The "which famous person died today" thread

AliBobbyJ said:
Yes, "I sit and watch as tears go by" indeed.
Marianne Faithful, Francoise Hardy, Judith Durham (The Seekers), all gone in recent times, such wonderful voices. And oh Lord I had such a teenage crush on all of them.
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You know what? A lot of these 60's/70's icons would be classed as woke by the very people who admired them.
 
city2 said:
I remember trying to get into the picture house when girl on a motorcycle was first showing in the 60,s by climbing up the drain pipe as I was only 13/14 . Some nosey neighbour had seen us and called the police. It was the forum in northenden.
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My local in the fifties
 
Good listen this

Released On: 28 May 1995

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Marianne Faithfull. Singer and actress, she was the original 1960s wild child.At the age of 17, when she was still a convent schoolgirl in Reading, she shot to fame with the hit single As Tears Go By; written for her by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. She was Mick Jagger's mistress, she hung out with Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, she was young, beautiful and rich and she seemed to have it all. But the glamorous life of the pop star turned into a nightmare of drugs, homelessness, suicide attempts and broken marriages.The daughter of an Austrian baroness, her life has been full of myths and legends. She'll be telling Sue Lawley about the years of recovery, how she's found happiness in Ireland and her hopes for a Man Friday on her desert island.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0093pjj?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
 
denislawsbackheel said:
I have always been amazed at the pathos and wisdom in the words of As Tears Go By considering Jagger and Richard’s were only 20 when they wrote it.

Marianne Faithfull re-recorded it in her later years and it takes on a whole new significance in her world weary voice.
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Wisdom? Maybe. But as much as I like the song I reckon it took Mick and Keith all of twenty minutes to come up with those few lines, in between half a dozen drags on whatever they had to hand that day.

Agree with the second statement, though, and it resonates more as one gets further on into the evening of one's life, don't it?
 
denislawsbackheel said:
Yet you completely miss the fact that two 20 year old lads saw it.

Did you at that age?
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I will look at Keith Richards's memoir (Life) to see what he says about it, whether he & Mick saw it as a just a pretty song with sentimental lyrics or meant it as a more profound meditation.

Recalling me at 20, I liked the song, lusted over the singer (MF!), and yeah I think something in it spoke a little to my early fumbling experiences of life's travails. But only a little - didn't my (our) generation think we were immortal? Looking all that way back I remember it got played at parties to change the mood from dancing like Jagger to slower smooch stuff, if you were lucky.

And from the post above a big yes to The Ballad of Lucy Jordan.
 
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