English singer and actress Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was born on December 29, 1946.
With the publication of her number-one single “As Tears Go By” in the 1960s, she rose to fame and was one of the top female musicians in America during the British Invasion.
Faithfull, a London native from Hampstead, started her career in 1964 after meeting Andrew Loog Oldham at a Rolling Stones gathering.
A number of albums on Decca Records followed Marianne Faithfull’s commercially successful debut album Marianne Faithfull (1965), which was released concurrently with her album Come My Way.
She and Mick Jagger had a well-documented romance that lasted from 1966 through 1970. Her appearances in movies like I’ll Never Forget What’s Name (1967), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), and Hamlet further contributed to her popularity (1969).
In the 1970s, nevertheless, her popularity was overshadowed by personal issues. She was destitute, anorexic, and addicted to heroin at the time.
Who is Marianne Faithfull husband Giorgio Della Terza?
Faithfull wed actor and writer Giorgio Della Terza in 1988, but the couple later got divorced.
