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Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) Related threads: Marianne Faithfull's birthday (19 Dec 1946) (27) (closed) Marianne Faithfull BBC4 (49) |
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Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: DaveRo Date: 31 Jan 25 - 02:25 AM Perhaps this means more to use Brits. But here's the NYT obit: Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78 And there are an appraisal, her life in pictures, and reminiscences. Coincidently, I listened to both Broken English and Strange Weather for the first time in ages just last week. The top several messages in this obituary thread were transferred over from the repurposed birthday thread. ---mudelf |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: Johnny J Date: 31 Jan 25 - 06:27 AM Oh, yes, I should also add my condolences. She was very much part of my memories of "the sixties". A wonderful pure voice back then. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: MoorleyMan Date: 31 Jan 25 - 06:32 AM Rather more than just "good", IMHO - and at times too harshly undervalued as a singer. Sure, she had more than her fair share of demons, but she carried her talent thru with grit and integrity. Her two memoirs make fascinating - and laudably raw and honest - reading. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: Johnny J Date: 31 Jan 25 - 06:33 AM Also, if anyone has doubt about her talents in later years, listen to this. https://youtu.be/AsPJqn3clAE |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: DaveRo Date: 31 Jan 25 - 07:00 AM When I listened to that last week I wondered - why 37? I concluded it was because it scans - 7 is the only two-syllable numeral - 27 would be to young - she has kids - and 47 too old for the pathos. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 25 - 10:00 AM Very good singer and actress. Certainly deserves an obit thread of her own. Oneofmy favourite songs of alltime is The Ballad of Lucy Jordan which has made it to a few folk audiences I can think of. Condolonces to all her loved ones anyway |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: Sol Date: 31 Jan 25 - 10:26 AM I was surprised to find out years ago that 'Faithful' was her real surname. not a stage name (which it actually sounds like). |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: gillymor Date: 31 Jan 25 - 10:36 AM I remember developing a giant crush on her after seeing the "As Tears Go By" video. Sounds like she went through some tough times but came thru them alive and even resurrected her singing career. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 31 Jan 25 - 11:49 AM Marianne Faithfull sang a Serge Gainsbourg tune for a film in France. The song was "Hier et demain" and she actually performs it in the film, it isn't just in the soundtrack. She is every inch a Muse in the excerpt from the film. I haven't seen the whole film, just the excerpt; I believe the film was called Anna. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 31 Jan 25 - 11:54 AM Here is Marianne Faithfull singing Hier ou demain. |
Subject: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Jan 25 - 12:02 PM Marianne Faithfull needs a real obituary thread. (The posts above this were transferred over from the old birthday thread so they pre-date the start of this new one.) She had a remarkable life, many highs and lows (pun not intended) and in particular is an icon to women "of a certain age," I think it's fair to say. This piece has been edited to make paragraphs because it was put online one sentence at a time. (Probably to make the photos fit better. Follow the link for the photos.) From the BBC: Marianne Faithfull, the 60s icon and rock star muse who carved her own path By her own admission, Marianne Faithfull, who has died aged 78, "didn't do conventional". She was the convent-educated teenager who abandoned school after meeting the Rolling Stones. A delicate-featured picture of innocence, she inhaled the highs of chart success, before falling victim to alcohol and hard drugs. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Jan 25 - 12:11 PM I really would like to have seen/heard that poem (likely to turn into a song, as so many poems do) that Bob Dylan wrote for her. What a loss! Here is a Wordpress website she seems to have set up: Marianne Faithfull |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: DaveRo Date: 31 Jan 25 - 12:33 PM Fury and denunciations: when pop idol Marianne Faithfull took to the stage – and silenced her critics Faithfull’s casting in Chekhov’s Three Sisters in 1967 caused a perfect storm, yet she held her own against the vastly more experienced cast including Glenda Jackson. It was the start of many such triumphs |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 31 Jan 25 - 12:41 PM Ireland enduring love affair with Marianne Faithfull |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: GUEST Date: 31 Jan 25 - 12:48 PM This little bird - 1965 |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Jan 25 - 12:56 PM Thanks for that link, Guest. The article above it is interesting but wants me to log onto Spotify to listen. YouTube search on Marianne Faithfull |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: GUEST,Songwriter Date: 31 Jan 25 - 01:07 PM Very good singer. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: Nick Dow Date: 31 Jan 25 - 01:09 PM Cyril Tawney once told me she recorded Sally Free and easy. He listened to it regularly when he discovered it on a juke box in a pub in Lancaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpdTvaRkVxM |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull 1946 - 2025 From: Rain Dog Date: 31 Jan 25 - 01:29 PM I saw her on stage back in 2004 in the Robert Wilson/Tom Waits/William Burroughs musical The Black Rider. Mary Margaret O'Hara was also in the cast. Waits also wrote the title song on her album Strange Weather. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Feb 25 - 08:32 AM I just realised that there was a weird coincidence on Thursday the 30th. Listening to music in the car via Spotify at around 12 noon, Leonard Cohen's 'So long Marianne' plated and it was in my head all day after that. I only heard the news on Friday. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: GUEST,Rossey Date: 01 Feb 25 - 09:21 PM Marianne's 60's work was definitely folky in her early days and fits well within this page. Like Francoise Hardy, the chanteuse, crossing between folk and pop. As tears go by, come and stay with me, this little bird, her version of yesterday.. are very 60's folk in style, even with the orchestration. Her original voice had a wonderful refined quality. Sadly, it is proof that what you do to your body can decimate the whole timbre of the voice. Still, she went on to adapt to the loss of her original voice, and used it as best she could, with fans largely accepting the hit and miss, husky cracked delivery, plus recordings, bringing cult status. She left her mark in the UK. and will always appear on 60's golden oldie radio shows with her couple of period classics. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Feb 25 - 09:41 PM Marianne Faithfull at IMDb where she has 50 credits as Actor, 7 in Music Department, 3 in Composer, 64 in Soundtrack, and 1 as Writer. Busy woman. |
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