Marianne Faithfull

THE ROLLING STONES Released Hit Single ‘AS TEARS GO BY’ Today 60 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

18 December 2025

THE ROLLING STONES released their hit single AS TEARS GO BY
in the US, today 60 years ago, on 18 December 1965. A year later
it came out in the UK.

The ballad was written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and their manager
Andrew Oldham. It was one of their first self-written songs. It was given
to MARIANNE FAITHFULL in 1964, and went to #7 in the UK.

Faithfull: “I was never that crazy about ‘As Tears Go By’. God knows
how Mick and Keith wrote it or where it came from. In any case, it is
an absolutely astonishing thing for a boy of 20 to have written a song
about a woman looking back nostalgically on her life.”

A year later, The Stones put their version on their longplayer
December’s Children (And Everybody’s) that came out early
December. It was their North American record label that decided
to release it as a single on 18 December 1965.

THE ROLLING STONES

MARIANNE FAITHFULL

MARIANNE FAITHFULL – Hear Gripping Torch Song ‘BURNING MOONLIGHT’ From Upcoming Posthumous EP

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16 March 2025

MARIANNE FAITHFULL‘s former (legendary) label Decca announces a posthumous
four-track EP, titled BURNING MOONLIGHT. Coming out initially as a limited-edition
vinyl as part of Record Store Day on April 12, the EP will be available worldwide as
a digital EP on June 6.

The songs were inspired by her first two albums, 1965’s Marianne Faithfull and
Come My Way, which were released simultaneously. “It was so unusual to start your
career this way, so we decided to bring the music full circle,” executive producer Andrew
Batt says. “One side of the EP would be inspired by her debut pop LP Marianne Faithfull
while the flip would honor her folk roots on Come My Way.”

Faithfull passed away on January 30, aged 78.

Nicholas Dunbar (her son) said in a statement: “As we grieve the loss of Marianne, we are pleased to announce the release of these songs which she worked on during the year before her death. Marianne lived to create and perform music — it was her driving force and she never stopped. Right up until the end she was looking forward to this release which now completes and celebrates her remarkable artistic career.

Faithfull about the EP at the time of recording: “It’s a good time to look back. It helps
me to remember all the things I’ve done. I can’t say I’m a particularly nostalgic person, but
I am enjoying this period of reflection.”

The title track is a goosebumps ballad. An emotive torch song.
Faithfull‘s lived through voice sounds aged and tired. Quite stirring.


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R.I.P. MARIANNE FAITHFULL

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31 January 2025

MARIANNE FAITHFULL has passed away yesterday at the age of 78 after a long illness. The wonderful, glamorous persona and singular voice fought breast cancer and Covid-19 the past few years. Her career started as rolling stone girl who was Mick Jagger‘s fiancée for several years.

She recorded/released countless albums. She was a compelling live artist (as I
witnessed a couple of times) and she played in several movies. An icon forever.

You can read Steorogum‘s extensive obituary here .

R.I.P.

MARIANNE FAITHFULL Tribute Album With Big Name Performers Out Now

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8 December 2023

A tribute album for the legendary, singular and utterly charismatic MARIANNE
FAITHFULL who came in the picture for the first time in the swinging 60s as Mick
Jagger‘s angelic girlfriend and soon started her musical career, about 50 years ago,
with ups and downs, is out today.

Three fantastic ups that immediately come to mind are albums Broken English (1979), Strange Weather(1987) and Vagabonds Ways (1999) featuring a magnific cover of Leonard Cohen‘s classic Tower Of Song. The hoarser her nicotine-infected voice became over the years the more arresting she sounded.

Her latest work is an album titled She Walks In Beauty where she recited
Romantic poetry over music by Nick Cave‘s soulmate Warren Ellis. It came
out in 2021.

The ode to the now 76-year-old diva, still not fully recovered from lung Covid,
features 19 songs interpreted by illustrious artists such as Cat Power, Iggy
Pop (he’s everywhere these days), Tracy Bonham, the reunited Bush Tetras, punk
icon Lydia Lunch, Garbage‘s Shirley Manson, Peaches, Tanya Donelly and more.

19 BEAUTIES


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Marianne Faithfull: Bio – Discography Instagram

New Album Of Old MARIANNE FAITHFULL Songs Lands In September

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24 July 2022

Record label UMC announced in a press statement
details of a new MARIANNE FAITHFULL.

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE 1965-1995 is the definitive overview
of the first 30 years of Marianne Faithfull’s recording career on the Decca and
Island labels. The 2 LP/2 CD formats land on 16th September.

This collection features all of Marianne’s notable singles, which are often represented in collectible 12” and 7” versions. Particularly rare is the original issue of her final Decca 7” ‘Something Better’ / ‘Sister Morphine’; subsequent releases used different masters, but
these original recordings have been unavailable since 1969.

Further unreleased tracks are live versions of ‘Brain Drain’ and ‘The Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ recorded during Marianne’s now legendary performance at St Anne’s in Brooklyn, highlights of which were released on the 1990 album Blazing Away. This collection also includes 2 previously unheard songs; a traditional blues ballad ‘I’m In Love Again’ cut during the Strange Weather sessions in 1987 and ‘The Calm Before the Storm’ written by Lou Reed and Rubén Blades which Marianne recorded for an abandoned studio album in 1989.

Marianne’s cover of Donovan’s song Sunny Goodge Street

The title Songs of Innocence and Experience acknowledges Marianne’s poetic influences with its reference to the work by William Blake, whilst also reflecting the change in style from the orchestral folk-pop and high pure voice of Marianne’s ‘60s career to her new wave punk influenced comeback at the end of the 70s with Broken English which featured her now trademark fractured vocals.

The front cover features a hand-drawn pencil image by Lithuanian artist Aistė Stancikaitė, commissioned exclusively for the project and the packaging also contains many rare and unseen images taken from the original album and single photo shoots.
The collection has been remastered from the original tapes by the Grammy-nominated compiler Andrew Batt, who also contributes sleeve notes.

MARIANNE FAITHFULL: Facebook – Instagram

Perfect Poetry Voice – MARIANNE FAITHFULL Shares Single ‘SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY’

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New sonic impulses…

1 March 2021

Living legend MARIANNE FAITHFULL has a new album ready called
She Walks In Beauty, recorded at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Faithfull herself was hospitalized with corona but, fortunately, recovered.

The upcoming longplayer is one of poetry set to music. Faithfull dived
into the works of famous poets/writers like Lord Byron, Tennyson, John
Keats, William Wordsworth and worked with Nick Cave‘s longtime bad
seed brother Warren Ellis (they both just released new LP Carnage) as
her assistant. Cave himself, Brian Eno and cellist Vincent Ségal also appear
on the record.

Here’s the first single, the title track She Walks in Beauty.
Faithfull‘s nicotine voice is just perfect and bewitching.

Listen here…

MARIANNE FAITHFULL: Facebook

Pre-order info here.