“I don’t need this”: John Mulaney cheekily quotes RFK Jr. while promoting new Netflix live talk show

Comedian John Mulaney presents “Everybody’s Live” weekly series at Next on Netflix event at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California on January 29, 2025 (Netflix)

“We will never be relevant,” quipped John Mulaney about his upcoming live talk show at Netflix’s 2025 preview event on Wednesday morning.

And yet, the comedian did quote Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, from the confirmation hearing earlier that morning. In front of gathered journalists at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Mulaney introduced his upcoming series “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney,” which is inspired by his limited series “Everybody’s in LA” from 2024.

Mulaney explained, “Netflix and I discussed this summer not being done with the show, and I was thrilled to do that. It was a total blast and it was one of those shows that neither Netflix nor I really needed to do. I never wanted to host a talk show, and they were getting out of the talk show game. So it was the perfect moment to do this.

“And I just heard Robert F Kennedy Jr. say during the confirmation hearing, ‘I have a nice life and a happy family. I don’t need this,’” said the comedian, reading from his notes.

Although Mulaney is paraphrasing, he did indeed grasp the gist of the opening speech, in which Kennedy Jr. said about his dedication to the nation’s health care: “I know how to fix it, and there’s nobody who will fix it the way that I do because I’m not scared of vested interest. I don’t care. I’m not here because I want a position or a job. I have a very good life and a happy family. This is something I don’t need.’”

After this uncharacteristic foray into newsiness, Mulaney doubled down on his self-deprecating style of underselling his series “Everybody’s Live,” which will air live weekly starting March 12 for 12 weeks.

“We will be live globally with no delay,” he continued. “We will never be relevant. We will never be your source for news. We will always be reckless. Netflix will always provide us with data that we will ignore.

“This will be the one place where you could see Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting next to Nikki Glaser sitting next to a family therapist with music by Mannequin P***y. That’s just a brief sampling of guests. We don’t know if we can lock in Mannequin P***y, but we are in talks with them.

“This is a really fun experiment. Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan. . . . I think that this show will be something that people will want to tune into live. We will have a host in a suit taking calls from viewers. It’s Netflix’s commitment to embracing the 20th century. There is absolutely nothing new about what I’m doing but, by taking a lot of elements other people have already done and doing them out of order, it feels new and that’s what’s important.

“If we can be one-tenth as popular on Netflix as anything from South Korea, I will have the most successful talk show in world history.”

As with his Los Angeles series, Mulaney will be joined by the delivery cart robot Saymo and actor Richard Kind, who played a goofier version of himself in the role of talk show announcer and sidekick.

Besides “Everybody’s Live,” the streamer also announced its upcoming slate of movies, TV shows and other programming, using the tagline, “You’re not ready for what’s next,” which some could see as an accurate statement about 2025 overall. A video for the slate features a Netflix hero who takes on the various guises of roels from the streamer’s globally popular shows returning this year including “Stranger Things,” “Wednesday,” “Squid Game” and “Alice in Borderland.”

The Netflix event also afforded the network to acknowledge the recent fires still ravaging parts of Los Angeles, that have taken 29 lives and left many without homes and/or jobs.

Mulaney referred to the fires elliptically when discussing last year’s Los Angeles series. “We had a blast,” he said. “We had many comedians who were in town for the festival. We had lots of guests. We had a hypnotist. We had an expert on coyotes in Los Angeles. We had a palm tree expert. We had an earthquake expert. We covered most all natural disasters that take place in California . . . except for one. We just weren’t ready.”

Tina Fey, who had introduced her upcoming series adaptation of Alan Alda’s 1981 movie “The Four Seasons,” said, “It’s nice to be here with you all in person. I love Los Angeles and I wanna thank Netflix for this chance to come in from New York and check on my friends.”

And even before the presentation began, Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria commented to the press, “I feel so lucky that I called Southern California home since I was 9 years old. I love L.A. I love West Coast rap — true story. I still think palm trees are breathtaking and I defend L.A. whenever people talk s**t about it. So that’s why it’s also been so heartbreaking to see what’s happened to this community over the last couple of weeks, and sorry to see that some of you and your colleagues have lost homes and have your lives turned upside down. Between COVID, the strikes, the fires, this town has been through a lot in the past few years, but just like we’ve gotten through everything else together, we will rebuild the [Pacific] Palisades, Malibu, Altadena and all the areas that have been devastated.”

Before leaving, the press was presented with a bag containing a t-shirt with “City of Angels” printed on it and a note that stated proceeds from the item would go to the American Red Cross to “support their critical work in responding to the LA wildfires.”

‘SNL 50’ Concert Lineup Includes Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus

Saturday Night Live will be crossing the street and taking over the stage at Radio City Music Hall with a star-studded concert special. In celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert will be hosted by none other than SNL alum Jimmy Fallon, with a diverse line-up of musicians: Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Chris Martin, Jelly Roll, David Byrne, Post Malone, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Brittany Howard, the Roots, Devo, Brandi Carlile, Mumford & Sons, Backstreet Boys, Arcade Fire, the B-52s, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band will all perform, with more performers to be announced.

In addition to the jam-packed musical lineup, special guests and SNL “hall-of-famers” will also be present for the three-hour show, which will be livestreamed on Peacock on Feb, 14 at 8p.m. ET. Additionally, select IMAX theaters across the U.S. will host live screening events for fans.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert is executive produced by SNL producer Lorne Michaels and music producer Mark Ronson. The single night event will kick off the show’s celebratory weekend. On Sunday, Feb. 16, SNL 50: The Anniversary Special will air live at 8 p.m.

In November, Rolling Stone ranked the 50 best SNL musical performances ahead of the show’s 50th anniversary year. Several of the performers slated for the SNL anniversary concert appear on the list for their uniquely iconic performances.

Dave Matthews Drops Out of FireAid Benefit Due to ‘Critical’ Family Illness

Dave Matthews has dropped out of the FireAid benefit concert due to a family medical issue.

“Due to a critical illness in the family, Dave Matthews is unfortunately unable to perform at the FireAid and MusiCares benefits this week,” read an Instagram statement shared via the Dave Matthews Band’s page on Wednesday, January 29.

Matthews was scheduled to take the stage at the Kia Forum on Thursday, January 30, alongside John Mayer. Mayer, 47, confirmed on Thursday that he would still be performing and sent well wishes to the rock singer.

“Sending all my love to Dave, who will be there in spirit with me at FireAid,” Mayer wrote via his Instagram Story while resharing Matthews’ announcement.

This would have been the first time Matthews and Mayer would have shared the stage.

The musicians were among many A-List artists announced to the concert’s lineup. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Gwen Stefani, Gracie Abrams, Green Day, Jelly Roll and more were part of the two shows taking place at the Kia Forum and Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. FireAid was announced earlier this month to support those displaced by the devastating wildfires that hit Los Angeles earlier this month.

“Contributions made to FireAid will be distributed under the advisement of the Annenberg Foundation, for short-term relief efforts and long-term initiatives to prevent future fire disasters,” a press release read. “The Annenberg Foundation, with decades of philanthropic leadership in our community, including rapid response, will help coordinate a team to direct funds for the greatest impact. All proceeds from the FireAid benefit concert at Intuit Dome and Kia Forum will go directly to the event’s designated beneficiaries, as the LA Clippers will be covering the millions in expenses associated with the event.”

In addition to the live performances, the benefit will also be broadcast by select AMC Theaters and online via Apple Music, Max, Netflix, YouTube and more streaming platforms.

In addition to the benefit, the “Crash Into Me” singer was also forced to withdraw from the MusiCares’ 2025 Persons of the Year benefit gala, which is a charity event that is scheduled for Friday, January 31.

Days before canceling his appearances, Matthews announced he and his band were going on tour this summer. Tour dates include stops in Los Angeles, Richmond and more. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale Friday, February 21. No additional information about potential cancellations or postponements for the tour were shared.

Jennifer Love Hewitt recalls ‘grown men’ talking to her about her breasts at 16

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Jennifer Love Hewitt opened up about processing her sex symbol status as a teenage star, sharing that she only recently recognized just how inappropriate grown men were towards her.

During an appearance on Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast, the actress, 45, looked back at her star-making turn as Julie James in the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer at age 16. Hewitt said she was not prepared for how she would be received during the press tour, which saw grown men make “gross” comments about her body.

“When I Know What You Did Last Summer came out, everybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’” recalled Hewitt. “There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it. I didn’t even remember that. In hindsight, it was very strange to become a sex symbol for people before I even knew what that was.”

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Hewitt “didn’t know what being ‘sexy’ meant,” she said, “and I was on the cover of Maxim magazine. People would walk up and be like, ‘Oh, I took your magazine with me on a trip last week,’ and I didn’t really know what that meant. It’s gross. Later it sort of hit me.” It’s “really mind-blowing” just how much the culture has changed since then, observed Hewitt. “It was a culture that was fully accepted.”

Hewitt credited her mother for keeping her grounded and relatively sheltered. “At the time, it felt very innocent and exciting and fun,” she recalled. “I’m thankful for that because I think had I tried to take on some of that earlier, I think it would have messed with me a little bit, but it didn’t. Maybe because my mom was always around keeping reality very apparent for me. I would go to a premiere, and people would want me to [attend parties], and I’d have to go home and clean my room.”

“I was in Hollywood, but I wasn’t in Hollywood,” said Hewitt of not being a party girl, sharing that she had never been to a high school party. “The first high school party I ever went to is when I filmed Can’t Hardly Wait,” said Hewitt. “I didn’t do any of that. For me it was like, I learned my lines at night, I got good sleep, I showed up at work on time, I did my job. I would go to premiere parties but I would be there for like 45 minutes; my mom was always at the table next to me.”

Rihanna appears at A$AP Rocky’s trial – what to know about the case

Pop star Rihanna appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday as her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, continued his trial on assault charges.

The singer, who shares two children with the rapper, sat in the courtroom with A$AP Rocky’s family as the trial delved into allegations that he pulled a gun out on his former friend and opened fire multiple times.

The trial started on Friday and will determine whether the rapper will face penalties on two charges of felony assault. He could face decades in prison.

A$AP Rocky has pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyers have argued the weapon was a prop gun and his former friend is only after money.

Marianne Faithfull dies aged 78

She also created her own musical legacy, specialising in genteel ballads before her voice cracked and coarsened.

British pop star Marianne Faithfull, who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs, has died aged 78.

Faithfull passed away on Thursday in London, according to her music promotion company Republic Media.

“It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.

“Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed.”

Faithfull was a celebrity before turning 17, homeless by her mid-20s and an inspiration to peers and younger artists by her early 30s, when her raw, explicit Broken English album brought her the kinds of reviews the Stones had received.

Over the following decades, her admirers would include Beck, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, although her history would always be closely tied to the Stones and to the years she dated Mick Jagger.

One of the first songs written by Jagger and Keith Richards, the melancholy As Tears Go By, was her breakthrough hit when released in 1964 and the start of her close and tormented relationship with the band.

She and Jagger began seeing each other in 1966 and became one of the most glamorous and notorious couples of Swinging London, with Faithfull once declaring that if LSD “wasn’t meant to happen, it wouldn’t have been invented”.

Their rejection of conventional values was defined by a widely publicised 1967 drug bust that left Jagger and Richards briefly in jail and Faithfull identified in tabloids as “Naked Girl At Stones Party” — a label she would find humiliating and inescapable.

Jagger and Richards often cited bluesmen and early rock ‘n rollers as their prime influences, but Faithfull and her close friend Anita Pallenberg, Richards’s longtime partner, also opened the band to new ways of thinking.

Both were worldlier than their boyfriends at the time, and helped transform the Stones’ songwriting and personas, whether as muses or as collaborators.

Faithfull helped inspire such Stones songs as the mellow tribute She Smiled Sweetly and the lustful Let’s Spend the Night Together.

It was Faithful who lent Jagger the Russian novel The Master and Margarita that was the basis for Sympathy for the Devil and who first recorded and contributed lyrics to the Stones’ dire Sister Morphine, notably the opening line, “Here I lie in my hospital bed.”

Faithfull’s drug use helped shape such jaded takes on the London rock scene as You Can’t Always Get What You Want and Live with Me, while her time with Jagger also coincided with one of his most vulnerable love songs, Wild Horses.

On her own, Faithfull specialised at first in genteel ballads, among them Come Stay With Me, Summer Nights and This Little Bird, but even in her teens, Faithfull sang in a fragile alto that suggested knowledge and burdens far beyond her years.

Her voice would later crack and coarsen, and her life and work after splitting with Jagger in 1970 was one of looking back and carrying on through emotional and physical pain.

She released 21 solo albums over the course of her career, including the critically acclaimed “Broken English” in 1979 that won her a Grammy nomination.

She had become addicted to heroin in the late 1960s, suffered a miscarriage while seven months pregnant and nearly died from an overdose of sleeping pills.

By the early 1970s, Faithfull was living in the streets of London and had lost custody of the son, Nicholas, she had with her estranged husband, the gallery owner John Dunbar.

She would also battle anorexia and hepatitis, was treated for breast cancer, broke her hip in a fall and was hospitalised for three weeks and was induced into a coma with COVID-19 in 2020.

She shared everything, uncensored, in her memoirs and in her music, notably Broken English, which came out in 1979 and featured her seething Why’d Ya Do It and conflicted Guilt, in which she chants “I feel guilt, I feel guilt, though I know I’ve done no wrong.”

Other albums included Dangerous Acquaintances, Strange Weather, the live Blazing Away and, most recently, She Walks in Beauty.

Liam Payne set to appear in upcoming Netflix show filmed before his death

Liam Payne is set to appear as a judge on an upcoming Netflix competition show filmed months before his death.

During the Thursday, Jan. 30, Next on Netflix event, Brandon Reigg, Netflix’s Vice President of Unscripted and Documentary Series, said the streaming platform is pushing ahead with “Building the Band,” which was Payne’s last major television appearance.

According to a Deadline report, Reigg said Netflix has been in touch with Payne’s family about moving forward with the project. Although the streaming platform hasn’t announced a release date for “Building the Band,” the series is confirmed for a 2025 premiere.

Payne was a judge on “Building the Band” alongside Destiny’s Child’s Kelly Rowland and The Pussycat Dolls alum Nicole Scherzinger. Contestants on the show must form bands without seeing the other members, like a musical version of “Love Is Blind.”

“‘Building the Band’ is a brave and bold undertaking for all involved as we hand over power to the singers themselves to form their own band based on chemistry first,” the show’s executive producer Cat Lawson said in a statement to Billboard in August 2024. “With looks out of the equation, can they create a deeper connection with their bandmates?”

Filming for “Building the Band” wrapped in August 2024, ending with three live shows in Manchester. Two months later, Payne died at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires. A postmortem determined his cause of death to be “multiple trauma” and “internal and external hemorrhage” as a result of the fall.

A tribute to Payne is expected to take place during the Brit Awards on Saturday, March 1. There’s been speculation that Payne’s former One Direction bandmates will reunite for the occasion, marking their first time on stage together since the group split in 2016. Speculation of a reunion has recently increased after Zayn Malik revealed Louis Tomlinson was at his recent “Stairway to the Sky Tour” stop in Los Angeles.

Patti Smith blames ‘post-migraine dizziness’ for collapsing onstage…

The 78-year-old rocker told her fans she’s “absolutely fine” after she experienced a “small incident” onstage while performing in Brazil on Wednesday.

Smith scared fans when she appeared to collapse in Sao Paulo during her set with the Soundwalk Collective group. She was helped offstage and later briefly returned in a wheelchair.

However, the “Because the Night” chalked the ordeal up to the effects of a migraine, taking to her social media on Thursday to blast the scare as “grossly exaggerated.”

Smith posted a smiling selfie while waving to the camera and wrote, “This is [me] letting everyone know that I am fine.”

She explained, “I had some post migraine dizziness. Had a small incident, left the stage, and returned 10 minutes later and talked to the people, told them I was fine and sang them Wing and Because the Night.”

The Grammy-nominated rockstar said she went to the doctor and “was absolutely fine,” adding, “Please do not accept any other story.”

Smith assured her followers that “with all the strife in the world, this explainable incident does not merit so much attention.”

Concluding her message, she reiterated that she was doing “fine.”

“Thank you everyone for your concern. Trust me I am fine,” Smith wrote.

The “People Have the Power” singer collapsed on the stage about 30 minutes into the event, and remained there for several minutes before getting assistance, according to the Associated Press, per local media.

“She clearly felt dizzy. She started moving backward and fell in a way — I think she tried to support herself on the microphone or the music stand. And everything fell on top of her. It was a bizarre scene,” Micheline Alves, a journalist sitting in one of the front rows, shared with the outlet in a phone interview.

Alves shared that a doctor, who was in the audience, checked on Smith.

“After a few minutes, we saw that she wasn’t unconscious. She got up on her own,” the journalist explained, adding she was put in a wheelchair and disappeared backstage.

She later returned to the stage in a wheelchair and apologized to the audience.

“Unfortunately, I got sick, and the doctor said I can’t finish. So we will have to figure something out. And I feel very badly,” Smith said, to which the audience cheered her on.

Smith then sang “Wing” and “Because the Night” a capella.

While Alves said it was “very beautiful,” the journalist added that “she was very sad, very vulnerable about not being able to do the show.”

Videos quickly emerged online of Smith’s incident, including her being wheeled offstage and returning in the wheelchair.

Smith is collaborating with the Berlin-based Soundwalk Collective for the “Correspondences” project, “a creative enterprise with Simone Merli to collect sound from around the world and develop sonic projects in artistic collaborations,” according to W magazine.

The project is set to run until Feb. 22.

Soundwalk Collective announced on social media that Thursday’s show at Teatro Cultura Artística has been canceled.

“Patti is now recovering strongly but our caring doctors say she needs a little more time to be at her best,” the Instagram Story post read.

Jennifer Love Hewitt slams talk show hosts for jokes about her breasts

Jennifer Love Hewitt was just 18 when her breakthrough film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, was released.

But the actress quickly found the public was more interested in talking about her body rather than her work.

Now, at age 45, Hewitt is hitting back at the culture that allowed for her to be sexualized at such a young age.

Speaking on Mayim Bialik’s podcast, Breakdown, Hewitt recalled just how inappropriate it was being asked at age 16 about her breasts by ‘grown men’ on TV.

Initially, Hewitt said she laughed along when jokes about her body were made, but it wasn’t until she was an adult that she realized just how unacceptable the situation was.

Looking back at her early career, she said: ‘In my 30s, I sort of went back and looked at that time again and I was like, “Oh my God. There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts just openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it.” I don’t even remember that, I really didn’t take that part in, but in hindsight it was really strange I think to become a sex symbol sort of for people before I even knew what that was.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is slamming the public’s obsession with her breasts as a teenager following her breakthrough role on I Know What You Did Last Summer; pictured on the 1997 film

‘Like I didn’t even know what sexy meant and I was on the cover of Maxim magazines, and people would openly walk up and be like, “I took your magazine with me on a trip last week.’”

Hewitt said she would laugh along but admitted, ‘I didn’t know what that meant, you know what I mean? It’s kind of gross.’

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‘So, I think later it sort of hit me more, kind of the things that I probably went through somewhere. But at the time, it felt very innocent and exciting and fun,’ she continued.

‘So I’m thankful for that. Had I taken on some of that earlier, I think it would have messed with me a little bit, but it didn’t for whatever reason,’ she said.

Hewitt said a ‘light bulb’ went off after she watched the Britney Spears documentary, and the reality of the attention she faced as a teenager suddenly hit her.

‘When I watched the Britney Spears documentary, that was really honestly the light bulb for me. When I watched it, I finished watching it, and my husband was like, “Why do you look so disturbed?” I was like, “I know what that feels like.” I know sitting there and being asked those questions and it never dawned on me that it was inappropriate.’

Hewitt recalled even wearing a shirt that said ‘Silicon Free’ during the press tour for I Know What You Did Last Summer, with her body then the butt of the joke.

‘When I Know What You Did Last Summer came out I went to Australia and I wore a T-shirt that said “Silicon Free” on it for the press junket because after the movie came out, everybody said, “Oh I know what your breasts did last summer” and that was like the joke.’

She recalled how ‘everybody’ would laugh at the jokes, which in turn made her laugh.

‘Again, everybody would laugh, and so I would laugh, ’cause it was supposed to be funny, I guess. It didn’t register with me that this was a grown man, talking about my breasts on national television,’ she said.

Speaking on Mayim Bialik ‘s podcast, Breakdown , Hewitt slammed Hollywood for obsessing over her breasts when she was just 16-years-old

Hewitt added she didn’t ‘blame’ those who asked the questions at the time as the culture made it acceptable.

‘By the way, I don’t blame them for asking the questions or making the jokes or doing it. It was a culture that was fully accepted. They were allowed to believe that that was appropriate, I answered the questions, laughed right along.

‘I give no problem with them for doing it. But when you sit and you look at where we are now versus then, it’s really mind-blowing.’

Hewitt played Julie James in the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer and the 1998 sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

Hewitt with co-stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe in the 1997 film

She will be reprising her role in the upcoming sequel, which does not yet have a title.

It’s not the first time Hewitt has addressed being sexualized at a young age.

She previously discussed modeling for Maxim at age 17 during an appearance on the Inside of You podcast in 2023, insisting she didn’t even know why she had landed the cover.

‘I didn’t feel self-confident. I felt watched. I felt like I had to be everything for everybody all the time,’ Hewitt said. ‘I was called sexy before I ever knew what being sexy was. I was 17 years old on the cover of Maxim, and I had no idea why I was on the cover of Maxim. I was honored. I loved it. But why?’

Hewitt pictured on The Jennifer Hudson Show last month

While filming Heartbreakers at 23, Hewitt recalled struggling to follow a director’s instructions to ‘be sexier’.

‘I remember doing Heartbreakers at 23 and the director was like, “We just need you to be sexier.” I had to pull him aside and be like, “I don’t know what that means. I’m only 23.”

‘I know that I’m supposed to be this thing for people but I don’t know what that means. He had to like help me figure that out.’

Marianne Faithfull, singer and pop icon, dies at 78

NEW YORK — Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78.

Ms. Faithfull passed away Thursday in London, her music promotion company Republic Media said.

“It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed.”

Ms. Faithfull was a celebrity before turning 17, homeless by her mid-20s, and an inspiration to peers and younger artists by her early 30s, when her raw, explicit Broken English album brought her the kinds of reviews the Stones had received. Over the following decades, her admirers would include Beck, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave, and PJ Harvey, although her history would always be closely tied to the Stones and to the years she dated Mick Jagger.

One of the first songs written by Jagger and Keith Richards, the melancholy “As Tears Go By,” was her breakthrough hit when released in 1964 and the start of her close and tormented relationship with the band.

She and Jagger began seeing each other in 1966 and became one of the most glamorous and notorious couples of “Swinging London,” with Ms. Faithfull once declaring that if LSD “wasn’t meant to happen, it wouldn’t have been invented.” Their rejection of conventional values was defined by a widely publicized 1967 drug bust that left Jagger and Richards briefly in jail and Ms. Faithfull identified in tabloids as “Naked Girl At Stones Party,” a label she would find humiliating and inescapable.

“One of the hazards of reforming your evil ways is that some people won’t let go of their mind’s eye of you as a wild thing,” she wrote in Memories, Dreams and Reflections, a 2007 memoir.

Jagger and Richards often cited bluesmen and early rock ‘n rollers as their prime influences, but Ms. Faithfull and her close friend Anita Pallenberg, Richards’ longtime partner, also opened the band to new ways of thinking. Both were worldlier than their boyfriends at the time, and helped transform the Stones’ songwriting and personas, whether as muses or as collaborators.

Ms. Faithfull helped inspire such Stones songs as the mellow tribute “She Smiled Sweetly” and the lustful “Let’s Spend the Night Together.” It was Ms. Faithfull who lent Jagger the Russian novel The Master and Margarita that was the basis for “Sympathy for the Devil” and who first recorded and contributed lyrics to the Stones’ dire “Sister Morphine,” notably the opening line, “Here I lie in my hospital bed.” Ms. Faithfull’s drug use helped shape such jaded takes on the London rock scene as “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Live with Me,” while her time with Jagger also coincided with one of his most vulnerable love songs, “Wild Horses.”

On her own, the London-born Ms. Faithfull specialized at first in genteel ballads, among them “Come Stay With Me,” “Summer Nights,” and “This Little Bird.” But even in her teens, Faithfull sang in a fragile alto that suggested knowledge and burdens far beyond her years. Her voice would later crack and coarsen, and her life and work after splitting with Jagger in 1970 was one of looking back and carrying on through emotional and physical pain.

She had become addicted to heroin in the late ’60s, suffered a miscarriage while seven months pregnant and nearly died from an overdose of sleeping pills. (Jagger, meanwhile, had an affair with Pallenberg and had a baby with actor Marsha Hunt). By the early ’70s, Ms. Faithfull was living in the streets of London and had lost custody of the son, Nicholas, she had with her estranged husband, the gallery owner John Dunbar. She would also battle anorexia and hepatitis, was treated for breast cancer, broke her hip in a fall and was hospitalized with COVID-19 in 2020.

She shared everything, uncensored, in her memoirs and in her music, notably Broken English, which came out in 1979 and featured her seething “Why’d Ya Do It” and conflicted “Guilt,” in which she chants “I feel guilt, I feel guilt, though I know I’ve done no wrong.” Other albums included Dangerous Acquaintances, Strange Weather, the live Blazing Away and, most recently, She Walks in Beauty. Though Ms. Faithfull was defined by the 1960s, her sensibility often reached back to the pre-rock world of German cabaret, and she covered numerous songs by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, including “Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife” and the “sung” ballet “The Seven Deadly Sins.”

Her interests extended to theater, film and television. Ms. Faithfull began acting in the 1960s, including an appearance in Jean-Luc Godard’s Made In U.S.A. and stage roles in Hamlet and Chekhov’s Three Sisters. She would later appear in such films as Marie Antoinette and The Girl from Nagasaki, and the TV series Absolutely Fabulous, in which she was cast as — and did not flinch from playing — God.

Ms. Faithfull was married three times, and in recent years dated her manager, Francois Ravard. Jagger was her most famous lover, but other men in her life included Richards (“so great and memorable,” she would say of their one-night stand), David Bowie and the early rock star Gene Pitney. Among the rejected: Bob Dylan, who had been so taken that he was writing a song about her, until Faithfull, pregnant with her son at the time, turned him down.

“Without warning, he turned into Rumpelstiltskin,” she wrote in Faithfull, published in 1994. “He went over to the typewriter, took a sheaf of papers and began ripping them up into smaller and smaller pieces, after which he let them fall into the wastepaper basket.”

Ms. Faithfull’s heritage was one of intrigue, decadence and fallen empires. Her father was a British intelligence officer during World War II who helped saved her mother from the Nazis in Vienna. Ms. Faithfull’s more distant ancestors included various Austro-Hungarian aristocrats and Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a 19th century Austrian whose last name and scandalous novel Venus in Furs helped create the term “masochism.”

Ms. Faithfull’s parents separated when she was 6 and her childhood would include time in a convent and in what she would call a “nutty” sex-obsessed commune. By her teens, she was reading Simone de Beauvoir, listening to Odetta and Joan Baez and singing in folk clubs. Through the London art scene, she met Dunbar, who introduced her to Paul McCartney and other celebrities. Dunbar also cofounded the Indica Gallery, where John Lennon would say he met Yoko Ono.

“The threads of a dozen little scenes were invisibly twining together,” she wrote in her memoir. “All these people — gallery owners, photographers, pop stars, aristocrats and assorted talented layabouts more or less invented the scene in London, so I guess I was present at the creation.”

Her future was set in March 1964, when she attended a recording party for one of London’s hot young bands, the Rolling Stones. Scorning the idea that she and Jagger immediately fell for each other, she would regard the Stones as “yobby schoolboys” and witnessed Jagger fighting with his then-girlfriend, the model Chrissie Shrimpton, so in tears that her false eyelashes were peeling off.

But she was deeply impressed by one man, Stones manager Andrew “Loog” Oldham, who looked “powerful and dangerous and very sure of himself.” A week later, Oldham sent her a telegram, asking her to come to London’s Olympic Studios. With Jagger and Richards looking on, Oldham played her a demo of a “very primitive” song, “A Tears Go By,” which Ms. Faithfull needed just two takes to complete.

“It’s an absolutely astonishing thing for a boy of 20 to have written,” Ms. Faithfull wrote in her 1994 memoir. “A song about a woman looking back nostalgically on her life. The uncanny thing is that Mick should have written those words so long before everything happened. It’s almost as is if our whole relationship was prefigured in that song.”