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Title: Dusty: The Definitive Biography
Publisher: Pan Books
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 033039343X
ISBN 13: 9780330393430
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: Used; Good

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Synopsis

Dusty Springfield's contribution to music was phenomenal - from her international hit 'I Only Want to Be With You' in 1963 to the chart-topping single 'What Have I Done to Deserve This' with the Pet Shop Boys in 1987, her musical career was as varied as it has been important. Her life was extraordinary and often harrowing as she battled with self-destructive addictions and a troubled sexuality that she concealed for years.This fully updated edition of Lucy O'Brien's seminal biography is a tribute to a star who is still held in huge affection. Her voice, recorded in all its vulnerability and passion, will endure for ever.

'Excellently researched and a bloody good read' Melody Maker

'Provocative and deadly accurate' Time Out

Review

Dusty Springfield was one of the most successful female singers Britain ever produced, with a unique, instantly recognisable dusky voice and strength of character that kept this icon of the 1960s centre-stage right up to her death.

Her story is truly fascinating. From her early days as a plump and bespectacled convent girl through to her transformation into a heavy- lidded, bee-hived blonde bombshell who took the world by storm, her love of music and lust for fame drove her into the hearts of millions of people around the world, but never quite brought her the happiness that should have followed.

Lucy O'Brien, in this definitive, updated biography, captures the essence of the woman behind the glamour. Her struggles with her beliefs, drink and drug problem, low self image and weight problems led to her reputation as a "difficult" artiste, yet her successful heyday and her recent triumphant comebacks with the likes of The Pet Shop Boys, and the recording of one of her most successful and highly acclaimed albums, in the 1990s, pushed her back into the limelight just the cancer that would eventually kill her began to take hold.

Dusty is an extremely well-researched biography which cleverly, affectionately and without a trace of schmaltz takes the reader into the soul of a woman who stood the test of time with a talent that continued to reach out to new generations of music lovers right up to her death and beyond.--Susan Harrison

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