1979: Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan.
This song was recorded by the English singer Marianne Faithfull for her 1979 album Broken English. This version was released as a single, on the Island label, in October 1979, and became one of her highest-charting songs. "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" is featured on the soundtracks to the films Montenegro and Thelma & Louise. Thelma and Louise has a similar fatalistic theme. The single was reissued to promote those films. The song also featured on the sountrack for the 2003 film Tarnation. Other songs of hers included As Tears Go By, This Little Bird, Yesterday, What Have They Done To The Rain, plus a few other covers. Marianne became quite famous because of her relationship with Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones.
