1960s pop icon Marianne Faithfull is dead

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Singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull is dead, her spokesman confirmed to CNN on Thursday.

“It is with deep sadness that we advertise the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull. Marianne died peacefully in London today in the company of her loving family. She will be missed a lot, ”the statement states.

Faithfull was known for her 1960 hits, including “As Tears Go By”, written by Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, whom she also famously dated.

She was discovered at a party in London by Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Log Oldham in 1964 and was just 16 years old when “as tears pass by” were released, according to her biography of her Official Website.

She has been making music for over 50 years and was also an actor in the movie Girl on a motorcycle which came out in 1968 as well as Hamlet In 1969 and others.

But in the late 1960s, she had fallen into a deep battle of drug addiction, which would endure for years, according to her bio, before mounting a number of creative comebacks in the following decades.

By 2020, it was announced that Bohemian Rhapsody star Lucy Boynton would play faithfully in a biopic about her life. At that time Said Faithfull She was “glad my story is finally made with my dream team.”

In 2021, Faithfull wrote an album under Covid-19 Lockdown, a period when she also fought with a serious Covid-19 infection.

Faithful belly reflected on her extraordinary and turbulent life in a memoir released in 1994.

“Never apologize, never explain – didn’t we always say that? I haven’t, and I don’t, ”she wrote to readers in the book, titled Faithful.

According to Reuters, faithful was 78 years old.