Jan 31, 2025 · Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release ...

Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a party for the Rolling Stones, where she was discovered by the band's manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Her 1965 debut studio album Marianne Faithfull , released simultaneously with her studio album Come My Way , was a huge success and was followed by further albums on ...

3 days ago · Today’s playlist is a celebration of Faithfull’s long and varied musical career, which began at 17 — when she was signed on sight by the Rolling Stones ’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham — and ...

Jan 30, 2025 · NEW YORK (AP) — Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78.

Jan 30, 2025 · Marianne Faithfull died Thursday in London at age 78. The singer, actress and 'It' girl of 1960s London inspired — or wrote — numerous Rolling Stones songs.

Jan 30, 2025 · From the archives: Marianne Faithfull on the hard road to becoming a legend 09:47. Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones' greatest songs ...

Jan 30, 2025 · By her own admission, Marianne Faithfull, who has died aged 78, "didn't do conventional". She was the convent-educated teenager who abandoned school after meeting the Rolling Stones.

Jan 30, 2025 · Oldham, who was the Rolling Stones’ first manager, saw Faithfull at the party and felt she was destined to be a pop star — despite never hearing her sing. Oldham got Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to write her a song. In 1964, Faithful released the hit single “As Tears Go By,” launching the 17-year-old Faithful into instant stardom.

Jan 30, 2025 · Marianne Faithfull, who transcended It girl status in the Sixties with a stunning second act as a singer-songwriter of hard-earned wisdom, died Thursday at age 78. “It is with deep sadness that...

Jan 30, 2025 · Marianne Faithfull, the songstress who helped spur music's British invasion and was a muse to the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 78.