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Released to co-inside with her final Decca single ‘Something Better’, this compilation of Marianne’s Decca recordings featured various non-album singles and tracks from all of her Decca albums except Come My Way. ‘Monday, Monday’ was previously unreleased in the UK, and ‘Summer Nights’ is the re-recorded version. For UK fans this was also the first opportunity to hear the majority of these tracks in stereo, with the two mono recordings, ‘As Tears Go By’ and ‘Is This What I Get For Loving You’ electronically reprocessed to give a stereo effect. In the U.S. the album was released as Marianne Faithfull’s Greatest Hits with slightly different cover art, and a CD edition released in 1987 added a further 5 tracks. In 1980 the package was re-issued in the UK with a contemporary photo of Marianne and renamed As Tears Go By, it’s US counterpart used the same artwork but was titled The Best Of…