Thursday music corner: Marianne Faithfull, who died aged 78 in January 2025, was an English singer and actress, famed at the time for her romantic relationship with the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger from 1966 to 1970. She released 22 studio albums from 1965 to 2021, and released a posthumous EP Burning Moonlight this year. Her first two albums reached the UK top 20, and her 1979 album Broken English reached the top 5 in West Germany, Austria, Sweden and New Zealand. Faithfull also had five UK top 40 singles. She appeared in a range of films including The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), Tony Richardson's Hamlet as Ophelia (1969), and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette as Empress Maria Theresa (2006).
Faithfull's interpretation of John Lennon's Working Class Hero appeared on her Grammy-nominated Broken English album and was its third single release after The Ballad of Lucy Jordan and the title track.
Marianne Faithfull - Working Class Hero (1979)
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