News about Marianne Faithfull, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Marianne Faithfull’s final EP, Burning Moonlight, is released worldwide to streaming platforms on 6 June, and is followed by the re-issue of her complete Decca recordings this summer.

The newspapers were overjoyed when in 1967 the police raided a party at Keith’s country house to find her, they claimed, wearing only a fur rug and intimately involved with a Mars bar.

Musician, actor, muse, and leading light of the Swinging Sixties Marianne Faithfull has passed away. She led a firecracker life—with a sunglasses collection to match.

Marianne Faithfull, who died this week, only acknowledged the beauty that saw her charm three Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix in her later years.

There were even more scurrilous rumors concerning a Mars bar supposedly on her person. (And we should emphasize that all this was utterly false.) ...

They’ve got more ego.’ On the Mars Bar story: ‘Well it’s like a dirty old man’s fantasy. I’ve been through millions of versions of who made it up—and it was made up.

PARIS — Marianne Faithfull is in higher spirits than you might think. “On the whole, I’ve been pretty happy for years,” Faithfull muses over a glass of Coke Zero at the trendy Hôtel ...

- Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London's swinging '60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and COVID-19, died at age 78, after a singing career that began as a ...

For a long time, Faithfull suffered from the media myths spun around her — in particular, after the infamous drug raid on the Rolling Stones in 1967, when she was found naked under a fur rug and, ...

Marianne Faithful’s life was that of the ultimate counter-cultural icon, with all the highs and lows that may suggest. Not cultural icon. She was not embraced by a mainstream still judging her ...

Between 1964 and 1970 Faithfull was a pop star, part of British rock royalty. The lows began with her use of narcotics and ended with time spent as a homeless junkie.