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Marianne Faithfull

February 2025

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    The low keep getting lower, as shown by Trump’s response to the DC plane crash

    Arwa Mahdawi
    When asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Trump made a joke: ‘The water? You want me to go swimming?’
  • Photo of Marianne FAITHFULL<br>UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 08: DOMINION THEATRE Photo of Marianne FAITHFULL, Marianne Faithful performing at The Dominion, London on 8 June 1982 (Photo by David Corio/Redferns)

    ‘There was a little bit of the devil in her’: Damon Albarn and Rufus Wainwright remember Marianne Faithfull

    The Blur frontman remembers a boisterous songwriting session, while Wainright recalls a week of partying and conversations about ‘music, sex and the craziness of life’
  • Marianne Faithfull (b.1946), English singer, songwriter and actress. Seen here as a teenager at the Prospect Theatre, Reading, where she went to school.<br>2M98A3M Marianne Faithfull (b.1946), English singer, songwriter and actress. Seen here as a teenager at the Prospect Theatre, Reading, where she went to school.

    Letter: Marianne Faithfull obituary

    Robin Denselow writes: It was inevitable that she would become a star, even from her school days
    • Fury and denunciations: when pop idol Marianne Faithfull took to the stage – and silenced her critics

      Michael Billington
    • Marianne Faithfull obituary

    • Melancholy, morphine and the Baader-Meinhof group: Marianne Faithfull’s 10 best recordings

  • Peter Bradshaw

    From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Marianne Faithfull in Liverpool

    Marianne Faithfull – a life in pictures

  • Alexis Petridis

    Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

    Alexis Petridis
  • Marianne Faithfull, who has died aged 78.

    Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78

October 2024

  • Marianne Faithfull, 1979.

    From the Guardian archive
    Marianne Faithfull: ‘I always knew I was something quite extraordinary’ – archive, 1979

    31 October 1979: The singer talks about her career and comeback album Broken English

September 2024

  • Keep on the grass … Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at Richards’ Redlands cottage in 1967.

    It’s only LSD but I like it: the play telling the untold story about the Rolling Stones drugs bust

    Keith Richards and Mick Jagger’s 1967 raid and trial caused a national storm, seeming to pitch old against young, Establishment against counterculture. But was the real story overlooked? We return to the 60s at their most swinging

March 2024

  • ‘Everything he said was spot on’ … Michael Feast and Morgan Watkins in Saved at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, directed by Sean Holmes in 2011.

    ‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

    Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday

February 2024

  • A woman in a red wetsuit lays face down on a gravel beach.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We’re going to become fish’: how a ‘natural history fantasy’ found its way to the Baftas

    The award-winning short film’s creators hope that casting a woman as a female salmon will help viewers connect with the fish, which was recently classed as ‘near threatened’

December 2023

  • Girl On A Motorcycle<br>English actress and singer Marianne Faithfull, as Rebecca, in 'The Girl On A Motorcycle', directed by Jack Cardiff, 1968. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

    ‘She means every word she sings’: inside a starry tribute to Marianne Faithfull

    The singer survived a near-death bout of Covid but may never sing again, so artists such as Shirley Manson and Peaches have banded together for a new album

May 2023

  • Brian Jones around 4am, at 'All-Nighter', Alexandra Palace, London, 1964

    ‘He epitomised the dazzling 60s and then was gone’: the ​inside story of Rolling Stone Brian Jones

    ​Nick Broomfield’s new ​documentary recounts the life and death o​f one of rock’s most tragic characters

May 2022

  • This Much I Know To Be True - Film, Berlinale

    This Much I Know to Be True review – Nick Cave on music, art and healing

    The musician holds the spotlight again in Andrew Dominik’s followup documentary, with star-quality input from Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull

October 2021

  • Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave

    PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, Madonna: the unseen archives of rock photographer Tony Mott

    He’s partied with Queen. Tom Petty had his email. Now one of Australia’s most accomplished rock photographers has been digging through his negatives

September 2021

  • A concert in 1979

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a shocking documentary about abuse in the music industry

    The mistreatment of women in the world of rock’n‘roll is laid bare in a grim film called Look Away. Plus: an instantly endearing new sitcom, Alma’s Not Normal. Here’s what to watch this evening

May 2021

  • ‘Scary and apocalyptic lyrics, viciously delivered’ … Mick Jagger’s verdict on Desolation Row, by Dylan, pictured at the BBC in June 1965.

    My favourite Dylan song – by Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, Judy Collins and more

    Bob Dylan is 80 today. But what’s his greatest song? Stars pick their favourite – and recall their own encounters, from Marianne Faithfull turning him down to Judy Collins whacking a policeman to get backstage
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