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Apr 30, 2021 · Marianne Faithfull has lived several lifetimes in her 74 years. She was only 17 when the pop song “As Tears Go By” turned her into a star overnight in 1964, and she was in her early twenties...
Sep 10, 2018 · Marianne Faithfull’s 1969 version of the song was hard to get a hold of for many years. Mick Jagger knew the song was too good to waste, and wondered if perhaps the clout of a huge band like The Rolling Stones would see it through – if not as a single, then perhaps as an album track, where it was less in people’s face than as a featured single.
Aug 20, 2014 · 29 June 1967: Marianne Faithfull, after leaving the court where her then boyfriend, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards, were sentenced for drug possession. Photograph: Express/Getty Images...
Feb 1, 2016 · Faithfull is a quintessential survivor of the ups and downs of British fame, from being Mick Jagger’s girlfriend and muse to going through drug abuse and homelessness – right up to being...
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on July 28, 1969. Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger spent a happy afternoon in the sun in the grounds of Mount St Margaret Hospital, Ryde, yesterday ...
Apr 22, 2021 · First there was the summer of 1969, when she overdosed on Tuinal sleeping pills in the Sydney hotel room she was sharing with her then-boyfriend, Mick Jagger; as she slipped under, she had a...
Dec 29, 2021 · A gorgeous, well-bred, Catholic-schooled teenage chanteuse, she was discovered at a party by Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and the band’s manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. In late-1964 she had a hit with “As Tears Go By” which was followed by an introduction to drugs in swinging London and a volatile romance with Jagger.
