Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born December 29, 1946 in Hampstead, London, England) is a British singer and actress whose career spans over four decades.
BiographyFaithfull was born to a British military officer father named Major Glynn Faithfull and the Baroness Eva Erisso, a Viennese noblewoman of half Jewish and half noble Austrian descent, coming from the Habsburg dynasty. Faithfull attended a Roman Catholic girls school.
Faithfull began her singing career in 1964 (see 1964 in music) after being discovered at a Rolling Stones launch party by pop music producer Andrew Loog Oldham. Her first hit, "As Tears Go By", was penned by Mick Jagger[1] and Keith Richards. She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights" and "Sister Morphine" which she co-wrote with Mick Jagger.
Marianne Faithfull married artist John Dunbar in 1965 and that same year gave birth to a son named Nicholas. The marriage was short-lived however, and Faithfull began a much publicized relationship with Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. The relationship with Jagger lasted throughout the late 1960s, and has become notorious for a fictitious incident involving a Mars Bar. Faithfull has repeatedly and vehemently denied the incident in interviews, and her account has been publicly corroborated by Bill Wyman and Keith Richards. In 1968 Faithfull miscarried a daughter named Corrina at seven months gestation.
After splitting up with Jagger in 1970, Faithfull briefly stopped recording and nursed a drug addiction. She moved to Dublin in the middle of the 1970s and had quite a success with Dreaming my Dreams, which reached the top of the Irish pop charts. She returned in 1979 (see 1979 in music) with Broken English, one of her most critically hailed album releases. Broken English also saw Faithfull emerge as a songwriter of some ability with powerful songs on follow up albums Dangerous Acquaintances and A Child's Adventure. Her success continued throughout the 1980s, culminating with Strange Weather (1987), her most critically lauded album of the decade.
When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera The Wall live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's over-protective mother.
Faithfulls musical career had a second fillip during the early 1990s with the recording of the live album "Blazing Away" and performances of the work of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. She released a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins and also performed in The Threepenny Opera. Her interpretation of the music of this era has been critically acclaimed and led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues, and a successful concert and cabaret tour.
In 1994 she published her autobiography, entitled Faithfull. The next year she recorded A Secret Life, with songs written with Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch's composer.
Actress - filmography
2006 Marie Antoinette
2006 Marais
2004 80s DVD Jukebox
2003 A Letter To True
2001 Absolutely Fabulous: Donkey
2001 Intimacy
1999 Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams
1997 Hullabaloo, Vol. 9
1996 Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout, Part 2
1996 Crimetime
1996 Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout, Part 1
1995 Moondance
1994 Tour D'Ecrou
1994 Shopping
1993 When Pigs Fly
1992 The Turn of the Screw
1991 The Chieftains: The Bells of Dublin
1989 Marianne Faithfull: Blazing Away
1989 Roger Waters: The Wall, Live in Berlin
1982 The Compleat Beatles
1980 Lucifer Rising
1980 Saturday Night Live: Chevy Chase [2]
1975 Assault on Agathon
1974 Madhouse Mansion
1969 Hamlet
1968 The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus
1968 The Girl on a Motorcycle
1967 I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name
1967 Don't Look Back
1966 Made in USA
