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I'm David B.
Cooley.
Today we're remembering Marianne Faithfull, the recording artist and actress who died last week at age 78.
We'll listen back to two interviews Terry Gross conducted with her, one from 1994, the other from 2005.
In 1994, Marianne Faithfull had just published her autobiography.
When she was 17, a chance meeting in London with Andrew Luke Oldham,
who managed a young blues group called the Rolling Stones,
led her to record before they did, one of the first compositions by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
It was as Tears Go by and was a hit for Marianne faithful in 1964.
It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play.
Smiling faces I can see but not for me I sit and watch as goodbye.
She had a string of popular recordings in the UK
and established quickly a reputation she would develop and build upon all her life,
interpreting the songs of others in her distinctly emotional way.
She appeared on TV lip syncing her hit records,
but seldom looked at the camera, caught instead in some sort of pensive mood.
And she acted on stage and film as well.
In 1967, she appeared on stage opposite Glenda Jackson in Chekhov's Three Sisters.
In 1969, she appeared in a film version of Hamlet playing Ophelia.