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Remembering Dusty Springfield

dusty-springfield-6Today would have been Dusty Springfield’s 75th birthday. The singer passed away in 1999 after a long battle with cancer.

The British singer had huge hits in the ’60s and is remembered for her massive blonde bouffant hair and massive amounts of dark eyeliner, but beneath it all was an amazing singer.

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She had stacks of hits including ‘I Only Wanna Be With You’, ‘Son of a Preacher Man’, ‘I Just Don’t Know What to do with Myself’ ‘Breakfast in Bed’ and ‘Wishin’ and Hopin”.

In the late 1980’s Dusty’s career got a big revival when she teamed up with the Pet Shop Boys on their track ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This’. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe wrote several tracks for her next album including ‘In Private’ and ‘Nothing has been Proved’.

Dusty Springfield was open about her sexuality, even making bold statements about happily being gay in the early 1970’s. At this time there were very few openly gay artists.

Check out  Dusty performing with the Pet Shop Boys.

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