Friday on my Mind 240: Come and Stay with Me and Live It Up 125: Broken English
Posted in 1960s, 1980s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Live It Up, Music at 12:00 on 31 January 2025
I saw Marianne Faithfull’s death announced last night.
She first came to prominence in 1964 due to her association with The Rolling Stones (Jagger and Richards wrote her first hit.) She had a sweet but almost insubstantial voice suited to soft pop songs but by the mid 60s her singing career had stalled, in part due to a drugs scandal. She took up acting with some success though but mostly fell out of public consciousness.
Here’s Faithfull’s version of a Jackie DeShannon song that gave her her highest UK chart placing (no 4 in 1965 as compared to the no 9 achieved by As Tears Go By the year before.)
Marianne Faithfull: Come and Stay with Me
The song below is from her 1980 “comeback”* album of the same title, which is widely regarded as her best, not least by herself.
*Even if Dreamin’ my Dreams had intervened in 1976
Marianne Faithfull: Broken English
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull: 29/12/1946 – 30/1/2025. So it goes.
Tags: As Tears Go By, Broken English, Come and Stay with Me, Dreamin’ my Dreams, Friday On My Mind, Jackie de Shannon, Jagger and Richards, Live It Up, Marianne Faithfull, The Rolling Stones