Marianne Faithfull

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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?’

Arwa Mahdawi

01, Feb, 2025 @2:00 PM

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‘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’

As told to Alex Needham and Ben Beaumont-Thomas

31, Jan, 2025 @5:04 PM

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Letter: Marianne Faithfull obituary
Robin Denselow writes: It was inevitable that she would become a star, even from her school days

Robin Denselow

31, Jan, 2025 @3:31 PM

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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

Michael Billington

31, Jan, 2025 @2:02 PM

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Marianne Faithfull obituary
Singer who found pop fame and tabloid infamy in the 60s but returned to music in the 70s with Broken English, a statement of bloody-minded survival

Adam Sweeting

31, Jan, 2025 @12:12 PM

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Melancholy, morphine and the Baader-Meinhof group: Marianne Faithfull’s 10 best recordings
From a career-detonating collaboration with the Rolling Stones in 1969 to a hypnotic experiment with 13-era Blur, Marianne Faithfull’s career was one of reinvention – yet always underpinned by her wrenching, affecting vocals

Alexis Petridis

31, Jan, 2025 @11:58 AM

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From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers
The music star was also an electrifying screen presence, from The Girl on a Motorcycle to Marie Antoinette

Peter Bradshaw

30, Jan, 2025 @9:51 PM

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Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as | Alexis Petridis
The late singer made her share of bad decisions – but someone this artistically adventurous and unafraid was never going to have an ordinary life

Alexis Petridis

30, Jan, 2025 @6:50 PM

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Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78
Singer and actor overcame drug addiction and homelessness to collaborate with everyone from the Rolling Stones and Metallica to Jean-Luc Godard

Ben Beaumont-Thomas Music editor

30, Jan, 2025 @6:30 PM

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

Alexis Petridis

17, Sep, 2024 @3:12 PM

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‘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

Mark Fisher

07, Mar, 2024 @5:00 AM

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‘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’

Donna Ferguson

15, Feb, 2024 @6:00 AM

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