At the age of 78, British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull died in London on Thursday, well known thanks to the hit AS Tears Go by written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The media informed the singer’s spokesman for deathwrites TASR, according to AFP reports, I BBC.
Faithfull was born in December 1946 in London Hampstead. She broke through the music scene in 1964, when it was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of the British rock band Rolling Stones. It was the founding members of this legendary formation, Jagger and Richards, that in the same year it was also written by the aforementioned hit AS Tears Go by. Subsequently, she released a series of successful singles such as Come and Stay With Me, This Little Bird and Summer Nights.
She also played in several films including film Girl on motorcycle IV theater performances. She was also known for her stormy relationship with Jagger, frontman Rolling Stones, with whom she formed a couple from 1966 to 1970. After breaking up with Jagger, FaithFull experienced a difficult life period, She became dependent on heroin and for some time even lived as a homeless in squat.
She was not allowed to return to the music scene in 1976 by Dreamin ‘My Dreams, BBC said. Indeed, she broke again with another carrier of Broken English from 1979, influenced by the so -called. with a new wave to be dominated by her obscured voice and was Nominated for the Grammy Award. Her critics were also awarded a jazz-blues album Strange Weather from 1987.
Over the years she has worked with a number of award -winning musicians as David Bowie or Lou Reed and in recent times, for example, with Nick Cave and PJ Harvey.
The singer had long -term undermined health. In the past, she suffered from bulimia and was also treated for breast cancer. In 2020 it was hospitalized for 22 days with Covid-19. Her condition was serious and doctors did not give her too much chance to survive. The singer, however, recovered and a year later released her 21 album She Walks in Beauty.
Faithfulla was married and divorced three times. She left behind a 59-year-old son, Nicholas Dunbar, whom she had from her first husband, artist John Dunbar.
