Some of the best classic rock songs are downright painful to hear at times. For example, Marianne Faithfull’s “As Tears Go By” is especially difficult to listen to now. Faithfull had ...

Between 1964-65, she placed five songs on the Billboard Hot 100, with “As Tears Go By” climbing the highest on the tally (No. 22). In the late ’60s, her commercial output came to a virtual stop.

Marianne Faithfull, the British singer best known for hits like “As Tears Go By” and “Broken English,” has passed away at the ...

There was another problem: the tide. It was the title of a very famous song, the one Dooley Wilson sings in Casablanca, so Andrew changed it to ‘As Tears Go By.'” Faithfull continued ...

But after meeting producer Andrew Loog Oldham at a party, Faithfull became a breakout star in 1964 with her first single, the ballad “As Tears Go By,” the first song Mick Jagger and Keith ...

It’s hard to hear that kind of depth on Faithfull’s first recording, “As Tears Go By,” which came out more than a year before the Stones version. Even by 1964 standards, the song sounds ...

She should be remembered as being Marianne Faithfull. She was a totally singular, unique character who stood her own ground, ...

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote Marianne Faithfull’s beautiful ballad As Tears Go By to make money ... away in 1964 to create their own song, saying, in inadvertent anticipation of Philip ...

Some of the best classic rock songs are downright painful to hear at times. For example, Marianne Faithfull’s “As Tears Go By” is especially difficult to listen to now. Faithfull had ...

Her first hit, “As Tears Go By,” recorded when she was 17 in 1964, was written by Jagger, Keith Richards and Oldham and peaked at No. 22 in the U.S. She followed with such songs as “This ...

Oldham gave her a brilliant piece of debut material with a song Jagger and Richards originally called “As Time Goes By.” The single “As Tears Go By” rocketed to No. 9 in the U.K., and for ...