Marianne Faithfull (born December 29, 1946) is a British singer who began her career in 1964 (see 1964 in music) with "As Tears Go By", a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Night" and "Sister Morphine". In 1969, she played Ophelia in the Nicol Williamson adaptation of Hamlet.

After splitting up with Jagger, Faithfull briefly stopped recording and nursed a drug addiction. She returned in 1979 (see 1979 in music) with Broken English, a critical smash hit that did not achieve much success in mainstream markets. This pattern continued throughout the 1980s, with Strange Weather (1987) being her most important album of the decade.

She was the first person to use the word "fuck" in a motion picture, in I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname.

In 1994 she published her autobiography entitled Faithfull.

Faithfull sung backup vocals on Metallica's song "The Memory Remains" from their 1997 album Reload.

Her musical career restarted in 2002 when she released the album Kissin'Time. This was followed in 2004 by Before the Poison, a collaboration with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. It was considered by some critics to be the best work of her career.

Reference

• Faithfull, Marianne. Faithfull: An Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown; 1994. ISBN 0-316-27324-4

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