The first I heard of her when she 'resurfaced' was when she appeared in a Metallica video that my son was watching. I was pretty used to Metallica by then (had to be - he went through a heavy metal phase) but suddenly there was this godawful bleating coming from the TV and I asked him what that was. "Oh that's Marianne Faithfull". As I recall in the video she played a hurdy gurdy or something of that nature and sang "da da da da da da da da....." in a horrible raspy voice.