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A Short Biography of Dusty Springfield

Author Name:

Dusty Springfield

Born As:

Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien

Other Names:

Born:

16 Apr 1939

Died:

02 Mar 1999




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Singer, Writer and Producer                          
Selected Workss:

Original studio albums:

A Girl Called Dusty - UK - 1964
Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You - US - 1964
Dusty - US - 1964
Ooooooweeee!!! - US - 1965
Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty - UK - 1965
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - US - 1966
Where Am I Going? - UK - 1967
The Look of Love - US - 1967
Dusty... Definitely - UK - 1968
Dusty in Memphis - 1969
A Brand New Me - US - 1970
From Dusty with Love - UK - 1970
Faithful - Unreleased - 1971
See All Her Faces - UK - 1972
Cameo - 1973
Longing - Unreleased - 1974
It Begins Again - 1978
Living Without Your Love - 1979
White Heat - 1982
Reputation - UK - 1990
A Very Fine Love - 1995                          
                          
Hosted the first British performances of the top-selling Motown Records artists - 1965.
Voted the Top British Female Artist in the New Musical Express reader's poll in 1964, 1965 and 1968.
Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the U.K. Music Hall of Fame. Dusty Springfield has been named among the best 25 female rock artists of all time in the international readers and artists polls by Mojo, Q,[ and VH1.
induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio - 1999.                          
The name "Dusty" was given to her when she was a child.

At age 11, Dusty went into a local record shop in Ealing and made her first record, one of Irving Berlin's songs, "When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam".