Chanteuse emblématique de la « British invasion » qui secoua les années 1960 avec l'arrivée massive de groupes anglais en Amérique (à l'instar des Beatles et des Rolling Stones), Marianne Faithfull a marqué une génération de sa voix singulière. Retour sur la décennie la plus décisive de sa carrière à travers 10 clichés vintage.

Cap sur la culture pop et rock cet été sur la radio publique. Jusqu’à la fin août, France Culture propose, en partenariat avec Rolling Stone, une série hebdomadaire déclinée en épisodes quotidiens. Cette semaine, Lucile Commeaux revient sur l’icône rock par excellence, Marianne Faithfull.

Don't stop her now! The 'Bohemian Rhapsody' star teases her biggest role yet.

Lucy Boynton is no stranger to musicians. She played Freddie Mercury’s former fiancée and best friend Mary Austin in Bohemian Rhapsody, getting to know Queen rock stars Brian May and Roger Taylor in the process. She holds raucous karaoke sessions with actor-singer Ben Platt, her co-star on Netflix‘s The Politician. And when she was cast as Marianne Faithfull in an upcoming biopic, the ‘60s icon gave Boynton her personal seal of approval.

Marianne Faithfull will give her 1999 album, Vagabond Ways, the deluxe treatment with a reissue due out March 4. She’s teasing the release with the demo recording for the album’s “Incarceration of a Flower Child,” a song Roger Waterswrote in 1968 but never recorded with Pink Floyd.

As Beatlemania sweeps the world once more with Peter Jackson’s ‘Get Back’, it’s high time that the women who took America by storm – from Dusty Springfield to Cilla Black – are equally recognised for their part in pop history. Key figures of the Swinging Sixties, including Petula Clark, speak to Alli Patton.

Marianne Faithfull was one of only few female pop icons to emerge in the 1960s. For years she battled with drug abuse but later celebrated a massive comeback not only as a singer but also as an actress.

or more than 50 years, Marianne Faithfull’s blues have both obscured and informed her music. From her melancholy first single, the Jagger-Richards penned As Tears Go By, which launched her as the blue-eyed, flaxen-haired poster girl for sadness, through to the tremulous Rich Kid Blues, recorded when Faithfull was, ironically, destitute, unhappiness has stalked the 69-year-old with virulent ardour.

Paris-based MK2 Films will launch sales in Cannes on an upcoming bio-doc about 1960s icon Marianne Faithfull [pictured] by French actress and director SandrineBonnaire.