The New York Times : Marianne Faithfull: A Life in Pictures →
The singer and actress, who embodied the Swinging Sixties and performed for decades afterward, exuded an effortless cool.
Read MoreThe Guardian : Marianne Faithfull obituary →
Those who first glimpsed Marianne Faithfull in the 1960s as Mick Jagger’s angelic girlfriend, or the winsome singer of As Tears Go By, probably did not imagine she would go on to forge a career of more than 50 years as a songwriter and recording artist in her own right. Faithfull, who has died aged 78, released 22 solo albums and collaborated with many big names in music. She also had some success as an actor. All of it was achieved against a backdrop of addiction and personal struggles that she did not hide.
Read MoreBBC : Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull dies at 78 →
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78, her spokesperson has said. Born in Hampstead in December 1946, she was known for hits like As Tears Go By, which reached the UK top 10 in 1964, and for starring roles in films including 1968's The Girl On A Motorcycle. Faithfull's long-time friend, the BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris, called her an "encapsulation of the sixties". He said while she initially was known for being Mick Jagger's girlfriend, through her "people began to see her as an artist, as a creator".
Read MoreLithub : More Than Just A Pretty Face: On the Multifaceted Marianne Faithfull (by Elizabeth Winder) →
Marianne planned to be known, but a pop princess career was the last thing on her mind. She’d be an artist of some kind—she’d go to Cambridge, or the Royal Academy of Music to continue classical singing. She idolized the young Vanessa Redgrave, who once came to talk to Marianne’s theater group. Perhaps Marianne would also play Rosalind, or Imogen in Cymbeline, or even sing Tosca in Covent Garden. Awake long in the night in her convent room, she bent over her workbook, filling page after page of potential stage names, pen names, fantasy names. In time she would realize her real name was her own.
Read MoreAD France : Marianne Faithfull photographiée chez elle dans les années 1960 (by Annabelle Dufraigne et Fanny Guénon des Mesnards) →
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.
Read MoreRolling Stone : Série musicale de l’été : Lucile Commeaux raconte Marianne Faithfull sur France Culture →
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.
Read MoreNME : Lucy Boynton on playing Marianne Faithfull: “She is an extraordinary woman” (by Gary Ryan) →
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.
Rolling Stone : Hear Marianne Faithfull’s Forceful ‘Vagabond Ways’ Demo for ‘Incarceration of a Flower Child’ →
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.
Read MoreIndependant : Mini-skirts, bouffants and forgotten hits: The unsung women of the British Invasion →
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.
Read MoreDW : Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: Happy birthday, Marianne Faithfull →
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.
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