Marianne Evelyn Faithfull
(born 29 December 1946) is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. During the first two-thirds of that decade, and with little notice, only two studio albums were produced. After a long commercial absence, she returned late in 1979 with the landmark album, Broken English
. Faithfull’s subsequent solo work, often critically acclaimed, has at times been overshadowed by her personal history.
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Early life
Faithfull was born in
Hampstead, London. Her father, Major Dr. Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a
British military officer and college professor in psychology
. Her mother,
Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso, was originally from
Vienna, with noble roots from the
Habsburg Dynasty and
Jewish ancestry on her maternal side.
[1] Erisso was a ballerina for the
Max Reinhardt Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo
Bertolt Brecht and
Kurt Weill.
[2] Faithfull's maternal great-great-uncle was
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the infamous 19th century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel,
Venus in Furs
, spawned the word "
masochism".
[3] In regard to her roots in nobility, Faithfull commented in March, 2007 prior to beginning the European leg of her tour, "I'm even going to Budapest, which is nice because I'm half English and half Austro-Hungarian. I've inherited the title Baroness Sacher-Masoch — it comes from one of my great uncles who gave his name to
masochism."
[4]
The family originally lived in
Ormskirk, a market town in West Lancashire 13 miles NE of
Liverpool, while her father completed a doctorate at
Liverpool University.
She spent some of her early life at the commune formed by her father at
Braziers Park,
Oxfordshire. After her parents divorced, when she was six years old
, she moved with her mother to
Reading, Berkshire. Living in rather reduced circumstances, Faithfull's girlhood was marred by bouts with tuberculosis and her charity-boarder status at
St Joseph's Convent School. While at St. Joseph's, she was also a member of the
Progress Theatre's student group.
Music career and personal life
1960s
Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a
folk music performer in coffeehouses.
[5] Faithfull emerged as a fashionable, vivacious teenager and soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. Her elementary school was in Brixton. In early 1964 she attended a
Rolling Stones' launch party with
John Dunbar and there a chance meeting with
Andrew Loog Oldham, who discovered Faithfull. Her first major release, "
As Tears Go By", was penned by Oldham,
Mick Jagger and
Keith Richards, and became a chart success. She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights" and "Come and Stay With Me".
Faithfull married artist
John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 at
Cambridge with
Peter Asher as the
best man.
[6] The couple lived in a flat at 29 Lennox Gardens in
Belgravia just off
Knightsbridge, London SW1.
On 10 November 1965 she gave birth to their son, Nicholas.
She then: "left her husband to live with
Mick Jagger" and told the
New Musical Express
: "My first move was to get a
Rolling Stone as a boyfriend. I slept with three and decided the lead singer was the best bet".
In 1966 she took their son to stay with
Brian Jones and
Anita Pallenberg in London. During that time period, Faithfull started using
marijuana and became best friends with Pallenberg. She also began a much publicized relationship with
Mick Jagger that same year. The couple became notorious and largely part of the hip
Swinging London scene. She was found by British police while on a drug search at
Keith Richards' house in
Redlands, while wearing only a fur rug. In an interview 27 years later with A. M. Homes for
Details, Faithfull discussed her wilder days and admitted that the drug bust-fur rug incident had ravaged her personal life: "It destroyed me. To be a male drug addict and to act like that is always enhancing and glamorising. A woman in that situation becomes a slut and a bad mother". In 1968 Faithfull, by now addicted to
cocaine, miscarried a daughter (whom she had named Corrina) while retreating to Jagger's country house in Ireland.
Faithfull's involvement in Jagger's life would be reflected in some of the Rolling Stones' best-known songs. "
Sympathy for the Devil", featured on the album
Beggars Banquet
(1968), was in part inspired by
The Master and Margarita
, by
Mikhail Bulgakov, a book which Faithfull introduced him to. The song "
You Can't Always Get What You Want" on the
Let It Bleed
album (1969) was written about Faithfull; the songs "
Wild Horses" and "
I Got the Blues" on the 1971 album
Sticky Fingers
were also influenced by Faithfull, and she herself wrote "
Sister Morphine". (The writing credit for the song was the subject of a protracted legal battle; the resolution of the case has Faithfull listed as co-author of the song.) In her autobiography, Faithfull said Mick Jagger and Keith Richards released it in their own names so that her agent did not collect all the royalties and proceeds from the song, especially as she was homeless and battling with heroin addiction at the time. Faithfull appeared on the Rolling Stones'
Rock and Roll Circus
TV show, giving a solo performance of "Something Better".
1970s
Faithfull dissolved her relationship with Jagger in May 1970, and lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her mother attempting suicide.
Marianne's personal life went into decline, and her career went into a tailspin. She only made a few appearances, including a 1973 performance at
NBC with
David Bowie, singing
Sonny Bono's song (recorded in 1965 by
Sonny and Cher) "
I Got You Babe".
Faithfull lived on London's
Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and
anorexia nervosa.
[8] Friends intervened and enrolled her in an
NHS drug programme, from which she could get her daily fix on prescription from a chemist (pharmacist).
[9] She was one of the program's most notorious failures, neither controlling nor stabilizing her addiction as the NHS intended. In 1971, producer
Mike Leander found her on the streets and made an attempt to revive her career, producing part of her album
Rich Kid Blues
. The album would be shelved until 1985.
Severe laryngitis coupled with persistent cocaine abuse during this period permanently altered the sound of Faithfull's voice, leaving it cracked and lower in pitch. While the new sound was praised as "whiskey-soaked" by some critics, journalist John Jones of the (London) Sunday Times wrote that she had "permanently vulgarized her voice".
In 1975 she released the
country-influenced record
Dreamin' My Dreams
, which reached the top of the
Irish Albums Chart.
Faithfull moved into a
squat without hot water or electricity in
Chelsea with her then-boyfriend Ben Brierly, of
punk band
The Vibrators.
Faithfull's career returned full force in 1979 (the same year she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway) with the album
Broken English
, one of her most critically hailed album releases.
The album was partially influenced by the punk explosion and on her marriage to Brierly in the same year. In addition to the punk-pop sounds of the title track (which addressed
terrorism in Europe, being dedicated to
Ulrike Meinhof), the album also included "Why D'Ya Do It", a punk-
reggae song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by
Heathcote Williams.
[10] The musical structure of this song is complex; though on the surface hard rock, it is a
tango in 4/4 time, with an opening electric guitar riff by Barry Reynolds in which beats 1 and 4 of each measure are accented on the up-beat, and beat 3 is accented on the down beat. Faithfull, in her autobiography, commented that her fluid yet rhythmic reading of Williams' lyric was "an early form of rap".
also revealed an astonishing change to Faithfull's singing voice. The melodic vocals on her early records were replaced with a raucous, deep voice, affected by years of smoking, drinking and drug use.
1980s
Faithfull began living in New York after the release of the follow-up to
Broken English
,
Dangerous Acquaintances
, in 1981. Despite her comeback, she was still battling with addiction in the mid-1980s, at one point breaking her jaw tripping on a flight of stairs while under the influence.
In another incident her heart actually stopped. A disastrous appearance on
Saturday Night Live
was blamed on too many rehearsals, but it was suspected that drugs had caused her vocal cords to seize up.
Rich Kid Blues
(1984) was another collection of her early work combined with new recordings, a double record showcasing both the pop and rock 'n' roll facets of her output to date. In 1985, Faithfull performed "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" on
Hal Willner's tribute album
Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
. Faithfull's restrained readings lent themselves to the material, and this collaboration informed several subsequent works.
In 1985, she was at
Hazelden Clinic in
Minnesota for rehabilitation. She then received treatment at
McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. While living at a hotel in nearby
Cambridge, Faithfull started an affair (while still married to Brierly) with a
dual diagnosis (mentally ill and drug dependent) man, Howard Tose, who later committed suicide by jumping from a 14th floor window of the apartment they shared.
In 1987, Faithfull dedicated a thank-you to Tose within the album package of
Strange Weather
, on the back sleeve: "To Howard Tose with love and thanks". Faithfull's divorce from Brierly was also finalized that year. In 1995, she wrote and sang about the experience of Tose's death in "Flaming September" from the album
A Secret Life
.
In 1987, Faithfull again reinvented herself, this time as a
jazz and
blues singer, on
Strange Weather
, also produced by Willner. The album became her most critically lauded album of the decade. Coming full circle, the renewed Faithfull cut another recording of "
As Tears Go By" for
Strange Weather
, this time in a tighter, more gravelly voice. The singer confessed to a lingering irritation with her first hit. "I always childishly thought that was where my problems started, with that damn song," she told
Jay Cocks in
Time
, but she came to terms with it as well as with her past. In a 1987 interview with Rory O'Connor of
Vogue
, Faithfull declared, "forty is the age to sing it, not seventeen.
The album of covers was produced by
Hal Willner after the two had spent numerous weekends listening to hundreds of songs from the annals of twentieth-century music. They chose to record such diverse tracks as
Bob Dylan's "
I'll Keep It with Mine" and "Yesterdays," written by Broadway composers Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The work also includes tunes first made notable by such blues luminaries as
Billie Holiday and
Bessie Smith; latter-day beat-virtuoso
Tom Waits penned the title track. In 1988, the singer married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, but they divorced in 1991.
1990s
When
Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the
rock opera The Wall
live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's over-protective mother. Her musical career rebounded for the third time during the early 1990s with the live album
Blazing Away,
which featured Faithfull revisiting songs she had performed over the course of her career.
Blazing Away
was recorded at St. Anne's Cathedral in
Brooklyn. The 13 selections include "Sister Morphine," a cover of
Edith Piaf's "Les Prisons du Roy," and the controversial "Why D'Ya Do It?" from
Broken English
. Alanna Nash of
Stereo Review
commended the musicians whom Faithfull had chosen to back her—longtime guitarist Reynolds was joined by former Band member Garth Hudson and pianist
Dr. John. Nash was also impressed with the album's autobiographical tone, noting "Faithfull's gritty alto is a cracked and halting rasp, the voice of a woman who's been to hell and back on the excursion fare—which, of course, she has." The reviewer extolled Faithfull as "one of the most challenging and artful of women artists," and
Rolling Stone
writer Fred Goodman asserted: "Blazing Away is a fine retrospective—proof that we can still expect great things from this graying, jaded contessa.
As her fascination with the music of
Weimar-era Germany continued, Faithfull released a recording of
The Seven Deadly Sins
and performed in
The Threepenny Opera
. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album,
Twentieth Century Blues
, which focused on the music of
Kurt Weill and
Bertolt Brecht, and a successful concert and cabaret tour.
A Collection of Her Best Recordings
was released in 1994 by
Island Records to coincide with the release of the
Faithfull autobiography - and the two products originally shared the same cover art. It contained Faithfull's updated version of
As Tears Go By
from
Strange Weather
several cuts from
Broken English
and
A Child's Adventure
and a song written by
Patti Smith scheduled for inclusion on an Irish
AIDS benefit album. This track, "
Ghost Dance", suggested to Faithfull by a friend who later died of AIDS, was made with a trio of old acquaintances:
Rolling Stones drummer
Charlie Watts and guitarist
Ron Wood backed Faithfull's vocals on the song, while
Keith Richards coproduced it. The retrospective album also featured one live track, "Times Square," from
Blazing Away
as well as a new Faithfull's original,
She,
penned with composer and arranger
Angelo Badalamenti to be released the following year on
A Secret Life
, with additional songs co-written with Badalamenti. Faithfull also sang background vocals on
Metallica's song "
The Memory Remains" from their 1997 album
ReLoad
and appeared in the song's
music video; the track reached #28 in the U.S. (#3 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart) and #13 in the UK.
In 1998 Faithfull released
A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology
, a two-disc compilation that chronicled her years with Island Records. It featured tracks from her albums
Broken English
,
Dangerous Acquaintances
,
A Child's Adventure
,
Strange Weather
,
Blazing Away
, and
A Secret Life
, as well as several B-sides and unreleased tracks.
Faithfull's 1999
DVD Dreaming My Dreams
contained material about her childhood and parents, with historical video footage going back to 1964 and interviews with the artist and several friends who have known her since childhood. The documentary included sections on her relationship with
John Dunbar and
Mick Jagger, and brief interviews with
Keith Richards. It concluded with footage from a 30-minute live concert, originally broadcast on
PBS for the series
Sessions at West 54th. That same year, she ranked #25 in
VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll
.
2000s
Faithfull has released several albums in the 2000s that received positive critical response, beginning with
Vagabond Ways
(1999), which was produced, and recorded by
Mark Howard. It included collaborations with
Daniel Lanois,
Emmylou Harris,
Pink Floyd's
Roger Waters, and writer (and friend)
Frank McGuiness. Later that year she sang "Love Got Lost" on
Joe Jackson's Night and Day II
album.
Her renaissance continued with
Kissin' Time
, released in 2002. The album contained songs written with Blur (title track),
Beck,
Billy Corgan,
Jarvis Cocker,
Dave Stewart, David Courts, and the French pop singer
Étienne Daho. On this record, she paid tribute to
Nico (with "Song for Nico"), whose work she admired. The album also included an
autobiographical song she co-wrote with Cocker, called "Sliding Through Life on Charm".
In 2005, she released
Before the Poison
. The album was primarily a collaboration with
PJ Harvey and
Nick Cave, though
Damon Albarn and
Jon Brion also contributed. In 2005 she recorded (and co-produced) "Lola R Forever", a cover of the
Serge Gainsbourg song "Lola Rastaquouere" with
Sly &
Robbie for the tribute album
Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
. In 2007, Faithfull collaborated with the British singer/songwriter,
Patrick Wolf on the duet "Magpie" from his third album
The Magic Position
and wrote and recorded a new song for the French film
Truands
called "A Lean and Hungry Look" with Ulysse.
Faithfull currently resides in Paris, with her manager and boyfriend François Ravard. Marianne and François recently split.
In March 2007 she returned to the stage with a touring show entitled
Songs of Innocence and Experience
. Supported by a trio, the performance had a semi-acoustic feel and toured European theatres throughout the spring and summer. The show featured many songs she had not performed live before including "Something Better", the song she sang on
The Rolling Stones'
Rock & Roll Circus
. The show also included the
Harry Nilsson song "Don't Forget Me" which features the line "When we're old and full of cancer, it doesn't matter now, come on, get happy" seen as a celebration of her surviving the disease.
Recent articles hint Faithfull is looking to retirement, in hopes money from
Songs of the Innocence and Experience
will enable her to live in comfort. The 60-year-old said:
"I’m not prepared to be 70 and absolutely broke. I realized last year that I have no safety net at all and I’m going to have to get one. So I need to change my attitude to life, which means I have to put away 10 per cent every year of my old age. I want to be in a position where I don’t have to work. I should have thought about this a long time ago but I didn’t."
[11]
Recording of her studio album
Easy Come, Easy Go
commenced in New York City on 6 December 2007; the album is produced by
Hal Willner who also produced her 1987 album
Strange Weather
. A version of
Morrissey's
Dear God Please Help Me
from his 2006 album,
Ringleader of the Tormentors
is one of the songs featured, and the album is available both a standard 10-song cd and as an 18-song cd-dvd combination. A collectible vinyl pressing is also available. The EU release on Naive was
November 10,
2008.
[12]
On January 20, 2009, the blog on Faithfull's MySpace page announced: "The US, UK and Australian release dates for Marianne's new album are as follows...US release: March 17, 2009 on
Decca, UK release: March 16, 2009 on Dramatico, Australian release: February 14, 2009 on Shock records.
On March 31, 2009, Faithfull performed The Crane Wife 3 on
The Late Show
.
[13]
In late March, Marianne began the Easy Come, Easy Go tour, which will take her to
France,
Germany,
Austria,
New York City and
London.
[14]
On Thursday, April 16, 2009, while preparing to board a
British Airways flight at London's
Gatwick Airport bound for a concert appearance in
Bologna, Italy, Francois Ravard, accompanying Faithfull, was detained and then later arrested. In a statement, British Airways said: "A male customer became aggressive and abusive at check-in when he was refused travel on a flight from Gatwick to Bologna. He appeared to be intoxicated on arrival at check-in. In such circumstances, an assessment is made as to whether the passenger is fit to travel. When he was refused travel, he became physically and verbally abusive. Police were called and he was arrested. Such behaviour will not be tolerated."
[15]
Faithfull, however, had not been drinking and was allowed to board. The pair was flying to Italy on a leg of her world tour promoting
Easy Come, Easy Go
. According to her spokeperson, "Marianne was at Gatwick airport but was not involved in any way in the situation that occurred and she managed to travel on to Bologna as planned. Her gig tonight there will go ahead as planned, and Francois travelled from Britain to join her yesterday. Marianne hadn't been drinking at the time of the incident and she does not drink alcohol. She is enjoying life and loving it as she is sober and clean."
On Saturday, April 18, 2009, Faithfull revealed separately in an interview, reported in
The Daily Mail, that although Ravard was still her manager their 15-year relationship had ended some months ago. According to the interview quoted, Faithfull stated, "I'm all right but I have had a bit of an adventure - my relationship broke up. I felt very betrayed and lonely. I am much, much better now, but it is not good for your self-esteem."
[16]
On Sunday, May 3, 2009, Marianne was featured on
CBS News Sunday Morning
and interviewed by
Anthony Mason in the "Sunday Profile" segment. Both in-studio and on-the-street (New York City) interview segments with Faithfull and Mason were interspersed with extensive biographical and musical footage.
[17]
Acting career
In addition to her music career, Faithfull has had a career as an actress in theatre, television and film.
Her first professional theatre appearance was in a 1967 stage adaptation of
Chekhov’s
Three Sisters
, at the
Royal Court, London, in which she played Irina, co-starring with
Glenda Jackson and
Avril Elgar. Before that she played herself in
Jean-Luc Godard's movie
Made in U.S.A.
. Faithfull has also appeared in the 1967 film
I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name
alongside
Orson Welles (where she notedly became the first person to say "
fuck" in a mainstream studio picture), in the French television movie
Anna
, starring
Anna Karina (in which Faithfull sang
Serge Gainsbourg's 'Hier ou Demain'), as a leather-clad motorcyclist in the 1968 French film
La Motocyclette
(English titles:
Girl on a Motorcycle
and
Naked Under Leather
) opposite
Alain Delon, and in
Kenneth Anger's 1969 film
Lucifer Rising
, in which she played
Lilith. In 1969, Faithfull played
Ophelia opposite
Nicol Williamson's
Hamlet
, directed by
Tony Richardson and featuring
Anthony Hopkins as Claudius.
Her stage work also included ''
Edward Bonds
Early Morning
at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in which she played a lesbian Florence Nightingale,
The Collector
at St. Martin's Theatre in the West End opposite Simon Williams,
Mad Dog
at Hampstead Theatre opposite Denholm Elliott,
A Patriot for Me
by
John Osborne, at Watford Palace Theatre and
The Rainmaker
, which toured the UK and in which Marianne's co-star was TV actor Peter Gilmore. Other film roles in the 1970s included Stephen Weeks's
Ghost Story
(AKA
Madhouse Mansion
) and
Assault on Agathon''.
Her television acting in the late 1960s and early 1970s included
The Door of Opportunity
(1970) with
Ian Ogilvy,
[18] adapted from
W. Somerset Maugham's story, followed by ''
Strindbergs
The Stronger
(1971) with Britt Ekland, [19] and
Terrible Jim Fitch'' (1971) by
James Leo Herlihy, which once more paired Faithfull with Nicol Williamson.
[20]
In 1993, she played the role of Pirate Jenny in
The Threepenny Opera
at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Later she performed
The Seven Deadly Sins
with the Vienna Radio Symphony, a CD of which was released in 1998.
She has played both God and the Devil. She appeared as God in two guest appearances in the British sitcom
Absolutely Fabulous
opposite friend
Jennifer Saunders, with another close friend,
Anita Pallenberg, playing the Devil. In 2004 and 2005, Marianne herself played the Devil in
William Burroughs's and
Tom Waits's musical,
The Black Rider
, directed by
Robert Wilson, which opened at London's Barbican Theatre, toured to San Francisco, but from which Marianne was forced to withdraw prior to performances at the Sydney Festival, owing to exhaustion.
In 2001 Faithfull appeared with Lucy Russell and
Lambert Wilson in
C.S. Leigh's
Far From China
. She has also appeared in
Patrice Chéreau's
Intimacy
(2001) and, in 2004, in Jose Hayot's
Nord-Plage
. Faithfull appeared as
Empress Maria-Theresa in
Sofia Coppola's 2006 biopic,
Marie-Antoinette
, in which the most affecting aspects of her performance were her spoken voice-overs. She starred in the film
Irina Palm
, released at the
Berlinale film festival in 2007. Faithfull plays the central role of Maggie, a 60-year-old widow who becomes a sex worker to pay for medical treatment for her ill grandson.
[21]
Faithfull lent her voice to the 2008 film
Evil Calls: The Raven
, although this was recorded several years earlier when the project was still titled
Alone in the Dark
. She has appeared in the 2008 feature documentary by Nik Sheehan on
Brion Gysin and the
Dreamachine, entitled .
In October 2008, Marianne's website and MySpace page announced Marianne's tour of readings of
Shakespeare's Sonnets
, drawing on the "Dark Lady" sequence. Marianne's accompanist on the tour is the cellist Vincent Segal.
Collaborations
Over the course of her long recording career, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona, experimenting in different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as
Angelo Badalamenti,
Beck,
David Bowie,
Nick Cave,
The Chieftains,
Jarvis Cocker,
Billy Corgan,
Marcella Detroit,
Emmylou Harris,
PJ Harvey,
Antony Hegarty,
Rupert Hine,
Joe Jackson,
Alex James,
Lenny Kaye,
Daniel Lanois,
Sean Lennon,
Metallica,
John Prine, Barry Reynolds,
Keith Richards,
Sly and Robbie,
Teddy Thompson,
Tom Waits,
Rufus Wainwright,
Roger Waters,
Steve Winwood and
Patrick Wolf.
Career as a diarist
In 1994, she published an autobiography, entitled
Faithfull
,
in which she discusses her early life, career, drug addictions, experimentation with
bisexuality and significant relationships with her parents, the various
Rolling Stones, and
Bob Dylan.
In 2007, Faithfull released a second volume of autobiography called
Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
[22] The book, published by Fourth Estate (an imprint of
HarperCollins), was a more personal history than
Faithfull
and contains a wide range of material, including a detailed early history of her mother's life in Austria, her recollections of friends who have died, and her assessments of various recent health issues.
Nominations and awards
On 4 November 2007, the
European Film Academy announced that Faithfull had received a nomination for Best Actress, for her role as Maggie in
Irina Palm
. At the 20th annual
European Film Awards ceremony held in Berlin, on 1 December 2007, Faithfull lost to
Helen Mirren.
On March 5, 2009, Faithfull received the
World Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement
at the 2009 . "Marianne’s contribution to the arts over a 45 year career including 23 albums as a singer, songwriter and interpreter, and numerous appearances on stage and screen is now being acknowledged with this special award."
The award was presented in Vienna, with ceremonies televised in over 40 countries on March 8, 2009 as part of
International Women's Day.
Health
In the past five years, Faithfull's touring and work schedule has been interrupted 4 times due to various health issues.
In late 2004 she called off the European leg of a world tour, promoting
Before The Poison
after collapsing onstage in Milan, and was hospitalized for exhaustion. The tour resumed later and included a US leg in 2005.
In September 2006, she again called off a concert tour, this time after she was diagnosed with
breast cancer.
[23]
[24] The following month, she underwent surgery in France and no further treatment was necessary owing to the tumour having been caught at a very early stage. Less than two months after she declared having the disease, Faithfull made her public statement of full recovery.
[25]
On 11 October 2007 Faithfull revealed she had the disease
Hepatitis C on UK television programme
This Morning
, and that she had first been diagnosed with the condition 12 years before. She discusses both the cancer and Hepatitis diagnoses in further depth in her second memoir,
Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
On 27 May 2008, Faithfull released the following blog posting on her
MySpace page, with the headline "Tour Dates Cancelled" and credited to FR Management - the company operated by her boyfriend/manager Francois Ravard: "Due to general mental, physical and nervous exhaustion doctors have ordered Marianne Faithfull to immediately cease all work activities and rehabilitate. The treatment and recovery should last around 6 months, we all wish Marianne a speedy recuperation period and look forward to her new album release and tour in 2009."
[26]
Discography
Filmography
- Made in U.S.A.
(1966)
- Anna
(1967)
- I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name
(1967)
- Three Sisters
(1967)
- La Motocyclette
/ The Girl on a Motorcycle
(a.k.a. Naked Under Leather
) (1968)
- Rock and Roll Circus
(1968/Released 1996)
- Hamlet
(1969)
- Lucifer Rising
(1972)
- Madhouse Mansion
(1974)
- Assault on Agathon
(1975)
- The Turn of the Screw
(1992) (narration)
- When Pigs Fly
(1993)
- Shopping
(1994)
- Moondance
(1995)
- Crimetime
(1996)
- Intimacy
(2001)
- Far From China
(2001)
- Nord-Plage
(2004)
- A Letter to True
(2004)
- Paris, je t'aime
(2006)
- Marie Antoinette
(2006)
- Irina Palm
(2007)
- Evil Calls: The Raven
aka Alone in the Dark (2008)
Books
- (with David Dalton) Faithfull: an autobiography
. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000 (first appeared 1994), ISBN 0815410468
- Memories, Dreams and Reflections
. HarperCollins UK, 2008 (first appeared 2007), ISBN 9780007245819