TASHY HEARS

AS TEARS GO BY

In, I think, about October 1964 I heard a song I really liked and the fact that it was sung by, in my sixties view, a quite stunning young female possibly endeared it to me even more. However as, at that time, I was not a great lover of The Rolling Stone music, I couldn't really believe that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had written it, but they had.

I vowed to learn the song and no doubt once again mother was subjected to long hours of practice coming out of my bedroom. In those days the song meant something very different to what it does now and why I have included it in my selection. Back then I thought it was about a loner who, because of her rich parents couldn't or wasn't able to mix with others. She just sat and watched others of her age play and was missing out. Not through richness but through the shyness I could so identify with this.

A few years back I listened to the song again and it took on a whole new meaning. The most important lines now were “doing things I used to do, they think are new” and now I saw it as an older person reminiscing about what they used to do while watching young people enjoy themselves. Now, I loved it even more but was perhaps even more astounded that Meessrs Jagger and Richards, aged about 21, could convey such meaning and feeling.

Here is Ms Faithfull, the epitome of sixties looks, with her version. This must have been one of her first performances and her miming needs work.