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- Dusty_Springfield abstract "Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the United Kingdom Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of both the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.Born in West Hampstead, London to a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters, and two years later formed a pop-folk vocal trio, The Springfields, with her brother Tom. Her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, "I Only Want to Be with You". Among the hits that followed were "Wishin' and Hopin'" (1964), "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (1964), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968).As a fan of US pop music, she brought many little-known soul singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience by hosting the first national TV performance of many top-selling Motown artists beginning in 1965. Although never considered a Northern Soul artist in her own right, Springfield's efforts contributed a great deal to the formation of the genre as a result.Partly owing to these efforts, a year later she eventually became the best-selling female singer in the world and topped a number of popularity polls, including Melody Maker's Best International Vocalist. She was the first UK singer to top the New Musical Express readers' poll for Female Singer.To boost her credibility as a soul artist, Springfield went to Memphis, Tennessee to record Dusty in Memphis, an album of pop and soul music with the Atlantic Records main production team. Released in 1969, it has been ranked among the greatest albums of all time by the US magazine Rolling Stone and in polls by VH1 artists, New Musical Express readers, and Channel 4 viewers. The album was also awarded a spot in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Despite its current recognition, the album did not sell well and after its release, Springfield experienced a career slump for several years. However, in collaboration with Pet Shop Boys, she returned to the Top 10 of the UK and US charts in 1987 with "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" Two years later, she had two other UK hits on her own with "Nothing Has Been Proved" and "In Private." Subsequently in the mid-1990s, owing to the inclusion of "Son of a Preacher Man" on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, interest in her early output was revived.".
- Dusty_Springfield activeYearsEndYear "1995".
- Dusty_Springfield activeYearsStartYear "1958".
- Dusty_Springfield alias "O'Brien, Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette".
- Dusty_Springfield birthDate "1939-04-16".
- Dusty_Springfield birthName "Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien".
- Dusty_Springfield birthPlace London.
- Dusty_Springfield birthPlace North_London.
- Dusty_Springfield birthPlace West_Hampstead.
- Dusty_Springfield birthYear "1939".
- Dusty_Springfield deathCause Breast_cancer.
- Dusty_Springfield deathDate "1999-03-02".
- Dusty_Springfield deathPlace Henley-on-Thames.
- Dusty_Springfield deathPlace Oxfordshire.
- Dusty_Springfield deathYear "1999".
- Dusty_Springfield hometown Ealing.
- Dusty_Springfield hometown London.
- Dusty_Springfield occupation Dusty_Springfield__1.
- Dusty_Springfield occupation Record_producer.
- Dusty_Springfield relative Tom_Springfield.
- Dusty_Springfield residence Brighton_and_Hove.
- Dusty_Springfield residence East_Sussex.
- Dusty_Springfield residence Hove.
- Dusty_Springfield restingPlace Oxfordshire.
- Dusty_Springfield restingPlace St_Mary_the_Virgin.
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- Dusty_Springfield alternativeNames "O'Brien, Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette".
- Dusty_Springfield birthDate "1939-04-16".
- Dusty_Springfield birthName "Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien".
- Dusty_Springfield birthPlace "West Hampstead, North London, England".
- Dusty_Springfield caption "Dusty Springfield in 1967".
- Dusty_Springfield dateOfBirth "1939-04-16".
- Dusty_Springfield dateOfDeath "1999-03-02".
- Dusty_Springfield deathCause Breast_cancer.
- Dusty_Springfield deathDate "1999-03-02".
- Dusty_Springfield deathPlace "Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England".
- Dusty_Springfield description "Sample from "Son of a Preacher Man", the lead single, from Dusty in Memphis. The track was a top 10 hit on the UK, US, Austrian and Swiss Singles Charts. Springfield was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1970. "Son of a Preacher Man" was used in the 1994 feature film, Pulp Fiction.".
- Dusty_Springfield description "Sample from "The Look of Love" , released in April 1967. It was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the James Bond parody film, Casino Royale. The soundtrack version was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song of 1967.".
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- Dusty_Springfield genre Rhythm_and_blues.
- Dusty_Springfield genre Soul_music.
- Dusty_Springfield hasPhotoCollection Dusty_Springfield.
- Dusty_Springfield homeTown "Ealing, London, England".
- Dusty_Springfield imageSize "120".
- Dusty_Springfield name "(OBE)".
- Dusty_Springfield name "Dusty Springfield".
- Dusty_Springfield name "Springfield, Dusty".
- Dusty_Springfield occupation "Singer, arranger, musician, record producer, television presenter".
- Dusty_Springfield placeOfBirth "West Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom".
- Dusty_Springfield placeOfDeath "Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom".
- Dusty_Springfield relatives Tom_Springfield.
- Dusty_Springfield residence "Hove, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England".
- Dusty_Springfield restingPlace "St. Mary the Virgin Church, Oxfordshire, England".
- Dusty_Springfield shortDescription "United Kingdom pop, blue-eyed soul singer".
- Dusty_Springfield sign "Simon Napier-Bell, "Flashback: Dusty Springfield", The Observer .".
- Dusty_Springfield text "There, standing on the staircase at Philips studio, singing into the stairwell, Dusty gave her greatest ever performance – perfection from first breath to last, as great as anything by Aretha Franklin or Sinatra or Pavarotti. Great singers can take mundane lyrics and fill them with their own meaning. This can help a listener's own ill-defined feelings come clearly into focus. Vicki [Wickham] and I had thought our lyric was about avoiding emotional commitment. Dusty stood it on its head and made it a passionate lament of loneliness and love.".
- Dusty_Springfield title ""Son of a Preacher Man"".
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- Dusty_Springfield yearsActive "1958".
- Dusty_Springfield description "United Kingdom pop, blue-eyed soul singer".
- Dusty_Springfield description "United Kingdom pop, blue-eyed soul singer".
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