Carla Bruni, Amanda Lear, Mick Jagger … The world of culture cries Marianne Faithfull, dead at 78 years old

“Marianne is all my youth in London. It was my best friend. “ Many personalities expressed their sadness this Thursday, January 30, when the death of the death is 78 years old by Marianne Faithfull, British folk-rock muse from the 1960s. Starting with Amanda Lear, singer and actress of the same generation. “It was thanks to Marianne, curiously, that I had a career. She introduced me to David Bowie who told me “you come, I want to invite you to dinner”. This is how everything started ”Amanda Lear told AFP.

“She was an extraordinary person. We had lots of friends in common. And it’s a great loss ”she added, comparing the British and international star, who was the companion of Mick Jagger, to “A model like Françoise Hardy”died in June. Mick Jagger, precisely, said he “Very sad to learn the death of Marianne Faithfull. She was part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. We will always remember her. ”

«Good Bye dearest Marianne»

His partner of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, presented his “More sincere condolences to Marianne’s family! I’m so sad and I will miss it !! “he wrote on X. John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon qualified the icon as“Singularly special soul”. “She was unique of a kind, someone who really distinguished himself from her contemporaries”he wrote.

In a message on Instagram, the singer and ex-Mannequin Carla Bruni, who was close to Marianne Faithfull, wrote in English: «Good Bye dearest Marianne. Rest in peace with the angels my friend» (“Goodbye my very dear Marianne. Rest in peace with the angels my friend ”). “She is one of the people who brought me to music. Without knowing it, simply listening to it ”, entrusted Carla Bruni in 2018, in an interview with Paris Matchalongside Marianne Faithfull who had helped her to give birth to an album in English No promises (2007).

In recent years, the singer had suffered from multiple health problems, including breast cancer and pulmonary disease caused by years of smoking. In 2020, she had been severely affected by the COVID-19 and hospitalized, to the point where the doctors believed that she would not survive it. But the singer had gone to the end of her 21st and last album, She Walks in Beauty. “This pandemic touched me, I almost died”she had entrusted to AFP in 2021, fearing “Not being able to sing one day”. Marianne Faithfull, who lived in Paris, had returned to London for a few years to get closer to her son and her grandchildren.