AUDIO: Dusty Springfield (1989)
Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 May 1989
Dusty talks about leaving the Springfields and her involvement in the TV show Ready Steady Go!; about her love of Black music and its influence on her; about the film Scandal and her work with the Pet Shop Boys; her love of the Fairlight; the role of irony and cynicism in British pop; her love of Luther Vandross; her working with Richard Carpenter but not being credited; her upcoming album Reputation; how she's perceived in the UK; her reputation for being difficult to work with; her friend and manager Vicki Wickham, plus their mutual pal Nona Hendryx; and about songwriting standards today compared to the days of Burt Bacharach in the ’60s.
