The interpreter of As Tears Go By went away. British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull died at the age of 78 in London, a spokesperson announced this Thursday in a statement transmitted to AFP. “It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, composer and actress Marianne Faithfull. She died peacefully in London today, in the company of her family. We will miss a lot, ”it is indicated.
After the death of Françoise Hardy, the ex-partner of Mick Jagger had shared on Instagram his sadness as well as a photo showing the two women, radiating, to the Ministry of Culture for the delivery of the registrans of Officer in order Arts and letters to Étienne Daho, in 2006.
Overdoses, alcohol and suicide attempt
Muse of Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull embodied rock’n’roll, from London swinging to New York punk scenes, over a long career punctuated by her eclipses and rebirths. His voice, a thin light net in As tears go by (1964) become in Broken English (1979) A serious torrent drawn from the depths of the smash, was recognizable among all: with this rocky tessitura, it exerted a spell on the nostalgic for melancholic and scholarly rock.
Born on December 29, 1946 in London of a spy father and a descending Austro-Hungarian mother of Baron von Sacher Masoch, she had survived overdoses, suicide, street, alcohol, cancer and even at the Coronavirus which had forced him three weeks of hospitalization in London.
A passionate love story with Mick Jagger
Forever associated with Mick Jagger whose life and escapades she shared in the late 1960s, this Briton with fragile psychology but with the fire temperament will make a name courted by the whole jet set. At 68, she will even pose for an advertising campaign from Yves Saint Laurent.
In 1963, the producer of the Rolling Stones crossed it into a bar where she sings ballads: “I met an angel with big breasts and I signed her”, then trumpeted Andrew Oldham. The shy 17 year old blonde records the first song by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger that their producer considers too sentimental. Partner of Brian Jones, she began in 1966 an affair with Mick Jagger. When she moves with him at 19, she leaves a husband and a son.
The rebellious couple and Bohemian share the big titles with Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg. In 1967, Marianne Faithfull was arrested Hagarde and naked under a cover during a police descent from Keith Richards. Dependent on the heroine, she touched the background in the early 1970s with the end of her affair with Mick Jagger, the loss of her son’s guard and a suicide attempt in Australia. Homeless, she lives two years in squats in Soho in London.
“Princess, whore, rock star”
In 1973, when she knew I’ve got you Babedisguised as a nun alongside David Bowie, his voice carries the stigma of its drifts. Six years later, she comes out Broken English which she presents as the album of her life. “What I have to do before I die is to show what I have in my stomach. Say who I am. »»
The album relaunches her career but installed in New York, she dresses in drugs. After a detoxification cure in the late 1980s, she reinvented herself, inspired by the German cabaret in the 1930s. She returned to the stage with The Quat’Sous Opera et The 7 capital sins by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill. “Princess, whore, rock star: I have never really made the eyes of others. I only know that I am a living artist, ”she said in the form of a challenge in 1995.
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