Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield - the world's BEST singer!
Born on April 16th, 1939, Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (a.k.a. Dusty Springfield ) has been acknowledged around the world as the best female soul singer that Britain ever produced. With her superbly erotic, breathy voice, she recorded huge string of hits from the 1960's onwards. Born in Hampstead 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 an amazing succession of top ten hits and a high profile lifestyle to match. In 1969 Dusty recorded “Dusty In Memphis”. Although the single “Son of a Preacher Man” was a hit, the album did not sell well (although it is now regarded as a classic, priceless album). After “Dusty In Memphis”, Dusty had a few more record flops which led to addictions to drink and drugs for most of the latter seventies and early eighties. Proving her resilience and fighting spirit, Dusty collaborated with lifelong fans The Pet Shop Boys, came back with songs such as "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" and the album "Reputation". In one of life’s cruel twists of fate, in 1994 Dusty was diagnosed with breast cancer while recording what was to be her last album; “A Very Fine Love”. While the album release was postponed, Dusty underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy and went into a period of remission. Unfortunately the cancer returned in 1997, and on the 2nd of March 1999, Dusty passed away in her home in Henley-On-Thames. She had very recently received her Order of the British Empire and ten days after her death, Dusty was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
DUSTY QUOTES!
"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last..."
"Honest to God, the bigger the hair, the blacker the eyes, the more you can hide."
"Basically I'm a drag queen myself."
"I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else."
"I couldn't stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know that I'm as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy."
"Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser."
"I try to be as unsexy as possible."
"I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous."
"I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate."
"Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!"
"I'm the most misunderstood,misquoted person I know, honestly."
'I think my body liked the chemicals. I've poisoned it over so many years in the past that it went, 'Yes! Poison!''
“I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.”
"A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it."
"I must say it's really very nice to see that the royalty is not confined to the royal box tonight"
HERE ARE A FEW OF THE WELL KNOWN FACES THAT HAD THEIR PHOTO TAKEN WITH DUSTY!
DUSTY'S ALBUM COVERS
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