Brit Girls of the Sixties Volume One: Dusty Springfield & Helen Shapiro

by David Bret

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The creator of the unique style known as 'blue-eyed soul', Dusty Springfield was instrumental in introducing Motown to Britain, and for several years reigned supreme on both sides of the Atlantic. Her voice~flute-like, smoky and sensual, frequently in the space of the same song~was similarly unique. Over a decade after her death, she remains a show business legend~yet she also remains an enigma, a completely self-fabricated, difficult yet strangely vulnerable woman who allowed few access to her complex, in turns exhuberant and neurotic world where at times there was little difference between reality and make-believe.

HELEN SHAPIRO: The teenage sensation whose commercial career ended as the other Brit Girls were coming into their own, though she went on to be a fine, successful jazz-singer.

Contains full 1960s UK and European vinyl discographies.
  • ISBN13 9781291798845
  • Publish Date 1 April 2014 (first published 24 March 2014)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 6 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Lulu.com
  • Format eBook (OEB)
  • Language English