Marianne Faithfull

In the heady days of swinging London, Marianne Faithfull was a sex kitten/wispy-voiced waif singing orchestral-pop versions of Rolling Stones songs (she had a highly publicised relationship with Mick Jagger at the time). In the late '70s, she re-emerged as a shockingly blunt post-punk feminist. More recently, she's turned into a post-modern cabaret singer, sort of an 21st-century version of Lotte Lenya, feted and occasionally assisted by such acolytes as Nick Cave and PJ Harvey.

• rock
• pop
• pop rock
• 1970s
• 1990s
• 1960s
• 1980s
• 2000s