British TV broadcaster, the BBC, has created 2 one hour long shows dedicated to "Queens of British Pop". They've selected 12 female singers, and amongst the first batch of 6 is 1967 Eurovision winner, Sandie Shaw.
The show's producer, Dione Newton, interviewed Sandie for the documentary, and on the BBC's website explains being nervous about broaching the subject of Sandie's Eurovision winner. Apparently though Sandie was happy to speak candidly about it, and reveals that her two-year-old granddaughter loves the song!
British viewers can catch the programme on BBC1 tonight (Wednesday 1 April) at 10.45pm. As a special treat let's enjoy this fabulous performance of Sandie's winning song, this time in French! Tres chic! And the dancers are a scream!
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Lynsey de Paul is hardly ever remembered for her significant contributions to British pop. Before Lynsey, there was Sandie, Dusty, Cilla and Lulu but while Lynsey may not have had the same vocal power she had something that they did not - an ability to write catchy and successful songs which she did quite consistently over a 5 year period. Some were performed by Lynsey herself, most notably "Sugar Me" (a number one hit in most European countries) and the Ivor Novello award winning "Won"t Somebody Dance With Me" and in this respect she was a prototype for Kate Bush. Others were international hits for the Fortunes (Storm in a Teacup), Barry Blue (Dancing on a Saturday Night)with other hits for girl group Thunderthighs and the Martyn Ford Orchestra. Later on, she wrote songs for Shirley Bassey, Ricky Martin and Gerard Kenny. Indeed, go back to the 70's music (and national) press and you will see that Lynsey was once held in high regard and was the only true contender to Suzi (in a similar way to Kate and Debbie Harry a few years later).
Of course the BBC will not acknowledge this as shown by the recent revelation that they hoped that Lynsey's Eurovision entry "Rock Bottom" would lose the contest so they would not have to foot the bill for hosting the next contest. The result was that Lynsey came second but yet had the biggest selling Euro-hit of that year throughout Europe. A far cry from today's desperate attempt to achieve greatness in Eurovision.
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