Published video “Marianne Faithfull - ‘Cast Your Fate To The Wind, Singles, B-sides and Rarities’ x2 LP trailer”.
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Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was an English singer-songwriter and actress who achieved popularity in the 1960s 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.
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entertainment · English singer and actress (1946–2025) · singer · film actor · recording artist · actor · pop singer · musician · also Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull
Born 29 December 1946 · Died 30 January 2025 · Q48280
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2025· 17 entries
Published video “Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Decca reissues streaming trailer”.
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New York Post: Marianne Faithfull recalls taking LSD with Mick Jagger in new doc shot before her death
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Released album “Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The Singles, B‐Sides, & Rarities”.
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Released ep “Burning Moonlight”.
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Published video “Marianne Faithfull - Love Is (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Marianne Faithfull - She Moved Through The Fair (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Marianne Faithfull - Burning Moonlight (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Forbes: Marianne Faithfull Continues Racking Up Smashes Following Her Death
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Forbes: Marianne Faithfull Posthumously Reaches Several Charts For The First Time
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Vogue: An Ode to Marianne Faithfull’s Forever Cool Eyewear
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Yahoo: Marianne Faithfull, from the archives: ‘I don’t think I was born with a sense of shame’
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Rolling Stone: Marianne Faithfull Recalled Recording Hit ‘As Tears Go By’ and Going on Her First Tour in 1994 Memoir
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Decider: R.I.P Marianne Faithfull: ‘The Girl On A Motorcycle’ And ‘Marie Antoinette’ Actress Dead At 78
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NBC News: Marianne Faithfull, British singer and actress whose hits included ‘As Tears Go By,’ dies at 78
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Yahoo: Marianne Faithfull, star of the Sixties with big natural talent and a self-destructive streak
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Died 2025-01-30.
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2023· 2 entries
Published video “Marianne Faithfull - The World Between (Official Visualiser)”.
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Rolling Stone ranked Faithfull at number 173 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
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2022· 4 entries
Released album “Songs of Innocence and Experience 1965–1995”.
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Published video “Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways (Demo)”.
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Published video “Marianne Faithfull - Drifting”.
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Published video “Marianne Faithfull - Incarceration of a Flower Child (Demo)”.
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2021· 4 entries
Released album “The Montreux Years”.
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Published video “Marianne Faithfull - The Lady of Shallot (Lyrics Video)”.
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Released album “She Walks in Beauty”.
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Released album “Ten Songs for you”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “chanté à la télévision (Live)”.
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “Negative Capability”.
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Released album “Come and Stay With Me: The UK 45s 1964–1969”.
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “No Exit”.
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Released album “North Country Maid / Love in a Mist”.
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The song was used in the finale of American Horror Story: Hotel
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Revealed she had emphysema, a lung disease induced by smoking, and needed to use inhaled medication daily
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “The Rarities Collection”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Give My Love to London”.
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2012· 1 entry
Faithfull recorded a cover version of a Stevie Nicks track from the Fleetwood Mac album Tusk as part of a Fleetwood Mac tribute project
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2011).
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Was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France
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And 2012, Faithfull had supporting roles in the films Faces in the Crowd and the film
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Horses and High Heels”.
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2009· 1 entry
Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2009.
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2008· 4 entries
Released album “Easy Come, Easy Go”.
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Released album “Star-Club präsentiert Marianne Faithfull”.
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Faithfull toured readings of Shakespeare's sonnets, drawing on the "Dark Lady" sequence
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Released album “Marianne Faithfull & Friends”.
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “Live at the BBC”.
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Released album “The Decca Years 1965–1967”.
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Faithfull collaborated with the British singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf on the duet "Magpie" from his third album The Magic Position, and wrote and recorded a new song for the French film Truands called "A Lean and Hungry
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “An Introduction to Marianne Faithfull”.
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2005· 3 entries
Recorded and co-produced "Lola R Forever", a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Lola Rastaquouere" with Sly and Robbie for the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
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Released album “Live in Hollywood”.
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2005.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Before the Poison”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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And 2005, she played the Devil in William Burroughs' and Tom Waits' musical The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson, which opened at London's Barbican Theatre
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Marianne Faithfull”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Kissin Time”.
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 2002.
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Released ep “Sex With Strangers”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “A Stranger on Earth: An Introduction to Marianne Faithfull”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “The Best of Marianne Faithfull”.
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Faithfull ranked 25th on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll
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Released album “Vagabond Ways”.
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1999.
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Released album “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue: The NEMS Years, Vol. 1”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology”.
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Released album “The Seven Deadly Sins”.
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Faithfull released A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology, a two-disc compilation that chronicled her years with Island Records
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By a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “20th Century Blues”.
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “Broken English / Strange Weather”.
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Wrote and sang about Tose's death in "Flaming September" on the album A Secret Life
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1995.
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Released album “A Secret Life”.
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1994· 2 entries
By Island Records to coincide with the release of Faithfull's autobiography; they originally shared the same cover art
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Released album “Faithfull”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “This Little Bird”.
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1991· 1 entry
Played the role of Pirate Jenny in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre in Dublin
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Blazing Away”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “The Very Best of Marianne Faithfull”.
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1987· 4 entries
Released album “Strange Weather”.
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Faithfull dedicated a "thank you" to Tose on the album sleeve of Strange Weather: "To Howard Tose with love and thanks"
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Faithfull ventured into jazz and blues on Strange Weather, which was also produced by Willner
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“forty is the age to sing it, not seventeen.”
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1986· 2 entries
Was in a marriage to the actor Giorgio della Terza from 1988 until 1991
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Released album “Trouble in Mind”.
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1985· 3 entries
Faithfull performed "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" on Hal Willner's tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
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Attended the Hazelden Foundation Clinic in Minnesota for rehabilitation and received treatment at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts
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Released album “Rich Kid Blues”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “A Child’s Adventure”.
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Released album “Summer Nights”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Dangerous Acquaintances”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “As Tears Go By”.
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1979· 3 entries
Released album “Broken English”.
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The same year that she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English, her most critically hailed album
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With the release of a critically acclaimed seventh studio album, Broken English
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Faithless”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released the country-influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams, which reached No
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1971· 1 entry
Producer Mike Leander found her on the streets and made an attempt to revive her career, producing part of her album Rich Kid Blues
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1969· 4 entries
Released album “The World Of Marianne Faithfull”.
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Released album “Marianne Faithfull’s Greatest Hits”.
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Went with Jagger to Australia while he filmed Ned Kelly
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At the Round House, Faithfull played Ophelia in Hamlet, later filmed as Hamlet
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1968· 4 entries
Faithfull appeared in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus concert, giving a solo performance of "Something Better"
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Starred as a black leather-clad motorcyclist in the film The Girl on a Motorcycle (also known as La Motocyclette and Naked Under Leather)
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Although it was never recorded by Pink Floyd
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Faithfull, by now addicted to cocaine, gave birth to a stillborn daughter (whom she had named Corrina) while returning from Jagger's country house in Ireland
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1967· 2 entries
Released album “Loveinamist”.
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Released ep “Hier ou demain”.
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1966· 4 entries
Released album “North Country Maid”.
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Took Nicholas to stay with Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg in London
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Released album “Faithfull Forever…”.
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Released album “Go Away From My World”.
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1965· 3 entries
Faithfull married the artist and gallerist John Dunbar
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Released album ““Come My Way””.
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Released album “Marianne Faithfull”.
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1964· 2 entries
When she had become pregnant by Gene Pitney; the procedure was still illegal in the United Kingdom at the time and Faithfull stated that she had a hard time dealing with the guilt and that she began to feel better once h
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After attending a party for the Rolling Stones, where she was discovered by the band's manager Andrew Loog Oldham
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-12-29.
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