section_path: Singing career/1970s
section_name: 1970s
paragraph_text: 1970s
  
  Faithfull ended her relationship with Jagger in May 1970 after starting an affair with Anglo-Irish nobleman "Paddy" Rossmore. She lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her attempting suicide. Faithfull's personal life went into decline and her career went into a tailspin. She made only a few public appearances, including an October 1973 performance with David Bowie singing Sonny & Cher 's " I Got You Babe ".
  
  Faithfull lived on London's Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa. Friends intervened and enrolled her in an NHS heroin-assisted treatment programme. She failed to control or stabilise her addiction. In 1971, producer Mike Leander found her on the streets and made an attempt to revive her career, producing part of her album Rich Kid Blues. The album was shelved until 1985.
  
  In 1975, she released the country -influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams. The album was re-released in 1978 as Faithless with some new tracks added and reached No.1 on the Irish Albums Chart. Faithfull squatted in a Chelsea flat without hot water or electricity with her then-boyfriend Ben Brierly of the band the Vibrators. She later shared flats in Chelsea and Regent's Park with Henrietta Moraes.
  
  In 1979, the same year that she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English, her most critically hailed album. Partially influenced by the punk explosion and her marriage to Brierly in the same year, it ranged from the punk-pop sounds of the title track, which addressed terrorism in Europe (and was dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof), to the punk- reggae rhythms of "Why D'Ya Do It?", a song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by Heathcote Williams. This song had a complex musical structure. On the superficial hard rock it had a tango in 4/4 time, with an opening electric guitar riff by Barry Reynolds in which beats 1 and 4 of each measure were accented on the up-beat, and beat 3 was accented on the down beat. Faithfull, in her autobiography, commented that her fluid yet rhythmic reading of Williams' lyric was "an early form of rap". Broken English was the album that revealed the full extent of Faithfull's alcohol and drug use and their effects on her singing voice, with the melodic vocals on her early records replaced by raucous, deep vocals which helped to express the raw emotions expressed in the album's songs. A disastrous February 1980 appearance on Saturday Night Live was blamed on too many rehearsals, but it was suspected that drugs had caused her voice to seize up.
  
  " The Ballad of Lucy Jordan " was released as a single from the album in October 1979 and became one of her highest-charting songs. It featured on the soundtracks of the films Montenegro, Tarnation and Thelma & Louise. Faithfull also performed the song during a guest appearance in an episode in the fourth season of Absolutely Fabulous. In 2016, the song was used in the finale of American Horror Story: Hotel. Faithfull discussed her interpretation of the song in a 2007 interview on ITV's The South Bank Show.
  
  Faithfull ended her relationship with Jagger in May 1970 after starting an affair with Anglo-Irish nobleman "Paddy" Rossmore. She lost custody of her son in that same year, which led to her attempting suicide. Faithfull's personal life went into decline and her career went into a tailspin. She made only a few public appearances, including an October 1973 performance with David Bowie singing Sonny & Cher 's " I Got You Babe ".
  
  Faithfull lived on London's Soho streets for two years, suffering from heroin addiction and anorexia nervosa. Friends intervened and enrolled her in an NHS heroin-assisted treatment programme. She failed to control or stabilise her addiction. In 1971, producer Mike Leander found her on the streets and made an attempt to revive her career, producing part of her album Rich Kid Blues. The album was shelved until 1985.
  
  In 1975, she released the country -influenced record Dreamin' My Dreams. The album was re-released in 1978 as Faithless with some new tracks added and reached No.1 on the Irish Albums Chart. Faithfull squatted in a Chelsea flat without hot water or electricity with her then-boyfriend Ben Brierly of the band the Vibrators. She later shared flats in Chelsea and Regent's Park with Henrietta Moraes.
  
  In 1979, the same year that she was arrested for marijuana possession in Norway, Faithfull's career returned full force with the album Broken English, her most critically hailed album. Partially influenced by the punk explosion and her marriage to Brierly in the same year, it ranged from the punk-pop sounds of the title track, which addressed terrorism in Europe (and was dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof), to the punk- reggae rhythms of "Why D'Ya Do It?", a song with aggressive lyrics adapted from a poem by Heathcote Williams. This song had a complex musical structure. On the superficial hard rock it had a tango in 4/4 time, with an opening electric guitar riff by Barry Reynolds in which beats 1 and 4 of each measure were accented on the up-beat, and beat 3 was accented on the down beat. Faithfull, in her autobiography, commented that her fluid yet rhythmic reading of Williams' lyric was "an early form of rap". Broken English was the album that revealed the full extent of Faithfull's alcohol and drug use and their effects on her singing voice, with the melodic vocals on her early records replaced by raucous, deep vocals which helped to express the raw emotions expressed in the album's songs. A disastrous February 1980 appearance on Saturday Night Live was blamed on too many rehearsals, but it was suspected that drugs had caused her voice to seize up.
  
  " The Ballad of Lucy Jordan " was released as a single from the album in October 1979 and became one of her highest-charting songs. It featured on the soundtracks of the films Montenegro, Tarnation and Thelma & Louise. Faithfull also performed the song during a guest appearance in an episode in the fourth season of Absolutely Fabulous. In 2016, the song was used in the finale of American Horror Story: Hotel. Faithfull discussed her interpretation of the song in a 2007 interview on ITV's The South Bank Show.