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Marianne Faithfull (born December 29, 1946 in England) is a British singer and actress whose career spans over four decades.

Biography

Faithfull was born Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull 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 in a London coffee shop by pop music producer Andrew Loog Oldham. Her first hit, "As Tears Go By", was penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights" and "Sister Morphine".

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 after their divorce Faithfull began a much publicized relationship with Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. The relationship lasted throughout the late 1960s and 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, a record she doesn't like much nowadays. She returned in 1979 (see 1979 in music) with Broken English, a critical smash hit that still did not achieve much success in mainstream markets. This pattern continued throughout the 1980s, with Strange Weather (1987) being her most important album of the decade.

Faithfull’s musical career had a second fillip during the early 1990s with the recording of the album "Blazing Away" and performances of the work of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. She released an album called The Seven Deadly Sins and later 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 number of concert and cabaret performances.

In 1994 she published her autobiography, entitled Faithfull. The next year she recorded A Secret Life, with songs written by Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch's composer.

Faithfull sung backup vocals on Metallica's song "The Memory Remains" from their 1997 album Reload.

Faithfull's 1999 DVD Dreaming my Dreams contains material about her childhood and parents, good historical video footage going back to 1964, and interviews with the artist and several women friends who have known her since she was a young girl. There are sections on her relationship with first husband John Dunbar and with Mick Jagger and brief interviews with his fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards, with whom she has remained on friendly terms since the 1960s. The DVD concludes with a 30-minute live concert.

In 2000 she released the album Vagabond Ways. More successful was Kissin'Time (2002), with songs written with Beck, Billy Corgan, Jarvis Cocker, Dave Stewart, David Courts, and the French pop singer Etienne Daho. On this record, she paid tribute to Nico (with "Song for Nico") whose work she admired, and showed a strong sense of humour with the autobiographical "Sliding Through Life on Charm." This was followed in 2004 by Before the Poison, a collaboration with PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, and Damon Albarn. It was considered by some critics to be the best work of her career, though many still consider Broken English to be her definitive record.

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, The Chieftans, Tom Waits, Lenny Kaye, and Pink Floyd.

Faithfull also made a modestly successful foray into an acting career and has given notable performances in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget Whats 'Is Name alongside Orson Welles, as a leather-clad motorcyclist in the 1968 French film Girl On A Motorcycle opposite Alain Delon, and in the 1969 Kenneth Anger cult film Lucifer Rising. In 1969, Faithfull played Ophelia in the Nicol Williamson adaptation of Hamlet. She has made brief guest star appearances in the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, in Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy (2001 film), and will play Empress Maria-Teresa in Sofia Coppola's forthcoming biopic, Marie-Antoinette which will star Kirsten Dunst in the title role. She also pursues a theatrical career. In 2004 and in 2005, she appeared in Robert Wilson and Tom Waits's The Black Rider. Faithfull currently resides in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and still appears in concerts.

Album Discography

• Marianne Faithfull (1965)
• Go Away From My World (1966)
• North Country Maid (1966)
• Faithfull Forever (1966)
• Love in a Mist (1967)
• The World of Marianne Faithfull (1969)
• Dreamin' My Dreams (1977)
• Faithless (1978)
• Broken English (1979)
• As Tears Go By (1980)
• Dangerous Acquaintances (1981)
• A Child's Adventure (1983)
• Rich Kid Blues (1985)
• The Very Best of Marianne Faithfull (1987)
• Strange Weather (1987)
• Marianne Faithfull's Greatest Hits (1987)
• Blazing Away (1990)
• This Little Bird (1993)
• Faithfull: A Collection of Her Best Recordings (1994)
• A Secret Life (1995)
• 20th Century Blues (1997)
• A Perfect Stranger (1998)
• Vagabond Ways (1999)
• The Best of Marianne Faithfull (1999)
• It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (2000)
• True - The Collection (2000)
• Stranger On Earth: An Introduction to Marianne Faithfull (2001)
• Kissin' Time (2002)
• The Best of Marianne Faithfull: The Millenium Collection (2003)
• Before the Poison (2004)
• Marianne Faithfull: The Collection (2005)

External links

• Marianne Faithfull at the Internet Movie Database
• The Marianne Faithfull Experience
• The Ectophiles' Guide - Marianne Faithfull
• Rock's Backpages - Marianne Faithfull (Interviews)
• http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/marianne_faithfull/

Marianne Faithfull Fans: Yahoo Group for Marianne with lots of pictures.

• http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/marianne_faithfull_2

The second part of the group with more pictures from Marianne.

Reference

• Faithfull: An Autobiography by Marianne Faithfull. Boston: Little, Brown; 1994. ISBN 0-316-27324-4

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