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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 ...

My Adventures Abroad — Dusty

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 ...

Should A Pop Star Marry?

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 ...

Dusty — There Were Threats

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 ...

Other Stars View The Stones

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 ...

Dusty: New Sound, New Look

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 ...

Dusty Slams U.S. Star

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 ...

The Beach Boys, Small Faces, Dusty Springfield et al: NME Poll Winners Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London

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 ...

Dusty Feels Like Two People

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... ...

Why Dusty Must Leave Britain

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 ...

Dusty, Singer At Crossroads

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 ...

Brand New Dusty

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 ...

Lusty Springfield

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 ...

Dusty Springfield: Goin' Back – The Very Best of Dusty Spingfield; Dusty – The Legend of Dusty Springfield

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, ...

Dusty Springfield Re-releases

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. ...

My Date with Dusty

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 ...

Penny Valentine and Vicki Wickham: Dancing with Demons – The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield

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 ...

The Real Dusty Springfield

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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