of the Rolling Stones at a party, which led to record “as the tears go” Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in 1964. She was only 17 years old when she recorded the successful single.
“They came and said to the person I was” can she sing? “” Said Faithfull to CBS on Sunday morning during an interview of 2009.
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The pop song ended up on the British and American charts. Several successful singles and two first albums followed.
Jagger said Thursday that he was “so saddened to learn death” from Faithfull.
“She was so part of my life for so long,” Jagger said on social networks. “It was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. We will always remember him.
The daughter of an eccentric British professor and an Austrian baroness, Faithfull was just short of convent when her career took off. At 18, she married a London art dealer and had a baby but later moved from her marriage and her career, to Jagger.
She and Jagger began to see each other in 1966 and became one of the most notorious couples of “Swinging London”, with Faithfull declaring that if the LSD “was not supposed to occur, he would not have been invented ».
But in 1967, when Faithfull was at a party, the police broke into a Rolling Stones party at the home of Richards where drugs were found. The accusations were then abandoned, but his angelic image was disgraced.
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After Jagger and Faithfull broke, she fell into drug addiction and was homeless in mid-Vingta.
In 1979, she met to release a raw and daring return album, the “Broken English” acclaimed by criticism. But Faithfull was still a drug addict and it would be six years more before it is finally cleaned.
Faithful said CBS that she appreciated her “fairly extraordinary life”.
“I really do it. I think I have been unconscious for a very long time. And only now I started getting it.
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