Marianne Faithfull's "As Tears Go By" is especially difficult to listen to now. Faithfull she seemed a little lukewarm about the famous rockers who wrote it.

Marianne Faithfull, the songstress who helped spur music's British invasion and was a muse to the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 78.

She helped inspire such Stones classics as “Let’s Spend the Night Together” and on her own released such acclaimed albums as ...