79-628: The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux ) is a music festival in Switzerland , held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival . Initiator and head organizer Claude Nobs brought an array of artists to Montreux. Mathieu Jaton has organised
158-570: A 1987 interview with Rory O'Connor of Vogue , Faithfull declared "forty is the age to sing it, not seventeen." The album of covers was produced by Hal Willner after the two had spent numerous weekends listening to hundreds of songs from the annals of 20th-century music. They chose to record such diverse tracks as Bob Dylan 's " I'll Keep It with Mine " and " Yesterdays ", written by Broadway composers Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach . The work includes tunes first made notable by such blues luminaries as Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith ; Tom Waits wrote
237-720: A capacity of about 275,000 spectators, but has " fallow years " roughly every five years, so it is the biggest non-annual greenfield festival in the world. The oldest annual dedicated pop music festival in the world is Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands , though in other genres, there are much older ones: the Three Choirs Festival in the UK has run annually since 1719. The Queensland Music Festival, established in 1999 and headquartered in Brisbane Australia,
316-541: A flat at 29 Lennox Gardens in Belgravia, London SW1. On 10 November 1965, she gave birth to their son Nicholas. In 1966, she took Nicholas to stay with Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg in London. During this period, Faithfull started smoking marijuana and became best friends with Pallenberg. She began a much-publicised relationship with Mick Jagger that same year and left her husband to live with him. The couple became
395-590: A highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger . Her popularity was enhanced by her film roles, such as those in I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) and Hamlet (1969). However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s. During this time, she was anorexic , homeless and addicted to heroin . Faithfull was noted for her distinctive voice; her melodic and high-registered vocals prevailed during her 1960s career, but these were altered by severe laryngitis coupled with persistent drug abuse during
474-568: A large number of streetside vendors and artisans – as well as strolling crowds of tourists – on the lakefront walk that connects the venues.) As of 2007, the Convention Centre hosts two main stages, Auditorium Stravinski (capacity 3,500) and Miles Davis Hall (capacity 1,800), as well as the smaller Montreux Jazz Cafe, and several smaller open-air stages around the Centre. Additional themed shows (Bahia, Blues, etc.) are held on boats cruising
553-511: A live album from her 50th anniversary tour. She had ideas for a follow-up for Give My Love to London, but had no intention of recording new material for at least a year and a half. Faithfull's album Negative Capability , was released in November 2018. It featured Rob Ellis , Warren Ellis , Nick Cave , Ed Harcourt , and Mark Lanegan . A spoken word album titled She Walks in Beauty
632-584: A male drug addict and to act like that is always enhancing and glamorising. A woman in that situation becomes a slut and a bad mother." It was during this time that Faithfull lost three opportunities to appear in films. “I really thought I had blown my career.” In 1968, Faithfull, by now addicted to cocaine, gave birth to a stillborn daughter (whom she had named Corrina) while returning from Jagger's country house in Ireland. Faithfull's involvement in Jagger's life
711-451: A manifestation for creating escapism and a seasonal cultural economy to experience ritually and collectively. Another type of music festival is the music education , often organized annually in local communities, regionally, or nationally, for the benefit of amateur musicians of all ages and grades of achievement. Entrants perform prepared pieces or songs in front of an audience which includes competitors, family and friends, and members of
790-463: A music festival can be defined as a community event , with performances of singing and instrument playing, that is often presented with a theme such as a music genre (e.g., blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality , locality of musicians, or holiday . Music festivals have developed as an industry which contributes to national economies. For example, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival earned $ 115 million in 2017. Music festivals can be
869-462: A new song for the French film Truands called "A Lean and Hungry Look" with Ulysse. In March 2007 she returned to the stage with a touring show titled Songs of Innocence and Experience . Supported by a trio, the performance had a semi-acoustic feel and toured European theatres throughout the spring and summer. The show featured many songs she had not performed live before including "Something Better",
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#1732780408252948-506: A notorious part of the hip Swinging London scene. She is heard on The Beatles ' song " Yellow Submarine ". She was found wearing only a fur rug by police executing a drug search at Keith Richards 's house in West Wittering , Sussex. In an interview 27 years later with A.M. Homes for Details , Faithfull discussed her wilder days and admitted that the drug bust fur rug incident had ravaged her personal life: "It destroyed me. To be
1027-697: A position where I don't have to work. I should have thought about this a long time ago but I didn't." However, she still lived in her flat in Paris (located in one of the most expensive streets of the capital) and had a house in County Waterford, Ireland. Recording of Easy Come, Easy Go commenced in New York City on 6 December 2007; the album was produced by Hal Willner who had recorded Strange Weather in 1997. A version of Morrissey 's "Dear God Please Help Me" from his 2006 album Ringleader of
1106-404: A pure jazz festival, it opened up in the 1970s and today presents artists working in various styles of music. Jazz remains an important part of the festival. Part of the festival's expansion was due to coproduction by Quincy Jones , who brought many international artists in the early 1990s. Today's festival lasts about two weeks and attracts an audience of more than 200,000 people. In the 1970s,
1185-609: A resurgence of her musical career. Broken English earned Faithfull a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and is often regarded as her "definitive recording". She followed this with a series of albums, including Dangerous Acquaintances (1981), A Child's Adventure (1983) and Strange Weather (1987). Faithfull wrote three books about her life: Faithfull: An Autobiography (1994), Memories, Dreams & Reflections (2007) and Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record (2014). Faithfull received
1264-506: A sell-out concert appearance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall , with jazz musician Bill Frisell playing guitar, as a part of Meltdown Festival curated by Yoko Ono . In September 2014, Faithfull released an album of all-new material, titled Give My Love to London . She started a 12-month 50th anniversary tour at the end of 2014. During a webchat hosted by The Guardian on 1 February 2016, Faithfull revealed plans to release
1343-442: A song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by Heathcote Williams . The musical structure of this song is complex: On the surface hard rock, it has a tango in 4/4 time, with an opening electric guitar riff by Barry Reynolds in which beats 1 and 4 of each measure are accented on the up-beat, and beat 3 is accented on the down beat. Faithfull, in her autobiography, commented that her fluid yet rhythmic reading of Williams' lyric
1422-442: A song written by Patti Smith scheduled for inclusion on an Irish AIDS benefit album. This track, " Ghost Dance ", suggested to Faithfull by a friend who later died of AIDS, was made with a trio of old friends: Stones' drummer Charlie Watts and guitarist Ron Wood backed Faithfull's vocals on the song, while Keith Richards coproduced it. The retrospective album featured one live track, "Times Square", from Blazing Away as well as
1501-471: A tailspin. She made only a few appearances, including an October 1973 performance with David Bowie , singing Sonny & Cher 's " I Got You Babe ". Faithfull lived on London's Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa. Friends intervened and enrolled her in an NHS heroin-assisted treatment programme. She failed at controlling or stabilising her addiction at this time. In 1971, producer Mike Leander found her on
1580-424: A theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock , blues , folk , jazz , classical music ), nationality , locality of musicians, or holiday . Music festivals are generally organized by individuals or organizations within networks of music production, typically music scenes, the music industries, or institutions of music education. Music festivals are commonly held outdoors, with tents or roofed temporary stages for
1659-527: A time, a weekly boarder. While at St Joseph's, she was a member of the Progress Theatre 's student group. Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk music performer in coffeehouses. She soon began taking part in London's exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham , who 'discovered' her. " As Tears Go By ", her first single,
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#17327804082521738-443: A two-disc compilation that chronicled her years with Island Records. It featured tracks from her albums Broken English , Dangerous Acquaintances , A Child's Adventure , Strange Weather , Blazing Away , and A Secret Life , as well as several B sides and unreleased tracks. Faithfull's 1999 DVD Dreaming My Dreams contained material about her childhood and parents, with historical video footage going back to 1964 and interviews with
1817-468: A way of building a brand for a destination, creating a unique image for it and attracting visitors. For example, Lollapalooza, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, Ultra Music Festival, Electric Forest, and others. While contemporary festivals are often represented as flourishing grounds for extraordinary experiences, they increasingly serve as a way to create cultural identity, lifestyle, community, belonging and self-actualisation. Furthermore, festivals are
1896-764: A world-renowned musician (in 2008: Fazıl Say for the Piano Solo, Lee Ritenour for the Guitar, Patti Austin for the Voice competition). In addition, until 2016, a local competition, the Tremplin Lémanique, was aimed at jazz bands that are based in one of the regions of the Léman lake : the French departments of Ain and Haute Savoie and the Swiss cantons of Geneva, Vaud and Valais. Over 1300 artists have performed at
1975-514: Is a fine retrospective – proof that we can still expect great things from this greying, jaded contessa." A Collection of Her Best Recordings was released in 1994 by Island Records to coincide with the release of the Faithfull autobiography; the two products originally shared the same cover art. It contained Faithfull's updated version of "As Tears Go By" from Strange Weather , several cuts from Broken English and A Child's Adventure and
2054-571: Is now being acknowledged with this special award." The award was presented in Vienna, with ceremonies televised in over 40 countries on 8 March 2009 as part of International Women's Day . On 23 March 2011, Faithfull was awarded the Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , one of France's highest cultural honours. Faithfull has had three miscarriages and four abortions. The first abortion
2133-572: Is that participants can learn from one another rather than compete. Such festivals aim to provide a friendly and supportive platform for musicians to share in the excitement of making music. For many, they provide a bridge from lessons and examinations to performing confidently in public; for a few of the top performers, they provide a pathway to further professional study of music in a college, university or conservatory. Milwaukee , Wisconsin 's 11-day event, Summerfest , promotes itself as "The World's Largest Music Festival." Operating annually since 1968,
2212-400: Is the largest music festival by land mass, as a state-wide music biennial music festival, over a three-week period during July. Lists of music festivals in: Marianne Faithfull Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English rock singer-songwriter . She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single " As Tears Go By " and became one of
2291-718: The Graham Norton Show . She reunited with Metallica in December 2011 for their 30th anniversary celebration at the Fillmore where she performed " The Memory Remains ". In 2012, Faithfull recorded a cover version of a Stevie Nicks track from the Fleetwood Mac album Tusk as part of a Fleetwood Mac tribute project. The track " Angel " was released on 14 August 2012 as part of the tribute album Just Tell Me That You Want Me . On 22 June 2013, she made
2370-624: The European Film Academy announced that Faithfull had received a nomination for Best Actress for her role as Maggie in Irina Palm . On 5 March 2009, Faithfull received the World Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2009 Women's World Awards. "Marianne's contribution to the arts over a 45-year career including 18 studio albums as a singer, songwriter and interpreter, and numerous appearances on stage and screen
2449-527: The French pop singer Étienne Daho . On this record, she paid tribute to Nico (with "Song for Nico"), whose work she admired. The album included an autobiographical song she co-wrote with Cocker, called "Sliding Through Life on Charm". In 2005, she released Before the Poison . The album was primarily a collaboration with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave , but Damon Albarn and Jon Brion also contributed. Before
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2528-589: The country -influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams , re-released in 1978 as Faithless with some new tracks added, which reached No.1 on the Irish Albums Chart . Faithfull moved into a squat without hot water or electricity in Chelsea with then-boyfriend Ben Brierly of the band the Vibrators . She later shared flats in Chelsea and Regent's Park with Henrietta Moraes . In 1979, the same year she
2607-411: The 1970s, which left her voice permanently raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. This new sound was praised as "whisky soaked" by some critics and seen as having helped to capture the raw emotions expressed in Faithfull's music. After a long commercial absence, Faithfull made a comeback with the 1979 release of her critically acclaimed album Broken English . The album was a commercial success and marked
2686-856: The 1980s has continued since then – Montreux transformed from a jazz festival into a world music festival. Quincy Jones co-produced the festival from 1991 to 1993. By 1993, the festival had outgrown the Casino and moved to the larger Convention Centre. The number of visitors rose from 75,000 in 1980 to 120,000 in 1994, and an "Off-festival" developed on the lakeshore promenades and in the cafés of Montreux. Many "regulars" returned, but many new artists also appeared on stage: Sting , Bob Dylan , Fats Domino , Deep Purple , Al Jarreau , Chaka Khan , Johnny Cash , Cheap Trick , Cheb Mami , Youssou N'Dour , Marianne Faithfull , Ice-T , Jazzmatazz , ZZ Top , Simply Red , Marisa Monte , George Benson , Jazzkantine , Alanis Morissette , David Bowie , Paul Simon . In 1999,
2765-667: The Faithfull original "She", penned with composer and arranger Angelo Badalamenti to be released the following year on A Secret Life , with additional songs co written with Badalamenti. Faithfull sang "Love Is Teasin," an Irish folk standard, with The Chieftains on their album The Long Black Veil , released in 1995. Faithfull sang a duet and recited text on the San Francisco band Oxbow 's 1997 album Serenade in Red. Faithfull sang interlude vocals on Metallica 's song " The Memory Remains " from their 1997 album Reload and appeared in
2844-470: The Festival from 1967 to 2016, with the most appearances by Herbie Hancock (27 times) and B.B. King (21 times). Albums recorded at the festival 46°26′20″N 6°54′16″E / 46.43889°N 6.90444°E / 46.43889; 6.90444 Music festival A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with
2923-467: The Montreux Musique & Convention Centre (though the Casino still hosts the odd one-off shows), owing mainly to logistics: the Casino is approximately 1 kilometre (1,100 yd) from the Convention Centre, making it difficult for crew, artists and technical personnel (as well as fans) to travel easily through crowded streets from one venue to the other. (This is exacerbated by the presence of
3002-633: The Nazi regime in Vienna. Faithfull's father's intelligence work for the British Army brought him into contact with the family, and he thus met Eva. Faithfull's maternal grandfather had aristocratic roots in the Habsburg Dynasty , and Faithfull's maternal grandmother was Jewish. Faithfull's maternal great-great-uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs , spawned
3081-571: The Poison received mixed reviews from both Rolling Stone and Village Voice . In 2005 she recorded (and co-produced) "Lola R Forever", a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg song "Lola Rastaquouere" with Sly & Robbie for the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited . In 2007, Faithfull collaborated with the British singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf on the duet "Magpie" from his third album The Magic Position and wrote and recorded
3160-688: The Tormentors is one of the songs featured. In March 2009, she performed "The Crane Wife 3" on The Late Show . In late March, she began the Easy Come, Easy Go tour, which took her to France, Germany, Austria, New York City, Los Angeles and London. On 3 May 2009, she was featured on CBS News Sunday Morning and interviewed by Anthony Mason in the "Sunday Profile" segment. Both in-studio and on-the-street (New York City) interview segments with Faithfull and Mason were interspersed with extensive biographical and musical footage. In November, Faithfull
3239-532: The Water " by Deep Purple ). The festival was held then in other auditoriums in Montreux, until it could return to the rebuilt new Casino in 1975. The festival continued to grow, and in 1993, it moved to the larger Montreux Convention Centre . From 1995 through 2008, it occupied both the convention centre and the casino. Beginning with the 41st MJF in 2007, nightly performances of headliners were again moved mainly to
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3318-642: The World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women's World Awards , and she was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. Faithfull was born in Hampstead , London. Her half-brother is artist Simon Faithfull . Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British intelligence officer and professor of Italian Literature at Bedford College of London University. Faithfull's mother Eva
3397-473: The album featured Faithfull revisiting songs she had performed over the course of her career. Blazing Away was recorded at St. Ann's Cathedral in Brooklyn. The 13 selections include "Sister Morphine", a cover of Edith Piaf 's "Les Prisons du Roy", and "Why D'Ya Do It?" from Broken English . Alanna Nash of Stereo Review commended the musicians whom Faithfull had chosen to back her—longtime guitarist Reynolds
3476-537: The artist and several friends who have known her since childhood. The documentary included sections on her relationship with John Dunbar and Mick Jagger, and brief interviews with Keith Richards. It concluded with footage from a 30-minute live concert, originally broadcast on PBS for the series Sessions at West 54th . The same year, she ranked 25th in VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll . Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) wrote
3555-522: The community, along with one or more adjudicators or judges. These adjudicators, who may be music teachers, professors, or professional performers, provide verbal and written feedback to each performer or group. The adjudicator may be someone whom they might never meet in any other way, as is the case when an adjudicator from another city is brought in to judge. They also usually receive a certificate, classified according to merit or ranking, and some may win trophies or even scholarships. The most important aspect
3634-469: The decade. Coming full circle, the renewed Faithfull cut another recording of " As Tears Go By " for Strange Weather , this time in a tighter, more gravelly voice. The singer confessed to a lingering irritation with her first hit. "I always childishly thought that was where my problems started, with that damn song," she told Jay Cocks in Time magazine, but she came to terms with it as well as with her past. In
3713-615: The earliest festivals known. During the Middle Ages , festivals were often held as competitions. The music festival emerged in England in the 18th century, as an extension of urban concert life into a form of seasonal, cultural festivity, structured around a schedule of music performances, or concerts. Music festivals generally feature regular and extensive programming, than more spontaneous or improvised forms of music festivity. In traditional genres such as folk and classical music,
3792-686: The festival attracts between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people each year, and hosts over 800 musical acts. The Woodstock Festival in 1969 drew nearly 500,000 attendees, and the Polish spin-off Przystanek Woodstock in 2014 drew 750,000 thus becoming the largest open air annual festival in Europe and the second largest in the world. In comparison, the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, attracts about 135,000 spectators each year. Glastonbury Festival has
3871-1398: The festival began broadening its scope, including blues , soul , and rock artists; for instance, Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd , Frank Zappa , Deep Purple , Canned Heat and many others. Towards the end of the decade, the festival expanded even more, including music from all continents (with an emphasis on Brazilian music ) and lasting a full three weeks. Santana came to Montreux for the first time in 1970; Van Morrison played in 1974 and 1980. Other artists included B.B. King , Stevie Ray Vaughan , Gary Moore , Weather Report , Don Ellis , Crossfire , Buddy Guy , Camarón de la Isla and Tomatito , Soft Machine , Chuck Berry , Peter Tosh , George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic , Eric Clapton , Luther Allison , Bo Diddley , Stan Getz , Airto Moreira , Joe Henderson , Dizzy Gillespie , Oscar Peterson , Ney Matogrosso , Charles Mingus , Etta James , Sonny Rollins , Son House , Count Basie , Chick Corea , Herbie Hancock , Gilberto Gil , Ray Charles , James Booker , Hermeto Pascoal , Mahavishnu Orchestra , Rory Gallagher , Marianne Faithfull , Elis Regina , Les McCann , Eddie Harris , Pasadena Roof Orchestra , New Order , Jaco Pastorius , Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band , Toto , Zucchero Fornaciari , André Geraissati , Korni Grupa , Jan Akkerman , Joe Satriani , Status Quo , Prince , and many more. Since 1967,
3950-507: The festival has allowed a Swiss or international artist to design the official poster every year. Swiss artist Pierre Keller was an art consultant to the festival. Keller recruited artists such as Jean Tinguely , Keith Haring , Niki de Saint Phalle , Shigeo Fukuda , and Andy Warhol to create artwork for the festival in the 1980s. The festival was originally held at the original Montreux Casino , which burned down in December 1971 during Frank Zappa 's performance (as referenced in " Smoke on
4029-543: The festival saw more than 220,000 visitors. The festival has also played host to some well-known and talented student groups, including big bands and vocal ensembles. Young, talented musicians are encouraged to take part in several competitions. Three international competitions are organised by the Montreux Jazz Artists Foundation every year: Solo Piano, Guitar, and Voice. Each competition has its own jury composed of professionals and chaired by
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#17327804082524108-658: The festival since Nobs' death in 2013. The Montreux Jazz Festival opened was founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs , Géo Voumard and René Langel with considerable help from Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun of Atlantic Records . The festival was first held at Montreux Casino . The driving force is the tourism office under the direction of Raymond Jaussi. It lasted for three days and featured almost exclusively jazz artists. The highlights of this era were Charles Lloyd , Miles Davis , Keith Jarrett , Jack DeJohnette , Bill Evans , Soft Machine , Weather Report , The Fourth Way , Nina Simone , Jan Garbarek , and Ella Fitzgerald . Originally
4187-625: The festival twice. Other notable artists at Montreux were Sandra , Max Roach , James Brown , George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic , Wynton Marsalis , Art Blakey , John McLaughlin , Stevie Ray Vaughan , Wayne Shorter , Al Di Meola , Elvis Costello , Jimmy Cliff , Steel Pulse , Mike Oldfield , Brian May , Marvin Gaye , Rory Gallagher , Leonard Cohen , Nina Hagen , Eric Clapton , Queen , Phil Collins , Philip Bailey , Joe Cocker , Los Lobos , The Manhattan Transfer , Tracy Chapman , and Van Morrison again. The expansion that began in
4266-497: The flat they shared. In 1987, Faithfull dedicated a "thank you" to Tose within the album package of Strange Weather , on the back sleeve: "To Howard Tose with love and thanks". Faithfull's divorce from Brierly was finalised that year. In 1995, she wrote and sang about Tose's death in "Flaming September" from the album A Secret Life . In 1987, Faithfull ventured into jazz and blues on Strange Weather , also produced by Willner. The album became her most critically lauded album of
4345-602: The influence. Rich Kid Blues (1985) was another collection of her early work combined with new recordings, a double record showcasing both the pop and rock 'n' roll facets of her output to date. In 1985, Faithfull performed "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" on Hal Willner 's tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill . Faithfull's restrained readings lent themselves to the material, and this collaboration informed several subsequent works. In 1985, she
4424-759: The lake and train cars traveling the region, and various workshops and competitions are held at the nearby Montreux Palais and Le Petit Palais. The Convention Centre closed for renovation in July 2023, and is expected to reopen in 2025. During its closure, major concerts at the Festival will be held on a specially built stage on the lake. The festival changed in the 1980s: it grew dramatically and included an even wider variety of music styles. Jazz remained important, as did Brazilian music, but more rock and pop artists were also invited. Miles Davis came to Montreux several times, British hard rock band Deep Purple were invited as headliners eight times, and Status Quo have headlined
4503-640: The lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States. Born in Hampstead , London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a party for the Rolling Stones , where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham . Her debut album Marianne Faithfull (1965, released simultaneously with her album Come My Way ), was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on Decca Records . From 1966 to 1970, she had
4582-748: The music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as well as Noël Coward , followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins , with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Dennis Russell Davies . A hugely successful concert and cabaret tour accompanied by Paul Trueblood at the piano, culminated in the filming, at the Montreal Jazz Festival , of the DVD Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill . In 1998, Faithfull released A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology ,
4661-571: The performers. Often music festivals host other attractions such as food and merchandise vending, dance, crafts, performance art , and social or cultural activities. Many festivals are annual, or repeat at some other interval, while some are held only once. Some festivals are organized as for-profit concerts and others are benefits for a specific charitable cause . At music festivals associated with charitable causes, there may be information about social or political issues . The Pythian Games at Delphi included musical performances, and may be one of
4740-501: The rest are covers of mainly well known songs such as Dusty Springfield 's "Goin' Back" and the Shangri-Las ' "Past, Present, Future". A UK CD release was planned for 7 March 2011. Faithfull supported the album's release with an extensive European tour with a five-piece band, arriving in the UK on 24 May for a rare show at London's Barbican Centre , with an extra UK show at Leamington Spa on 26 May. On 7 May 2011, she appeared on
4819-748: The royalties and proceeds from the song, especially as she was homeless and addicted to heroin at the time. In 1968, Faithfull appeared in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus concert, giving a solo performance of "Something Better". She is bisexual, and during the 1960s, she had relationships with both men and women. Faithfull ended her relationship with Jagger in May 1970 after she started an affair with Anglo-Irish nobleman "Paddy" Rossmore . She also lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her attempting suicide. Faithfull's personal life went into decline, and her career went into
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#17327804082524898-826: The song "Incarceration of a Flower Child" portraying Syd Barrett in 1968; it was never recorded by Pink Floyd. The song was recorded by Faithfull on her 1999 album Vagabond Ways . Faithfull released several albums in the 2000s that received positive critical response, beginning with Vagabond Ways (1999), which was produced and recorded by Mark Howard . It included collaborations with Daniel Lanois , Emmylou Harris , Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, and writer (and friend) Frank McGuinness . Later that year she sang "Love Got Lost" on Joe Jackson's Night and Day II . Her renaissance continued with Kissin Time , released in 2002. The album contained songs written with Blur , Beck , Billy Corgan , Jarvis Cocker , Dave Stewart , David Courts and
4977-799: The song she sang on The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus . The show included the Harry Nilsson song "Don't Forget Me", "Marathon Kiss" from Vagabond Ways , and a version of the traditional "Spike Driver Blues". Articles published at that time hinted Faithfull was looking to retirement and was hoping that money from Songs of the Innocence and Experience would enable her to live in comfort. She said: "I'm not prepared to be 70 and absolutely broke. I realised last year that I have no safety net at all and I'm going to have to get one. So I need to change my attitude to life, which means I have to put away 10 per cent every year of my old age. I want to be in
5056-531: The song's music video; the track reached No. 28 in the U.S. (No.3 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart) and No.13 in the UK. As her fascination with the music of Weimar -era Germany continued, Faithfull performed in The Threepenny Opera at the Gate Theatre , Dublin, playing Pirate Jenny . Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues (1996), which focused on
5135-474: The songs " Wild Horses " and " I Got the Blues " on the 1971 album Sticky Fingers were allegedly influenced by Faithfull, and she co-wrote " Sister Morphine " (the writing credit for the song was the subject of a protracted legal battle that was resolved with Faithfull listed as co-author). In her autobiography, Faithfull said Jagger and Richards released it in their own names so that her agent did not collect all
5214-540: The streets and made an attempt to revive her career, producing part of her album Rich Kid Blues . The album was shelved until 1985. Severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during this period, permanently altered Faithfull's voice, leaving it cracked and lower in pitch. While the new sound was praised as "whisky soaked" by some critics, journalist John Jones of the Sunday Times wrote that she had "permanently vulgarised her voice". In 1975, she released
5293-460: The title track. In 1988, Faithfull married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, and they divorced in 1991. When Roger Waters assembled an all-star cast of musicians to perform the rock opera The Wall live in Berlin in July 1990, Faithfull played the part of Pink's overprotective mother. Her musical career rebounded for the third time during the early 1990s with the live album Blazing Away ;
5372-608: The word " masochism ." In regard to her roots in the Austrian nobility, Faithfull appeared on the British television series Who Do You Think You Are? where it was discussed that the title used by family members was Ritter von Sacher-Masoch. Her family lived in Ormskirk , Lancashire, while her father completed a doctorate at Liverpool University. She spent some of her early life at the commune at Braziers Park , Oxfordshire, formed by John Norman Glaister, where her father, who
5451-426: Was "an early form of rap ". Broken English was the album that revealed the full extent of Faithfull's alcohol and drug use and their effects on her singing voice, with the melodic vocals on her early records being replaced by a raucous, deep voice which helped capture the raw emotions expressed in the album's songs. A disastrous Feb. 1980 appearance on Saturday Night Live was blamed on too many rehearsals, but it
5530-482: Was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English , her most critically hailed album. Partially influenced by the punk explosion and her marriage to Brierly in the same year, it ranged from the punk-pop sounds of the title track, which addressed terrorism in Europe (being dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof ), to the punk- reggae rhythms of "Why D'Ya Do It?",
5609-600: Was at the Hazelden Foundation Clinic in Minnesota for rehabilitation. She then received treatment at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. While living at a hotel in nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts, Faithfull started an affair (while still married to Brierly) with a dual diagnosis (mentally ill and drug dependent) man, Howard Tose, who later committed suicide by jumping from a 14th floor window of
5688-561: Was instrumental in its foundation, lived and participated. Her parents divorced when she was age 6, after which she moved with her mother to Milman Road in Reading, Berkshire . Her primary school was in Brixton , London. Because Faithfull lived in reduced circumstances, her girlhood was marred by bouts of tuberculosis. She was a charitably subsidised (bursaried) pupil at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Convent School, Reading , where she was, for
5767-701: Was interviewed by Jennifer Davies on World Radio Switzerland , where she described the challenges of being stereotyped as a "mother, or the pure wife". Because of this, she insisted, it has been hard to maintain a long career as a female artist, which, she said, gave her empathy for Amy Winehouse when they met recently. In 2010, she was honoured with the Icon of the Year award from Q magazine. On 31 January 2011, Faithfull released her 18th studio album Horses and High Heels in mainland Europe with mixed reviews. The 13 track album contains four songs co-written by Faithfull;
5846-453: Was joined by former Band member Garth Hudson and pianist Dr. John . Nash was impressed with the album's autobiographical tone, noting "Faithfull's gritty alto is a cracked and halting rasp, the voice of a woman who's been to hell and back on the excursion fare which, of course, she has." The reviewer extolled Faithfull as "one of the most challenging and artful of women artists," and Rolling Stone writer Fred Goodman asserted: " Blazing Away
5925-458: Was reflected in some of the Rolling Stones's best known songs. " Sympathy for the Devil ", featured on the 1968 album Beggars Banquet , partially was inspired by The Master and Margarita , written by Mikhail Bulgakov , a book that Faithfull introduced to Jagger. The song " You Can't Always Get What You Want " on the 1969 album Let It Bleed was supposedly written and composed about Faithfull;
6004-410: Was released in May 2021. She is accompanied with musical arrangements by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal. The album sees her recite the 19th-century British Romantic poets. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Faithfull at number 173 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 1999, Faithfull ranked 25th on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll. On 4 November 2007,
6083-486: Was suspected that drugs had caused her vocal cords to seize up. Faithfull began living in New York City after the release of Dangerous Acquaintances in 1981. The same year, she appeared as a vocalist on the single "Misplaced Love" by Rupert Hine , which charted in Australia. Despite her comeback, she was battling with addiction in the mid-1980s, at one point breaking her jaw tripping on a flight of stairs while under
6162-653: Was the daughter of Artur Wolfgang, Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, an Austro-Hungarian nobleman . Eva chose to style herself as Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso . Eva had been a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill . Faithfull's mother had been born in Budapest and moved to Vienna in 1918. The family of Sacher-Masoch secretly opposed
6241-484: Was written and composed by Jagger, Keith Richards , and Oldham, and became a chart success. (The Rolling Stones recorded their version one year later, which also became successful.) She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights", and " Come and Stay with Me ". Faithfull married John Dunbar on 6 May 1965 in Cambridge with Peter Asher as the best man. The couple lived in
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