Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was born in Hampstead on 29 December 1946. Her mother was Baroness Eva Sacher-Masoch, a Hungarian, half-Jewish former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis in World War II.

A fresh-voiced singer and Mick Jagger’s muse in the 1960s, she went on to experience more than her share of hard times before emerging triumphant.

Singer Marianne Faithfull, who famously dated Mick Jagger and rebooted her career after it was nearly derailed by drug addiction, has died.

Faithfull acted alongside Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Alain Delon and Anna Karina during her time in Hollywood.

Marianne Faithfull, the songstress who helped spur music's British invasion and was a muse to the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 78.

The 1964 hit "As Tears Go By," penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated a remarkable ability to change with the times.

Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, who collaborated with everyone from Metallica to Jean-Luc Goddard and famously dated Mick Jagger during the late 1960s, has died. She was 78. Faithfull is best known for her rendition of the Rolling Stones' “As Tears Go By,

Marianne Faithfull, who has died at the age of 78, was in a relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger for four years in the 1960s - but their romance was far from straightforward