While some have called for the show to be postponed, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told Yahoo Entertainment that continuing was “important on a lot of levels.”
The 1964 hit “As Tears Go By,” penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated a remarkable ability to change with the times.
The pop icon and celebrated torch singer Marianne Faithfull has died. The blonde, voluptuous Faithfull was an international celebrity before age 20 when she covered one of the first songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the melancholy “As Tears Go By.”