A blonde-haired, blue-eyed convent girl with aristocratic forebears and a heart awash with romantic decadence, Marianne Faithfull was just 17 when she went to London and took her place among the ...

Marianne Faithfull was just 17 when she released her debut single, this wistful-beyond-its-years British Top 10 hit written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, along with Oldham. As you’ll hear later ...

Marianne Faithfull's first hit, "As Tears Go By," was recorded when she was just 17 years old after she met with the manager of the Rolling Stones at a party.

Marianne Faithfull was best known for her 60s hit As Tears Go By, and for her starring roles in the films The Girl On A ...

What makes a Marianne Faithfull song great is something an artist ... even as an angelic 17-year-old girl singing “As Tears Go By.” That 1964 song, her first hit (written by Mick Jagger ...

Discovered at a Rolling Stones party at the age of 17, Marianne Faithfull broke out in the early '60s with the Jagger/Richards song "As Tears Go By." Faithfull's liaison with Mick Jagger kept her in ...

Vocalist Marianne Faithfull, whose 1960s sojourn as a swinging ... coffeehouse folk performer before she was discovered at 17 by the Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham after she attended ...

"Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed." The blonde, voluptuous Faithfull was a celebrity before turning 17, homeless by ...

Marianne Faithfull, the singer ... from Austro-Hungarian aristocrats and first earned fame in 1964, at age 17, with “As Tears Go By,” written by a young Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.