Cheekbones and bare feet aside, the very best of Sandie Shaw came so young: the first of her three number ones, (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me, at the age of 17.
Her early singing was pedestrian and shallow by comparison with Dusty and Lulu, but she had those Dagenham girl-next-door looks and she could pick a tune: I'll Stop At Nothing, Long Live Love, Message Understood and Tomorrow for starters.
Later she cut through the Gorgonzola of Europop with lan on Puppet On A String and her last Sixties hit, Monsieur Dupont, and by the time of her Eighties renaissance with the patronage of Morrissey, the voice had filled out with the old tease intact on Hand In Glove and Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?
Updated: 08:47 Thursday, April 07, 2005
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