Marianne Faithfull

English singer and actress (1946–2025)

  • Audience56.3K
  • Fame78.2
  • Momentum15.7
Source-basedRising
56.3K youtube followers
  • Audience56.3K
  • Fame78.2
  • Momentum15.7
  • United Kingdom rank#177
  • Wikipedia114.4K
Lived 1946–2025, aged 79United Kingdom
United Kingdom flagUnited KingdomMusiciansSinger / Musician
  • Biggest on YouTube
    56.3K
    @@mariannefaithfulltv
  • Wikipedia
    47 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in United Kingdom
    #177
    Musicians
  • Era
    1946–2025
    Aged 79
  • Known for
    Dune
    2021
Summary
Updated 2026-06-12

She went from ethereal 1960s ingénue singing "As Tears Go By" to a voice ravaged by heroin, homelessness, and laryngitis — then turned that cracked rasp into her masterpiece. The comeback album Broken English didn't restore her voice; it proved the wreckage was the instrument.

Biography

About

Born in Hampstead in 1946, Faithfull was discovered at a Rolling Stones party in 1964 and released her debut the next year — a dual-album success that made her a leading face of the British Invasion. Her high, melodic voice and a highly publicised relationship with Mick Jagger from 1966 to 1970 kept her in the spotlight, alongside film roles in I'll Never Forget What's'isname and Hamlet. The 1970s collapsed her: anorexia, addiction, homelessness, and severe laryngitis left her voice permanently raspy and lower in pitch. In 1979 she returned with Broken English, a critically acclaimed album tha…

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Albums

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  • Negative Capability
    2018
  • Kissin Time
    2002
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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Rising
78.2
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum15.7
Historical27.9
Now attention40.3
Source confidence95.0
Completeness90.0
Global rank
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#177
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence