Marianne Faithfulull, a British pop star who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ biggest songs died at the age of 78.
Faithfulull passed away on Thursday in London, her music promotion company, Republic Media promotion, said CBS News.
“Just with deep sadness, we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfullul,” said her spokeswoman. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her beloved family. She’ll be glad to miss her.”
Faithfulull was born in Hampstead, London, December 1946. She was a folk singer who one day met with Rolling Stones manager at a party, leading to her recording “as tears pass” by Mick Jagger and Keith and Keith Richards in 1964. She was only 17 years old when she recorded a hit single.
“They approached and told the person I was with,” Can I sing? “” Faithful said CBS on Sunday morning during an interview in 2009.
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The pop song ended up on the British and American ladder. There were more hit singles and two debut albums.
Jagger said on Thursday that he was “so sad to hear about the death of” faithful.
“It was so long part of my life,” Jagger said on social media. “She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. She’ll always remember her.”
The daughter of an eccentric British professor and the Austrian Baron, was faithful to the monastery when her career started. At the age of 18, she married an art dealer and she was born, but later moved away from her marriage and career because of Jagger.
She and Jagger began to see each other in 1966 and became one of the most notorious couples of “swinging of London”, and religious once stated that if the LSD “should not happen, it would not be invented”.
But in 1967, when Faithfulull was at a party, police came into a party of Rolling Stones at Richards House, where drugs were found. The accusations were later rejected, but her angelic picture was shameful.
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After Jagger and Faithfulful broke up, she fell into drug addiction and was homeless by the mid-20s.
In 1979, she retired together to release a raw and bold feedback, critically acknowledged “Broken English”. But Faithfulull was still addicted and would have been six years before she finally cleaned.
The believer said CBS That she appreciated her “rather extraordinary life.”
“I really did. I think I was unconscious for a long time. And I just started to understand it.”
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