There is a new look for Dusty News. I have uploaded a test page and will keep both pages going for the moment as I have a couple of things to fix.

The new page is at www.simonbell.com/DUSTYNEWS

MOVIES

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TELEVISION & RADIO

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New ITV Drama series features Dusty

EVENTS

DUSTY DAY 2008 - APRIL 20TH, 2008. Dusty Day 2008 will be held on April 20th, 2008, in Finnegan's Wake, Ealing further to the success of last year's event. Those confirmed as appearing are: MADELINE BELL SIMON BELL KATY SETTERFIELD - before going to Las Vegas JONATHAN COHEN ______________________ To be confirmed: JULIE FELIX   DETAILS ON THE DUSTY DAY PAGE Video footage of last year is on the Dusty Day 2007 page now. There will be an auction again at Dusty Day, details are on the Dusty Day 2008 page (link above).

Kay Garner on stage at Dusty Day 2007  DUSTY DAY 2006, RAISED £2100 FOR THE ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL ON SUNDAY APRIL 16, 2006 CLICK HERE TO READ THE THANK YOU LETTER FROM THE ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL.

DUSTY HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE U.K. MUSIC HALL OF FAME. This years ceremony took place on November 14. Dusty's tribute included covers of You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by PATTI LA BELLE & Son Of A Preacher Man by JOSS STONE.

March 3 2006 Dusty has made No.8 Greatest Gays in History in a Poll for GaydarRadio. The full list is as follows:  1. Ellen DeGeneres 2. Leonardo da Vinci 3. Oscar Wilde 4. Alexander the Great 5. Sappho 6. Virginia Woolf 7. Alan Turing 8. Dusty Springfield 9. Billie Jean King 10. Michelangelo

updated Feb 7 2006 Way back in 2001 we reported that there was to be a Walk of Fame in Brighton, and that Dusty would be one of the first artistes honoured. Today it is reported that Brighton & Hove Council are being asked to consider a Pink Plaque scheme for people with both Gay & Brighton connections - a kind of Pink Heritage Trail!

I must say that the Dusty link is tenuous at best; she visited her parent's home in Hove according to the BBC News site.

Anthony Inneo has conceived, writted & directed his show "ALL HER FACES - A Portrait Of Dusty Springfield" which opened for a limited run this June in New York. See the website ALL HER FACES

It's at the experimental theatre club LA MAMA, 74A East 4th Street for 6 performances between June 1 & June 10. see LA MAMA site

According to reports in the Australian press, the Australian show - Dusty The Original Pop Diva could tour Provincial dates in the U.K. from September 2008 and open in London's West End as soon as a theatre is found.. The show has already been a smash in Melbourne, Perth & Sydney, & Adelaide, starring Tamsin Carrol as Dusty. Following the hoped for West End run, the show is due to tour North America.

A special "Dusty - The Original Pop Diva" (ORDER) CD is available to coincide with the hit show, featuring the original recordings by Dusty.

rave reviews see musical homepage

Universal have delayed Dusty Springfield Gold for another week. It is now scheduled for release on April 7th .

A Dusty video download is now available from iTunes. For £1.89 you can download Son Of A Preacher Man in the live performance from the Royal Albert Hall DVD.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dusty-Springfield-Live-At-BBC/dp/B000PTYPC0/dustyspringfidus 

The Universal DVD of Dusty's BBC TV series form the 1960's reached No. 5 on it's first week of release. This follows rave reviews for Dusty At The BBC in the UK music press. The full track listing, including extras is: Series 1 1st September 1966 The Real Thing Some Of Your Lovin’ Bring Him Back Poor Wayfaring Stranger The Mood I’m In Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa Packin’ Up 8th September 1966 Call Me Irresponsible Tell The World About You I Don’t Want To Go On Without You Won’t Be Long I’ll Never Stop Loving You The Real Thing 22nd September 1966 You Lost The Sweetest Boy To Love and Be Loved Anna (El Baion) Gonna Build A Mountain Losing You Won’t Be Long Series 2 15th August 1967 Live It Up I’ll Try Anything The Water Is Wide I Only Wanna Laugh If You Go Away Everybody Needs Somebody 22nd August 1967 Get Ready The Beautiful Land All I See Is You Medley: Do Re Mi, Soulville 29th August 1967 Come Back To Me Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream Peel Me A Grape If You Go Away You Can Have Him 5th September 1967 By Myself Sunny Two Brothers Time After Time You'd Better Run 12th September 1967 Let The Good Times Roll If My Friends Could See Me Now I Wish You Love It Was Easier To Hurt Him Heatwave 19th September 1967 Nowhere To Run Sweet Lover No More My Lagan Love The Mood I'm In It Ain't All Honey You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Extras 26 August 1970: THE MORECAMBE & WISE SHOW (BBC2) How Can I Be Sure 28 December 1972: TOM JONES SHOW (BBC1) I Am Woman Since I Fell For You 7 April 1979: SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MILL (BBC1) Interview/I'm Coming Home Again Photo Gallery Audio Jukebox of tracks plus hit singles: I Only Want To Be With You Son Of A Preacher Man I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me I Close My Eyes & Count To Ten Collector’s Edition contains: 4 Unique Picture Postcards from the TV Series Limited edition numbering Format DVD 5.1 surround sound

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Shelby Lynne is paying tribute to one of her musical heroes, Dusty Springfield, with a full-length CD, Just a Little Lovin', released Feb. 5 on Lost Highway Records to great critical acclaim.

Selections include "The Look of Love," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and "I Only Want to Be With You," along with a song Lynne wrote, "Pretend."

PETULA CLARK HAS SPOKEN TO THE LAS VEGAS SUN ABOUT HER DUET WITH DUSTY. Petula tells The Sun " I recorded the duet with Dusty a year ago. We used a tape that she had recorded but it was unfinished. Through the magic of technology I had the opportunity to go in and sing with her." Read the interview in full Dusty didn't complete her recording of "Corner Of The Sky" (from the musical PIPPIN), but Petula has added her vocal to the track & it will be released on an album of duets in 2007. Dusty's vocal is from July 1974. Other duets on Pet's album are with Anthony Newley, Sacha Distel, Peggy Lee, Oscar Peterson, Matt Monro, & Dean Martin.

Eagle Rock have released the legendary 1979 concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Already available in the UK & the States, February 5th sees the concert available in Australia. The audio CD of the concert has also now been released and is just wonderful. It's a real tragedy that the whole concert could not have been seen on DVD, as the sound recording, particularly of Baby Blue, is fantastic. The sound for me is better on the CD, as the Dolby 5.1 mix on the DVD blurs some of the vocals. Other extra tracks on the CD are Hollywood Movie Girls & A Brand New Me (edited from the hits medley). Mike Mansfield, who directed the show ,has had it remastered digitally with a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. The DVD features interviews withh Madeline Bell, Vicki Wickham, Pat Rhodes and myself .   Some truly great musicians took part in the concert, among them Alan Parker & Herbie Flowers from Blue Mink; singers with me on the show were the late Vicki Brown, and Lavinia Rogers, sister of Clodagh (a big UK singer in the 60s). NEW ALBERT HALL DVD PAGE

First picture of the cover.   The original show was in aid of a children's charity, and was attended by H.R.H The Princess Margaret, and John Miles was the support act. Among the thousands in the audience was a very young Annie Lennox, who had just had a hit with "I Only Want To Be With You" as part of The Tourists. The concert has never actually been broadcast; the only copies available being bootlegs.   ORDER

Tracks: Wishin' & Hopin'/ I Only Want To Be With You/ Losing You/ What's It Gonna Be/ I Think It's Going To Rain Today/ Son Of A Preacher Man/ You Don't Have To Say You Love Me/ A Brand New Me/ I Close My Eyes And count To Ten/ Since I Fell For You/ How Can I Be Sure/ Aint No Mountain High Enough (with Engelbert Humperdinck)/ Spooku, I Wanna Be A Free Girl/ Lost/ People Get Ready/ The Look Of Love/

The Quantam Leap Dusty DVD has been released in the UK. Highlights are "Since I Fell For You", "I Wanna Be A Free Girl" & "People Get Ready". Some performances are taken from the 60's BBC shows, but most are from a Dutch TV special in the early 70's. Quality varies, but it is essential viewing for Dusty fans, Amazonare already taking orders at £14.39. ORDER

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TELEVISION & RADIO

A brand new ITV1 Drama series will feature Dusty's music to great effect. "He Kills Coppers" airs on Easter Sunday at 21:00 on ITV1

updated April 26 2006 The 8 part documentary series "Dusty - Little By Little" has completed on ABC TV Australia, showing at 8:00p.m. each Tuesday from March 7. In addition to background on the making of the Dusty - The Original Pop Diva musical , friends and colleagues of Dusty , including Pat Rhodes & Simon Bell were interviewed . In the show, Tasmin Carroll stars as Dusty. A video preview can be seen by clicking the link to the Dusty- The Musical homepage

In a poll, to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Ovor Novello Awards, the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters has voted Dusty's debut single - "I Only Want To Be With You" - into the top five songs of the decade from 1955 - 1965. The winning song was "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks. Full results can be seen here: THE IVORS "I Only Want To Be With You" was written for Dusty by Mike Hawker & Ivor Raymonde, who had previously penned "Walking Back To Happiness" for Helen Shapiro. Their other compositions for Dusty included "Stay Awhile" & "I Wish I'd Never Loved You", which Helen Shapiro covered. Mike Hawker was married to Jean Ryder (of The Breakaways, now Jean Westwood). The Breakaways sang background on all of the Hawker/Raymonde songs recorded by Dusty. Breakaway Vicki Brown, later sand background for Dusty at the legendary Royal Albert Hall concert.

 

PUBLISHING

The Torontoo Star hasa nice piece where Anne Murray talks of Dusty & her forthcoming Duets album, featuring Dusty & Anne. See here The New York times online is featuring a picture of Dusty's Memorial Stone in Henley as part of an article on English rockstars.SEE HERE

A new Dusty tribute site has launched - LET'S TALK DUSTY - see Dusty Links page. Good luck with the new venture!

Esteemed Soul music writer Sharon Davis has just published a collection of interviews with some ofthe greatest Motown & Soul artists, and Dusty is included alongside Ashford & Simpson, Four Tops, Brenda Holloway, Kim Weston, Thelma Houston, The Velvelettes, Martha reeves, Barbara Randolph and Edwin Starr.     The book is available NOW and you can order on-line from Amazon by clicking HERE

Two of the current music scene's giant talents have brought Dusty into the headlines in different ways. Britain's top male pop icon Robbie Williams has included Dusty's "Windmills of Your Mind" in his personal i-pod list for the Apple site, and young British Sould Diva Joss stone has been voted top celebrity dog owner by New York Dog & Hollywood Dog. What's the connection? Well, her dog is called Dusty Springfield.

SPECTROPOP is a Yahoo Group I was introduced to recently. I can recommend it to Dusty fans & lovers of 60's music. There are some fascination pieces involving Dusty recordings etc. Subscribe to spectropop Powered by groups.yahoo.com

I have moved the Doris Troy web pages to www.simonbell.com/doristroy.html to avoid any possible problems with doristroy.com following Doris' death. Although I wrote & designed the site, I don't have access to the necessary passwords to keep it updated at it's old URL.

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE IN THE STATES HAS PUT DUSTY'S "MEMPHIS" MASTERPIECE AT No.9 IN A LIST OF ESSENTIAL ALBUMS OF THE ROCK AGE.

 Kay was determined to sing at this years Dusty Day despite being in the middle of chemotherapy. In true Kay style, knowing that her time was limited she showed her character & bravely sang Dusty's "I Only Wanna Laugh" In tribute to her that performance can be seen if you click the Youtube box below.. KAY'S OWN WEBSITE

Madeline Bell sang "Georgia On My Mind" at the funeral service. Mourners included former choir members from Kay's days with the James Last Orchestra - Lynn Cornell, Sue Glover, Tony Burrows & Russell Stone. Other singers there included The Chanter Sisters, Julie Felix, Stephanie De Sykes & Claire Torry. Our own Pat Rhodes was there, but Simon Bell was unable to attend through illness.There were also many musicians including Derek Wadsworth.

Kay's family asked that donations be made to the Royal Marsden Hospital wher she was treated. To date almost £3000 has been donated in Kay's memory. If you wish to donate please click on the link: Royal Marsden Hospital

 Feb 23, 2006

The draft script of the forthcoming British TV movie based on Dusty's life is almost complete. Writer, Sue Oudot has worked for some time on the project and tells me "My feeling is that viewers will come out of it thinking what a great talent Dusty was, what an awful personal struggle she had". Dusty will be played by former "Eastenders" actress Michelle Collins.

This project is still ON, more news soon