MARIANNE FAITHFULL, ‘AS TEARS GO BY’ SINGER, DIES AT 78. MUSÉE MASSEY A TARBES, LA CAMPAGNE D´ÉGYPTE (1798-1801)

 By Chris Morris

Vocalist Marianne Faithfull, whose 1960s sojourn as a swinging London pop star was succeeded by a striking punk-era artistic rebirth, died Thursday in London. She was 78.

The BBC posted a statement from her family reading, “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family.”

Blond, blue-eyed and beautiful, Faithfull had logged a low-key career as a London coffeehouse folk performer before she was discovered at 17 by the Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham after she attended a party for the hitmaking band.

Signed to Decca in the U.K., she was launched in 1964 by the single “As Tears Go By,” co-authored by Oldham and the Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. While her rendition, which peaked at No. 22 in the U.S., was eclipsed by the Stones’ No. 6 cover of the following year, her tremulous voice propelled four 45s into the American top 40.

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/marianne-faithfull-dead-singer-mick-jagger-1236291479/

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