HELEN SHAPIRO-A QUEEN FOR TONIGHT EMI- DISC ACETATE •??VERY RARE•?? 1963 EX+ 45
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HELEN SHAPIRO- A QUEEN FOR TONIGHT EMI- DISC ACETATE 1963 •?? VERY RARE 45 EX+.PLAYS EXTREMELY WELL ONLY A COUPLE OF VERY LIGHT MARKS.
THIS ACETATE IS ONE OF 300+ FROM A SOUND ENGINEER AT RADIO LUXEMBOURG. THIS WAS RECORDED AT EMI STUDIOS, ABBEY RD. ONLY 3/4 WOULD HAVE BEEN MADE.
THE SOUND ENGINEERS WERE MALCOLM ADDEY AND PETER VINCE,(THE MA/PV ON THE ACETATE) THIS WAS RECORSED A FEW WEEKS B4 ITS RELEASE. ON COLUMBIA DB7287 ON 25TH JANYARY 1963.
MALCOLM ADDEY JOINED EMI STUDIOS (ABBEY RD) IN 1958.
Malcolm experimented with and pioneered the use of such things as liberal amounts of equalisation and compression in addition to placing microphones much closer to instruments and vocalists than was considered prudent by his contemporaries. As a result his records tended to be louder, more “present” and attention-getting
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Before she was sixteen years old, Shapiro had been voted Britain's "Top Female Singer". The Beatles first national tour of Britain, in the late winter/early spring of 1963, was as one of her supporting acts .During the course of the tour, the Beatles had their first hit single and John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song "Misery" for her, but Shapiro did not record the composition.In 1995, during a This Is Your Life highlighting her life and career, Shapiro revealed, "It was actually turned down on my behalf before I ever heard it, actually. I never got to hear it or give an opinion. It's a shame, really." Shapiro lip-synched her then-current single, "Look Who It Is", on the British television programme Ready Steady Go! with three of the Beatles (John Lennon, Ringo Starrand George Harrison).
In 1962, Shapiro appeared as herself in the Billy Fury film Play It Cool, and played the lead female role in Richard Lester's movie, It's Trad, Dad!, which co-starred another early 60s hitmaker, Craig Douglas. On 31 December 1969, Shapiro appeared on the BBC/ZDF co-production Pop Go The Sixties, singing "Walkin' Back to Happiness".
By the time she was in her late teens, her career as a pop singer was on the wane. With the new wave of beat music and newer female singers such as Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and Lulu, Shapiro appeared old-fashioned and emblematic of the pre-Beatles, 50s era. As her pop career declined, Shapiro turned to cabaret appearances, touring the workingmen's clubs of the North East of England. Her final cabaret show took place at Peterlee's Senate Club on 6 May 1972, where she announced she was giving up touring as she was "travel-weary" and had had enough of "living out of a suitcase". Later, after a change of mind, she branched out as a performer in stage musicals, and jazz(being her first love musically).
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