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Marianne Faithfull

British singer (–)

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Born	Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull ()29 December Hampstead, London, England
Died	30 January () (aged&#;78) London, England
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Spouses	John Dunbar &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Ben Brierly &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Giorgio Della Terza &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Partner	Mick Jagger (–)
Children	1
Mother	Eva von Sacher-Masoch
Relatives	Simon Faithfull (half-brother)
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Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (29 December – 30 January ) was an English singer and actress who achieved popularity in the s with the release of her UK top 10 single "As Tears Go By". She became one of the leading female artists of the British Invasion in the United States.

Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in after attending a party for the Rolling Stones, where she was discovered by the band's manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Her debut studio album Marianne Faithfull, released simultaneously with her studio album Come My Way, was a huge success and was followed by further albums on

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Faithfull: An Autobiography

She was the angel of Swinging London. Her first song, "As Tears Go By", written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, was a huge international hit. Dylan wooed her. The Rolling Stones courted her. She had talent, charm, intelligence and beauty, and when she settled into a love affair with Mick Jagger, her life looked like a rock 'n' roll fairy tale. Except it was Keith Richards she really wanted. And she was already married, with a young son. And her affair with Mick grew alongside a passion for drugs that increasingly dominated her life. The fairy tale masked intrigues, affairs and dangerous games that finally brought Marianne's whole world crashing down. In this spirited memoir, Marianne Faithfull tells of a life lived on the edge, and offers a unique woman's look inside the male-dominated rock 'n' roll world. She reveals the shattering contradictions of life as a "star", first as the pop confection she was initially packaged as, and later as the hard-edged artist who coauthored "Sister Morphine" and shocked the world with "Broken English". She describes life with Mick Jagger in all its early bliss and later complexity, from making love during the breaks in recording "Between the Buttons", through the horrors of the Redlands drug bust and her su