Marianne Faithfull: The Muse Who Survived It All

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today I'm sharing a tribute and farewell to Marianne Faithfull: The Muse Who Survived It All!

Marianne Faithfull’s life was a study in reinvention. Born on December 29, 1946, to a baroness mother and an MI6–linked father, she spent her childhood between convent boarding school and her mother’s home in Berkshire, absorbing both discipline and a taste for quality. At seventeen, a chance trip to Olympic Studios led to her recording “As Tears Go By,” transforming the shy folk singer into Swinging London’s ethereal darling almost overnight.

Engaged to art student John Dunbar, Marianne balanced domestic hopes -marriage, motherhood - the heady swirl of 1960s fame. When Mick Jagger spotted her at a launch party, their romance became tabloid fodder: love, myth, and the infamous Redlands bust, where she was sensationalized as the “naked girl at Stones’ party.” Charged alongside Mick and Keith, she endured misogynistic scorn - “a woman in that situation becomes a slut and a bad mother”—while her recording career continued with films and stage roles.

By 1966 she was both a pop star and a drug experimenter. Marriage to Dunbar produced son Nicholas in November, but her immersion in the Stones’ circle - Brian Jones’s estate, Anita Pallenberg’s influence, and relentless party culture—pulled her toward addiction. Custody battles stripped her of her child and deepened her spiral into heroin and anorexia.

The 1970s brought destitution: squatting in Chelsea, unreleased albums (Rich Kid Blues, Dreamin’ My Dreams), and a ravaged voice. Yet in 1979 she staged one of music’s great comebacks with Broken English. Her guttural rasp on “Why D’Ya Do It?” and the plaintive “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” proved her resilience and artistic vision, even as she battled legal and personal setbacks.

Through the ’80s and beyond, Marianne embraced acting - from Absolutely Fabulous to Irina Palm - while navigating renewed addiction and heartbreaks, including the suicide of partner Howard Tose. She found redemption in reconciliation with Nicholas and in her jazz-inflected album Strange Weather, declaring at forty that her voice, once damaged, held new strength.

Marianne Faithfull passed away on January 30th, 2025. Marianne - the woman who had outlived so many, who had clawed her way back from the edge more times than anyone could count was gone. "She was the last great survivor," Keith Richards wrote in a heartfelt note. "A warrior, a poet, a queen of the underground. I’ll miss her forever." "She taught us what it meant to survive," Patti Smith wrote. "She was the phoenix, over and over again. And now she rests.“ And so, Marianne Faithfull was gone - but like all great legends, she would never truly fade.

From convent halls to rock stages, Marianne Faithfull lived and survived every chapter on her own wonderful terms: wild, wounded, luminous and forever Faithfull.

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„Faithfull“ by Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton, 1994
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/201... remembered-by-marianne-faithfull-obituary-2017


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