Mick Jagger’s Ex-Girlfriend Marianne Faithfull Dead at 78

The legendary singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull, who sang alongside and frolicked with many well-known rockers within the Sixties British Invasion and past, has died.

Faithfull sang “As Tears Go By,” successful single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards the Rolling Stones later recorded themselves — and was Jagger’s girlfriend, which broke up her marriage on the time.

She sang backup on Beatles tracks, and labored with music business luminaries together with Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, PJ Harvey, Dolly Parton, Beck, and extra. She was even featured on a Metallica tune in 1997.

BBC News was first to report her passing.

Faithfull was 78. Her reason for dying was not launched.