THE ROLLING STONES & THE MORGANS, 'AS TEARS GO BY'

Yesterday, The Morgans and The Grandma met The Rolling Stones, one of the best rock bands of all time, in Hyde Park. 

 

It was a fantastic meeting where they were able to talk about the origins of the band and their great songs, especially As Tears Go By one of the most beautiful songs ever written about childhood and memories of the past, wonderfully performed by Marianne Faithfull.

 

Today, the family has been reminiscing about yesterday's fantastic encounter before reviewing some English grammar with the Past Simple (Irregular Forms) and Had/Didn't have.

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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active across seven decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era.

In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader of the band.

After Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager in 1963, he encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger-Richards partnership became the band's primary songwriting and creative force; this alienated Jones, who developed a drug addiction that by 1968 interfered with his ability to contribute meaningfully.

Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material, as (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get Off of My Cloud (both 1965), and Paint It Black (1966) became international number-one hits. Aftermath (1966), their first entirely original album, is often considered to be the most important of their early albums.

In 1967, they had the double-sided hit Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend the Night Together and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request.

By the end of the 1960s, they had returned to their rhythm and blues-based rock sound, with hit singles Jumpin' Jack Flash (1968) and Honky Tonk Women (1969), and albums Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man, and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring You Can't Always Get What You Want and Gimme Shelter.

Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor. That year they were first introduced on stage as the greatest rock and roll band in the world.  

Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded Brown Sugar and Wild Horses and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive number-one studio albums in the US. It was followed by Exile on Main St. (1972), featuring Tumbling Dice and Happy and Goats Head Soup (1973), featuring Angie.

Taylor left the band at the end of 1974, and was replaced by Ronnie Wood. The band released Some Girls in 1978, featuring Miss You, and Tattoo You in 1981, featuring Start Me Up.

Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994). Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours, as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction; by 2007 they had recorded the all-time highest-grossing concert tour three times, and they were the highest-earning live act of 2021.

Following Wyman's departure in 1993, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones becoming their regular bassist, and then as a three-piece core following Watts' death in 2021, with Steve Jordan becoming their regular drummer. Hackney Diamonds, the band's first new album of original material in 18 years, was released in October 2023, becoming their fourteenth UK number-one album.

The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of 200 million make them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. They have won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.  

They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. 

Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked them as one of the greatest artists of all time.

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Lose your dreams

and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger

MARIANNE EVELYN GABRIEL FAITHFULL, 'AS TEARS GO BY'

Today, The Grandma is relaxing in the Cumberland Hotel. She has decided to listen to some music and she has chosen Marianne Faithfull, one of her favourite singers.

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946-30 January 2025) was an English singer, songwriter, and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single As Tears Go By and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.

Born in Hampstead, London, Marianne Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a Rolling Stones party, where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. After the release of her hit single As Tears Go By, she became an international star. Her debut album Marianne Faithfull (1965), released simultaneously with her album Come My Way, was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on Decca Records.

From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was further enhanced by her film roles, such as I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), and Hamlet (1969). However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s. During that time she was anorexic, homeless, and a heroin addict.

You stay in every song, in every rythm.

Your smile shines brightly, and my heart leaves alone.

Noted for her distinctive voice, Marianne Faithfull's previously melodic and higher registered vocals, which were prevalent throughout her career in the 1960s, were affected by severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during the 1970s, permanently altering her voice, leaving it raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. This new sound was praised as whisky soaked by some critics for helping capture the raw emotions expressed in her music.

More information: Marianne Faithfull

After a long commercial absence, Marianne Faithfull made a comeback with the 1979 release of her critically acclaimed album Broken English. The album was a commercial success and marked a resurgence of her musical career. Broken English earned Faithfull a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and is often regarded as her definitive recording.

She followed with a series of albums, including Dangerous Acquaintances (1981), A Child's Adventure (1983), and Strange Weather (1987). Faithfull also wrote three books about her life: Faithfull: An Autobiography (1994), Memories, Dreams & Reflections (2007), and Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record (2014).

Marianne Faithfull is listed on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll list. She received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women's World Awards and was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France.

Dear Marianne,

Now, you are understood.

Continue your path.

You will be always in our hearts.

Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London. Her half-brother is artist Simon Faithfull. Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British intelligence officer and professor of Italian Literature at Bedford College of London University. Robert Glynn Faithfull's family lived in Ormskirk, Lancashire, while he completed a doctorate at Liverpool University.

Faithfull's mother, Eva, was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian nobleman, Artur Wolfgang, Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953). Eva chose to style herself as Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso.

Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk music performer in coffeehouses. She soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, who discovered her. Her first major release, As Tears Go By, was written and composed by Jagger, Keith Richards, and Oldham, and became a chart success. The Rolling Stones recorded their own version one year later, which also became successful. She then released a series of successful singles, including This Little Bird, Summer Nights, and Come and Stay With Me.

Faithfull married John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in Cambridge with Peter Asher as the best man. 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 left her husband shortly after to live with Mick Jagger.

Goodbye feminist icon.

A fighter and tenacious person.

You found the beauty in words.

Your memory will be always with us in your songs. 

Faithfull lived on London's Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa. Friends intervened and enrolled her in an NHS drug programme, from which she could get her daily fix on prescription from a chemist. She failed at controlling or stabilising her addiction at that time.

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 was shelved until 1985.

Severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during this period, permanently altered Faithfull's voice, leaving it cracked and lower in pitch. While the new sound was praised as whisky soaked by some critics, journalist John Jones, of the Sunday Times, wrote that she had permanently vulgarised her voice.

More information: Marianne Faithfull-Instagram & Youtube

In 1975 she released the country-influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams (a.k.a. Faithless), which reached No.1 on the Irish Albums Chart.

Faithfull moved into a squat without hot water or electricity in Chelsea with then-boyfriend Ben Brierly, of the punk band the Vibrators. She later shared flats in Chelsea and Regent's Park with Henrietta Moraes.

In 1979, the same year she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English, one of her most critically hailed albums. 

Dear Marianne, voice of the wound,

whisper and shadow of a lost soul.

In every chord you are alive,

you continue sounding, where time disappears.

Partially influenced by the punk explosion and her marriage to Brierly in the same year, it ranged from the punk-pop sounds of the title track, which addressed terrorism in Europe, being dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof, to the punk-reggae rhythms of Why D'Ya Do It?, a song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by Heathcote Williams.

Faithfull began living in New York after the release of the follow-up to Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, in 1981.

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 overprotective mother.

More information: Time Out

As her fascination with the music of Weimar-era Germany continued, Faithfull performed in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, playing Pirate Jenny. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues (1996), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as well as Noël Coward, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins, with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. A hugely successful concert and cabaret tour accompanied by Paul Trueblood at the piano, culminated in the filming, at the Montreal Jazz Festival, of the DVD Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill.

You fought to survive,

when others took your merits.

You bared your soul in your dreams,

memories and reflections.

Faithfull 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 McGuinness. Later that year she sang Love Got Lost on Joe Jackson's Night and Day II.

During a webchat hosted by The Guardian on 1 February 2016, Faithfull revealed plans to release a live album from her 50th anniversary tour. She also had ideas for a follow-up for Give My Love to London, but had no intention of recording new material for at least a year and a half.

Faithfull's most recent album, Negative Capability, was released in November 2018. It featured Rob Ellis, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Ed Harcourt, and Mark Lanegan.

More information: The Guardian

Your legacy will be the light that will never go out.

Death separates us but your inspiration will continue among us.

Your life has been a song, always inspiration.

More information: The Guardian

 Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Marianne Faithfull

ÁNGELES FOSTER & MICK, WITH NO LOVIN' IN OUR SOULS

Today, The Grandma has been listening to some music, and she has chosen Angie, the song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Angie is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1973 album Goats Head Soup. It also served as the lead single on the album, released on 20 August 1973.

The song is credited, as most Rolling Stones songs are, to both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Angie was recorded in November and December 1972 and is an acoustic guitar-driven ballad characterizing the end of a romance. The song's distinctive piano accompaniment, written by Richards, was played on the album by Nicky Hopkins, a Rolling Stones recording-session regular.

The strings on the piece (as well as on another song, Winter) were arranged by Nicky Harrison. An unusual feature of the original recording is that singer Mick Jagger's vocal guide track (made before the final vocals were performed) is faintly audible throughout the song (an effect sometimes called a ghost vocal).

Cash Box said that Jagger is at his best -slurring words by the dozens to ring out the feeling of every important line. Record World called it a tender ballad on which Mick Jagger's vocal is moving and sensuous.

Released as a single in August 1973, Angie went straight to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 5 on the UK singles chart. The song was also a No. 1 hit in both Canada and Australia for five weeks each and topped the charts in many countries throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

Because of the song's length, some radio stations made edits to shorten it to 3 minutes, omitting the longer coda and the second instrumental section of the song.

There was speculation that the song was about David Bowie's first wife Angela, Keith Richards' newborn daughter Dandelion Angela, the actress Angie Dickinson, and others. 

In 1993, in an interview for the liner notes to the Rolling Stones' compilation album Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones, Richards said that the title was inspired by his baby daughter.

However, in his 2010 memoir Life, Richards said that he had chosen the name at random when writing the song -before he knew that his baby would be named Angela or even knew that his baby would be a girl- and that the song was not about any particular person. According to NME, Jagger's contributions to the lyrics referred to his breakup with Marianne Faithfull.

The Rolling Stones have frequently performed the song in concert; it's included in set lists on their 1973, 1975 and 1976 tours; it's available on two of their Vault recorded concerts including 1973 Brussels Affair (using electric guitars with Mick Taylor soloing) and Live at the L.A. Forum 1975 (played by Keith Richards and Ron Wood acoustically). It has been a touring staple since their 1982 European Tour. Concert renditions were released on the albums Stripped, Live Licks and The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon.

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Angie
Ain't it time we said goodbye
With no lovin' in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
Angie, I still love you baby
Everywhere I look I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that comes close to you
Come on baby dry your eyes
Angie, Angie ain't good to be alive
Angie, Angie, we can't say we never tried

Mick Jagger

MARIANNE EVELYN GABRIEL FAITHFULL, 'AS TEARS GO BY'

Today, The Grandma is relaxing in the Cumberland Hotel. She has decided to listen to some music and she has chosen Marianne Faithfull, one of her favourite singers.

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single As Tears Go By and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.

Born in Hampstead, London, Marianne Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a Rolling Stones party, where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. After the release of her hit single As Tears Go By, she became an international star. Her debut album Marianne Faithfull (1965), released simultaneously with her album Come My Way, was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on Decca Records.

From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was further enhanced by her film roles, such as I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), and Hamlet (1969). However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s. During that time she was anorexic, homeless, and a heroin addict.

Noted for her distinctive voice, Marianne Faithfull's previously melodic and higher registered vocals, which were prevalent throughout her career in the 1960s, were affected by severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during the 1970s, permanently altering her voice, leaving it raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. This new sound was praised as whisky soaked by some critics for helping capture the raw emotions expressed in her music.

More information: Marianne Faithfull

After a long commercial absence, Marianne Faithfull made a comeback with the 1979 release of her critically acclaimed album Broken English. The album was a commercial success and marked a resurgence of her musical career. Broken English earned Faithfull a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and is often regarded as her definitive recording.

She followed with a series of albums, including Dangerous Acquaintances (1981), A Child's Adventure (1983), and Strange Weather (1987). Faithfull also wrote three books about her life: Faithfull: An Autobiography (1994), Memories, Dreams & Reflections (2007), and Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record (2014).

Marianne Faithfull is listed on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll list. She received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women's World Awards and was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France.

Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London. Her half-brother is artist Simon Faithfull. Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British intelligence officer and professor of Italian Literature at Bedford College of London University. Robert Glynn Faithfull's family lived in Ormskirk, Lancashire, while he completed a doctorate at Liverpool University.

Faithfull's mother, Eva, was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian nobleman, Artur Wolfgang, Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953). Eva chose to style herself as Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso.

Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk music performer in coffeehouses. She soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, who discovered her. Her first major release, As Tears Go By, was written and composed by Jagger, Keith Richards, and Oldham, and became a chart success. The Rolling Stones recorded their own version one year later, which also became successful. She then released a series of successful singles, including This Little Bird, Summer Nights, and Come and Stay With Me.

Faithfull married John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in Cambridge with Peter Asher as the best man. 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 left her husband shortly after to live with Mick Jagger.

Faithfull lived on London's Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa. Friends intervened and enrolled her in an NHS drug programme, from which she could get her daily fix on prescription from a chemist. She failed at controlling or stabilising her addiction at that time.

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 was shelved until 1985.

Severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during this period, permanently altered Faithfull's voice, leaving it cracked and lower in pitch. While the new sound was praised as whisky soaked by some critics, journalist John Jones, of the Sunday Times, wrote that she had permanently vulgarised her voice.

More information: Marianne Faithfull-Instagram & Youtube

In 1975 she released the country-influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams (a.k.a. Faithless), which reached No.1 on the Irish Albums Chart.

Faithfull moved into a squat without hot water or electricity in Chelsea with then-boyfriend Ben Brierly, of the punk band the Vibrators. She later shared flats in Chelsea and Regent's Park with Henrietta Moraes.

In 1979, the same year she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English, one of her most critically hailed albums. Partially influenced by the punk explosion and her marriage to Brierly in the same year, it ranged from the punk-pop sounds of the title track, which addressed terrorism in Europe, being dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof, to the punk-reggae rhythms of Why D'Ya Do It?, a song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by Heathcote Williams.

Faithfull began living in New York after the release of the follow-up to Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, in 1981.

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 overprotective mother.

More information: Time Out

As her fascination with the music of Weimar-era Germany continued, Faithfull performed in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, playing Pirate Jenny. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues (1996), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as well as Noël Coward, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins, with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. A hugely successful concert and cabaret tour accompanied by Paul Trueblood at the piano, culminated in the filming, at the Montreal Jazz Festival, of the DVD Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill.

Faithfull 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 McGuinness. Later that year she sang Love Got Lost on Joe Jackson's Night and Day II.

During a webchat hosted by The Guardian on 1 February 2016, Faithfull revealed plans to release a live album from her 50th anniversary tour. She also had ideas for a follow-up for Give My Love to London, but had no intention of recording new material for at least a year and a half.

Faithfull's most recent album, Negative Capability, was released in November 2018. It featured Rob Ellis, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Ed Harcourt, and Mark Lanegan.

More information: The Guardian

  Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Marianne Faithfull

MARIANNE EVELYN GABRIEL FAITHFULL, 'AS TEARS GO BY'

Today, The Grandma is relaxing at home. She has decided to listen to some music and she has chosen Marianne Faithfull, one of her favourite singers who was born on a day like today in 1946.

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress.

She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single As Tears Go By and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.

Born in Hampstead, London, Marianne Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a Rolling Stones party, where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. After the release of her hit single As Tears Go By, she became an international star. Her debut album Marianne Faithfull (1965), released simultaneously with her album Come My Way, was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on Decca Records.

From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was further enhanced by her film roles, such as I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), and Hamlet (1969). However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s. During that time she was anorexic, homeless, and a heroin addict.

Noted for her distinctive voice, Marianne Faithfull's previously melodic and higher registered vocals, which were prevalent throughout her career in the 1960s, were affected by severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during the 1970s, permanently altering her voice, leaving it raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. This new sound was praised as whisky soaked by some critics for helping capture the raw emotions expressed in her music.

More information: Marianne Faithfull

After a long commercial absence, Marianne Faithfull made a comeback with the 1979 release of her critically acclaimed album Broken English. The album was a commercial success and marked a resurgence of her musical career. Broken English earned Faithfull a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and is often regarded as her definitive recording.

She followed with a series of albums, including Dangerous Acquaintances (1981), A Child's Adventure (1983), and Strange Weather (1987). Faithfull also wrote three books about her life: Faithfull: An Autobiography (1994), Memories, Dreams & Reflections (2007), and Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record (2014).

Marianne Faithfull is listed on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll list. She received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women's World Awards and was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France.

Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London. Her half-brother is artist Simon Faithfull. Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British intelligence officer and professor of Italian Literature at Bedford College of London University. Robert Glynn Faithfull's family lived in Ormskirk, Lancashire, while he completed a doctorate at Liverpool University.

Faithfull's mother, Eva, was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian nobleman, Artur Wolfgang, Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953). Eva chose to style herself as Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso.

Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk music performer in coffeehouses. She soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, who discovered her. Her first major release, As Tears Go By, was written and composed by Jagger, Keith Richards, and Oldham, and became a chart success. The Rolling Stones recorded their own version one year later, which also became successful. She then released a series of successful singles, including This Little Bird, Summer Nights, and Come and Stay With Me.

Faithfull married John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in Cambridge with Peter Asher as the best man. 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 left her husband shortly after to live with Mick Jagger.

Faithfull lived on London's Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa. Friends intervened and enrolled her in an NHS drug programme, from which she could get her daily fix on prescription from a chemist. She failed at controlling or stabilising her addiction at that time.

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 was shelved until 1985.

Severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during this period, permanently altered Faithfull's voice, leaving it cracked and lower in pitch. While the new sound was praised as whisky soaked by some critics, journalist John Jones, of the Sunday Times, wrote that she had permanently vulgarised her voice.

More information: Marianne Faithfull-Instagram, Twitter & Youtube

In 1975 she released the country-influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams (a.k.a. Faithless), which reached No.1 on the Irish Albums Chart.

Faithfull moved into a squat without hot water or electricity in Chelsea with then-boyfriend Ben Brierly, of the punk band the Vibrators. She later shared flats in Chelsea and Regent's Park with Henrietta Moraes.

In 1979, the same year she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English, one of her most critically hailed albums. Partially influenced by the punk explosion and her marriage to Brierly in the same year, it ranged from the punk-pop sounds of the title track, which addressed terrorism in Europe, being dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof, to the punk-reggae rhythms of Why D'Ya Do It?, a song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by Heathcote Williams.

Faithfull began living in New York after the release of the follow-up to Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, in 1981.

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 overprotective mother.

More information: Time Out

As her fascination with the music of Weimar-era Germany continued, Faithfull performed in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, playing Pirate Jenny. Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues (1996), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as well as Noël Coward, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins, with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. A hugely successful concert and cabaret tour accompanied by Paul Trueblood at the piano, culminated in the filming, at the Montreal Jazz Festival, of the DVD Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill.

Faithfull 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 McGuinness. Later that year she sang Love Got Lost on Joe Jackson's Night and Day II.

During a webchat hosted by The Guardian on 1 February 2016, Faithfull revealed plans to release a live album from her 50th anniversary tour. She also had ideas for a follow-up for Give My Love to London, but had no intention of recording new material for at least a year and a half.

Faithfull's most recent album, Negative Capability, was released in November 2018. It featured Rob Ellis, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Ed Harcourt, and Mark Lanegan.

More information: The Guardian

 Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Marianne Faithfull