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Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, the girl on the motorcycle, has died at the age of 78, according to the BBC.
The Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham gave Faithfull the song “As Tears Go By” (first song ever written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) at the age of 16. She recorded and released it in 1964, and the song became a massive hit. People knew her for being the girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and inspiring songs like “Wild Horses” and “You Can't Always Get What You Want.”
Her debut album North Country Maid was grouped together with the “British Invasion” in the mid-60s.
Morrissey is a huge fan, his first record he ever purchased was Marianne Faithfull’s 1964 single “Come and Stay With Me”: “The first single I ever bought, Marianne Faithfull's 'Come And Stay With Me' [...] it was 1965 and I still love it... it's a great record. I memorised the words and I would sing them very loudly. I thought she was incredible, I'm sure she still is, but then she was great. I was only six, I really didn't know what the words meant, I didn't know what she was singing about, certain lines I couldn't fathom at all. It was just something that was grabbing me in. It was the sound of her voice, the feel, the emotivemess and the freedom, and from that moment I just fell in love with pop music. I never stopped playing pop records.” (morrissey-solo.com).
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