Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London's Swinging '60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and COVID-19, died at age 78, after a singing career that began as a teenager and lasted until her 70s.

Vocalist Marianne Faithfull, whose 1960s sojourn as a swinging London pop star was succeeded by a striking punk-era artistic rebirth, died Thursday. She was 78. The BBC posted a statement from her family reading,

The singer, who died on Thursday at 78, spent decades in the spotlight exercising a very specific and subversive power.