Marianne Faithfull, the British singer-songwriter and 1960s pop star who reinvented herself as a new-wave artist and smoky-voiced chanteuse, channelling her struggles with drug abuse and personal loss into songs of torment, anger, sorrow and resilience, has died. She was 78.
A spokesperson for Faithfull confirmed the death but did not provide a cause. She had battled years of health problems – including hepatitis C, breast cancer and an infection from a broken hip – before being hospitalised with COVID-19 in 2020.
