2011年4月27日 星期三

This Day in Music Spotlight: Sandie Shaw Tops the Charts, with No Shoes

Nobody was probably more surprised at her win at 1967 Eurovision Song Contest than Sandie Shaw herself. "I hated it from the very first oompah to the final bang on the big bass drum," she said of "Puppet on a String." I was instinctively repelled by its sexist drivel and cuckoo-clock tune."

A huge pop star (beloved for her swinging ’60s fashion and barefoot singing) in England and Europe in the mid-’60s with songs like "Always Something There to Remind Me" and "Long Live Love,There are just so many styles of real and fake dsquared shoes out there that it is near impossible to cover all of them." Shaw had been selected to represent Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest. Shaw’s manager had seen her record sales slipping and figured the Eurovision opportunity might send Shaw down a more mainstream cabaret road for the next phase of her career.

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The win helped Shaw get her own evening show on television but she was never comfortable with the pop box Eurovision packed her into, and tried hard to branch out musically. She told the Daily Telegraph: "It ruined me creatively for a while. It took away any means of me striking out and doing anything I thought worth doing."

Her 1969 album Reviewing the Situation was a radical departure featuring material from rock heavyweights like Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Led Zeppelin. Nothing much came of her efforts and Shaw spent the ’70s writing, acting and releasing the occasional single.

Then, in the early ’80s, she received a letter from two huge Sandie Shaw fans – Johnny Marr and Morrissey of the then-massive rock band The Smiths. It also transpired that Shaw’s husband was good pals with the head of The Smiths’ record label and she agreed to record some Smiths songs. Shaw wound up with another hit in April 1984, with her version of "Hand in Glove." Back on the music map, and rediscovered by some of the coolest acts of the day, she worked with the likes of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Patti Smith.

She later underwent psychodynamic counseling and started a counseling center, the Arts Clinic in Marylebone. Back in the media spotlight recently, she played the Vintage at Goodwood festival in 2010 and then belted out the title song for Brit movie, Made in Dagenham, about a sewing machinists’ strike at the Dagenham Ford works in 1968. It was a factory she’d briefly worked in back in the ’60s.

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