Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull is a singer, songwriter, and actress, best known as the queen of 60s music. The “Rolling Stones” manager Andrew Loog discovered her incredible talent at a party in London in 1964. And she recorded her first song, “As Tears Go By,” written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. In the late 60s, she was involved in a major drug scandal with Jagger, Richards, and others. In the 70’s she became addicted to heroin and was homeless in London’s Soho district for a couple of years. She gained back her popularity in the mid-seventies with a country album Dreamin’ My Dreams (1976). Though the album attracted little attention in the UK, it was a huge hit in Ireland. In 2016 Marianne released a live album called No Exit, recorded on her acclaimed 50th anniversary. Here below is a collection of beautiful photographs of Marianne Faithfull from the 1960s.
#1 Marianne Faithfull going to court the day after a drug raid at her and Mick Jagger’s residence at Cheyne Walk, May 1969.
#2 Unseen photo of Marianne Faithfull for “Paris Match”, 1966.
#3 Marianne Faithfull at Churchill College, Cambridge, ca. 1965
#4 Marianne Faithfull on BBC’s music program “Gadzooks!”, June 1965
#5 Marianne Faithfull backstage in Doncaster, 1964.
#6 A classic Marianne Faithfull shot, 1965.
#7 Marianne Faithfull, 1968.
#8 Marianne Faithfull recording backup vocals for The Rolling Stones album “Beggars Banquet”, 1968
#9 Rare photo of Marianne Faithfull backstage in Belgium, June 1966.
#10 Marianne Faithfull by Rob Bosboom, ca. 1966
#11 One of the most well-known portraits of Marianne Faithfull shot by John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins in 1966. He was commissioned by “Melody Maker” to take a series of photos for their magazine.
#12 Marianne Faithfull in rehearsal for the play “Hamlet”, 1969.
#13 Marianne Faithfull in her flat in Lennox Gardens, London, 1967.
#14 Rare press photo of Marianne Faithfull performing on “Ready Steady Go”, 1965
#15 Marianne Faithfull posing for a newspaper article announcing her engagement to Arts Undergraduate John Dunbar, 1965.
#16 Marianne Faithfull in a promotional photo for “The Girl On A Motorcycle”, 1967
#17 Marianne Faithfull at home in London, 1967.
#18 Marianne Faithfull in San Remo, Italy, 1967
#19 Previously unseen photo of Marianne Faithfull in Amsterdam, 1966.
#20 Marianne Faithfull on the set of “The Girl On A Motorcycle”, 1967
#21 Marianne Faithfull in front of her childhood home on Milman Road in Reading, 1964.
#22 Early promotional photo of Marianne Faithfull for Decca, ca. mid-1964
#23 Marianne Faithfull in the recording studio, ca. 1967.
#24 Marianne Faithfull on set of “The Girl On A Motorcycle”, 1967
#25 Marianne Faithfull leaving Mount St. Margaret Hospital in Sydney after recovering from a week-long coma induced by an (accidental) overdose of sleeping pills, 1969.
#26 Marianne Faithfull at home, 1967. Photographed by Michael Ward.
#27 Marianne Faithfull, ca. 1966.
#28 Seventeen-year-old Marianne Faithfull posing in one of her first photoshoots in the summer of 1964
#29 Marianne Faithfull in the 1960s
#30 Marianne Faithfull opening fanmail backstage at San Remo Song Festival, January 1967
#31 Marianne Faithfull near her childhood home in Reading, ca. 1964.
#32 Marianne Faithfull on French program “Les visiteurs d’un soir”, 1966
#33 Marianne Faithfull, 1964. Photographed by David Magnus.
#34 Close-up of Marianne Faithfull at the premiere of “Hair”, December 1968.
#35 Marianne Faithfull in Heidelberg, Germany, 1967.
#36 Marianne Faithfull, 1967.
#37 Marianne Faithfull, ca. 1965
#38 Marianne Faithfull at Heathrow Airport, ca. late 1967
#39 Marianne Faithfull, 1965.
#40 Rare outtake of Marianne Faithfull above the rooftops of London, 1965.
#41 Marianne Faithfull on set of “The Girl On A Motorcycle”, 1967.
#42 Marianne Faithfull on set of “The Girl On A Motorcycle”, 1967.
#43 Marianne Faithfull (and Sara), ca. 1964.
#44 Marianne Faithfull, 1967. Photo by Ben Merk.
#45 Marianne Faithfull at the San Remo Song Festival, 1967.
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#50 Marianne Faithfull with Mick Jagger, 1960s
#51 Marianne Faithfull in ‘The Girl on a Motorcycle’, 1968
#52 Marianne Faithfull in the 1960s
#53 Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger, 1960s
#54 18-year-old Marianne Faithfull photographed for an article in “The Daily Mail” reporting about her recent engagement to art student John Dunbar, 1965.
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