Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. The re-emergence of singer Marianne Faithfull in was one of the most striking second acts in the history of pop music. A few years later, she was a homeless drug addict. Broken English made it clear that Faithfull, whose death at 78 was announced today , was a remarkable artist in her own right, and something quite different from the mere caricature of the beautiful muse on the arm of a rock star at his decadent height.
The album was unsparing — a bleak tour through a nightmarish pop-culture fun house. The music was shimmery, sometimes abrasive, sometimes almost Eurodisco. Are we out of love now? Is this just a bad patch? As the album and her autobiography, Faithfull , however, she was at pains to make clear she was a woman who acted and was not acted upon; together they are a tough portrait of the dead-end freak-show carnival where, Faithfull freely admitted, she was the ringmaster.
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He wanted a co-conspirator with whom he could share his vision. Faithfull, who was not Catholic, ended up going to a convent school. On a trip to London, she ended up at a party at Cambridge; there she met a student named John Dunbar. He came from an eccentric background, too, and soon Faithfull was living with him and his family. It was — on the eve of what came to be known as Swinging London, where, after nearly 20 years of postwar blues, a somewhat unshackled band of artists, entrepreneurs, hipsters, refugees from an impoverished upper class, the wealthy aimless, and a new breed of pop star were in the process of revolutionizing Western society.
Asher, too, still lived at home with his parents and his sister, the model Jane Asher. The Asher parents were continental in the same way the Dunbars were in that they let their daughter bring her boyfriend, Paul McCartney, home to live with them.
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They soon all became part of a perfervid scene. With Dunbar one night in , Faithfull attended a party where she met the people who would change her life.
