Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.\u201cCan she sing?\u201d So asked Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones, at a party in 1964, pointedly ignoring Marianne Faithfull\u2019s presence and instead addressing the 17-year-old\u2019s boyfriend. Yes: she could sing, initially in a sweet folk-pop vibrato with very English diction, then later \u2014 several lifetimes later \u2014 in the weathered tones of hard experience.\u00a0Faithfull\u2019s career, if that prosaic term can be applied to such a free spirit, was launched by the hustling Oldham. He promoted her, in her words, as \u201can eerie fusion of haughty aristocrat and folky bohemian child-woman\u201d. There was a grain of truth to the fantasy. Faithfull was born in 1946 to an Austro-Hungarian baroness who moved to England after marrying an eccentric British intelligence officer. The marriage foundered, a wartime folie d\u2019amour. Faithfull was raised by her mother as a penniless blueblood. From her she learnt the intoxicating but ruinous habit of living beyond one\u2019s means.Her first single was the Fran\u00e7oise Hardy-style ballad \u201cAs Tears Go By\u201d, which was also the first song written by Jagger and his Stones partner, Keith Richards. A chart success in 1964, predating the Stones\u2019 version by a year, it sparked a run of hit singles. But Faithfull did not relish pop stardom. In the description of her superb 1994 memoir Faithfull, she was bedevilled by \u201cgrotesque contracts, lying, cheating crafty legalisms, mad and bungling managers and barbaric schedules\u201d.Relief of a sort came with entry into the Stones\u2019 inner sanctum. She was attracted to Richards at first, culminating in \u201ca wonderful night of sex\u201d with the guitarist while tripping on LSD, as she reminisced in Faithfull. Afterwards, to her surprise, the guitarist breezily told her to give the \u201csmitten\u201d Jagger a call: \u201cGo on, love, give him a jingle, he\u2019ll fall off his chair.\u201dEmblematic of the group\u2019s louchely complicated dynamics, she and Jagger became the golden couple of the Swinging Sixties. Barely 20 when she moved in with him in 1966, she arrived with a baby son from an undissolved marriage to the gallerist John Dunbar. She continued releasing records and also had a successful sideline acting in high-profile plays and films. But her work was overshadowed by her off-stage life.Having affairs with women and men alike, opening her mind with LSD and hashish, she embodied the era\u2019s spirit of libertinage. But there were risks too. Lurid lies about sexual depravity circulated after Jagger and Richards were arrested in the notorious Redlands drug bust of 1967, at which Faithfull was present, wearing a fur rug and nothing else. A nearly fatal sleeping pill overdose in Australia in 1969 prompted a Conservative MP to dub her \u201ca rather stupid young lady\u201d in a House of Commons debate.The pop ing\u00e9nue had become vilified as a monster of corruption. But Faithfull\u2019s hedonism had an innocent quality. She gave herself to sensual pleasure wholeheartedly. As she sang in \u201cGuilt\u201d, from her 1979 landmark album Broken English: \u201cI never lied to my lover\/But if I did, I would admit it.\u201d\u00a0Her outlook was formed by Romantic poetry, aestheticism and decadent literature (her mother was descended from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, author of erotic novella Venus in Furs). When she co-wrote the lyrics to the song \u201cSister Morphine\u201d, she drew on John Milton\u2019s poem \u201cLycidas\u201d for inspiration. Released by Faithfull in 1969 (the Stones\u2019 version followed in 1971), it foreshadowed her descent into heroin addiction.\u00a0In 1970, she broke up with Jagger. The years ahead were her nadir, a time of alcoholism, drug dependency and a period of homelessness in central London during which she lost custody of her son. The spiral was unexpectedly arrested in 1979 by Broken English. Its new wave sound and Faithfull\u2019s battered but unbowed voice established kinship with a post-punk generation that rejected The Rolling Stones and their ilk as out-of-touch rock aristocrats.\u00a0She continued to lead a challenging personal life, not quitting heroin until 1985. Survived by her son Nicholas Dunbar, she was married three times. But the woman who unwillingly submitted to the role of muse to Jagger (\u201cSo destructive for anybody trying to be an artist in her own right\u201d) released 21 studio albums in total. She was a cult figure for collaborators such as Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave, venerated as the epitome of the rock survivor. Her philosophy was encapsulated by one of her favourite poets, William Blake, cited in her memoir: \u201cYou never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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