Editing Marianne Faithfull (section)

=== 1980s ===
Faithfull began living in New York City after the release of ''[[Dangerous Acquaintances]]'' in 1981. The same year, she appeared as a vocalist on the single "Misplaced Love" by [[Rupert Hine]], which charted in Australia.<ref name="Hine">{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/producer-musician-rupert-hine-dead-at-age-72-20200606|title=Producer Musician Rupert Hine Dead at Age 72|first=Paul|last=Cashmere|date=6 June 2020|work=Noise11|access-date=14 October 2020|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901052618/http://www.noise11.com/news/producer-musician-rupert-hine-dead-at-age-72-20200606|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite her comeback, in the mid-1980s she was battling with addiction and at one point  tripped and broke her jaw on a flight of stairs while under the influence.<ref name="autobio"/> ''[[Rich Kid Blues (Marianne Faithfull album)|Rich Kid Blues]]'' (1985) was another collection of her early work combined with new recordings, a double record showcasing both the pop and rock 'n' roll facets of her output to date. In 1985, Faithfull performed "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" on [[Hal Willner]]'s tribute album ''[[Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill]]''. Faithfull's restrained readings lent themselves to the material and this collaboration informed several subsequent works.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Payne |first=John |date=8 April 2009 |title=Easy Come Easy Go: Marianne Faithfull and Hal Willner's Songs of Tragedy and Heartbreak – LA Weekly |url=https://www.laweekly.com/easy-come-easy-go-marianne-faithfull-and-hal-willners-songs-of-tragedy-and-heartbreak/ |access-date=21 April 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1985, she attended the [[Hazelden Foundation]] Clinic in Minnesota for rehabilitation and received treatment at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. While living at a hotel in nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts, Faithfull started an affair (while still married to Brierly) with a [[dual diagnosis]] (mentally ill and drug dependent) man, Howard Tose, who later committed suicide by jumping from a 14th floor window of the flat they shared.<ref name="autobio"/> In 1987, Faithfull dedicated a ''"thank you"'' to Tose on the album sleeve of ''[[Strange Weather (1987 album)|Strange Weather]]'': "To Howard Tose with love and thanks". Faithfull's divorce from Brierly was finalised that year. In 1995, she wrote and sang about Tose's death in "Flaming September" on the album ''[[A Secret Life (Marianne Faithfull album)|A Secret Life]]''.<ref name="autobio"/>

In 1987, Faithfull ventured into jazz and blues on ''Strange Weather'', which was also produced by Willner. The album became her most critically lauded album of the decade. Coming full circle, the renewed Faithfull cut another recording of "[[As Tears Go By (song)|As Tears Go By]]" for ''[[Strange Weather (Marianne Faithfull album)|Strange Weather]]'', this time in a tighter, more gravelly voice. The singer confessed to a lingering irritation with her first hit. "I always childishly thought that was where my problems started, with that damn song," she told Jay Cocks in [[Time magazine|''Time'' magazine]], but she came to terms with it as well as with her past. In a 1987 interview with Rory O'Connor of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', Faithfull declared "forty is the age to sing it, not seventeen."<ref name="Marianne Biography"/> The album of covers was produced by [[Hal Willner]] after the two had spent numerous weekends listening to hundreds of songs from 20th-century music. They chose such diverse tracks to record as [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[I'll Keep It with Mine]]" and "[[Yesterdays (1933 song)|Yesterdays]]", written by Broadway composers [[Jerome Kern]] and [[Otto Harbach]]. The work included tunes first made notable by such blues luminaries as [[Billie Holiday]] and [[Bessie Smith]]; [[Tom Waits]] wrote the title track. In 1988, Faithfull married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, and they divorced in 1991.<ref name="autobio"/>