Artists:Barbara Dickson
From WWR
|
Barbara Dickson was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music.
In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….and Bert’ and asked her to perform the music. The combination of fine writing, a superb cast of young unknowns, (including Antony Sher, Bernard Hill and Trevor Eve), and Barbara’s idiosyncratic interpretation of Beatles songs made the show hugely successful.
The show’s co-producer, Robert Stigwood, signed Barbara to his record label, RSO Records, where she recorded the album ‘Answer Me’, the title track becoming a top ten hit in 1976. This led to her guest residency on the much-loved series ‘The Two Ronnies’, which brought Barbara’s singing to the attention of more than 10 million viewers every week.
Also impressed by Barbara’s performance were Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, who invited her to record ‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’ from the new musical ‘Evita’, which became her second hit in 1977. Other hits including ‘The Caravan Song’ and ‘January, February’, followed in 1980.
In 1982, Willy Russell asked Barbara to star in his new musical ‘Blood Brothers’ in the pivotal role of the mother, Mrs. Johnstone. Although at first reluctant to accept, having never acted before, (not even in a school play!), she rose to the challenge, in the process garnering critical acclaim as well as Actress of the Year in a Musical from the Society of West End Theatres in 1984.
Later that year, Tim Rice approached Barbara to take part in the cast album recording of the musical ‘Chess’, which included the song ‘I Know Him So Well’, a duet sung with Elaine Paige. This song remained at number one in the UK charts for several weeks and went on to become a worldwide hit. read more
External links
| Barbara Dickson on MySpace |
| Barbara Dickson on Wikipedia |
More information
 |
This artist lives in England. |
 |
The gender of this artist/group is female. |
Search
WWR / Google / Google image / YouTube / MySpace / Google video / CDBaby / Wikipedia / 888 LastFM fans / Musi-Cal / RIAA Radar / eMusic / Blogs (RSS)
Fans
Jimkloss / Oldcajun / Hoonah / Smileysmom2 / Jsteel133 / Scobey / Fine-line / Hexaba / Atuuschaaw / Kazookid
Listener Tags & Comments
Image on WWR
Click to view or edit Barbara Dickson's picture
Artist image library
Albums on WWR
Video
Request a show of songs by Barbara Dickson
| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Total Time | 0:00 |
The current music queue contains 2 songs that will take 7 mins, 22 secs to play.
You must be a logged on user to request music. It's free and easy. Create an account here.
Artist name is|Barbara Dickson Last played| more than 1 month ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Barbara Dickson Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
Stats
- Spotlighted: Monday, January 16th 2006
- Songs on WWR: 9
- Total plays: 241
- Total requests: 128
- Total listens: 6100
- CDBaby referrals: 0
- CDBaby sales:
Other skins for artist pages
| Default / Simple / Classic / Jimbob / For Playing Around With / 12-stringer / Atuu / Mert / Kelli / Rubenerd / Kazookid |
