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

The late singer, known for a string of solo pop hits, was also the inspiration of several Rolling Stones classics

Marianne Faithfull, an icon of 1960s British rock whose career went on to stretch seven decades, is dead at 78. Faithfull died “peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family,” a spokesperson told the BBC.