My mastering engineer chum who works at BBC Archive pulled an all-nighter to recover the tapes to bring us this on Friday night, instead of a repeat of an ABBA compilation.

“1960s It Girl-turned-arthouse singer Marianne Faithfull exudes charm in a performance in front of an intimate audience of friends and fans at LSO St Luke’s in East London.

A great band accompany her for an eclectic mix of songs from her critically-acclaimed covers album Easy Come Easy Go, including The Decemberists’ The Crane Wife 3, Morrissey’s Dear God, Please Help Me, Dolly Parton’s Down From Dover and Randy Newman’s chilling In Germany Before the War.

There are also dips into the past, with her first ever live performance of the original 1960s arrangement of As Tears Go By, and the early Jagger-Richards song Sister Morphine.”

Overseas AWers, PM me for ‘help’.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jzk8b/bbc-four-sessions-marianne-faithfull