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Dusty Springfield (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999). British husky-voiced soul singer; UK’s greatest pop diva, also the finest white soul singer of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose work spans the decades. She began her solo career in ‘63 with the upbeat pop hit, “I Only Want To Be With You”. Other hits included “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself”, “Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”. Her rendition of “The Look of Love”, was included on the soundtrack of the James Bond movie Casino Royale and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. Dusty in Memphis earned her a nomination for the Grammy Award and it received the Grammy Hall of Fame award. International polls list the album among the greatest of all time. Its standout track “Son of a Preacher Man” was an international Top 10 hit in 1969. Because of her enthusiasm for Motown music, she campaigned to get some little-known American soul music singers a better audience in the U.K. She devised and hosted The Sound Of Motown, a special edition of Ready Steady Go! TV programme on 28 April 1965. The show was broadcast by Rediffusion TV from their studios in Kingsway, London. Dusty opened the two parts of the show, performing “Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “Can’t Hear You No More”, accompanied by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and Motown’s in-house band The Funk Brothers. Other guests included The Temptations, The Supremes, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder. In 1987, she sang with the Pet Shop Boys on their single “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” it reached No.2 on both sides of the Atlantic.In January 1994 while recording her final album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Dusty Springfield fell ill. When she returned to England a few months later, her physicians diagnosed breast cancer. She received months of radiation treatment and the cancer was in temporary remission. In 1995, in apparent good health, Springfield set about promoting the album. In mid-1996 the cancer had returned and, in spite of vigorous treatments, she died in Henley-on-Thames on 2 March 1999.
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Dusty Springfield (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999).

British husky-voiced soul singer; UK’s greatest pop diva, also the finest white soul singer of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose work spans the decades.

She began her solo career in ‘63 with the upbeat pop hit, “I Only Want To Be With You”. Other hits included “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself”, “Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”. Her rendition of “The Look of Love”, was included on the soundtrack of the James Bond movie Casino Royale and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.

Dusty in Memphis earned her a nomination for the Grammy Award and it received the Grammy Hall of Fame award. International polls list the album among the greatest of all time. Its standout track “Son of a Preacher Man” was an international Top 10 hit in 1969.

Because of her enthusiasm for Motown music, she campaigned to get some little-known American soul music singers a better audience in the U.K. She devised and hosted The Sound Of Motown, a special edition of Ready Steady Go! TV programme on 28 April 1965. The show was broadcast by Rediffusion TV from their studios in Kingsway, London. Dusty opened the two parts of the show, performing “Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “Can’t Hear You No More”, accompanied by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and Motown’s in-house band The Funk Brothers. Other guests included The Temptations, The Supremes, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder.

In 1987, she sang with the Pet Shop Boys on their single “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” it reached No.2 on both sides of the Atlantic.

In January 1994 while recording her final album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Dusty Springfield fell ill. When she returned to England a few months later, her physicians diagnosed breast cancer. She received months of radiation treatment and the cancer was in temporary remission. In 1995, in apparent good health, Springfield set about promoting the album. In mid-1996 the cancer had returned and, in spite of vigorous treatments, she died in Henley-on-Thames on 2 March 1999.

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