Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78, her spokesperson has said.

Born in Hampstead in December 1946, she was known for hits like As Tears Go By, which reached the UK top 10 in 1964, and for starring roles in films including 1968's The Girl On A Motorcycle.



She was also famously the girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger in the 1960s, inspiring songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. After a period of heroin addiction in the 70s, she resurrected her career with the classic album Broken English.

"It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull," a statement said.

"Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family.

"She will be dearly missed."



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8k931j423o

I just found a half frozen tiny bird as I walked home, so I put it in my pocket to give it a chance of survival.

When I showed the wife, she told me how much she loved me for being so kind and sensitive, so I thought I'd try for a kiss & a cuddle as she was in a good mood !!

She said "Please, not in front of the chilled wren". 

I'd have thought The Band was your era.

Garth Hudson, the Band's genius multi-instrumentalist and careful archivist, has died. He was 87. The Toronto Star confirmed that he passed away in his sleep this morning at a nursing home in Woodstock, New York. Longtime friend Jan Haust told Rolling Stone that "yesterday was a day of music and hand-holding."

He was the group's last living member – and its most unique. Longtime collaborator Levon Helm once said "you could take anybody out of the Band — Robbie [Robertson], Rick [Danko] or him — and it would still be the Band," their producer John Simon later told the Times-Herald Record. "But it wouldn't be the Band without Garth."

Hudson was born in Windsor, Ontario and raised by a musical family two hours away in London. He initially studied classical music, then fell in love with rock 'n' roll. "I played trumpet and saxophone through high school," Hudson told the Woodstock Times. "Then somewhere about 1952, 1953, I began to pick up Alan Freed's Moondog Matinee from Akron/Cleveland from 5:05 to 5:55. ... It was one of the first successful rock 'n' roll shows. So, I knew someone over there was having more fun than I was."

The 'Royal Albert Hall' Concert, released in 1998, documented Hudson and the Band's then-controversial 1966 tour with Dylan as he went electric. Next, everyone gathered in a pink house near Woodstock in West Saugerties, New York, to explore their next musical adventures. Hudson served as curator for those genre-sparking recordings beginning in the summer of 1967. Bootlegs of the sessions pointed to a newfound focus on roots music that played out on their next official studio recordings, but the The Basement Tapes wouldn't be released until 1975.

By then, Hudson had left an indelible musical stamp on the Band. Trained in piano and music theory, Hudson had a canny intuition for accompaniment. He'd take a conventional turn at the piano on favorites like "The Weight" and "Rag Mama Rag," but also played sax on "Unfaithful Servant," clavinet on "Up On Cripple Creek" and accordion on Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece."

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-band-garth-hudson-dies/