Lynsey De Paul
Encyclopedia
Lynsey de Paul is an English
singer-songwriter
. Allmusic journalist
, Craig Harris stated, "one of the first successful female singer-songwriters in England
, de Paul has had an illustrious career".
. She grew up in a Jewish family in Cricklewood, North London
, and attended South Hampstead High School
.
, and wanting to leave home, she started to design album sleeves
for artists which required her to listen to the tracks. From monies earned from album sleeve design, she got her first flat
, where she turned to songwriting. Three of her earliest songs were co-written with Ed Adamberry and recorded by Jack Wild
:- E.O.I.O." from the album "A Beautiful World" (and also released as a single by The Beads) and "Takin' It Easy" and "Bring It on Back to Me" from the album "Everything's Coming Up Roses".
After these initial successes, Lynsey was contracted to ATV-Kirshner music publishing, located above the Peter Robinson's store on Oxford Street
, where she joined a group of professional songwriters that included Barry Blue
and Ron Roker
, resulting in revenues from songs recorded by other artists from 1971. Noted for her keyboard
skills, ability to write catchy songs and sultry looks, de Paul first hit the UK charts
in 1972, as the co-writer (with Ron Roker) of The Fortunes
' hit
, "Storm in a Teacup". She was credited as 'L. Rubin' on the record
. It was about this time that she was also having success in the Netherlands as the writer of "On the Ride", a top 30 hit by the Continental Uptight Band.
A few months later she was propelled into the limelight as the performer of her own hit song "Sugar Me", which reached the Top Ten of the UK Singles Chart
(#5), as well as the top of the singles
charts in the Netherlands
, Spain
and Belgium
and covered by artists such as Nancy Sinatra and Claudine Longet. Lynsey's follow up single to "Sugar Me" was "Getting a Drag" (UK #18), a curious song about a cross-dressing boyfriend at the height of glam rock. After the relatively poor chart performance of third single "All Night" which was written with Ron Roker
and peaked in the U.K. at #56, Lynsey was back with a new sound, the hauntingly sad "Won't Somebody Dance With Me
". She was the first woman to be awarded an Ivor Novello Award
for this beautiful ballad
, which provided her with another UK Top 20 hit. The BBC Radio 1
disc jockey
Ed Stewart
spoke the words "May I Have The Pleasure Of This Dance" near the end of the record
(he often played the record on his Junior Choice
programme on Saturday mornings) although Tony Blackburn
said it when she appeared on BBC Television
's Top of the Pops
. De Paul recorded the female lyric to Mott The Hoople
's album track version of "Roll Away the Stone", but was replaced by female trio Thunderthighs
on the hit singel version of the song did not perform the song. In 1973, when Mick Ralphs
left Mott the Hoople, his replacement Luther Grosvenor
was contractually obliged to change his name - de Paul suggested Ariel Bender
. After appointing Don Arden
, her new manager
at the end of 1973, Lynsey released "Ooh I Do", which hit the charts in the UK, Netherlands and Japan
. the songs co-writer Barry Blue
also recorded a version of the song as an album track.
A second Ivor Novello award followed a year later for "No Honestly", which was also the theme tune to a hit ITV
comedy of the same name
, and provided her with another UK Top 10 hit, peaking at #7. The TV series No Honestly was followed by Yes Honestly, and although Georgie Fame
wrote and performed the theme tune to the first series of Yes Honestly, an instrumental
version of de Paul's "No Honestly" was chosen as the theme for the second series. De Paul continued to release a number of singles through the 1970s and early 1980s.
A prolific songwriter, de Paul also continued to write songs for a wide range of recording artists
as well as composing the theme music to the 1970s documentary television program
me Pilger (John Pilger
) for ATV
. In a five year period (1972–77) she wrote a total of fourteen 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
. De Paul's songs have reached the charts in many 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
. In 1976 she was the recipient of the 'Woman Of The Year Award For Music' from the Variety Club of Great Britain
.
"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" (1977), a #38 UK 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 album
s Tigers and Fireflies and Just a Little Time, respectively. De Paul also wrote and performed the theme music
for the 1977 revival by London Weekend Television
of the sitcom
, The Rag Trade
, the same year she composed "Hi Summer", the title of another ITV variety show, performed by Carl Wayne
. Later TV credits included the theme to the BBC's Hearts Of Gold while in the USA she wrote "A Little TLC" for Kidd Video
(see below). In addition to serving as the themes of nine prime time UK television series, de Paul's songs have been featured in such film
s as The Big Sleep
, Anita & Me, Side by Side, American Swing and Aces Go Places
.
After a three year period of being based in California
in the late 1970s and early 1980s with her partner at the time, the actor James Coburn
, de Paul returned to England. During this period, she co-wrote with Terry Britten "A Little TLC", which was covered by Sam Hui
and awarded an RTHK top 10 gold award in Hong Kong in 1986. Other versions of this song were recorded by Menudo
, sung by their lead singer Ricky Martin
, and also featured in the U.S. children's TV show, Kidd Video
. Whilst still writing songs for Shirley Bassey
, Heatwave and The Real Thing, de Paul also branched out into record production
, acting in musicals
and plays, interviewing and TV presentation, drawing cartoons and also self defence
. On the latter subject, in 1992 she released a self defence video for women called Taking Control, and presented a documentary
about women's self defence, called Eve Fights Back, which won a Royal Television Society
award.
De Paul has orchestrated, played, and produced two classical records of compositions by Handel
and Bach
for Deutsche Grammophon
and released "Air on a Heart String" backed with "Arrival of the Queen" with panflautist Horea Crishan. Lynsey has also composed and performed songs for children, including work for the Channel Tunnel Group included writing and producing an album of children's songs with accompanying song colouring book for Eurotunnel
's mascot, entitled Marcus The Mole as well as film music for the children's film, Gabrielle and the Doodleman where she had a starring role as an actress. Lynsey also has composed jingle
s for radio stations including Capital Radio. In 1983, she appeared at the Conservative Party
conference, where she sang a song she had composed specially for the occasion - "Vote Tory, Tory, Tory/For election glory". In 1985, she was awarded the Rear of the Year
title for which she thanked the organisers from the "heart of her bottom". De Paul has hosted television shows such as Club Vegetarian, Shopper's Heaven, Eat Drink & Be Healthy, Women of Substance, The Vinyl Frontier and 15 episodes of Living Room Legends, which featured home videos.
Lynsey received a Gold Badge Award for contribution to the music industry in 2005 and, on 30 June 2006, she became a director on the board of the Performing Rights Society. Now renamed PRS for Music, in 2009 de Paul was re-elected for a second three year term.
In 2006, de Paul released an updated DVD
of Taking Control, representing her self-defence training programme. The programme showed the importance of self-defence for women, and she has approached schools and universities to include the DVD in the curriculum.
In 2007 she played Sheila Larsen in the first episode of Kingdom
, the Stephen Fry
drama series. On 10 April 2008, de Paul participated in a celebrity version of the Channel 4
show Come Dine With Me
along with fellow celebrities Tamara Beckwith
, MC Harvey and Jonathan Ansell
. De Paul, who is a vegetarian, came in last place. She also was featured on a celebrity version of Cash in the Attic
in March 2009 where she even became a temporary auctioneer.
She wrote the foreword for the book Medium Rare by Billy Roberts, Liam Scott (Apex Publishing, ISBN 978-1-906358-49-5) published in April 2009. The book is about the spiritual medium, Liam Scott. She has also written travel articles for the Daily Mail
on Mauritius
(February 2008) and Australia's East Coast (April 2009).
In 2011, she had her own programme on Sky, entitled Lynsey's Love Songs (Channel 369 - Vintage TV). According to a news item on her website, she chose the songs she liked and researched the songwriters and people who made the records. She is also now releasing some of her songs, including previously unreleased material via her own shop which is linked to her official website.
, Roy Wood
, James Coburn
, George Best
, Sean Connery
, Dodi Fayed, Bill Kenwright
, Bernie Taupin
, Chas Chandler
and Dudley Moore
. Known for her sharp sense of humour, de Paul was labelled "Looney de Small" by Spike Milligan
. She is a patron of the Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund.
who have recorded
songs written or co-written by Lynsey de Paul include:
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
. Allmusic journalist
Music journalism
Music journalism is criticism and reportage about music. It began in the eighteenth century as comment on what is now thought of as 'classical music'. This aspect of music journalism, today often referred to as music criticism , comprises the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of...
, Craig Harris stated, "one of the first successful female singer-songwriters in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, de Paul has had an illustrious career".
Early life
De Paul was born to Meta and Herbert Rubin, a property developerReal estate development
Real estate development, or Property Development, is a multifaceted business, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of improved land or parcels to others...
. She grew up in a Jewish family in Cricklewood, North London
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...
, and attended South Hampstead High School
South Hampstead High School
South Hampstead High School is an all-girls independent day school situated in Hampstead, north-west London. The school was founded and is still supported by The Girls' Day School Trust . The school operates over two sites, the Senior school and Junior school which are run as a single unit with...
.
Career
While attending Hornsey College of ArtHornsey College of Art
Hornsey College of Art is a former college centred in Crouch End, London, England. Since 2008, the building has been a part of Coleridge Primary School, upon its expansion to four form entry...
, and wanting to leave home, she started to design album sleeves
Record sleeve
A record sleeve is the outer covering of a vinyl recording. The sleeve is technically the paper covering that is closest in contact to the surface of the recording, as in "dust sleeve", "liner" and "album liner". The term has come to be synonymous with "record jacket" and "album jacket", which is...
for artists which required her to listen to the tracks. From monies earned from album sleeve design, she got her first flat
Apartment
An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...
, where she turned to songwriting. Three of her earliest songs were co-written with Ed Adamberry and recorded by Jack Wild
Jack Wild
Jack Wild was a British actor who is best remembered for his performances in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, and Oliver Reed. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16 for the role of the...
:- E.O.I.O." from the album "A Beautiful World" (and also released as a single by The Beads) and "Takin' It Easy" and "Bring It on Back to Me" from the album "Everything's Coming Up Roses".
After these initial successes, Lynsey was contracted to ATV-Kirshner music publishing, located above the Peter Robinson's store on Oxford Street
Oxford Street
Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, United Kingdom. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, as well as its most dense, and currently has approximately 300 shops. The street was formerly part of the London-Oxford road which began at Newgate,...
, where she joined a group of professional songwriters that included Barry Blue
Barry Blue
Barry Blue is a singer / producer / songwriter from the United Kingdom. He is best known for his hit songs, "Dancin' " , which he co-wrote with Lynsey de Paul, and "Do You Wanna Dance" .At 14 he signed to record producer Norrie Paramor whose erstwhile assistant was one Tim Rice - the producer of...
and Ron Roker
Ron Roker
Ron Roker is an English songwriter and singer.-Career:Roker first worked as a song-plugger. His first taste of chart success was provided by the theme music to children's TV programme The Adventures of Rupert Bear. The song "Rupert", co-written with Len Beadle and recorded by Beadle's wife Jackie...
, resulting in revenues from songs recorded by other artists from 1971. Noted for her keyboard
Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
skills, ability to write catchy songs and sultry looks, de Paul first hit the UK charts
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
in 1972, as the co-writer (with Ron Roker) of The Fortunes
The Fortunes
The Fortunes are an English harmony beat group. Formed in Birmingham, The Fortunes first came to prominence and international acclaim in 1965, when "You've Got Your Troubles" broke into the US and UK Top 10s...
' hit
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
, "Storm in a Teacup". She was credited as 'L. Rubin' on the record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
. It was about this time that she was also having success in the Netherlands as the writer of "On the Ride", a top 30 hit by the Continental Uptight Band.
A few months later she was propelled into the limelight as the performer of her own hit song "Sugar Me", which reached the Top Ten of the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
(#5), as well as the top of the singles
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
charts in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
and Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and covered by artists such as Nancy Sinatra and Claudine Longet. Lynsey's follow up single to "Sugar Me" was "Getting a Drag" (UK #18), a curious song about a cross-dressing boyfriend at the height of glam rock. After the relatively poor chart performance of third single "All Night" which was written with Ron Roker
Ron Roker
Ron Roker is an English songwriter and singer.-Career:Roker first worked as a song-plugger. His first taste of chart success was provided by the theme music to children's TV programme The Adventures of Rupert Bear. The song "Rupert", co-written with Len Beadle and recorded by Beadle's wife Jackie...
and peaked in the U.K. at #56, Lynsey was back with a new sound, the hauntingly sad "Won't Somebody Dance With Me
Won't Somebody Dance With Me
"Won't Somebody Dance With Me" is a song written by Lynsey De Paul in 1973, which was awarded an Ivor Novello Award in 1974. Her original version of the ballad made the UK, Irish and Dutch Top 20s, and has been featured in the film, The Big Sleep, and the television programmes The Muppet Show and...
". She was the first woman to be awarded an Ivor Novello Award
Ivor Novello Awards
The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the Cardiff born entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. They are presented annually in London by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and were first introduced in 1955.Nicknamed The Ivors, the awards take place...
for this beautiful ballad
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
, which provided her with another UK Top 20 hit. The BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart is a radio broadcaster from England. His real name is Edward Mainwaring but he is known by the nickname Ed Stewpot Stewart.-Early life and career:...
spoke the words "May I Have The Pleasure Of This Dance" near the end of the record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
(he often played the record on his Junior Choice
Children's Favourites
Children's Favourites was a BBC Radio programme from 1954 broadcast on the Light Programme on Saturday mornings from 9:00. A precursor had been called Children's Choice after the style of Housewives' Choice....
programme on Saturday mornings) although Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn is an English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme I'm a Celebrity.....
said it when she appeared on BBC Television
BBC Television
BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...
's Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
. De Paul recorded the female lyric to Mott The Hoople
Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople were a British rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.-The early years:Mott The Hoople...
's album track version of "Roll Away the Stone", but was replaced by female trio Thunderthighs
Thunderthighs
Thunderthighs were a high-profile UK backing vocal group, who quickly became artists in their own right.-Career:The female trio, consisting of Karen Friedman, Dari Lalou and Casey Synge, provided the backing vocals to Lou Reed's hit single, "Walk on the Wild Side"...
on the hit singel version of the song did not perform the song. In 1973, when Mick Ralphs
Mick Ralphs
Michael Geoffrey "Mick" Ralphs is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was a founding member of rock bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company.-Career:...
left Mott the Hoople, his replacement Luther Grosvenor
Luther Grosvenor
Luther James Grosvenor is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym "Ariel Bender", in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker....
was contractually obliged to change his name - de Paul suggested Ariel Bender
Luther Grosvenor
Luther James Grosvenor is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym "Ariel Bender", in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker....
. After appointing Don Arden
Don Arden
Don Arden , born Harry Levy, was an English music manager, agent and businessman, best known for overseeing the careers of rock groups Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath....
, her new manager
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
at the end of 1973, Lynsey released "Ooh I Do", which hit the charts in the UK, Netherlands and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. the songs co-writer Barry Blue
Barry Blue
Barry Blue is a singer / producer / songwriter from the United Kingdom. He is best known for his hit songs, "Dancin' " , which he co-wrote with Lynsey de Paul, and "Do You Wanna Dance" .At 14 he signed to record producer Norrie Paramor whose erstwhile assistant was one Tim Rice - the producer of...
also recorded a version of the song as an album track.
A second Ivor Novello award followed a year later for "No Honestly", which was also the theme tune to a hit ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
comedy of the same name
No, Honestly
No, Honestly is a British sitcom that was originally produced in 1974. No, Honestly featured the real-life married couple of Pauline Collins and John Alderton respectively as Clara and Charles Danby , a newlywed couple living in London....
, and provided her with another UK Top 10 hit, peaking at #7. The TV series No Honestly was followed by Yes Honestly, and although Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.-Early life:Fame took piano lessons from the...
wrote and performed the theme tune to the first series of Yes Honestly, an instrumental
Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
version of de Paul's "No Honestly" was chosen as the theme for the second series. De Paul continued to release a number of singles through the 1970s and early 1980s.
A prolific songwriter, de Paul also continued to write songs for a wide range of recording artists
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
as well as composing the theme music to the 1970s documentary television program
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
me Pilger (John Pilger
John Pilger
John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker, based in London. He has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US....
) for ATV
Associated TeleVision
Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...
. In a five year period (1972–77) she wrote a total of fourteen UK Singles Chart hits, most notably "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" which was a hit for co-writer Barry Blue
Barry Blue
Barry Blue is a singer / producer / songwriter from the United Kingdom. He is best known for his hit songs, "Dancin' " , which he co-wrote with Lynsey de Paul, and "Do You Wanna Dance" .At 14 he signed to record producer Norrie Paramor whose erstwhile assistant was one Tim Rice - the producer of...
as well as Flash Cadillac
Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, now known as Flash Cadillac, are an American retro rock 'n' roll band. They are best known for their portrayal of the group Herbie and the Heartbeats in the film American Graffiti, to which they contributed three songs: cover versions of "At the Hop" and...
and bond
Bond (band)
Bond is an Australian/British string quartet that specialises in classical crossover music...
. De Paul's songs have reached the charts in many territories, including the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Japan, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, the Netherlands, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, Belgium, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. She also has performed producing
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and arranging
Arrangement
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
duties on many of these recordings
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
. In 1976 she was the recipient of the 'Woman Of The Year Award For Music' from the Variety Club of Great Britain
Variety, the Children's Charity
Variety, the Children's Charity is an organisation founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1927, when a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the "Variety Club". On Christmas Eve 1928, a small baby was left on the steps the Sheridan Square...
.
"Rock Bottom
Rock Bottom (Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran song)
"Rock Bottom" was the British entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in English by Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran.The song says that when we are in a bad situation we should work to solve problems and not be pessimistic about tragedies...
", which she wrote with Mike Moran, was the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977
Eurovision Song Contest 1977
The Eurovision Song Contest 1977 was the 22nd edition series, and was held on 7 May 1977 in London. With Angela Rippon as the presenter, the contest was won by Marie Myriam who represented France, with her song "L'oiseau et l'enfant" . This was France's fifth victory, a record, which was equalled...
. 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" (1977), a #38 UK 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 album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
s Tigers and Fireflies and Just a Little Time, respectively. De Paul also wrote and performed the theme music
Theme music
Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits...
for the 1977 revival by London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...
of the sitcom
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
, The Rag Trade
The Rag Trade
The Rag Trade was a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade....
, the same year she composed "Hi Summer", the title of another ITV variety show, performed by Carl Wayne
Carl Wayne
Carl Wayne was a British singer and actor. He is best remembered as the lead vocalist of Birmingham rock group The Move during the 1960s.-Early days:...
. Later TV credits included the theme to the BBC's Hearts Of Gold while in the USA she wrote "A Little TLC" for Kidd Video
Kidd Video
Kidd Video was a Saturday morning cartoon created by DiC Entertainment in association with Saban Entertainment. Its original run was on NBC from 1984 to 1985, but continued in reruns on the network until 1987, when CBS picked the show up...
(see below). In addition to serving as the themes of nine prime time UK television series, de Paul's songs have been featured in such film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s as The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep (1978 film)
The Big Sleep was the second film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Robert Mitchum in his second feature film portrayal of the detective Philip Marlowe. The cast includes Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, and...
, Anita & Me, Side by Side, American Swing and Aces Go Places
Aces Go Places
Aces Go Places, , also known in the United States as Diamondfinger or Mad Mission 1, is a 1982 Hong Kong action/comedy film directed by Eric Tsang, and starring Sam Hui and Karl Maka.-Plot:...
.
After a three year period of being based in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
in the late 1970s and early 1980s with her partner at the time, the actor James Coburn
James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.A capable,...
, de Paul returned to England. During this period, she co-wrote with Terry Britten "A Little TLC", which was covered by Sam Hui
Samuel Hui
Samuel Hui Koon-kit , usually known as Sam Hui, is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, lyricist and film actor. He is credited with popularizing Cantopop both with the infusion of Western-style music and using popular, street Cantonese jargon in his lyrics writing...
and awarded an RTHK top 10 gold award in Hong Kong in 1986. Other versions of this song were recorded by Menudo
Menudo
Menudo can refer to:* Menudo , boy band** Menudo , three of their albums went by this name** Menudo: La Reunion , a music project composed of former band members* Menudo , traditional Mexican soup...
, sung by their lead singer Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
, and also featured in the U.S. children's TV show, Kidd Video
Kidd Video
Kidd Video was a Saturday morning cartoon created by DiC Entertainment in association with Saban Entertainment. Its original run was on NBC from 1984 to 1985, but continued in reruns on the network until 1987, when CBS picked the show up...
. Whilst still writing songs for Shirley Bassey
Shirley Bassey
Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...
, Heatwave and The Real Thing, de Paul also branched out into record production
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, acting in musicals
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
and plays, interviewing and TV presentation, drawing cartoons and also self defence
Self-defense
Self-defense, self-defence or private defense is a countermeasure that involves defending oneself, one's property or the well-being of another from physical harm. The use of the right of self-defense as a legal justification for the use of force in times of danger is available in many...
. On the latter subject, in 1992 she released a self defence video for women called Taking Control, and presented a documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about women's self defence, called Eve Fights Back, which won a Royal Television Society
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
award.
De Paul has orchestrated, played, and produced two classical records of compositions by Handel
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
and Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
for Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label which was the foundation of the future corporation to be known as PolyGram. It is now part of Universal Music Group since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label...
and released "Air on a Heart String" backed with "Arrival of the Queen" with panflautist Horea Crishan. Lynsey has also composed and performed songs for children, including work for the Channel Tunnel Group included writing and producing an album of children's songs with accompanying song colouring book for Eurotunnel
Eurotunnel
Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. manages and operates the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France. The Company operates the car shuttle services and earns revenue on other trains passing through the tunnel...
's mascot, entitled Marcus The Mole as well as film music for the children's film, Gabrielle and the Doodleman where she had a starring role as an actress. Lynsey also has composed jingle
Jingle
A jingle is a short tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. The jingle contains one or more hooks and lyrics that explicitly promote the product being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television...
s for radio stations including Capital Radio. In 1983, she appeared at the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
conference, where she sang a song she had composed specially for the occasion - "Vote Tory, Tory, Tory/For election glory". In 1985, she was awarded the Rear of the Year
Rear of the Year
Rear of the Year is a light-hearted British award for celebrities who are considered to have a notable posterior. It was created by publicity consultant Anthony Edwards and is organised by Rear of the Year Limited.-History:...
title for which she thanked the organisers from the "heart of her bottom". De Paul has hosted television shows such as Club Vegetarian, Shopper's Heaven, Eat Drink & Be Healthy, Women of Substance, The Vinyl Frontier and 15 episodes of Living Room Legends, which featured home videos.
Lynsey received a Gold Badge Award for contribution to the music industry in 2005 and, on 30 June 2006, she became a director on the board of the Performing Rights Society. Now renamed PRS for Music, in 2009 de Paul was re-elected for a second three year term.
In 2006, de Paul released an updated DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
of Taking Control, representing her self-defence training programme. The programme showed the importance of self-defence for women, and she has approached schools and universities to include the DVD in the curriculum.
In 2007 she played Sheila Larsen in the first episode of Kingdom
Kingdom (TV series)
Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal...
, the Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
drama series. On 10 April 2008, de Paul participated in a celebrity version of the Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
show Come Dine With Me
Come Dine With Me
Come Dine With Me is a popular Channel 4 television programme shown in the United Kingdom, produced by Granada Television and first broadcast in January 2005. The show has either four or five amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants...
along with fellow celebrities Tamara Beckwith
Tamara Beckwith
Tamara Beckwith is an English socialite, noted for her coverage in glossy celebrity magazines such as OK! and Hello! magazine.-Early life:...
, MC Harvey and Jonathan Ansell
Jonathan Ansell
Jonathan Mark Ansell is an English singer, formerly the high tenor of the vocal group G4.Jonathan Ansell was born in Bognor Regis in 1982, where both his parents were primary school teachers. Influenced by his mother’s tapes of Pavarotti and the Three Tenors, Jonathan joined the West Sussex Boys'...
. De Paul, who is a vegetarian, came in last place. She also was featured on a celebrity version of Cash in the Attic
Cash in the Attic
Cash in the Attic, also Cash in the Celebrity Attic, is a UK television show on the BBC. The show, made by , premièred in 2002 and has run for sixteen series; as of February 2010, the seventeenth series is currently in production, along with the fifth celebrity series...
in March 2009 where she even became a temporary auctioneer.
She wrote the foreword for the book Medium Rare by Billy Roberts, Liam Scott (Apex Publishing, ISBN 978-1-906358-49-5) published in April 2009. The book is about the spiritual medium, Liam Scott. She has also written travel articles for the Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
on Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
(February 2008) and Australia's East Coast (April 2009).
In 2011, she had her own programme on Sky, entitled Lynsey's Love Songs (Channel 369 - Vintage TV). According to a news item on her website, she chose the songs she liked and researched the songwriters and people who made the records. She is also now releasing some of her songs, including previously unreleased material via her own shop which is linked to her official website.
Private life
Although never married, at various times De Paul has been romantically linked with Ringo StarrRingo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
, Roy Wood
Roy Wood
Roy Adrian Wood is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands.-Career:Wood...
, James Coburn
James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.A capable,...
, George Best
George Best
George Best was a professional footballer from Northern Ireland, who played for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders...
, Sean Connery
Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery , better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy...
, Dodi Fayed, Bill Kenwright
Bill Kenwright
Bill Kenwright CBE is a leading West End theatre producer and film producer.He is also the Chairman of Everton Football Club, an English professional football club from the city of Liverpool....
, Bernie Taupin
Bernie Taupin
Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, making his lyrics some of the best known in pop-rock's history.In 1967, Taupin answered an advertisement in...
, Chas Chandler
Chas Chandler
Bryan James "Chas" Chandler was an English musician, record producer and manager of several successful music acts....
and Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television...
. Known for her sharp sense of humour, de Paul was labelled "Looney de Small" by Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...
. She is a patron of the Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund.
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
DE Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
CH Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
NL Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... |
IRE Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth... |
ES Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... |
AT Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... |
BE Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... |
SWE Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... |
FR France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
AUS Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
||
| 1972 | 5 | 16 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | 4 | |
| "Getting A Drag" | 18 | 48 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1973 | "All Night All Night All Night is a 1918 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and Carmel Myers.-Synopsis:Richard Thayer, a shy, unassuming man is in love with a sheltered young woman, Elizabeth Lane . While the feelings are mutual and Richard wishes to propose, he can never find a moment to speak to Beth alone... " |
56 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Won't Somebody Dance With Me Won't Somebody Dance With Me "Won't Somebody Dance With Me" is a song written by Lynsey De Paul in 1973, which was awarded an Ivor Novello Award in 1974. Her original version of the ballad made the UK, Irish and Dutch Top 20s, and has been featured in the film, The Big Sleep, and the television programmes The Muppet Show and... " |
14 | - | - | 21 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1974 | "Ooh I Do" | 25 | - | - | 16 | - | - | - | 12 | - | - | - |
| "No Honestly" | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1975 | "My Man And Me" | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1977 | "Rock Bottom Rock Bottom (Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran song) "Rock Bottom" was the British entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in English by Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran.The song says that when we are in a bad situation we should work to solve problems and not be pessimistic about tragedies... " (with Mike Moran) |
19 | 4 | 1 | - | 7 | - | 2 | - | 6 | 10 | - |
Other singles
- "Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby" / "Into My Music"
- "Happy Christmas to You From Me" / "Stick to You" (with Barry BlueBarry BlueBarry Blue is a singer / producer / songwriter from the United Kingdom. He is best known for his hit songs, "Dancin' " , which he co-wrote with Lynsey de Paul, and "Do You Wanna Dance" .At 14 he signed to record producer Norrie Paramor whose erstwhile assistant was one Tim Rice - the producer of...
) - "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")
- "Blind Leading the Blind" ("All Night")
- "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")
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
Other artists
ArtistsMusician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
who have recorded
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
songs written or co-written by Lynsey de Paul include:
- Barry BlueBarry BlueBarry Blue is a singer / producer / songwriter from the United Kingdom. He is best known for his hit songs, "Dancin' " , which he co-wrote with Lynsey de Paul, and "Do You Wanna Dance" .At 14 he signed to record producer Norrie Paramor whose erstwhile assistant was one Tim Rice - the producer of...
- various including "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)", "School Love", "Miss Hit and Run", "Hot Shot", "Mona", "Billy", "Tip of My Tongue", "Ooh I Do", "Happy Christmas to You from Me", "Lover Lovin' You", "Papa Do" (as Barry Green) and "Boomerang" (as Barry Green) - Bob Downe - "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)"
- BondBond (band)Bond is an Australian/British string quartet that specialises in classical crossover music...
- "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" - Brotherly LoveBrotherly loveBrotherly love may refer to:* Philia, a Greek word for love* Brotherly love * The New Commandment of Jesus, - Television :* Brotherly Love , an American television series...
- "Tip of my Tongue" - Bruce JohnstonBruce JohnstonBruce Arthur Johnston is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band...
- "Won't Somebody Dance With Me" - Buddha Monk - "Dedicated" (sampledSampling (music)In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
"All I Am") - Carl WayneCarl WayneCarl Wayne was a British singer and actor. He is best remembered as the lead vocalist of Birmingham rock group The Move during the 1960s.-Early days:...
- "Hi Summer" (Theme tune for the ITV variety show), "My Girl and Me" - Cheryl LynnCheryl LynnLynda Cheryl Smith , known better by her professional name Cheryl Lynn, is a female African-American disco, R&B and soul singer known best for her 1978 disco song, "Got to Be Real".-Early career:...
- "Love Bomb" - Chris KellyChris KellyChris Kelly is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League . He is an alternate captain for the Bruins during away games.- Minor Hockey :...
- "House of Cards" - Claudine LongetClaudine LongetClaudine Georgette Longet is a French singer and recording artist who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. She is also an actress and a dancer.Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975...
- "Sugar Me" - Dana - "Crossword Puzzle", "Thieves of Paris"
- DannyDanny SaucedoDanny Saucedo is a Swedish singer and songwriter often presented just as Danny, who competed as one of the finalists in Idol 2006 - the Swedish version of Idol where he got to the top 6 before being eliminated.Danny has released three music albums and eleven music singles...
- "Kun Mentävä On" (When You've Gotta Go) - Elke SommerElke SommerElke Sommer , born Baroness Elke Schletz, is a German actress, entertainer and artist.-Career:Sommer was born in Berlin to a Lutheran minister and his wife...
- "So Knall auf Fall" (GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
version of "On the Ride") - Flash Cadillac & the Continental KidsFlash Cadillac & the Continental KidsFlash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, now known as Flash Cadillac, are an American retro rock 'n' roll band. They are best known for their portrayal of the group Herbie and the Heartbeats in the film American Graffiti, to which they contributed three songs: cover versions of "At the Hop" and...
- "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" - Frank FarianFrank FarianFrank Farian , is a German record producer and songwriter. He started out as a trained cook before moving into the music industry...
- "Was Kann Schöner Sein?" (GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
version of "When You've Gotta Go") - Franz LambertFranz LambertFranz Lambert is a German composer and organist. He is an avid Hammond organ player, however he is more noted in later years for playing the Wersi range of electronic organs...
- "Getting a Drag" - Gerard KennyGerard KennyGerard Kenny is a popular music singer-songwriter.-Career:Kenny formed his first band whilst in high school and between then, and the early 1970s, he toured the club circuit. In 1968 he landed his first recording contract with Warner Bros...
- "Take Back Your Heartaches" - Ginette RenoGinette RenoGinette Reno, OC, CQ is a French-Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She is known by the nickname .Born as Ginette Reynault in Montreal, Quebec, she played the role of Maria Barberini in the independent film Mambo Italiano and played the mother in Léolo.She has recorded in both...
- "Dans la Vie Tout s'Arranger" (FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
version of "Storm in a Teacup") - GoldGold (band)Gold is a French music band from Toulouse which enjoyed considerable success in the Francophone world in the 1980s.-History:Gold was originally composed of five musicians : Lucien Crémadès , Alain Llorca , Bernard Mazauric , Etienne Salvador and lead singer/guitarist Emile Wandelmer.The group...
- "Hearts of Gold" (Theme tune for Esther RantzenEsther RantzenEsther Louise Rantzen CBE is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC television series That's Life!, and for her work in various charitable causes. She is founder of the child protection charity ChildLine, and also advocates the work of the Burma...
's TV series) - Gwen Stacey - "Sugar Me"
- HeatwaveHeatwave (band)Heatwave was an international funk/disco musical band featuring Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and Keith Wilder of Dayton, Ohio, Englishman Rod Temperton , Swiss Mario Mantese , Czechoslovak Ernest "Bilbo" Berger , Jamaican Eric Johns and Briton Roy Carter .They were known for their successful...
- "All I Am" - Helena VondráčkováHelena VondráckováHelena Vondráčková is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades.- Early life/career :Vondráčková spent her childhood years in the town of Slatinany. She took piano lessons from an early age...
- "Šeptej Mi (Sugar Me)" - Jack WildJack WildJack Wild was a British actor who is best remembered for his performances in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, and Oliver Reed. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16 for the role of the...
- "Takin' It Easy", "Bring Yourself Back to Me", "E.E.O.E.I.O" - James LastJames LastJames Last is a German composer and big band leader. His "happy music" made his numerous albums best-sellers in Germany and the United Kingdom. His composition, "Happy Heart", became an international success in interpretations by Andy Williams and Petula Clark...
- "Rock Bottom" - Joan BrownJoan BrownJoan Brown was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement....
- "The Rag Trade" (Theme tune for The Rag TradeThe Rag TradeThe Rag Trade was a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade....
) - John ChristieJohn ChristieJohn Christie may refer to:*John Christie , English footballer*John Christie , author, ski historian, Member Maine Ski Hall of Fame*John Christie , opera festival founder...
- "House of Cards" - Johnnie Wilder, Jr.Johnnie Wilder, Jr.Johnnie James Wilder, Jr. was the co-founder and lead vocalist of the international R&B/funk group Heatwave. Heatwave was a popular group during the late 1970s, with hits such as "Boogie Nights", "Mind Blowing Decisions", "Always and Forever" and "The Groove Line", on which Wilder sang co-lead...
- "All I Am" - Klaus WunderlichKlaus WunderlichKlaus Wunderlich was a German musician.Wunderlich was born in Chemnitz and died in Engen from a heart attack....
- "Sugar Me" - Lena ZavaroniLena ZavaroniLena Hilda Zavaroni was a Scottish child singer and a television show host. With her album Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me at ten years of age, she is the youngest person in history to have an album in the UK album chart top ten. Later in life she hosted TV shows and appeared on stage...
- "Won't Somebody Dance With Me", "Hollywood Romance" - Lenny ZakatekLenny ZakatekLenny Zakatek also known as "The Voice" is a pop and rock singer and musician who has lived in London since the age of thirteen...
- "I Gotcha Now", "So Good To You", "Get Your Gun", "We Have Gotta Runaway" - Manchester United F.C.Manchester United F.C.Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
- "Storm in a Teacup" - MarilynMarilyn (musician)Peter Robinson , better known as Marilyn, is a British pop singer who achieved international fame in the 1980s with his hit song "Calling Your Name".-Discography:Albums...
- "Sugar Me" - Marti WebbMarti WebbMarti Webb is a musical actress from England, who appeared on stage in Evita, before starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one woman show Tell Me on a Sunday in 1980...
- "All I Am", "Whatcha Gonna Do With Your Freedom?" - Martyn Ford Orchestra - "Let Your Body Go Downtown", "Going to a Disco"
- Mia MartiniMia MartiniMia Martini was an Italian singer.-Early life:Born Domenica Bertè in 1947 in Bagnara Calabra , she moved to Rome with her sister and her friend Renato Zero.-Career:She recorded her first records as Mimì Berté, but she soon decided to change her name to Mia...
- "Sabato" (ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
version: "Dancin'(on a Saturday Night))" - MenudoMenudo (band)Menudo was a Puerto Rican boy band that was formed in the 1970s by producer Edgardo Díaz, releasing their first album in 1977. The band achieved much success, especially during the 1980s, becoming the most popular Latin American teen musical group of the era....
- "A Little TLC" - Mice - "Martian Man"
- Nancy SinatraNancy SinatraNancy Sandra Sinatra is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....
- "Sugar Me" - Nydia Caro Nydia CaroNydia Caro is an American & Puerto Rican actress and singer. Born in New York City to parents from Rincón, Puerto Rico, she initiated her career in the arts at a very young age while living in New York...
- "Sugar Me" - Petula ClarkPetula ClarkPetula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
- "Taking It On" - Ricky MartinRicky MartinEnrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
- "A Little TLC" - Sacha DistelSacha DistelSacha Distel was a French singer and guitarist who had hits with a cover version of the Academy Award-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" , "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was born in Paris.-Career:Sacha Distel, born Alexandre Distel, was a son of Russian White émigré Leonid Distel...
- "Taking It On" - Sam Hui - "A Little TLC"
- Shirley BasseyShirley BasseyDame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...
- "There's No Place Like London" - Solomon KingSolomon KingSolomon King was a 1960s and 1970s popular music singer. He is best remembered for his 1968 hit single, "She Wears My Ring".-Biography:...
- "When You Gotta Go" - Stephanie de Sykes and Rain - "Golden Day" (Theme tune for The Golden ShotThe Golden ShotThe Golden Shot is a British television game show produced by ATV for ITV between 1 July 1967 and 13 April 1975, based on the German TV show Der goldene Schuss. It is most commonly associated with host Bob Monkhouse, though, three other presenters also hosted the show during its lifetime...
) - The DooleysThe DooleysThe Dooleys were a United Kingdom male–female pop group comprising eight members — six of them family members — at their peak. They achieved several UK chart hits between 1977 and 1981 including top-ten hits "Wanted", "Love of My Life" and "The Chosen Few"....
- "Tip of My Tongue" - The FortunesThe FortunesThe Fortunes are an English harmony beat group. Formed in Birmingham, The Fortunes first came to prominence and international acclaim in 1965, when "You've Got Your Troubles" broke into the US and UK Top 10s...
- "Storm in a Teacup" - The Real Thing - "We Got Love"
- The Spencer Davis Group - "Tomorrow Gluggo"
- ThunderthighsThunderthighsThunderthighs were a high-profile UK backing vocal group, who quickly became artists in their own right.-Career:The female trio, consisting of Karen Friedman, Dari Lalou and Casey Synge, provided the backing vocals to Lou Reed's hit single, "Walk on the Wild Side"...
- "Central Park Arrest" - The DooleysThe DooleysThe Dooleys were a United Kingdom male–female pop group comprising eight members — six of them family members — at their peak. They achieved several UK chart hits between 1977 and 1981 including top-ten hits "Wanted", "Love of My Life" and "The Chosen Few"....
- "Tip of My Tongue" - TwogetherTwogetherTwogether is a 2001 studio album by Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli of jazz standards, a particular specialty of the pair. The Victrola Records label is small and independent.- Track listing :#Bing's Blues #Dinah #Honeysuckle Rose...
- "Side By Side" - Vera LynnVera LynnDame Vera Lynn, DBE is an English singer-songwriter and actress whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during World War II. During the war she toured Egypt, India and Burma, giving outdoor concerts for the troops...
- "Don't You Remember When"