New York (USA), Jan 30 (LaPresse) – Mourning in the music world. Singer Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, swinging London icon and muse who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones' greatest songs, has died in London at the age of 78. This was announced by her music promotion company Republic Media. The blonde Faithfull was a celebrity before she turned 17, and an inspiration to peers and younger artists in her early 30s with her raw and explicit album ‘Broken English’. In the following decades, his admirers included Beck, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, although his story would always be closely linked to the Stones and the years he dated Mick Jagger. One of the first songs written by Jagger and Keith Richards, the melancholic ‘As Tears Go By’, was his first big hit when it came out in 1964 and the beginning of his close and troubled relationship with the band.
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