“I’ve done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go,” Faithfull said in 2013, looking back on her monumental, roller-coaster ride of a life. Far more than mere muse or cautionary tale, she was both larger than life and always uniquely herself.

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,

Marianne Faithfull's first hit, "As Tears Go By," was recorded when she was just 17 years old after she met with the manager of the Rolling Stones at a party.