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12-12-2007, 06:36 PM
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Dusty Springfield
[SIZE=6]Dusty Springfield[/SIZE]
 AKA Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien Born: 16-Apr-1939 Birthplace: North end, London, England Died: 2-Mar-1999 Location of death: Henley-on-Thames, England Cause of death: Cancer - Breast Gender: Female Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Bisexual Occupation: Singer Nationality: England Executive summary: Son of a Preacher Man "I mean, people say that I'm gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. I'm not anything. I'm just ... People are people.... I basically want to be straight.... I go from men to women; I don't give a shit. The catchphrase is: I can't love a man. Now, that's my hang-up. To love, to go to bed, fantastic; but to love a man is my prime ambition.... They frighten me."Father: Gerard O'Brien Mother: Kay Brother: Dion Girlfriend: Carole Pope Girlfriend: Tedda Girlfriend: Faye Harris High School: (1960) Officer of the British Empire 1998 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (posthumous) 15-Mar-1999 Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Depression, Smoking, Breast Cancer Dusty Springfield has been acknowledged around the world as the best female soul singer that Britain ever produced. With her oddly erotic, throaty voice, she racked up a string of hits from the 1960's onwards. Born in London to Irish parents, Dusty grew up in and around London. Her early work included an all girl trio, The Lana Sisters, and, then, with her brother Tom Springfield (Dion O'Brien), The Springfields. Inspired by Phil Spector's "wall of sound", Dusty recorded her first pop song "I Only Want to be with You" in 1963. It reached No. 4 in the charts and was the first song played on the new BBC TV pop show "Top of the Pops" (1964). The sixties brought a steady succession of top ten hits and a lifestyle to match. However, Dusty used to campaign to get the little known American soul singers a better audience in the UK which led to her own show _"Sound of Motown, The" (1965)_. In 1970, she moved to America and, although she attempted a few come-back tours, they never really worked. However, time in the studio did produce the seminal album, "Dusty in Memphis". A downward spiral of drugs & drink followed for most of the latter seventies but then she overcame these problems and, helped by lifelong fans The Pet Shop Boys, came back with songs such as "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" and the album "Reputation". Cancer was diagnosed in 1994 and, although it was kept at bay for quite a while, it finally got her. Mini Biography Dusty was an enormous cat lover. She left behind her twelve year old pet cat, Nicholas. She had suffered from drug and alcoholism during the seventies. She was the first person to bring the sound of Motown to England in her variety music show. She performed "Mockingbird" with Jimi Hendrix. She appeared as herself in the An Audience with Dame Edna Everage (1980) (TV) in the eighties. The Pet Shop Boys were lifelong fans and wanted Dusty for their song, "What Have I done to Deserve this?" in the eighties. Her album, "Dusty in Memphis", is considered by the music industry to be a very important album. Trade Mark Blonde beehive hair and heavily mascara'd "panda" eyes. Trivia She admitted to her bisexuality in a 1972 interview. She is of Irish descent and she attended Catholic schools. She is known as the "White Queen of Soul". She refused to perform concerts in South Africa because of apartheid. Part of her ashes were buried at Henley, the rest were scattered by her brother, Tom Springfield at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland. Ranked #24 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll. She was the very first artist to record The Carpenters' 1970 hit "(They Long To Be) Close To You", recording the track back in 1964 and intending it to be a follow-up to her #3 UK hit "I Just Don't Know What To Do with Myself". However, it was held back from release, but eventually issued on her 1967 album "Where Am I Going?", with the beginning intro edited out of the final cut. One year later, Dionne Warwick tried her hand at covering the song, but her version proved unsuccessful. The original mix of Dusty's version has only recently been released, on the UK 2-CD compilation "Classics & Collectibles". In late 1967 she was having tremendous trouble charting hits in the USA, so when Nancy Sinatra passed up a chance to record one of Lee Hazlewood's compositions, Dusty "inherited" the song, and took the chance with open arms. However, despite the song not charting, it is still regarded as a now-hidden-treasure amongst Dusty criteria. The song was a theme to one of the most popular 1960s cult hit films, and was recorded in mid-to-late December 1967, then rerecorded on June 1, 1968, for single release. The song was "Sweet Ride". Two takes were recorded of her #3 1964 UK hit, "I Just Don't Know What To Do with Myself": one being vocal (dynamic, well orchestrated and long) while the other proved to be of lesser stereo quality and was not received well critically, despite its high charting success. Legend has it that she was dissatisfied with the original powerful take of her now-infamous hit, and prompted producers to release the more bland version, due to her constant critiquing of her voice convincing herself the other was far too horrible to be issued. However, back in the late '90s, the original and longer take of the song was released on the CD compilation ''The Burt Bacharach Songbook." It has since appeared once more on the recently-released 2-CD UK compilation "Classics & Collectibles."  
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12-12-2007, 06:49 PM
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Boy, what to say about this woman!!!!!!!!! She was fantastic, talented, beautiful, funny, witty, taken from us far too soon. I wish I could remember the remark she made in London about queens, and other royalty in the audience. Anyway, Princess Margaret was in Royal Box and when joke was explained to the Princess, she left the theater, angry. Dusty was another person that gays, mostly gay men, just loved and followed her where ever she performed.
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12-12-2007, 07:33 PM
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She had one of the most amazing voices you could ever hear. I love all of her songs and esp the Dusty in Memphis record. Brilliant.
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12-12-2007, 08:23 PM
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I was really sad back when I heard she'd passed.
What a loss. What a voice.
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12-12-2007, 08:39 PM
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She was a really great singer. Her biography is really good. Apparently she had a few affairs with some famous women! Good on her!
 I liked that her funeral was done with a horse drawn carriage (her casket being carried in it) and how they played her hit song "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" being played in the background.
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12-13-2007, 10:15 AM
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She was so good. So many good songs.
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12-13-2007, 10:43 AM
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One of my favorites. God Bless her.
"Billy Ray was a preacher' son an when his daddy would visit hed come along..." 
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12-13-2007, 10:48 AM
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12-13-2007, 11:21 AM
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There is this guy at the bar I go to that plays on the jukebox "Son of a preacher man" He made me hate that song. Every freaking night I have to hear it 2 or 3 times. And Mazzy Star's version of "Sweet Jane", The Cranberries version of "Wild Horses" I know his whole frigging playlist. Sorry folks, rant over.
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12-23-2007, 03:13 PM
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One of the great voices from my childhood, I remember her fondly, especially for "The Windmills of Your Mind." Loved that song, LOVED the lyrics:
Round Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain Or a carnival balloon Like a carousel thats turning Running rings around the moon Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind Like a tunnel that you follow To a tunnel of its own Down a hollow to a cavern Where the sun has never shone Like a door that keeps revolving In a half-forgotten dream Or the ripples from a pebble Someone tosses in a stream Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind Keys that jingle in your pocket Words that jangle in your head Why did summer go so quickly? Was it something that you said? Lovers walk along a shore And leave their footprints in the sand Is the sound of distant drumming Just the fingers of your hand? Pictures hanging in a hallway And the fragment of a song Half-remembered names and faces But to whom do they belong? When you knew that it was over You were suddenly aware That the autumn leaves were turning To the colour of her hair Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
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12-23-2007, 04:44 PM
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Dusty was a classic....one of the few that passed and I was truly saddened....
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02-16-2009, 01:08 PM
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I Close My Eyes and Count To Ten....oh my goodness I love that song so much!!! Dusty is my all time favouritest of favourites and EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!! I remember when she died..I was so gutted. She had the kind of voice that those great big ear phones were made for....just plop a pair of those over your ears, lay back, close your eyes and have Dusty singing straight into your ears....bliss on a stick!!!
....oo and that quote from the performance that made Princess Margaret leave once it was explained?? [SIZE=4]"I'm glad to see that the royalty here tonight is not only confined to the Royal Box." [/SIZE]
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Last edited by Perdi; 02-16-2009 at 01:14 PM.
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