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As Tears Go By
- HEATHER BARNES
- Feb 16
- 1 min read
"As Tears Go By" is a song written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Marianne Faithfull recorded and released it as a single in the United Kingdom in 1964. Her song peaked at number nine on both the UK and Irish singles charts. Later, the Rolling Stones recorded their own version.]
"As Tears Go By" was initially named "As Time Goes By", the title of the song Dooley Wilson sings in the film Casablanca. It was Oldham who replaced "Time" with "Tears". Richards said:
The melody features a distinctive english horn line.[8] It reached number nine in the UK Singles Chart and launched Faithfull's career as a major singer. She says "'As Tears Go By' was not, contrary to popular folklore, written for me, but it fitted me so perfectly it might as well have been".
She admits that she "was never that crazy about 'As Tears Go By'." "God knows how Mick and Keith wrote it or where it came from ... In any case, it is an absolutely astonishing thing for a boy of 20 to have written a song about a woman looking back nostalgically on her life."
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