About Me
The most successful British Girl Singer of the 1960's.Sandie Shaw. The original Brit Girl. Chiselled cheekbones,
sophisticated pop operas, independent girl about town.
Otherworldliness, impossible glamour, voice of an angel.
Barefaced and Shaw-footed.First number one single at 17 years old.
Two more under her belt before she was 21.
A bevy of hits in UK, Europe, USSR, Canada, South America,
Japan, Australia and New Zealand.First British recording star to perform behind the Iron Curtain; last to perform in Iran.
First British artist to win the Eurovision Song Contest.
First British female artist to produce and own her masters and copyright.
Has sung, written, acted, modelled, designed.
Is a Buddhist, Mother, Psychotherapist, Author, Singer, Creative Director.
Influenced generations of artists from the New York Dolls, Pretenders' Chrissy Hynde, Steven Morrissey of The Smiths; to Daddy G.of Massive Attack.
Inspired a whole lot more.
Girl Power? Knocked into a cocked hat.
This is Woman Power.
And the best is yet to come.
There's more.Let's start from the beginning...1964
At 16, Sandie Shaw was 'discovered' by singer, Adam Faith at a concert in which they both performed. Worked as a photographic fashion model to fill in time. At 17, she began her career as an international singing and recording star. Had her first world-wide No1, 'Always Something There To Remind Me'. By the end of the decade she'd notched up over twenty Top Forty hits - including more number ones than any other female British artist – and captured the global imagination of an entire generation. This material, all self-produced, perfectly distils the essence of that generation at a time when our nostalgia for the real thing is at its peak.1965
Started to record in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Has another world-wide No1, 'Long Live Love'.1967
Married fashion designer Jeff Banks. Continued recording and performing, in outfits to die for, all over the world for the following five years. Has another world-wide No1, with Eurovision winner, 'Puppet On A String'.1968
Designed range of clothes and shoes for the Sandie Shaw label.
Makes the ground-breaking 6 part TV series for BBC, "The Sandie Shaw Supplement".1969
Issues, some say her best album of the Sixties, 'Reviewing The Situation'.
