Of Marianne Faithfull You can say many things that have more to do with others, with them, men, and that would piss him a lot. It is true that he began to emerge when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote for her ‘As Tears Go By’, and even his career could not have been the same without that first hit of 1964, but the British singer, one of the female icons More glowing of the sixties music, she was a woman who made herself and much more than that: she also rescued herself when she rushed to the hell of anorexia and addictions, surely pushed by a macho environment and loaded with hypocrisy that left the equality between sexes for the slogans of hippies manifestations.
The British singer and actress, who died at age 78 this Thursday in London, released her eponymous debut album in 1965 and a year later, when she started dating the Rolling Stones singer, she became the only Women’s representative of the British invasion that conquered the lists of American successes. His manager, the infamous Andrew Loog Oldham, squeezed the success formula without compassion encouraging her to record no less than five albums in the following two years, and it was from 1968 when things began to twist in her personal life.
His relationship with Jagger, who allegedly inspired classics such as ‘Wild Horses’ and ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ deteriorated until the final break in 1970, Annus Horribilis of a Marianne that fell into a spiral of destruction that ended giving with your bones on the street. He lived as a vagabundo in the Soho neighborhood for months and committed a suicide attempt after losing the custody of his son with his first husband, John Dunbar, until producer Mike Leander found her and tried to relaunch her career producing part of a Disco entitled ‘Rich Kid Blues’, however he did not see the light until fourteen years later.
But Marianne was back in the business, and with the help of several friends she made in a house busy in the Chelsea neighborhood, she managed to channel her life and in 1975 she published ‘Dreamin’ My Dreams’, an album with country influences she had reasonably good sales. In 1979 he suffered a small stumbling being arrested for possession of marijuana in Norwaybut his career had already taken inertia and that same year he released ‘Broken English’, an album that combined art-rock guitars and electronic elements that would become his most acclaimed work.
The backward voice with which he made himself known became more serious and roughand his compositional faculties were translating into songs increasing .
Despite the culmination of his long -awaited return to music, in the eighties he continued to have dangerous scarce with drugs and broke his jaw when stumbling with stairs that he did not see to go completely placed. In 1985 he entered a Massachusetts rehabilitation clinic, where he fell in love with another addict that ended up taking his life by throwing himself from a fourteenth floor. He dedicated his next album, ‘Strange Weather’ (1987), and in the nineties, Roger Waters threw a cable offering him a role in the representations of a theatrical adaptation of ‘The Wall’. Then a live album arrived, ‘Blazing Away’, and a compilation of great successes that certified their condition of legend, and in which their old friends of the Stones (all except Mick) got involved singing in a song and helping her with the production.
With the change of the century, Faithfull published several albums very well received by critics, highlighting ‘Kissing Time’, a tribute to another ill -fated female icon of the sixtiesin which luxury collaborators such as Blur, Beck, Billy Corgan or Dave Stewart participated. ‘Before The Poison’, 2005, relaunched her as a live artist carrying her through the world on a tour called ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’, which followed more criticism with ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ (2008) , ‘Horses and High Heels’ (2011), ‘Give My Love To London’, (2014) and ‘Negative Capability’ (2018)
As an actress, he said with Glenda Jackson in ‘Tres Hermanas’ by Chejov, played Ofelia in’ Hamlet ‘, shot films like’ Ghost Story ‘or’ Assault on Agathon ‘, or’ The Turn of the Screw ‘,’ When Pigs Pigs Fly ‘and’ Moundance ‘in the nineties, and even made God in two episodes of the comedy’ Absolutely Fabulous’, and devil in the musical of William Burroughs and Tom Waits, ‘The Black Rider’. In recent years he had collaborated with composers such as PJ Harvey, Metallica and Nick Cave, who have cited it as a source of inspiration, in addition to other more veteran stars such as David Bowie, Lou Reed or Emmylou Harris.
Although the cause of his death has not been communicated, Faithfull was passing a very suffered old age for his past of excesses. He had had multiple health problems apart from anorexia and drug addiction, since he had breast cancer and emphysema caused by decades of smoking. In 2020 he contracted COVID-19, was hospitalized 22 days and the doctors said they did not expect to survive, but once again, the phoenix Marianne recovered and in 2021 he published his twenty-first album, ‘She Walks in Beauty’, to the dessert your swan song.
He received the World Lifetime Achievement Award in the 2009 Women’s World Awards and was appointed commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the government of France. He married and divorced three times: with the artist John Dunbar in 1965, with Ben Brierly, of the Punk The Vibrators group, in 1979, and with the actor Giorgio Della Terza in 1988.
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