“I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.”

English singer and actress

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was an English singer and actress, best known for her rise to prominence in the 1960s. She first reached wide popularity with the UK top 10 single “As Tears Go By”. Faithfull became one of the leading female artists associated with the British Invasion in the United States. Her public profile rests above all on her recording career and her place in that era of British pop.