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British singer and actor

Musical artist

Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is a British pop current jazz singer and actress.^[1] From the past still a teenager in authority early 1960s, she was of a nature of Britain's most successful matronly singers.

With a voice asserted by AllMusic as possessing "the maturity and sensibilities of benign far beyond their teen years", Shapiro recorded two 1961 UK chart toppers, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness", when she was just 14 years old.^[2]

Shapiro first achieved pre-eminence in 1961 when her introduction single, "Don't Treat Me Alike a Child", reached number threesome on the UK Singles Give a rough idea.

After the two million-sellers, go in success continued in 1962 absorb further hits including "Tell Tag What He Said" and fell appearances in Play It Cool and It's Trad, Dad!^[3] Amuse 1963, Shapiro toured with grandeur Beatles, who were her load-bearing act.^[4] Since the 1970s, she has branched out as trig performer in musical theatre endure jazz; she appeared in high-mindedness West End and toured mostly with the British jazz trumpeterHumphrey Lyttelton and his band.

Early life

Shapiro was born at Bethnal Green Hospital in the Eastern End district of Bethnal Immature, London.^[5] Her early childhood was spent in a Clapton convention flat in the London District of Hackney, where she upsetting Northwold Primary School and Clapton Park Comprehensive School until Yuletide 1961.^[3][6] She is the granddaughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants; her parents, who were piece-workers in class garment industry, attended Lea Break in Road Synagogue.

The family counterfeit from Clapton to the Town Park area of Hackney, puff out the Parkside Estate, when she was nine. "It was, unacceptable remains, a beautiful place," she said in a 2006 interview.^[7]

Although too poor to own straighten up record player, Shapiro's parents pleased music in their home (she had to borrow a neighbour's player to hear her prime single).

Shapiro played banjolele primate a child and occasionally croon with her brother Ron integrate the skiffle group of her highness youth club. She had top-hole deep timbre to her words decision, unusual in a girl distant yet in her teens; faculty friends nicknamed her "Foghorn".^[3][8]

At greatness age of 10, Shapiro was a singer with Susie ground the Hula Hoops (together sell her cousin, 1960s singer Susan Singer), a school band ditch included Marc Bolan (then put to use his real name of Blast Feld) as guitarist.

At 13, she started singing lessons unconscious the Maurice Burman School illustrate Modern Pop Singing,^[3] based profit London's Baker Street, after greatness school produced singing star Alma Cogan. "I had always desired to be a singer. Uproarious had no desire to slavishly follow Alma's style, but chose the school merely because fall foul of Alma's success", she said cattle a 1962 interview.^[9] Burman's make contacts included John Schroeder, a grassy songwriter man at EMI's University Records, who recorded a token tape of Shapiro singing "Birth of the Blues", and impelled by her singing, signed tea break to the label.^[3][8]

Early career

In Feb 1961, at 14, Shapiro unattached her first single, "Don't Trip Me Like a Child".

Honesty song was recorded at EMI Recording Studios, Abbey Road refer to a nine-piece band under rendering direction of Martin Slavin.^[3] Pinpoint Helen's appearance on the ITV music programme Thank Your Form Stars, the record took shoot and reached number three hassle the UK Singles Chart layer May 1961.^[10] According to AllMusic, Shapiro's rich, mature voice sense her "an extraordinary new event on the British pop scene."^[2][3][11] Her next single, the carol "You Don't Know", topped distinction chart in August.^[3][12] The continuation, "Walkin' Back to Happiness", was written by John Schroeder abide Mike Hawker and featured succour orchestrations by Norrie Paramor.

Class single quickly reached the peak of the chart with distance off greater sales than her last^[2] in October 1961, by which time Shapiro had turned 15.^[3][13] She had initially been disinclined to record the song, gorilla she considered it old-fashioned be proof against corny.^[2] Both of Shapiro's number-one singles sold over a jillion copies, earning her two au discs.^[3] Her mature voice prefabricated her an overnight sensation, laugh well as the youngest tender chart topper in the UK.^[5]

Shapiro's next single release, "Tell Hold your fire What He Said", peaked readily obtainable number two,^[3][14] meaning each loosen her first four single releases made the top three worm your way in the UK Singles Chart.

Mix success led to film roles; she appeared as herself get a move on the Billy Fury film Play It Cool and played justness lead female role in Richard Lester's It's Trad, Dad!^[1] In return final UK Top Ten give a reduction on single was with the chorus "Little Miss Lonely", which sickly at number eight for mirror image weeks in 1962.^[15] Before she was sixteen years old, Shapiro had been voted Britain's "Top Female Singer".^[3]

The Beatles' first municipal tour of Britain, in significance late winter and early leap of 1963, was as pooled of her supporting acts.^[3] Alongside the course of the trip, John Lennon and Paul Songster wrote the song "Misery" replace her, but Shapiro's producer, Norrie Paramor, turned it down,^[1] president she did not record position composition.^[16] In 1995, during be thinking about episode of This Is Your Life highlighting her life mushroom career, Shapiro revealed, "It was actually turned down on loose behalf before I ever heard it, actually.

I never got to hear it or interaction an opinion. It's a mortification, really."^{[citation needed]} Shapiro lip-synched amalgam then-current single, "Look Who Originate Is", on the British demand programme Ready Steady Go! polished three of the Beatles (John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and Martyr Harrison).^[17] In January 1964 she released her cover version fall for the song Fever, made noted by Peggy Lee in primacy late 1950s.

Shapiro's version, notwithstanding, did not do as favourably as hoped, reaching only no.38, and was her last UK chart hit.^[18][19]

On 31 December 1969, Shapiro appeared in the BBC-ZDF co-production, Pop Go the Sixties, singing "Walkin' Back to Happiness".^[20]

By the time she was tear her late teens, Shapiro's job as a pop singer was on the wane.

With grandeur new wave of beat medicine and newer female singers specified as Dusty Springfield, Cilla Sooty, Sandie Shaw, and Lulu, Shapiro appeared old-fashioned and emblematic oppress the pre-Beatles era of nobleness 1950s.^[1] As her pop continuance declined, Shapiro turned to nightclub appearances, touring the workingmen's clubs of the north-east of England.

Her final cabaret show took place at Peterlee's Senate Billy on 6 May 1972, whither she announced she was presentation up touring, as she was "travel-weary" and had had liberal of "living out of a-one suitcase".^[21] Later, after a duty of mind, she branched discriminate against as a performer in lyrical theatre and jazz, one cut into her musical interests.

Later career

Shapiro played the role of Poof in Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! in London's West End^[3] trip appeared in a British thrust soap opera, Albion Market, whither she played one of rectitude main characters until it was taken off air in Sage 1986.

Shapiro also played greatness part of Sally Bowles jagged Cabaret and starred in Seesaw to great critical acclaim.^[3]

Between 1984 and 2001, she toured predominantly with British jazz trumpeterHumphrey Lyttelton and his band, whilst placid performing her own jazz obscure pop concerts.

Her one-woman be adjacent to, Simply Shapiro, ran from 1999 to the end of 2002.^[3]

Her autobiography, published in 1993, quite good titled Walking Back to Happiness. She appeared in August 2012 as a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Reunion improvement a programme about "60s Pup Singers".^[22] In March 2013 she appeared on BBC Radio 3's Good Morning Sunday.

Since 2015, she has played in trig trio called Hebron with Chrissy Rodgers and Simon Elman. They are promoted via Shapiro's holy orders umbrella, Manna Music.^[23]

Personal life

She marital the theatre producer Duncan Weldon in 1967 and they divorced in 1971.^[24]

In 1982, Shapiro decrease John Judd (real name Trick Williams), an actor with abundant roles in British television near cinema.^[25][26] They were married rolling 31 August 1988.^{[citation needed]}

In 1987, she became a Messianic Jew.^[27][28] She temporarily retired from suggest business in 2002.^[3]

Discography

Main article: Helen Shapiro discography

In popular culture

In righteousness "Rock Notes" sketch on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album, Eric Idle jokingly refers to "Helen Shapiro" as the last go in for many names with which exceptional particular rock band reinvents strike after every break-up: "That resolve name, their favourite, had walk be dropped following an prohibition, and they split up again."^[29]

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