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| - Dusty Springfield was a singer whose music was liked by Jimmy Wicks and Rory's mother. One of her songs was playing when the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, and Rory arrived at a 22nd century monastery-turned-factory. (TV: The Rebel Flesh)
- Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer. Her song "Son of a Preacher Man" is featured in the Luke Cage episode Now You're Mine.
- Dusty Springfield was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual mezzo soprano sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers. With six top 20 singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the United Kingdom Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She was a member of both the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time.
- Dusty Springfield (birth name Mary O'Brien, 1939-1999), was an English singer who reached the height of her popularity in the mid-1960s with Motown-influenced recordings such as "I Only Want to Be With You" which earned her the nickname "The White Queen of Soul", although she also recorded straight pop and blues as well. Her other famous recordings included "Son of a Preacher Man" and the Oscar-nominated "The Look of Love" which was introduced in the 1967 comedy film Casino Royale and later revived by the Austin Powers movies.
- Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 - 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the United Kingdom Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of both the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Si
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| - Dusty Springfield was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual mezzo soprano sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers. With six top 20 singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the United Kingdom Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She was a member of both the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, as well as her flamboyant performances on the black and white television of the 1960s, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.
- Dusty Springfield was a singer whose music was liked by Jimmy Wicks and Rory's mother. One of her songs was playing when the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, and Rory arrived at a 22nd century monastery-turned-factory. (TV: The Rebel Flesh)
- Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 - 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the United Kingdom Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of both the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties. Born in Ealing, London to a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters, and two years later formed a pop-folk vocal trio, The Springfields, with her brother Tom. Her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, "I Only Want to Be with You". Among the hits that followed were "Wishin' and Hopin'" (1964), "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (1964), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968). As a fan of US pop music, she brought many little-known soul singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience by hosting the first national TV performance of many top-sellingMotown artists beginning in 1965. Although never considered a Northern Soul artist in her own right, Springfield's efforts contributed a great deal to the formation of the genre as a result. Partly owing to these efforts, a year later she eventually became the best-selling female singer in the world and topped a number of popularity polls, including Melody Maker's Best International Vocalist. She was the first UK singer to top the New Musical Express readers' poll for Female Singer. To boost her credibility as a soul artist, Springfield went to Memphis, Tennessee to record Dusty in Memphis, an album of pop and soul music with the Atlantic Records main production team. Released in 1969, it has been ranked among the greatest albums of all time by the US magazine Rolling Stone and in polls by VH1 artists, New Musical Express readers, and Channel 4viewers. The album was also awarded a spot in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Despite its current recognition, the album did not sell well and after its release, Springfield experienced a career slump for several years. However, in collaboration with Pet Shop Boys, she returned to the Top 10 of the UK and US charts in 1987 with "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" Two years later, she had two other UK hits on her own with "Nothing Has Been Proved" and "In Private." Subsequently in the mid-1990s, owing to the inclusion of "Son of a Preacher Man" on the Pulp Fictionsoundtrack, interest in her early output was revived.
- Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer. Her song "Son of a Preacher Man" is featured in the Luke Cage episode Now You're Mine.
- Dusty Springfield (birth name Mary O'Brien, 1939-1999), was an English singer who reached the height of her popularity in the mid-1960s with Motown-influenced recordings such as "I Only Want to Be With You" which earned her the nickname "The White Queen of Soul", although she also recorded straight pop and blues as well. Her other famous recordings included "Son of a Preacher Man" and the Oscar-nominated "The Look of Love" which was introduced in the 1967 comedy film Casino Royale and later revived by the Austin Powers movies. In 1973, Springfield recorded a song entitled "Six Million Dollar Man" which was used as the theme song for the second Six Million Dollar Man telefilm, Wine, Women and War, A brief rendition of the song is heard over the opening credits and a longer version plays out over the closing credits. The song was clearly intended to be an ongoing theme, as it was utilized again for the closing credits of the third telefilm, The Solid Gold Kidnapping, but when the weekly series began, the theme song was abandoned and replaced by Oliver Nelson's instrumental theme. Springfield's work on the telefilms was followed by a career slump that lasted into the 1980s when, thanks to support from the pop group Pet Shop Boys, she enjoyed a career comeback that included major hits with the PSB collaboration "What Have I Done to Deserve This" and the top-20 solo hit "Nothing Has Been Proved" from the 1989 film, Scandal. Springfield continued to record, and receive career accolades, into the mid-1990s when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died from the disease in 1999. Due to both Wine, Women and War and Solid Gold Kidnapping being reedited for syndication, the only episodic version of The Six Million Dollar Man that retains Springfield's song is Part 2 of "Solid Gold Kidnapping" which features it over the closing credits in lieu of Nelson's theme; Springfield is also credited at the end of Part 1, even though her song is not heard in the episode.
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