When duos split up, there’s usually only one breakout star who goes on to any semblance of a successful solo career, with the public casting its vote with its dolla...
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(Everso)Virginia-born Lynne seems unable to settle on a place for her considerable vocal gifts. Since escaping Nashville's production line a decade back, she's tried on t...
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Relatives of singer Amy Winehouse ask for privacy and space to come to terms with loss of 'wonderful daughter, sister, niece'The family of the singer Amy Winehouse, who w...
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In her songs, she gave a compelling account of a woman mentally unravelling in gut-wrenching everywoman styleFew could claim that the tragic early death of Amy Winehouse ...
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Soul-jazz singer who found fame with Back to BlackLeading a rock'n'roll life has proved fatal to many artists, but few of them could be considered as much of a loss to mu...
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Royal Festival Hall, LondonOn a Friday night in the mid-1960s, the most exciting place a teenager could be was in front of the TV watching seminal, swinging and lovably s...
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August 1963: Number 10 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicPop on TV in the mid-60s was the chaotic and brash Ready Steady Go! – the audie...
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Ready Steady Go!, the pioneering 60s pop show, takes to the stage as part of this year's Meltdown festival. Its producer Vicki Wickham recalls the impact – and fun ...
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Singer with the Walker Brothers, one of the most popular bands of the 1960sWhile British groups were conquering the American pop charts in the mid-1960s, the American-bor...
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world entertainment news - Robin Gibb has hailed Dusty Springfield as the greatest female singer in modern history, insisting no artist can match the soul legend.
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Robin Gibb has hailed Dusty Springfield as the greatest female singer in modern history, insisting no artist can match the soul legend. The Bee Gees star unveiled a sp...
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Fab and feather-light, "Shout! The Mod Musical" is a swinging '60s London time capsule with a soundtrack heavy on Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black.
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Heavily influenced by Burt Bacharach and blessed with effortless velvet-smooth vocals, Anglo-Pakistani singer/songwriter Rumer harks back to the early-‘70s easy ...
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Search begins for actor to play pop icon responsible for hits such as Son of a Preacher Man in film about her colourful private lifeProducers of a biopic based on the lif...
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Film bosses have launched an international search for an actress to play late soul singer Dusty Springfield on the big screen. The new biopic, based on a Springfield b...
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