“I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.”

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.