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Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress whose career spans over four decades.
Faithfull's early work in pop and rock music was overshadowed by her struggle with substance abuse in the 1970s. After a long absence, she returned with the landmark album, Broken English.
With a recording career that spans over four decades, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona, experimenting in vastly different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as David Bowie, Patrick Wolf, The Chieftains, Tom Waits, Lenny Kaye, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Rupert Hine, Metallica and Roger Waters. Faithfull's subsequent solo work, often critically acclaimed, has at times been overshadowed by her personal history.
* In Production * 2000s * 1990s * 1980s * 1970s * 1960s
1. House of Boys (2007) (pre-production)
2. Irina Palm (2007) .... Maggie/Irina Palm 3. Marie Antoinette (2006) .... Maria Teresa 4. Paris, je t'aime (2006) .... Marianne (segment 'Le Marais') ... aka Paris, I Love You (Hong Kong: English title) 5. Nord-Plage (2004) 6. Alone in the Dark (2003) (V) 7. "Absolutely Fabulous" .... God (3 episodes, 1996-2001) ... aka Ab Fab (Australia: short title) - Donkey (2001) TV Episode .... God - The Last Shout: Part 2 (1996) TV Episode .... God - The Last Shout: Part 1 (1996) TV Episode .... God 8. Far from China (2001) .... Helen 9. Intimacy (2001) .... Betty ... aka Intimidad (Spain) ... aka Intimité (France)
10. Crimetime (1996) .... Club Singer 11. Moondance (1995) .... Mother 12. Shopping (1994) .... Bev 13. The Turn of the Screw (1994) .... Narrator ... aka Tour d'écrou, Le (France) 14. When Pigs Fly (1993) .... Lilly ... aka Wenn Schweine fliegen (Germany) 15. The Wall: Live in Berlin (1990) (TV) .... The Mother (act two) ... aka The Wall: Berlin 90 (Canada: English title)
16. "Disco" (1 episode, 1980) - Episode #1.108 (1980) TV Episode 17. "Saturday Night Live" .... Musical Guest (1 episode, 1980) ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) - Episode #5.10 (1980) TV Episode .... Musical Guest
18. Assault on Agathon (1975) .... Helen Rochefort ... aka Epithesi ston Agathona (Greece) 19. Ghost Story (1974) .... Sophy Kwykwer ... aka Ghost Story (USA) ... aka Madhouse Mansion (USA: video title) 20. Lucifer Rising (1972) .... Lilith ... aka Im Zeichen Luzifers (West Germany: TV title) 21. The Stronger (1971) (TV) .... Woman 2 22. "Thirty-Minute Theatre" .... Lonesome Sally (1 episode, 1971) - Terrible Jim Fitch (1971) TV Episode .... Lonesome Sally 23. "W. Somerset Maugham" .... Anne Torel (1 episode, 1970) - The Door of Opportunity (1970) TV Episode .... Anne Torel 24. "Somerset Maugham Theatre" .... Anne Torel (1 episode, 1970) - The Door of opportunity (1970) TV Episode .... Anne Torel
25. Hamlet (1969) .... Ophelia ... aka Shakespeare's Hamlet (USA: complete title) 26. Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) .... Rebecca ... aka Girl on a Motorcycle (France: censored version) (USA: cut version) ... aka Motocyclette, La (France) ... aka Naked Under Leather (USA) 27. I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) .... Josie ... aka I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (USA: video box title) 28. Anna (1967) (TV) .... Une jeune femme dans la soirée dansante 29. "Zomercarrousel" (1966) TV Series .... Performer (unknown episodes) 30. "Thank Your Lucky Stars" (1 episode, 1966) - Episode #9.37 (1966) TV Episode 31. "Shindig!" (6 episodes, 1965) - Episode #1.60 (1965) TV Episode - Episode #1.53 (1965) TV Episode - Episode #1.47 (1965) TV Episode - Episode #1.43 (1965) TV Episode - Episode #1.25 (1965) TV Episode (1 more) 32. "Hullabaloo" (2 episodes, 1965) - Episode #1.13 (1965) TV Episode - Episode #1.2 (1965) TV Episode
Soundtrack:
* 2000s * 1990s * 1980s * 1960s
1. Tarnation (2003) (performer: "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan") 2. "The Sopranos" (1 episode, 2000) - The Knight in White Satin Armor (2000) TV Episode (performer: "The Memory Remains")
3. Women Talking Dirty (1999) (performer: "What A Wonderful World") 4. Fille sur le pont, La (1999) (writer: "Who Will Take My Dreams Away?") (performer: "Who Will Take My Dreams Away?") ... aka The Girl on the Bridge (Australia: TV title) (UK) (USA) 5. "Florentine" (1 episode, 1997) - Episode #1.3 (1997) TV Episode ("As Tears Go By") 6. Alles nur Tarnung (1996) (performer: "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight") 7. Duo luo tian shi (1995) (performer: "Go Away From My World") ... aka Duoluo tianshi (Hong Kong: Cantonese title: alternative transliteration) ... aka Fallen Angels (USA) 8. Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995) (performer: "Who Will Take Your Dreams Away") ... aka Ciudad de los niños perdidos, La (Spain) ... aka Ciutat dels nens perduts, La (Spain: Catalan title: TV title) ... aka Stadt der verlorenen Kinder, Die (Germany) ... aka The City of Lost Children (USA) 9. Thelma & Louise (1991) (performer: "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan")
10. Montenegro (1981) (performer: "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan") ... aka Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls ... aka Montenegro eller Paerlor och Svin 11. The Outsider (1980) (writer: "Broken English") (performer: "Broken English")
12. Anna (1967) (TV) (performer: "Hier ou Demain") 13. Made in U.S.A. (1966) ("As Tears go By")
Miscellaneous Crew:
1. Short Cuts (1993) (special thanks)
Self:
* 2000s * 1990s * 1980s * 1970s * 1960s
1. The Making of 'Marie Antoinette' (2007) (V) .... Herself 2. "Corazón de..." .... Herself (1 episode, 2006) - Episode dated 25 May 2006 (2006) TV Episode (uncredited) .... Herself 3. "Tubridy Tonight" .... Herself (1 episode, 2005) - Episode #2.4 (2005) TV Episode .... Herself 4. "Musikprogrammet - programmet om musik" .... Herself (1 episode, 2005) ... aka Musikprogrammet (Denmark: promotional title) - Marianne F./Nick Cave (2005) TV Episode .... Herself 5. "The Heaven and Earth Show" .... Herself (1 episode, 2004) - Episode dated 31 October 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Herself 6. "Richard & Judy" .... Herself (1 episode, 2004) - Episode dated 29 October 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Herself 7. "Grand journal de Canal+, Le" .... Herself (1 episode, 2004) - Episode dated 19 October 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Herself 8. A Letter to True (2004) .... Narrator 9. "V Graham Norton" .... Herself (2 episodes, 2003) - Episode #5.6 (2003) TV Episode .... Herself - Episode #3.45 (2003) TV Episode .... Herself 10. "Først & sist" .... Herself (1 episode, 2002) ... aka Først & sist med Fredrik Skavland (Norway: informal title) - Episode #7.14 (2002) TV Episode .... Herself 11. "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" .... Herself (1 episode, 2002) - Episode #2.5 (2002) TV Episode .... Herself 12. "Tout le monde en parle" .... Herself (1 episode, 2002) - Episode dated 30 March 2002 (2002) TV Episode .... Herself 13. "Exhale with Candice Bergen" .... Herself (1 episode, 2001) - Episode dated 13 August 2001 (2001) TV Episode .... Herself 14. "So Graham Norton" .... Herself (1 episode, 2000) - Episode #4.7 (2000) TV Episode .... Herself 15. Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams (2000) (V) .... Herself 16. The Beatles Revolution (2000) (TV) .... Herself
17. "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" .... Herself (1 episode, 1999) - Episode #6.4 (1999) TV Episode .... Herself 18. "Ruby" .... Herself (2 episodes, 1997-1999) - Episode #3.8 (1999) TV Episode .... Herself - Episode #1.3 (1997) TV Episode .... Herself 19. "Behind the Music" .... Herself (1 episode, 1999) ... aka VH1's Behind the Music (USA) - Marianne Faithfull (1999) TV Episode .... Herself 20. Here, There and Everywhere: a Concert for Linda (1999) (TV) .... Herself 21. "Arena" .... Herself (2 episodes, 1998) - Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows, The: Part 2 (1998) TV Episode .... Herself - Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow, The: Part 1 (1998) TV Episode .... Herself 22. Globos de Ouro 1997 (1998) (TV) .... Herself 23. Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (1998) (V) .... Herself 24. "Saturday Night Live" .... Herself (1 episode, 1997) ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) - Episode #23.8 (1997) TV Episode (uncredited) .... Herself 25. Beautiful Losers (1997) (TV) 26. "Lo + plus" .... Herself (1 episode, 1997) - Episode dated 7 May 1997 (1997) TV Episode .... Herself 27. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) .... Herself 28. Blazing Away (1990) (V) .... Herself29. The Compleat Beatles (1984) (also archive footage) .... Herself 30. "Lena Maria Show" .... Herself (2 episodes, 1980-1981) - Episode #2.3 (1981) TV Episode .... Herself - Episode #1.1 (1980) TV Episode .... Herself 31. "Musikladen" .... Herself (2 episodes, 1980) - Episode #1.54 (1980) TV Episode .... Herself - Episode #1.51 (1980) TV Episode
32. Cucumber Castle (1970) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself
33. The Stones in the Park (1969) .... Herself 34. Sympathy for the Devil (1968) .... Herself (doing backing vocals) ... aka One Plus One (UK: director's cut) 35. Our World (1967) (TV) .... Herself 36. Dont Look Back (1967) (uncredited) .... Herself ... aka Don't Look Back (USA: orthographically correct title) 37. Made in U.S.A. (1966) .... Herself 38. The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965) (TV) (as Marianne Faithful) .... Herself 39. "Top of the Pops" .... Herself (6 episodes, 1964-1965) ... aka All New Top of the Pops (UK) ... aka TOTP - Episode dated 22 July 1965 (1965) TV Episode .... Herself - Episode dated 27 May 1965 (1965) TV Episode .... Herself - Episode dated 29 April 1965 (1965) TV Episode .... Herself - Episode dated 16 September 1964 (1964) TV Episode .... Herself - Episode dated 9 September 1964 (1964) TV Episode .... Herself (1 more) 40. "Gadzooks! It's All Happening" (1965) TV Series .... Herself - Guest Presenter (Season 2) ... aka Gadzooks! (UK: new title) ... aka Gadzooks! It's the In-Crowd (UK: second season title)
Archive Footage:
1. Why I Hate the 60s: The Decade That Was Too Good to Be True (2004) (TV) .... Herself 2. Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up (2002) (TV) .... Herself 3. Hendrix (2000) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself (with Mick Jagger) 4. "The Beatles Anthology" (1995) (mini) (uncredited) .... Herself (at Sgt. Pepper session)
Genres for Marianne Faithfull advertisement
Genre index 23 Music 19 Drama 16 Comedy 16 Documentary 8 Talk-Show 5 Romance 5 Thriller 4 Biography 3 Adventure 3 Crime 3 Horror 3 Musical 2 Action 2 Family 2 Mystery 2 Sci-Fi 2 Short 1 Fantasy 1 Game-Show 1 History
Genre: Music [top]
1. "Musikprogrammet - programmet om musik" [Self] ... aka Musikprogrammet (Denmark: promotional title) - Marianne F./Nick Cave (2005) TV Episode [Actress] 2. "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" [Self] - Episode #2.5 (2002) TV Episode [Actress] 3. The Beatles Revolution (2000) (TV) [Actress] 4. "Behind the Music" [Self] ... aka VH1's Behind the Music (USA) - Marianne Faithfull (1999) TV Episode [Actress] 5. Here, There and Everywhere: a Concert for Linda (1999) (TV) [Actress] 6. Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (1998) (V) [Actress] 7. "Saturday Night Live" [Actress] [Self] ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) - Episode #23.8 (1997) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #5.10 (1980) TV Episode [Actress] 8. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) [Actress] 9. Blazing Away (1990) (V) [Actress] 10. The Wall: Live in Berlin (1990) (TV) [Actress] ... aka The Wall: Berlin 90 (Canada: English title) 11. The Compleat Beatles (1984) [Actress] 12. "Musikladen" [Self] - Episode #1.54 (1980) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.51 (1980) TV Episode [Self] 13. "Disco" [Actress] - Episode #1.108 (1980) TV Episode [Actress] 14. The Stones in the Park (1969) [Actress] 15. Sympathy for the Devil (1968) [Actress] ... aka One Plus One (UK: director's cut) 16. Our World (1967) (TV) [Actress] 17. Dont Look Back (1967) [Actress] ... aka Don't Look Back (USA: orthographically correct title) 18. "Zomercarrousel" (1966) TV Series [Actress] 19. "Thank Your Lucky Stars" [Actress] - Episode #9.37 (1966) TV Episode [Actress] 20. The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965) (TV) [Actress] 21. "Shindig!" [Actress] - Episode #1.60 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.53 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.47 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.43 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.25 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] (1 more) 22. "Top of the Pops" [Self] ... aka All New Top of the Pops (UK) ... aka TOTP - Episode dated 22 July 1965 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode dated 27 May 1965 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode dated 29 April 1965 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode dated 16 September 1964 (1964) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode dated 9 September 1964 (1964) TV Episode [Actress] (1 more) 23. "Hullabaloo" [Actress] - Episode #1.13 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.2 (1965) TV Episode [Actress]
Genre: Drama
1. Irina Palm (2007) [Actress] 2. House of Boys (2007) [Actress] 3. Marie Antoinette (2006) [Actress] 4. Far from China (2001) [Actress] 5. Intimacy (2001) [Actress] ... aka Intimidad (Spain) ... aka Intimité (France) 6. "The Sopranos" [Soundtrack] - The Knight in White Satin Armor (2000) TV Episode [Soundtrack] 7. Fille sur le pont, La (1999) [Soundtrack] ... aka The Girl on the Bridge (Australia: TV title) (UK) (USA) 8. "Florentine" [Soundtrack] - Episode #1.3 (1997) TV Episode [Soundtrack] 9. Duo luo tian shi (1995) [Soundtrack] ... aka Duoluo tianshi (Hong Kong: Cantonese title: alternative transliteration) ... aka Fallen Angels (USA) 10. Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995) [Soundtrack] ... aka Ciudad de los niños perdidos, La (Spain) ... aka Ciutat dels nens perduts, La (Spain: Catalan title: TV title) ... aka Stadt der verlorenen Kinder, Die (Germany) ... aka The City of Lost Children (USA) 11. Shopping (1994) [Actress] 12. Short Cuts (1993) [Special Thanks] 13. Thelma & Louise (1991) [Soundtrack] 14. Montenegro (1981) [Soundtrack] ... aka Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls ... aka Montenegro eller Paerlor och Svin 15. The Outsider (1980) [Soundtrack] 16. The Stronger (1971) (TV) [Actress] 17. "Thirty-Minute Theatre" [Actress] - Terrible Jim Fitch (1971) TV Episode [Actress] 18. Hamlet (1969) [Actress] ... aka Shakespeare's Hamlet (USA: complete title) 19. I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) [Actress] ... aka I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (USA: video box title)
Genre: Comedy
1. "Grand journal de Canal+, Le" [Self] - Episode dated 19 October 2004 (2004) TV Episode [Actress] 2. "V Graham Norton" [Self] - Episode #5.6 (2003) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #3.45 (2003) TV Episode [Actress] 3. "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" [Self] - Episode #2.5 (2002) TV Episode [Actress] 4. "Absolutely Fabulous" [Actress] ... aka Ab Fab (Australia: short title) - Donkey (2001) TV Episode [Actress] - The Last Shout: Part 2 (1996) TV Episode [Actress] - The Last Shout: Part 1 (1996) TV Episode [Actress] 5. "So Graham Norton" [Self] - Episode #4.7 (2000) TV Episode [Actress] 6. "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" [Self] - Episode #6.4 (1999) TV Episode [Actress] 7. Women Talking Dirty (1999) [Soundtrack] 8. "Saturday Night Live" [Actress] [Self] ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) - Episode #23.8 (1997) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #5.10 (1980) TV Episode [Actress] 9. "Florentine" [Soundtrack] - Episode #1.3 (1997) TV Episode [Soundtrack] 10. Alles nur Tarnung (1996) [Soundtrack] 11. When Pigs Fly (1993) [Actress] ... aka Wenn Schweine fliegen (Germany) 12. Thelma & Louise (1991) [Soundtrack] 13. Montenegro (1981) [Soundtrack] ... aka Montenegro - Or Pigs and Pearls ... aka Montenegro eller Paerlor och Svin 14. Cucumber Castle (1970) (TV) [Actress] 15. I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) [Actress] ... aka I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (USA: video box title) 16. "Hullabaloo" [Actress] - Episode #1.13 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.2 (1965) TV Episode [Actress]
Genre: Documentary
1. "The Heaven and Earth Show" [Self] - Episode dated 31 October 2004 (2004) TV Episode [Actress] 2. "Grand journal de Canal+, Le" [Self] - Episode dated 19 October 2004 (2004) TV Episode [Actress] 3. A Letter to True (2004) [Actress] 4. Tarnation (2003) [Soundtrack] 5. Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams (2000) (V) [Actress] 6. The Beatles Revolution (2000) (TV) [Actress] 7. "Behind the Music" [Self] ... aka VH1's Behind the Music (USA) - Marianne Faithfull (1999) TV Episode [Actress] 8. "Arena" [Self] - Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows, The: Part 2 (1998) TV Episode [Actress] - Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow, The: Part 1 (1998) TV Episode [Actress] 9. Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (1998) (V) [Actress] 10. Beautiful Losers (1997) (TV) [Self] 11. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) [Actress] 12. The Compleat Beatles (1984) [Actress] 13. "Musikladen" [Self] - Episode #1.54 (1980) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.51 (1980) TV Episode [Self] 14. The Stones in the Park (1969) [Actress] 15. Sympathy for the Devil (1968) [Actress] ... aka One Plus One (UK: director's cut) 16. Dont Look Back (1967) [Actress] ... aka Don't Look Back (USA: orthographically correct title)
Genre: Talk-Show
1. "Richard & Judy" [Self] - Episode dated 29 October 2004 (2004) TV Episode [Actress] 2. "V Graham Norton" [Self] - Episode #5.6 (2003) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #3.45 (2003) TV Episode [Actress] 3. "Først & sist" [Self] ... aka Først & sist med Fredrik Skavland (Norway: informal title) - Episode #7.14 (2002) TV Episode [Actress] 4. "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" [Self] - Episode #2.5 (2002) TV Episode [Actress] 5. "Tout le monde en parle" [Self] - Episode dated 30 March 2002 (2002) TV Episode [Actress] 6. "So Graham Norton" [Self] - Episode #4.7 (2000) TV Episode [Actress] 7. Globos de Ouro 1997 (1998) (TV) [Actress] 8. "Lo + plus" [Self] - Episode dated 7 May 1997 (1997) TV Episode [Actress]
Genre: Romance
1. House of Boys (2007) [Actress] 2. Paris, je t'aime (2006) [Actress] ... aka Paris, I Love You (Hong Kong: English title) 3. Fille sur le pont, La (1999) [Soundtrack] ... aka The Girl on the Bridge (Australia: TV title) (UK) (USA) 4. Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) [Actress] ... aka Girl on a Motorcycle (France: censored version) (USA: cut version) ... aka Motocyclette, La (France) ... aka Naked Under Leather (USA) 5. Anna (1967) (TV) [Actress] [Soundtrack]
Genre: Thriller
1. Crimetime (1996) [Actress] 2. Shopping (1994) [Actress] 3. The Turn of the Screw (1994) [Actress] ... aka Tour d'écrou, Le (France) 4. Thelma & Louise (1991) [Soundtrack] 5. Ghost Story (1974) [Actress] ... aka Ghost Story (USA) ... aka Madhouse Mansion (USA: video title)
Genre: Biography
1. Marie Antoinette (2006) [Actress] 2. Tarnation (2003) [Soundtrack] 3. "Behind the Music" [Self] ... aka VH1's Behind the Music (USA) - Marianne Faithfull (1999) TV Episode [Actress] 4. The Compleat Beatles (1984) [Actress]
Genre: Adventure
1. Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995) [Soundtrack] ... aka Ciudad de los niños perdidos, La (Spain) ... aka Ciutat dels nens perduts, La (Spain: Catalan title: TV title) ... aka Stadt der verlorenen Kinder, Die (Germany) ... aka The City of Lost Children (USA) 2. Thelma & Louise (1991) [Soundtrack] 3. Assault on Agathon (1975) [Actress] ... aka Epithesi ston Agathona (Greece)
Genre: Crime
1. "The Sopranos" [Soundtrack] - The Knight in White Satin Armor (2000) TV Episode [Soundtrack] 2. Thelma & Louise (1991) [Soundtrack] 3. Made in U.S.A. (1966) [Actress] [Soundtrack]
Genre: Horror
1. Alone in the Dark (2003) (V) [Actress] 2. The Turn of the Screw (1994) [Actress] ... aka Tour d'écrou, Le (France) 3. Ghost Story (1974) [Actress] ... aka Ghost Story (USA) ... aka Madhouse Mansion (USA: video title)
Genre: Musical
1. House of Boys (2007) [Actress] 2. Cucumber Castle (1970) (TV) [Actress] 3. Anna (1967) (TV) [Actress] [Soundtrack]
Genre: Action
1. Shopping (1994) [Actress] 2. Thelma & Louise (1991) [Soundtrack]
Genre: Family
1. "Shindig!" [Actress] - Episode #1.60 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.53 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.47 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.43 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.25 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] (1 more) 2. "Hullabaloo" [Actress] - Episode #1.13 (1965) TV Episode [Actress] - Episode #1.2 (1965) TV Episode [Actress]
Genre: Mystery
1. Ghost Story (1974) [Actress] ... aka Ghost Story (USA) ... aka Madhouse Mansion (USA: video title) 2. Made in U.S.A. (1966) [Actress] [Soundtrack]
Genre: Sci-Fi
1. Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995) [Soundtrack] ... aka Ciudad de los niños perdidos, La (Spain) ... aka Ciutat dels nens perduts, La (Spain: Catalan title: TV title) ... aka Stadt der verlorenen Kinder, Die (Germany) ... aka The City of Lost Children (USA) 2. Shopping (1994) [Actress]
Genre: Short
1. The Making of 'Marie Antoinette' (2007) (V) [Actress] 2. Lucifer Rising (1972) [Actress] ... aka Im Zeichen Luzifers (West Germany: TV title)
Genre: Fantasy
1. Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995) [Soundtrack] ... aka Ciudad de los niños perdidos, La (Spain) ... aka Ciutat dels nens perduts, La (Spain: Catalan title: TV title) ... aka Stadt der verlorenen Kinder, Die (Germany) ... aka The City of Lost Children (USA)
Genre: Game-Show
1. "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" [Self] - Episode #6.4 (1999) TV Episode [Actress]
Genre: History
1. Marie Antoinette (2006) [Actress]

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Marianne Faithfull: 'I've been given another life...'

By PAUL HEDERSON in Jamaica Last updated at 21:55pm on 3rd

March 2007

Marianne Faithfull awoke with a jolt. She was in a hospital bed in a Parisian clinic recovering from emergency surgery to remove a cancerous lump in her right breast.

It was one in the morning, the lights were dim, there were few staff around and the phone beside her bed was ringing.

After taking a few moments to take in all these facts, Marianne picked up the receiver and put it to her ear. The voice on the other end was unmistakable.

"Ello Marian darling. How are you?' he said in a Thames estuary drawl.

"He didn't say who he was - he didn't need to," Marianne recalls.

"No one else in the world calls me Marian - as in Maid Marian. It could only be Mick Jagger and I knew it was him right away.

"He asked me how I was and I told him I was fine and getting through it.

"We spoke for a while, like musicians do. I knew he was on a world tour and asked him where he was. He said somewhere like Miami.

"I asked how his voice was holding up. He didn't say much but I could feel his famous shoulders shrugging at the other end."

It is clear from her retelling of the story that Marianne was deeply moved to receive the call. "All the time I was thinking, this is so kind. He hadn't called me for 35 years and here he was on the phone, making sure I was OK.

"I didn't expect him to contact me and I was extremely touched that he'd made the effort to call. He's a good man.

"He loves me and I love him. The fact that our relationship ended in 1970 doesn't matter. If you love someone, you love each other for ever - it never stops.

"I found out later that Mick had phoned around agents and all my friends to get my number in the clinic. He went to a lot of trouble. That's a classy guy."

As she sits beneath the shade of a giant palm on a hotel terrace overlooking the rugged southern coast of Jamaica, it is clear that Marianne, now 60, has retained her extraordinary blue-eyed beauty despite the tell-tale wrinkles and lines bequeathed by a life lived to the limits.

Her voice is deep and husky with beautifully modulated middle-class vowels and a raucous throaty laugh - a legacy of a 40-year cigarette habit she has been unable to kick, despite her cancer diagnosis.

Even dressed-down in blue jeans and an old black T-shirt above a feminine lacy top, she has an aura of proud, if somewhat faded, grandeur.

It befits a woman who was one of the quintessential rock starlets of Sixties London before her life went so disastrously off the rails.

And of all the gossip and half-truths written about Mick Jagger over the decades, there can be no doubt that the simple act of seeking out his old girlfriend after so many years to offer a few words of encouragement as she lay in hospital is one of the most touching incidents - a gesture from one of rock's great survivors to a former lover who has led an altogether more complicated and painful life.

She was publicly disgraced after being discovered naked in a rug during an infamous police raid on a Rolling Stones party in 1967, was a pop star at 17, a married mother at 18 and a heroin addict during much of the Seventies.

As such, she endured the unutterable squalor of two years living rough on the streets of Soho before dragging her life back on track and releasing a series of bitter-sweet, commercially successful albums.

Now dividing her time between homes in Dublin and an apartment just off the Champs-Elysees in Paris - she left England in the early Eighties because she felt unable to escape her notorious past - this convent-educated daughter of an English professor and an Austrian baroness makes no bones about the fact that being diagnosed with cancer is the most frightening thing that has ever happened to her.

She has not spoken about it before but the tropical warmth, the sound of the blue Caribbean sea crashing on the rocks and the occasional sip of a cold Cuba Libre - white rum and cola - might make the experience seem somehow less terrifying.

The operation to remove the tumour six months ago has been pronounced a success, she says.

"Because they caught the cancer very early, I didn't need chemotherapy or radiotherapy. But the operation was one of those things that had to be done immediately - there was no time to wait.

"The first I knew about it was when I felt very unwell last summer. I just felt I had the blues and I couldn't explain it, so I went to see a doctor in Paris and he told me I had to have some checks.

"I was terrified when the results came back. I was told I had breast cancer, and hearing those words for someone of my age is truly frightening. When I grew up, cancer meant only one thing - death.

"A million thoughts went through my mind - I want to keep living my life, I want to see my grandchildren grow up, I want to be there for my friends, I want to be able to love and to work."

She knows that she was lucky. Lucky to seek medical advice so early. And lucky that she happened to live within a few miles of the Institut Gustave-Roussy, the world-renowned private cancer clinic where Kylie Minogue was also treated for breast cancer.

The doctors there who diagnosed Marianne's tumour decided it had been caught early enough to be dealt with by surgery alone.

The urgency of the operation meant that she had to cancel a major tour of Europe and North America last autumn.

The series of acoustic concerts, titled Songs Of Innocence And Experience, has now been rearranged, beginning next week in Budapest.

Pausing to light yet another Marlboro from a battered pack on the table in front of her, she inhales deeply and begins to ponder the sheer self-destructive folly of a cancer survivor continuing to smoke.

"I know we all die sometime, but I would like not to be stupid about it,' says Marianne. "I hardly drink and don't do drugs but I do smoke.

"I've tried everything to give up - hypnotism, acupuncture, patches - and I've read Allen Carr's book on how to stop smoking. But I've been smoking since I was 19, and so far nothing has worked. But I'm determined to kick it.

"I'm going to take a new pill when I get back to Paris to get off cigarettes. I've just turned 60, I am a singer and I am still smoking. How stupid is that? But I've been very fortunate - I have been given another life to live.

"First I was going to die and then I wasn't. Then I find out how much I am loved. The whole thing has been a lot for me to process."

Marianne also ponders the irony of the reason for her visit to what she describes as 'my favourite place on the planet' - the splendidly languid Jake's Hotel at Treasure Beach on Jamaica's south coast.

She is here to mourn the death, at 70, of the hotel's owner Perry Henzell, who also directed and co-wrote the legendary 1972 Jamaican film The Harder They Come, featuring reggae star Jimmy Cliff.

"I had to be here to mourn Perry, who died in November," she says.

"I came to help his widow Sally and her son Jason get over their bereavement and to come to terms myself with the fact that my very good friend is not here any more."Before he died I had a wonderful phone call from Sally and Perry goading me to come here to help my recovery. I told Perry I was fine, but now he's not here and I am very lucky to be alive.

"Perry died like I would like to die - he died in his sleep lying in bed next to Sally.

"He chose his time beautifully. His cancer was about to become unbearably painful and he told me he didn't want to go to the Jamaican premiere of his latest film, No Place Like Home, the following day."

Has her brush with cancer forced her to reassess her own life? "Sure," she says. "The first thing I want to say is that everybody must check, check, check. For men it's to check for prostate cancer and for women breast cancer."

And she admits: "I also now know I would like another ten years to work because I have never saved money. I have been appallingly bad with money and I would like to earn enough to look after myself in my old age."

Marianne reveals that she still gets stage-fright, but says: "I'm really looking forward to performing again. I'm playing at the Pigalle Club in London in two weeks' time and then at the Shepherd's Bush Empire as part of a European and North American tour. I'll release my next single in November. Life's looking great again.

"I'm even going to Budapest, which is nice because I'm half English and half Austro-Hungarian. I've inherited the title Baroness Sacher-Masoch - it comes from one of my great uncles who gave his name to masochism." This is the 19th Century aristocrat Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, infamous for his erotic novel Venus In Furs.

"I might even put it on my passport," she laughs before stopping to take a sip of Cuba Libre. "But there's no one quite like Marianne Faithfull. No one does what I do."

Indeed, even though she remains most famous for being Mick Jagger's girlfriend for five years at the height of the Swinging Sixties, for her chart-topping cover version of the Stones'.

As Tears Go By and for her part in that infamous drugs bust, it is her more recent work as a singer and actress that has brought her most satisfaction and most commercial and critical success.

But it is also clear that the pain of some of the most hurtful episodes of the Sixties is still close to the surface.

Four decades after the police raid at Keith Richards' country estate at Redlands, Surrey, in February 1967, she still seethes over the indignity of being associated with the untrue Mars bar story.

"When a woman loses her reputation at 19 she loses everything," she says angrily. "What people thought of me and the Stones was downright unfair. And I so object to the Mars bar story - it's offensive.

"Even Keith Richards has gone on record as saying it's ridiculous. He said I was too classy for that."

But has she any regrets about her tumultuous life? "Look, it wasn't my intention to hook up with Mick," she says.

"When we were together it all went by so fast. I didn't understand it. I loved this guy and hoped it would be for ever. It didn't work out, but I would not have missed it for anything. I wanted to work and do my own thing and Mick was supportive of that - well, he was of my acting. He laughed at my music, which did get better."

"But it's your job if you are with him to be Mick's consort. That's how life works out. Stuff happens and you have to deal with it.

"Of course I've got regrets," she admits, without revealing what they are. "But now I've been given a second chance. I've been to the brink and come back again.

"And, because of that, I've realised that what is most important to me now is my family and friends and my work."

She confesses that she could not return to live in Britain again. "Too much has happened there," she says. "I prefer my homes in Dublin and Paris. But I do go back to London to see my son Nicholas [from her short-lived 1965 marriage to artist John Dunbar] and my grandchildren.

"I've also realised more than ever how important friends are. When I was recovering from my operation, I really appreciated all those calls and emails and letters from Mick, Keith, Yoko Ono, John Galliano, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and Chris Blackwell [the founder of Island Records].

"They all came through for me, either to wish me well or to help me.

"And I've come to the conclusion that I can't retire - I'd croak if I did. Look at B.B. King, still on the road at the age of 81. Bob Dylan recently became the oldest man to top the American charts at 65.

"Having cancer has been one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. But life goes on - and it's up to me to make the most of it.

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Portrayed in Suzy Q (1999) (TV)

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Pictorial "Celebrity Sleuth" (USA) 1996, Vol. 9, Iss. 3, pg. 22-25, by: staff, "Girls On Girls: Marianne Faithfull" "Celebrity Sleuth" (USA) 1990, Vol. 4, Iss. 1, pg. 20-21, by: staff, "Mick Jagger's Longtime Lover" "Celebrity Sleuth" (USA) 1986, Vol. 1, Iss. 3, pg. 8-9, by: staff, "Marianne Faithfull" "Mademoiselle Age Tendre" (France) April 1966, Iss. 18, pg. 144-147, "Aux oreilles de Marianne" "Salut les Copains" (France) August 1965, Iss. 37, pg. 43-45, by: Robert Madjar, "Les solitaires qui tiennent la cote" "Salut les Copains" (France) June 1965, Iss. 35, pg. 50-55, "Filles à l'heure anglaise" "Mademoiselle Age Tendre" (France) May 1965, Iss. 7, pg. 46-47, "On les a rencontrés" "Mademoiselle Age Tendre" (France) March 1965, Iss. 5, pg. 24, "Chantons sous la pluie"

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Biography for Marianne Faithfull advertisement Date of Birth 29 December 1946, Hampstead, London, England, UK

Birth Name Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull

Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini BiographyDaughter of Eva, the Baroness Erisso, and Major Glynn Faithfull, a WWII British spy. Recorded the first song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "As Tears Go By" (1964). Involved in a major drug scandal with Jagger, Richards and others, which ultimately turned public opinion favorably towards the 'Rolling Stones' and other rock groups. Recorded numerous albums before and after five-year drug addiction period in NYC. IMDb Mini Biography By:Spouse Giorgio Della Terza (1988 - 1991) (divorced) Ben Brierly (8 July 1979 - 1986) (divorced) John Dunbar (6 May 1965 - 1966) (divorced) 1 childTriviaJohn Dunbar got custody of their son Nicholas after the divorce.The first time the F-word was spoken in a movie was by her in I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967).Poet Allen Ginsberg, an old friend, named her "Professor of Poetics, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets."Now a grandmother of two living in Ireland.Reportedly working on a follow-up to her 1994 autobiography, "Faithfull", which is being turned into a screenplay.Through her mother, Marianne is a direct descendant of Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the infamous 19th century Austrian nobleman whose classic erotic novel, "Venus in furs", spawned the word "masochism".Ranked #25 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N RollSome of the lyrics to the Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses" were allegedly about her break up with Mick Jagger.Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 134, pages 137-138. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

September 2006 - According to her website, Marianne is being treated for breast cancer. The prognosis was stated to be excellent.

Has made a full recovery from breast cancer after undergoing surgery [November 6, 2006].

Attended a Roman Catholic girls school in her youth.

Lives in Paris with her manager Francois Ravard.

Personal Quotes

"Once, [Mick Jagger] came straight off stage to the hotel where I was waiting and he was absolutely terrifying. He was like somebody possessed. I don't think he even knew who I was. He still had his make-up on and there was a froth of spittle around his mouth and his eyes were violent and he was making grunting sounds. He didn't say a word; just those god-awful grunts. He picked me up and slammed me against the wall. Several times. Afterwards, I don't think he even remembered it."Marianne Faithfull Quotes

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

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I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

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I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

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I took drugs because we all took drugs.

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Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.

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Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

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Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

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The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

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I have a huge crush on Fanny Ardant

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"I am very prudish. That is the real me.

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The life, loves, and hell of Marianne Faithfull

By JENNY JOHNSTON - More by this author » Last updated at 15:21pm on 7th April 2007

There is a rather tedious comeuppance to be had when you've deliberately lived every day as if it were your last. Marianne Faithfull realised somewhere around her 60th birthday that she might have made a slight miscalculation.

"The problem with living life as if there is no tomorrow is that you get to this age and realise that it simply isn't true," she admits ruefully. She means she "forgot" to sort out the pension plan.

"Saving simply wasn't part of the equation. Money didn't matter to me - so much so that I don't own anything. I haven't got a house or a mortgage or a car. I'm still renting - at 60!"

She laughs that famous throaty laugh, the legacy of this most rock 'n' roll of lives.



Marianne Faithfull's name was synonymous with sex and the Sixties

"It was never an issue before, but it is now. At this rate, I could live to 80, and then where will I be? I've decided to be sensible for the first time ever; to work really really hard for ten years, and save enough to buy a flat.

"My son Nicholas says I need to put away at least 10 per cent of what I earn. He's very sensible, Nicholas. I haven't a clue where he gets it from. Certainly not me."

It's not just her son who has forced a radical rethink, though. Just before she turned 60, Marianne found a lump on her breast. Pre- cancerous cells were discovered, and she underwent an emergency operation to remove them.

It's difficult to say what has stunned her more - the sudden realisation that her days might indeed be numbered; or the tantalising idea, once recovery beckoned, that she could yet live to be a very old lady. Whatever, it all seems to have given her one enormous jolt.

"I've been in a pretty dark place," she admits. "First the cancer, then turning 60 - which I was absolutely traumatised about. I was convinced I would wake up in the morning and discover I was just a heap of smoking ash.

"When the day came - nothing. It was fine. I went out for dinner and I got some lovely presents, and it was no big deal.

"Now I'm just getting my head round the fact that I might be around for some time. I'm so lucky, I know, but it kind of does mean having to rethink how I do things. I have to start accepting that there is actually a tomorrow to think about."

And so she is a fully-paid-up member of the reformed hellraiser group, joining the Ronnie Woods and Mick Jaggers of this world with their cranberry juice and vitamin cocktails.

That prolonged heroin phase is just a distant memory - in her 30s she spent a long spell being a full-time heroin addict and living on the streets of Soho.

"I went to my doctor recently to get some antibiotics and a Vitamin B12 shot and when he took out the needle, I couldn't look. I hate needles now. I said to him: 'Isn't it weird that I used to think this was fun, or desirable.' He said: 'No comment.'"



Now, Marianne is the happiest she has ever been

Restored to health, she is currently on tour, furiously earning the money that will keep her afloat in her old age - and making sure she gets early nights and the right sort of peppermint tea. She insists she isn't much given to reflection. She has an enormous ego, which means that she does love talking about herself. But only to a point. When she is pushed too far back into her own life, asked to re-examine aspects of it, she cracks.

"Oh please. I don't do that. I don't ask myself what might have been. I'm not a sociologist, for God's sake. I'm Marianne Faithfull."

To most of us, being Marianne Faithfull means being an iconic figure, synonymous with the Sixties. To the woman herself, though, it means nothing of the sort.

"That was just a part of my life, a stop on the way - an important stop, yes, but no more than that. I hadn't even started my best work in the Sixties."

Still, history is always going to remember her as the archetypal Sixties rock chick, Mick Jagger's girlfriend at a time when that role really meant something.

The Rolling Stones' lyric "wild horses couldn't drag me away" was inspired by her: she uttered the words on waking in a Sydney hospital after a six-day coma brought about by a massive drugs binge.

There have been many hospital beds between then and now, mostly in rehab units - and mostly she didn't really care whether she left them alive or dead.

By last year, though, when she discovered the lump in her breast, it was 20 years since she pledged to get clean and life had most definitely become precious.

"I belong to the generation that thinks cancer means death, so I was petrified," she admits.

She was whisked into the world-famous Institut Gustave-Roussy, the private cancer clinic where Kylie Minogue was treated for the same disease. While Kylie needed intensive chemotherapy, Marianne was "lucky" to find that a lumpectomy was all that was required. Still, the terror was unequivocal. "It really was the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I thought: 'I don't want to die. I haven't finished yet.'"

News of her illness quickly spread. Messages of support from her fans poured in, and from friends of old. Yoko Ono called to say she was thinking of her. So did Rolling Stone Keith Richards, fashion designer John Galliano and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.

Even Mick Jagger picked up the phone. She smiles as she recalls the conversation. She was feeling particularly sorry for herself as she had just come round from surgery.

"I answered the phone. It was 2am and this voice came on, 'Hello Marian, how are you?' I'd know that voice anywhere, and he's the only one who ever called me Marian. We had a chat. It was lovely. He told me that he'd phoned my agent to get the number. I thought that was very sweet of him." Although they've met occasionally, this was the first time in 35 years the pair had spoken on the phone.

"We've both mellowed. I loved Mick very much, but it was better for both of us that we split up."

I ask her about her big regrets in life, and she does have some whoppers, though Mick isn't one of them.

"I wish I'd been nicer to my parents, and I wish I'd been a better mother," she volunteers. She also wishes that she hadn't allowed her life to be defined so much by her drug-taking.

"Heroin was a waste of time. It took me off course for about ten years. I can't remember why I thought it would change my life. But when I took it I felt no pain, which was what I wanted at the time.

"The trouble with something like that is, you feel no joy either. It's important to have spirituality in your life. It's subtle but it's crucial. And when you are on drugs, it simply isn't there."

Now, overall, she is content with her lot. I ask her what the happiest period of her life was and she bypasses the Sixties altogether.

"I think I'm in the happiest time of my life right now. Now, and when I was 15. In between there were happy times, of course, but there were a lot more ups and downs." It was at the end of her teens, of course, that life changed irrevocably.

She talks about having been "swerved off course". "I really wanted to go to drama school or university. I think some people need those few years to grow up a bit before they are launched on the world, and I might have been one of them.

"You are such a child at 17, everyone is."

It was at that age she was "discovered". Some say it was her voice, others insist it was her figure. Whatever, her life started moving at breakneck speed. "I was whisked off and before I knew what was going on I had a record in the charts and I was on tour with the Hollies.

"At 18 I had a baby, then at 19 I ran off with Mick. When I was 24, it all fell apart. I realised I couldn't deal with it."

She refers to the pivotal moment as "that dreadful drugs bust". It was 1967, at Keith Richards' country house in Sussex, and Faithfull, according to one police officer, let her fur coat slip off to reveal she was naked. From there, there would be no turning back.

"It was scary. I didn't expect all that attention, to be living in a goldfish bowl. I wasn't looking to be famous. I wasn't the slightest bit interested in celebrity - and I'm still not. In fact, I'd say I am anti-celebrity.

"It's all got so stupid now, with people going to the opening of an envelope."

It was a long time though, before she really tried to get out of that world, and she fell pretty low before she did. In 1968 she miscarried Jagger's daughter eight months into the pregnancy. Devastated, her drug use spiralled out of control. Jagger threatened to leave her unless she got help: she refused.

By the time he married Bianca on a beach in St Tropez in 1971, she was in prison on drugs charges and 15 years of hell - and heroin addiction - would follow.

Marianne has no memory of much of the Seventies and Eighties, She moved from squat to squat, eventually living on the streets. She famously sat on a wall in London day after day for two years, anorexic, stoned out of her mind, unable to see a reason to go on.

Her son was taken from her, and that was the final straw.

"When Nicholas was taken away I thought: 'F*** this, may as well become a junkie. No reason not to, now.'"

In all the talk of Mick and heroin, it's easy to forget that Marianne was a mother. She was briefly married to Nicholas's father, artist John Dunbar, but left him when she met Mick Jagger. "I remember going out and having to rush home every four hours to breast-feed Nicholas when he was first born, something drove me to do it.

"I knew deep down I would never have another child. I wanted to have a career, a life, to play my part in the music industry. I knew I would never be able to simply be a wife and mother."

Her desire for some sort of family life eventually spurred her to beat her addiction. "I was nearly 40 when I noticed that nearly all my friends had got over drugs and settled down. I hadn't. That's when I went into treatment. I realised it was going to kill me."

Today, Nicholas edits a financial magazine in London. She is inordinately proud of him. She is especially proud that he has carved out a quiet, mainstream life.

"He's never done drugs, never been interested in that sort of life. Maybe it was because he was turned off it by watching me and his father go through it."

Now they are closer than they have ever been. "I saw him last night. He came to talk to me about some trouble with his ex-wife. I actually do feel like I am his mother now."

What an odd thing to say. Did she not feel like his mother before? "It took me an awfully long time before I felt like a mother, until Nicholas was in his early 20s. Luckily, I was able to rebuild that relationship.

"All I will say is we got through it together, and we are fine now. I am his mum. I love him, and more importantly he loves me."

Thanks to Nicholas, she is now a grandmother, too. She roars about what an un-granny type of granny she is. "I can't iron or sew a button. I certainly don't knit," she jokes. "I spoil them, but they have brought me great joy. When Oscar was born I felt hopeful for the future."

As she was becoming a grandmother, Marianne Faithfull was also taking a new lover. She uses the word deliberately, refusing to reduce him to "partner" or "boyfriend".

"He is exactly that," she says. "I don't like the word 'partner'. He is more than a friend. What else should I call him?"

For years it has been reported that this man is her manager, Francois Ravard. She refuses to confirm this, with customary bluntness.

"I'm not telling you. He is very private. He doesn't want his name in the papers. He is French. He has been my lover for 13 years. He is the man I love."

She might not want to name him, but she is happy to sigh about him. Thirteen years is a long relationship in anyone's book; in Marianne's it is a lifetime. "It's the longest I've ever managed. I've obviously found my soul mate."

She gushes about the wonderful sapphire ring he bought her for her 60th, whispering he is ten years younger than she. She thinks they will be together for life.

But hasn't she said that about other men? About Mick even?

"When I look back on the people I've loved they were nearly all great people, but there wasn't the sense that we would be together forever. You know how it is with these men. You're walking along the same path, you come together for a while, then you diverge. Mick and I weren't meant to be together for ever."

"With my new lover, it's for life."

I ask her if sex is still important in a relationship at her age. She nearly falls off her chair. "You can't ask me that," she squawks. "It is too private."

But isn't she Marianne Faithfull - as synonymous with sex as she is with the Sixties? Wasn't the whole thing about sex? We've all heard the one about the Mars Bar.

She shudders. The Mars Bar incident has come to haunt her. Little wonder. At the time of that infamous drugs raid, it was breathlessly rumoured that Jagger and Marianne were discovered carrying out a rather indecent act with a chocolate bar. She has always insisted it was not true. In fact, she is mortified by it.

"When a woman loses her reputation at 19 she loses everything," she has said.

"I am not that sort of person," she tells me, sounding distinctly grandmotherly. "I am very prudish. That is the real me. Maybe I was different when I was doing drugs and drink, but I wasn't that different.

"We believed in love. It wasn't just sex and I get annoyed when people think it was. It was love, a romantic ideal, always. At least it was for me."