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- Dusty was in the Lana Sisters in the late 50’s & learnt her showbiz skills from them. Dusty is on the left
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- Dusty then joined her brother with the ‘folksy’ Springfields
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- Dusty knew she had to become a solo artist. Singing in one of her gowns
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- Dusty with Motown stars – Martha & The Vandellas
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- Dusty loved all kinds of music, but especially soul
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- Dusty in the 70’s. She went to live in the USA
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- Dusty married her girlfriend in a white wedding gown
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- Dusty is back! With the Pet Shop Boys in the 80’s
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- DUSTY – An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend by Karen Bartlett is published by the Robson Press
Dusty Springfield – An Intimate Portrait by Karen Bartlett
Born to seemingly conventional parents – accountant father and Irish housewife mother – Dusty also seemed quite conventional and unremarkable until at 16 she transformed her look and launched herself on the world with determined, blond ambition. She was a pioneer of so much we now consider stereotypes: blonde bombshell singer with soul, demanding diva, cat loving lesbian and even married her girlfriend way before civil partnerships were legal and in a big white dress to boot!
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