The Complete Dusty Springfield - Softcover

Howes, Paul

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9781903111246: The Complete Dusty Springfield

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ISBN 10: 1903111242 ISBN 13: 9781903111246

Publisher: Reynolds & Hearn, 2002

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When shy convent girl Mary O'Brien reinvented herself as Dusty Springfield, one of the most glamorous, accomplished, and acclaimed pop divas of the 1960s was born. This definitive encyclopedia contains details of every track Dusty Springfield ever recorded and includes more than 70 pictures of Dusty live and in the studio. The entire arc of Dusty's career is addressed in detail?beginning with her involvement in the group The Lana Sisters and continuing with folk group The Springfields before her first solo success in 1963.

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When shy convent girl Mary O’Brien reinvented herself as Dusty Springfield, one of the most glamorous and successful pop divas of the 1960’s was born. Her career began with The Lana Sisters and continued with folk group The Springfields before her first solo success in 1963 with the unforgettable “I Only Want to Be with You.” Subsequent million–sellers included “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself,” “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” and “Son of a Preacher Man.” As the 1960s came to a close, critical acclaim and a successful BBC television series couldn’t save Dusty’s career, and she slipped into obscurity. Following a self–imposed exile marred by alcohol and drug abuse, she re–emerged in 1987 to enjoy new success singing with the Pet Shop Boys. She finally lost her long battle with cancer in 1999, just short of her sixtieth birthday.

About the Author:

Since the early 1990s, Paul Howes has been consultant on many Dusty Springfield releases in Britain and America, providing compilations, sleeve notes and annotations; in 2000 he was associate producer of the acclaimed Dusty Springfield box set Simply Dusty. He publishes the Dusty Springfield Bulletin. He is a director of Zone Records and is working on several other Dusty Springfield projects.

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