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Get track 315 Elkie Brooks performs on stage with Vinegar Joe in Leeds on October 19 Posed portrait of Elkie Brooks, leaning on a cushion. 378 Get track Get track
253 Get track I still love singing, but I hate everything that goes with it, like all the travelling. Get track
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Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder on 25 February 1945, Broughton, Salford, England) is an English singer, formerly a vocalist with
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He thought I was wonderful and put me on the bill that night. 5,276
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I went alone and Don Arden [father of Sharon Osborne] was holding auditions for singers and dancers. If I break down, I never worry about ringing the AA – he’ll sort it out.
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Elkie Brooks: 'We owed the taxman £250,000 and had to sell our Devon home’ Save Elkie Brooks performs on stage with Vinegar Joe in Leeds on October 19 Credit: Redferns
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Get track But I put the No More the Fool album out, then they put The Very Best of … out which started to sell again really well, so I began to see some royalties.My Yamaha Baby Grand piano was a present from my family on my 70th birthday. Get track My husband’s brilliant at building something out of nothing, so we extended with a studio, pool and bungalows.At one point, Trevor owned an ancient second-hand Bentley that we sometimes used to go to the pub in, but of course, all that had to go when we had tax problems.You’ve got to occupy yourself otherwise you fall into depression.
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Get track 1,177 My mother worked in the bakery in Didsbury, and I helped out.
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287 She is generally referred to as the "British Queen of Blues".Her older brothers are Raymond Bookbinder (born 1938) and Anthony Bookbinder (born 28 May 1943), who went by the stage name of Tony Mansfield, and was drummer for According to Brooks, her unofficial debut was a gig at a club called the "Laronde" on It came before a run of 16 albums in 20 years, starting with In 1986, she sang the title song for the BBC television series "In early 1987, the song "No More the Fool" reached the top five and became her biggest hit single to date with In July 2017 after signing to Virgin EMI she issued a new CD In 2017 Brooks recorded the closing theme song "Running to the Future" for the British movie In the early to mid-1970s, Brooks was married to guitarist