Lynsey De Paul
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Lynsey De Paul (born Lynsey Rubin, 11 June 1950, in London) is an English songwriter and singer.
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[edit] Career
Renowned for her keyboard skills, ability to write catchy songs and sultry looks, Lynsey De Paul first hit the UK charts in 1972, initially as the writer of the Fortunes hit, "Storm in a Teacup". A few months later she was proppelled into the limelight as the performer of her very own song hit song "Sugar Me" which rapidly found it's way into the U.K. top 10 as well as the top of the singles charts in Holland and Belgium. "Sugar Me" was rapidly followed by "Getting a Drag", a quirky song in a completely different vein about finding out that her boyfriend likes to cross-dress! She was the first woman to be awarded an Ivor Novello Award for her classic ballad "Won't Somebody Dance With Me", another U.K. top 20 hit. A second Ivor followed a year later for the Phil Spectorish "No Honestly", which was also the theme tune to a hit TV comedy and provided her with yet another U.K. top 10 hit.
A prolific songwriter first and foremost, De Paul has written songs for many other recording artists. In a five year period (1972-77) she wrote a total of 14 UK Singles Chart hits, most notably "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" which was a hit for co-writer Barry Blue as well as Flash Cadillac and Bond. Indeed, Lynsey's songs have reached the charts in most territories, including the U.S., Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Canada and Australia. She also has performed producing and arranging duties on many of these recordings.
"Rock Bottom", which she wrote with Mike Moran, was the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977. Although it came second in the Eurovision Song Contest, it went on to become a Top 20 hit in many European countries including France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where it reached the top of their singles chart. De Paul and Moran went on to write a number of songs, such as "Let Your Body Go Downtown", a Top 40 hit for the Martyn Ford Orchestra; and the follow up "Going to a Disco", as well as "Without You", and "Now and Then", which appeared on the albums Tigers and Fireflies and Just a Little Time, respectively.
After a three year period of being based in California in the late 1970s/early 1980s with her partner at the time, the actor James Coburn, Lynsey returned to England and, while still writing songs for artists as diverse as Shirley Bassey, Sam Hui and The Real Thing, also branched out into record production, acting in musicals and plays, interviewing and TV presentation, drawing cartoons and even self defence, on which subject she produced a video and won an award. In 2006, Lynsey became the Director of the Performing Right Society.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | CHE | |||||||||
| 1972 | "Sugar Me" | 5 | - | |||||||
| "Getting A Drag" | 18 | - | ||||||||
| 1973 | "Won't Somebody Dance With Me" | 14 | - | |||||||
| 1974 | "Oooh I Do" | 25 | - | |||||||
| "No Honestly" | 7 | - | ||||||||
| 1975 | "My Man And Me" | 40 | - | |||||||
| 1977 | "Rock Bottom" (with Mike Moran) | 19 | 1 | |||||||
Other Singles
- "All Night" / "Blind leading the Blind"
- "Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby" / "Into my Music"
- "Happy Christmas to you From Me" / "Stick to You" (with Barry Blue)
- "Hug and Squeeze Me" / "You Made me write This Song"
- "Love Bomb" / "Rainbow"
- "If I don't get you the next one Will / "Season to Season"
- "You give me those Feelings" / "Beautiful"
- "Hollywood romance" / "Losin' the blues for You"
- "Tigers and Fireflies" / "Losin' the blues for You"
- "Strange Changes" / "Strange Changes (version)"
- "Air on a Heartstring" / "Arrival of the Queen" (with Horea Crishan)
- "There's no place like London" / "There's no place like London" (Karaoke version) (credited as Lynsey & friends)
B Sides
- "Storm in a Teacup" ("Sugar Me")
- "Brandy" ("Getting a Drag")
- "So Good to You" ("Won't Somebody dance with Me")
- "Nothing really lasts Forever" ("Ooh I do")
- "Central Park Arrest" ("No Honestly")
- "Dancing on a Saturday Night" ("My man and Me")
- "Shouldn't say that" (with Mike Moran) ("Rock Bottom")
[edit] Albums
- Surprise
- The World of Lynsey De Paul (aka Lynsey Sings)
- Taste me... don't Waste Me
- Love Bomb
- Before you go Tonight
- No Honestly
- Tigers and Fireflies
- Just a little time (aka Sugar Me)
- The best of Lynsey de Paul
- Greatest hits
- Best of the 70s Lynsey De Paul
[edit] External links
Official website [1]
- Lynsey De Paul discography
- Lynsey De Paul at the Internet Movie Database
- Lynsey De Paul fan site
- Lyrics to many of Lynsey's songs
Artists that have recorded songs written by Lynsey De Paul include:-
- Dana (Rosemary Scallon)
- Heatwave (band)
- Cheryl Lynn
- Vera Lynn
- Barry Blue
- The Fortunes
- Martyn Ford Orchestra
- Thunder thighs
- Sam Hui
- Tony Blackburn
- Jack Wild
- Marti Webb
- Shirley Bassey
- The Real Thing
- Lenny Zakatek
- Gerard Kenny
- Carl Wayne
- Sacha Distel
- Petula Clark
- Rain/Stephanie de Sykes
- Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids
- Bond
- Bones
- Ellie
- Candy
- Continental Uptight Band
- Solomon King
- The Young Generation
- Barry Green
- Ginette Reno
- Manchester United FC 1972
- Mice (band)
- The Dooleys
- Zig-Zag
- Nancy Sinatra
- Claudine Longet
- James Last
- Bruce Johnston
- Johnnie Wilder, Jr.
- Yana Julio
- Marilyn
- Vic Twenty
- Jayna
- Gold
- Avec meets Q. Tee
- Klaus Wunderlich
- Tears for Beers
- De Gigantjes
- Alexandre Friedmann
- Lena Zavaroni
- Asami Kobayashi
