Girlfriend of Mick Jagger, and pop star in her own right, Marianne had an eventful singing career. She also starred in various films and stage productions including Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Royal Court and Hamlet at the Roundhouse theatre.
A unique chanteuse, a chronicler of her era and once proclaimed the most beautiful woman of her generation, Marianne Faithfull – who has died aged 78 – was the Crown Princess of Swinging London.
To omit it from her obituary would be pointless, though compared to the self-inflicted tragedies of the years that followed, this brush with the law was almost trivial. But the truth is – yes, there was a Mars bar. 'She was so much part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. She will always be remembered.'
After hearing her sing, in a mournful alto with heavy Austrian inflection – her mother was from Vienna – he urged Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards to come up with a hit for her. But in the teenage Marianne's lovelorn, aching treatment of the song – renamed As Tears Go By – it was far from tripe. In a year that included the Beatles' first American tour and Michael Caine's arrival in Zulu, that was quite an accolade.
And instead of saying, 'But I love you,' I said, 'OK'. I didn't really love Mick when I was first with him, I was just obeying Keith.' Nearly half a century later, she admitted that she needed the drugs to keep up with the sexual demands of the rock 'n' roll scene. 'I hated men,' she said on BBC1's genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? in 2013.Marianne Faithfull, pictured here in 1967, has hits such as Come And Stay With Me
Read More Marianne Faithfull remembered: 'I have lived my life as an adventurer - it's been rather wonderful' Both women were raped by a Red Army soldier when the Soviet Union liberated Vienna from the Nazis in 1945 – and as the man assaulted Flora, Eva took his gun and shot him. 'There were nine people, two of whom I thought were women. Jagger and a woman were sitting on the couch.
Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, after being discovered by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog OldhamFaithful during her performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival July 10, 1995Certainly Marianne didn't seem to find it embarrassing or alarming.
Read More Inside Marianne Faithfull's tumultuous four-year relationship with Mick Jagger as singer dies at 78 Like marijuana, the drug often makes users hungry... and to combat that, the drug pusher was in the habit of leaving Mars bars lying around, for anyone who got 'the munchies'. But Marianne became increasingly confused and lost, her insecurities made worse by Jagger's constant affairs. She retaliated by sleeping with another of the Stones, lead guitarist Brian Jones, but he was equally unstable and addicted to drugs.Her English grandfather, Theodore Faithfull, invented a sex machine in the 1920s that was touted as a 'cure for frigidity'.
She took 15 sleeping tablets and fell into a six-day coma before recovering. Later, she tried to throw herself out of an upstairs window but gave up when she realised it had been painted shut. 'So these were the clothes I was wearing when I was living on the street, a wraithlike vision, an anorexic waif, feeling no pain and not feeling any cold either, you see, because of the smack.'
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