Dusty Springfield
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The Springfields: The White Negress
Report and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 April 1963
"THAT'S WHAT THEY CALL ME" – DUSTY SPRINGFIELD ...
The Springfields: Separate Careers and All Booming!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 30 November 1963
Dusty, Tom and Mike go solo — and head for the top ...
Dusty Celebrates as She Plans Her First Album
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 4 January 1964
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD has just won a Silver Disc for her first solo single, 'I Only Want To Be With You', and she was bubbling over ...
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 9 May 1964
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD'S smoky-toned voice came through loud and clear on the trans-Atlantic phone. "That you, Peter? Boy, what a trip this is turning out to ...
Report by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 16 May 1964
Norman Jopling and Peter Jones take a look at the pros and cons of pop star marriages ...
What's Wrong With Me — by Miss Springfield
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 June 1964
TOWARDS THE end of last year, Britain went into mass production of the Girl Singer. The most durable of these is Dusty Springfield. She is ...
Burt Bacharach: "Time Is My Enemy"
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 September 1964
"I JUST DON'T get enough time to cram everything in," top U.S. songwriter, arranger and producer Burt Bacharach told me, during a two-day visit last ...
Report by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 26 December 1964
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD flew home on Friday morning to a heroine's welcome. Half of Fleet Street waited at London Airport to greet her on her return ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1965
THOSE ROLLING STONES, with their headline-hogging activities have always been controversial. There are more Stone-knockers than door-knockers in some of the snootier parts of the ...
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones et al: NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 16 April 1965
IT WAS THE GREATEST POP SHOW ON EARTH ...
Stars Come Out At Night On The Scene
Report by Vicki Wickham, Fabulous, 22 May 1965
THE MUSIC has stopped. The stage lights are dimmed. The screaming fans have gone home. What happens to the pop stars when it's all over ...
Tired Dusty Raves Over Next Single
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 16 July 1965
IT WAS 2.30 in the afternoon and Dusty Springfield was still sound asleep when I rang her at her London home. There was a slight ...
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 24 September 1965
LOOK CLOSELY at this picture of Dusty Springfield. To me it is one of the liveliest and brightest shots of her I have ever seen. ...
Protest Songs: How sick will they get? asks Alan Smith
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 24 September 1965
SING A SONG of protest — and you, too, could find yourself there in the charts. Suddenly a whole flood of these let's-put-the-world-right numbers has ...
Sunday Paper Scared off Dusty's Man
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 15 October 1965
THE DELECTABLE Miss Dusty Springfield was in candid mood when I spoke to her this week — about wigs, her nose . . . and ...
Dusty Springfield: A British Maid Talks...
Interview by Jean-Marie, Rave, November 1965
DUSTY — ON THE SCENE ...
Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw: Under the Hair Drier!
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 13 November 1965
What DO DUSTY, SANDIE and CILLA talk about when they're trapped? ...
Life + Laughs = Dusty Springfield
Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 27 November 1965
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD'S voice came over the house phone: "Why don't you come on up to my manager's room? I'll be up in a few minutes. ...
When Your Favourites Go On Holiday, They Usually Have To Work!
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express Summer Special, 1966
WHEREVER YOU are on holiday this year... the chances are you may bump into your favourite pop star! Some of the biggest names in the ...
Dusty Springfield, the Lovin' Spoonful: Ready, Steady, Go!
Film/DVD/TV Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 April 1966
…and wasn't Dusty a gas on RSG? ...
Dusty Springfield: I Just Look For A Song That Suits Me
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 April 1966
"YOU PUT a smell on me!" sang Dusty Springfield and Madeline Bell to an audience consisting of a monkey in a box. ...
All About The World's Greatest Pop Show: 1966 NME Concert Mightiest Ever!
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 May 1966
THOUSANDS upon thousands of fans converging on the massive Wembley Empire Pool for the biggest pop show in the world on Sunday... the staggering, the ...
Dusty Springfield, The Alan Price Set, Dave Berry, The Fortunes: Finsbury Park Astoria, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 8 October 1966
THE DUSTY Springfield tour opened last Tuesday at London's Finsbury Park Astoria with Dave Berry and the Fortunes filling the large gap vacated by the ...
RSG RIP: Another pop show bites the dust!
Report by Vicki Wickham, uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
Ready, Steady Go! Editor Vicki Wickham reviews highlights of the TV aeries that ends on December 23 ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 19 November 1966
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD this week slammed back at star American drummer-bandleader Buddy Rich who kept her waiting 2½ hours at her debut at New York's Basin ...
Dusty Springfield, Paul and Barry Ryan: Merry King Cole, Empire, Liverpool
Live Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 31 December 1966
Dusty wakes 'em ...
Beatle Blind Date: Paul McCartney reviews the new pop singles
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967
LEE DORSEY: 'Rain Rain Go Away' (Stateside) Lee Dorsey. It's in the same old vein and it'll be a hit. Sometimes I wonder if he ...
Madeline Bell: Demon Phone Calls Drive Dusty Crazy
Interview by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 18 March 1967
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD and flatmate Madeline Bell are, unhappily, on the move again. ...
Dusty Springfield: Talk Of The Town, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 13 May 1967
DUSTY A WOW IN CABARET ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
POLL SHOW THRILLS ALL THE WAY ...
Dusty Springfield: Searching so hard to find herself...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 9 September 1967
Close up on a pop giant... by Penny Valentine ...
Dusty Springfield: Where Am I Going? (Philips 33s. 6d.)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 18 November 1967
Dusty: so worth the wait ...
Dusty Springfield: Where Am I Going? (Philips)
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 25 November 1967
WHERE IS DUSTY GOING? HER NEW ALBUM IN DEPTH ...
Right Then, Who's Backing Britain?
Comment by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 January 1968
IF BRITAIN is going to the dogs, it is obvious a large section of the (older) community are convinced that sinful pop stars are prime ...
Dusty Springfield: Dusty Says 'I Want To Hit Back'
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 6 July 1968
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD would, I was informed, like to "hit back!" Now this did not sound like the fun-loving lass I knew of old. A skilfully ...
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 3 August 1968
ALAN SMITH discovers during a late-night QUESTION TIME ...
Dusty Springfield: Five Great Years of Dusty
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
ON NOVEMBER 5, 1968, Dusty Springfield celebrates five years as a solo star. ...
Dusty Springfield: Dusty... Definitely (Philips SBL 7864)
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 30 November 1968
WHEN DUSTY goes she really goes... and on the first side of this magnificent album she is going even more than somewhat. This is, if ...
Dusty Springfield: 'Son Of A Preacher Man'; Canned Heat: 'Going Up The Country'
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
Dusty: this might be that elusive smash... ...
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 21 December 1968
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD phoned to talk about her new hit record — by our reckoning, her 17th chart record since she became a solo artist five ...
I Fell Flat On My Face — Dusty
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 18 January 1969
WHEN AN artiste of her stature confesses "I fell flat on my face" it sounds like a major catastrophe. But I'm here to report that ...
Jerry Wexler: 'Team Work Is Secret Of Atlantic's Soul Success'
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 1 February 1969
Label chief JERRY WEXLER talking to Alan Smith ...
Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis (SD 8214)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 February 1969
Down Dusty Music Road to Memphis ...
Dusty Springfield: Dusty In Memphis (Philips) *****
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 19 April 1969
WITH THREE producers throwing in their varied talents — Messrs. Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin — Dusty Springfield was clearly in happy mood ...
Dusty Springfield: Dusty In Memphis (Philips)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 26 April 1969
DUSTY'S AMERICAN LP is her best yet! Eleven great tracks most of them beautiful, soulful ballads with Dusty sounding all the better for holding herself ...
Dusty Springfield: Dusty In Memphis
Review by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 1 November 1969
A FEW MONTHS AGO I walked into the Rolling Stone office and palely inquired if the journal might possibly be interested in a review of ...
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 19 September 1970
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD is the latest recruit to the British pop business's newest in-thing, conveyor belt interviews, and I therefore joined a queue of fellow-journalists the ...
Vicki Wickham: The Secretary That Roared
Interview by Toby Mamis, Phonograph Record, December 1971
I'D CONSIDERED doing this piece since mid-June. So, frankly, when the time came, I was thoroughly prepared. Prior to my interview with Vicki Wickham, I'd ...
Dusty Springfield: Talk of the Town, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 16 December 1972
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD'S return to the British music scene for her first live appearances for four years took place last week at the Talk Of The ...
Dusty Springfield: Theatre Royal, London
Live Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979
IT WAS a significant week for Mary O'Brien. Not only did she turn 40 but, after endless cancellations of provincial dates due to sparse ticket ...
Dusty Springfield: Dusty In Memphis
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 1986
ONE OF THE pleasures of the recent rerun series of Ready Steady Go Starring The Dave Clark Five was the opportunity to be reminded that ...
Scandal In The Wind: Dusty Springfield
Report and Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 1989
As the sex-in-high-places Profumo Scandal returns to this nation's screens, Dusty Springfield (with the Pet Shop Boys) brings us the single soundtrack. Len Brown met ...
Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 12 February 1989
She was the beehive who buzzed to the top of the Sixties pops and faded into the California sunset in the Seventies. The Press proved ...
Dusty Springfield: Scandal In The Wind
Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 25 February 1989
"IT'S AMAZING when you consider how many people have croaked. Looking back at some of those old Ready Steady Go! Shows, 'Jesus, she's croaked, where's ...
Dusty Springfield: Blondes Have Less Fun
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, April 1989
"I CAN'T STAND that word!" says Dusty Springfield sitting with tea in the plush suite of the plush West End hotel. ...
Dusty Springfield: The Dusty Trail
Interview by Ira Robbins, New York Post, 27 May 1989
As the closing credits roll on Scandal, the new film about Britain's infamous 1963 Profumo affair, a familiar woman's voice – airy and sensuous – ...
Dusty Springfield: Starring role
Comment by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 27 September 1989
Any woman pop star who comes out puts her career on the line as Dusty Springfield discovered. Lucy O'Brien reports ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 7 June 1990
Adam Sweeting speaks to the '60s icon who has risen from pop's graveyard to breathe new life into the charts. ...
Dusty Springfield: Reputation (EMI)
Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 30 June 1990
THE TROUBLE with this album is we know too much about Dusty Springfield to be convinced by the impassioned outpourings that the Pet Shop Boys ...
Review by Ian Birch, MOJO, June 1994
"I love Dusty Springfield. I wanted to name our daughter Dusty but I knew we couldn't because, I mean, Dusty Springsteen...She had a nice big, ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, July 1998
Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty/Where Am I Going/Songbooks Three more re-releases from the undisputed Queen of UK pop-soul ...
You Started Something: Dusty Springfield
Profile and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Observer, 21 February 1999
Dusty Springfield, now battling with cancer, is finally being recognized as the first queen of Britpop after 40 years in the business. ...
Memoir by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 7 March 1999
Britain's first lady of soul had chosen us to make what was to be her last video. We'd found the perfect location, we'd borrowed a ...
Dusty Springfield: England's Lady Soul
Obituary by Lucy O'Brien, MOJO, May 1999
ON MARCH 2, 1999, Dusty Springfield died of cancer at her home in Henley-on-Thames. She was 59, just six weeks short of her 60th birthday. ...
Dusty Springfield: 'That Noise Is the Joy…'
Retrospective and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, AllMusic.com, September 1999
IT WAS just one of those things. I interviewed Dusty Springfield for two hours in Beverly Hills one afternoon in May, 1973, for Rolling Stone. ...
Vicki Wickham: Ready, Vicki, Go!
Retrospective and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 November 1999
She's managed stars from Dusty Springfield to Marc Almond and has just won an award for her lifetime's work in the music industry. But outside ...
Book Review by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 3 September 2000
THE WOMAN THE world remembers as kohl-eyed, bouffant-haired, nightingale-voiced Dusty Springfield was actually born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in 1939. ...
Dusty Springfield: The Ultimate Collection
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 3 December 2001
OH, POP MUSIC! One minute, it pushes the envelope wide-wide open, then the next seals it up tight as can be! Such a force it ...
The Invention of Dusty Springfield
Retrospective and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Independent, 26 March 2006
Mary O'Brien was born with the voice that would make her our greatest female pop singer, but everything else that went to make the icon ...
Dusty Springfield: Complete As and Bs
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2006
OF ALL THE overused terms that blight today’s pop culture, "icon" surely grates the most. In these inane post-Warhol times, everybody is an icon and ...
Memoir by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages, July 2007
THE DUSTY I knew as a music journalist for the NME in the Sixties and interviewed a dozen times was a wondrously talented loveable mess ...
The Legacy of Dusty Springfield
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Times, 3 April 2009
The greatest girl singer of the Sixties would be 70 this month, but her legacy is evergreen ...
Various Artists: British Invasion (Reelin' in the Years)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Steven R Rosen, Blurt, September 2009
Gerry & the Pacemakers, Dusty Springfield, Herman's Hermits and Small Faces get the first-class treatment. ...
Dusty Springfield: Southern Harmony
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, April 2011
She was one of the greatest vocalists of all time at the height of her powers but for Dusty Springfield the making of Dusty in ...
Keeping The Faith: The making of Dusty's lost Atlantic album
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, MOJO, April 2011
IN JANUARY 1971, Dusty Springfield flew to New York to begin work on what was planned as her third album for Atlantic Records. Some of ...
The Making of Dusty in Memphis
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, July 2015
IN 1967, DESPITE international success and her status as the UK's undisputed queen of blue-eyed soul, Dusty Springfield found herself stifled by the career path ...
10 Unjustly Overlooked British Invasion Albums (1964–1966)
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, September 2016
SO MANY artists in the tsunami of music from the U.K. that flooded America in the mid-'60s went on to make extraordinary albums over a ...
Dusty Springfield: Simply... Dusty (Mercury)
Review by Steve Pafford, Mojo Collections, 2019
ALL THE EXTRANEOUS talk of tantrums and tears, beehives, booze and bisexuality has, over the years, tended to overshadow the fact that Dusty Springfield was, ...
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