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Sandie Shaw

lines on the record: 60
first: 2010-12-26
most recent: 2010-12-26
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Again, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to take my Oma Morigans on, which is a tiny little object that I use for focusing my mind on when I chant. And that way I could always keep my spirits up. And I would really enjoy it. I'd be able to create value out of the whole experience.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm going to take this one. It's called Lectures on the Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life. Then it's written by Dysakua, my Buddhist mentor It's all about life and death. I read a bit every day and every time I read it I get more and more out of it.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My final disc is here comes the sun. It's such an opening song, isn't it? It's just like just opens your life up. You just really want to smile.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have no complaints about anything in my life at the moment. I've got two years to spend finishing off before I walk out into the sea.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't do a lot of babysitting. No, I don't. I'm sort of like, I'm really sort of like Big Vanny that you play with and do naughty things with.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my dad diagonally died just as I got myself together with Tony so it could actually say to Daddy, in fact it was the most incredible, wonderful time when he died. And I was able to say to him, it's all right, Dad, you can go. I promise I'll look after mum. And you know that I've looked after myself and Tiny is going to look after me. And you can die now. So it's really nice to be able to reassure him like that because he's, again, he's an old-fashioned man and wants to look after his girls. So he wanted to make sure my mum was looked after and I was being taken care of, and then he could go with a peaceful attitude.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, I looked after them till they both died, and No, they couldn't cope with that. It really wasn't right. They were good parents to me. They gave me something to go for. They really, really loved each other and stuck by each other. And I always wanted that relationship. So they gave me that to aim for.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everything in life is a process. Things just don't happen, do they? For me, Mike, I've got this incredible appetite for life. I would never have thought that such a journey would lead me to such a fantastic end. It's not an end, it's a new beginning. You know,”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, not a lot. Not a lot. Really silly extract from a musical that I wrote with Roger Cook today was the first time I'd actually listened to anything but I chose one of the silliest tracks when it's called bananas and I think it would be totally suitable for an island.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he's much more Nick is much more interested in the material side of what's going on in the outside world and Tony is much more interested in the internal world.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the middle I had Nick Powell right, who's, I call him my favourite ex-husband. And I just adore him I've got Amy and Jack with our two children with him and we try to be really good parents together. But I wanted to spiritual companion.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have a particular bond with each child, but that is um Um A unique one, I think she practises now, and most of my children do. My husband does, I wouldn't dream of being married to a man that didn't practice. And to be married to somebody like me, you've got to be able to hold your own ground.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Grace was really happy that I started chanting, and if I couldn't because I was really down, she'd make my mouth down to try and make me do it, because she knew that I would feel better holy.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In my dark ages, I just gradually, you know, that whole period in the 70s just sank deeper and deeper and deeper and felt more and more kind of hopeless about things. And every now and again I kind of tried to resurface and try and get things together, but I couldn't. I go down again.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A specific amount, the amount that I reckoned it would cost to make an album. I think it's about 25 grand, 25, 30 grand. And then I rang, which I never do. I suddenly had all this courage that came out of nowhere and said, oh, I'll ring the head of Sony. So Igmorris Oversteam. And it was very old man in the music business and took me out to know what would you like? I said, Oh, I'd like this money to make an album. He said, sure. I couldn't believe it I could make things happen.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The first thing I chanted for, I said, yeah, I want some proper proof that this works. I chanted for some money and I was.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It began in I was twenty nine at the time, and I'd met a musician called Annie. I was in my flat. She came out of my flat and I had no money. I didn't have enough money to pay electricity, so I had candles and managed to get a meal together with her. And during this she said to me, you know, you can change all this if you want to. And I said, how? And then she stuck telling me about puttisome. So I just thought she must be mad. This couldn't possibly work. And then as soon as she went, I thought I'll try it. And to be honest, I'd never looked back.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yes, well, of course the beach boys are amazing. I'm on the beach and want to hear Beach Boys songs. I mean, you know, surfs up, for God's sake. Good vibrations. I think I'd listened to this. I would have made a fire and I'll be sitting by the fire. I might even dance around it in the moonlight.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Why? What was the good about it? I was just with people and I could share things with people at last. I knew the Chefi was another Buddhist, the other waitress another Buddhist she was Beryl. And like, you know, Beryl is my closest friend. Now, to this day. And so I made lifelong friends during that time. And it actually was the best, best time in my whole life.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“go out wait to send rather than do these gigs I did. I'm just not going to do things that I don't want to do. You know, the one thing that I want to keep in all this is my integrity. I so want to keep that because not just for me, but for my daughter, I want her to know that I can sustain that. And I had a wonderful time. Best time in my life.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um, it's different money then, you know, when you say a million pound, it's like worth so much more now. Yeah, but a million pounds to a million pounds. So finally, I thought I would prefer...”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For example, how No, no, no, I mean at the beginning I was going out earning huge sums of money in order to pay huge debts so I had to go out on tour and I was doing tours that I didn't want to do. I wanted to be at home. The kind of work that I'd left.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They had no idea what was going on between Jeff and myself, and they just, I couldn't tell them it was just so awful. I just couldn't tell them.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was very tiny at that time. She's about four. So it kind of lasted a whole decade, I think, this dark ages. And I become a Buddhist.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She is very young, she's toddling and I had to keep leaving her. It was so awful I used to leave her cassettes and I used to take cassettes of her, oh gosh, I want to cry. when I had to go to work I would record the conversations that we'd had and then I would take it with me while I was working because I just wanted to be with her I didn't want to have to do this”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, for a while with his parents, or with his parents in his parents' little terraced house? And then after that moved to Ireland and lived in a caravan.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh I knew things were wrong because Jeff got more and more ill-tempered and angry. and even though as a director I wasn't privy to anything that was going on in the business, and he was just working all the time like just driven, completely driven. And I had tons of money and I'd got pregnant. I really wanted to have my baby and just be quiet. I'd also started doing things I wanted to do in my career. I'd started acting. I'd also started writing a musical and then I had this news that, you know, all the business was over. We had no where to live.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Where are we with we're backing we're in Grenada really, aren't we? We've collected a piece of land in the Caribbean in Grenada, who actually is where I want to end up being because all the things that I like doing that I would probably do in my island as well. I like working with seeds. I'd like to see if I can grow the trees from seed. And you can get immediate results there because of the climate. I love the Caribbean. We got married there. It's a special place for me. And Bob Marley actually represents me all that is fantastic about the Caribbean.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was playing about with these different chord sequences on the piano. I said, have a go. So I did, I tried it, and it was like this wonderful labour forlorn kind of song. It kind of changed completely.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I was cured it was a therapy thing. Was it? It was, yes. Well, Howard Jones said this is ridiculous. Do you remember how Jones from the eighties? He's a really nice guy. So I have to cure you of this.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, and he was like he's more excruciatingly shy than I am, so it was really great it so changed him, it changed his whole life. My mum was so grateful. Every scream Le Daddy Daddyo”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, always find a way. After this episode they made my dad chaperone me around the world. to make sure that I never got into any other disturbances of that kind of thing.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One loves me like a rash But I didn't feel like celebrating, to be quite honest. I was just so exhausted while the whole thing. But I got locked out of my room and went upstairs with a big bottle of champagne. My lynx coke was it was okay to wear fur then. And I was looked out of my room. So I just laid there on my fur coat with the champagne bottle that I couldn't open. I fell asleep. Oh gosh, that was on the glamorous, isn't it?”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was involved in somebody else's divorce. Right. And they didn't think it was the right image, so it was incredibly unpleasant. You know, I was only young to have all that going on backstage. It was very hard. But I had to hold all that in when I was singing”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you really want to know the BBC wanted to fire me because I had a divorce scandal at the time which came out just before the contest and they”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love winning. I'm incredibly competitive. Don't try playing backgammon with me because I will win. You know, I just, it's just such an amazing feeling to win, so I will do anything for that.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I felt very European at the time because I was such a huge star in Europe so that it actually did feel like a uniting thing.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that people's fantasies, I mean, they were like regular used to denounce me in Pravda for influencing young people badly, you know. Look at this girl she sings barefoot.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was so young compared to her she was, you know, she just didn't understand what was going on. But you know, she made me a lot of money, a such a lot of money, so what can I lost it on in the end, but she made me a lot to lose, put it that way.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She shouted so loud and she got angry she petrified me Mr Take her in give me some codeine so I have to come in with some codeine and when she got really bad I'll make you a bold egg anything to pacify her”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You want terrifying. Was she terrified? Absolutely, yes. You could actually, she was on the fifth floor of a office block in Regent Street, and you could actually hear her from Piccadilly Circus.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think it was because I used to wear it up a lot. My manager had gone away to America looking for some material for me, and I saw God she's gone, that's great. I can get my hair out the way I want it. So I just woke around there and said, oh, please, I want it exactly like this. And I was like a new woman when I came out.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I was hoping to distance myself from all that and represent my own generation. They're the people I was singing for. So I made a conscious effort to do that. And I've always loved design. All kinds of design, and I remember at the time we were only speaking sort of. Mishmash of creativity it was incredible.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I shall definitely be dancing to that, and I shall definitely find some red feathers from somewhere, or some, I don't know, maybe some palm leaves.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I would have heard this when I was very, very young, sixish, and it would be the kind of thing that Auntie Jem would ask me to sing with her.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Records mostly and they had a great collection of records in this wonderful grammar found player, you know. The music came in and it went splat because they were so hard and heavy these 78s. That was kind of the piece d'omage in the living room. Yes.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know any different. I tend to marry only children as well. Because I think they understand that you can be with somebody and not be with somebody, that I like the feeling of being on my own, which is, I think, why I would probably be okay on the desert island.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“they were very helpful to me they would look after money, put things away, and so that when I was twenty one and also when I was thirty that I would not ever want for anything ever ever in my life again. So they were kind of trying to be prudent on my behalf. I didn't know they were just doing it quietly.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because it's what I'll be doing, and also'cause the Shangri Lars, these were the kind of bands. And so I learnt by listening to American girl groups that's the style that I liked because it was so kind of teenage. There's nobody doing it here in this country.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I came from Dana. Where the hell would I know? I'd never had a bank account or anything. So what did I spend it on nothing? The dresses that I bought were like six quid down the King's Road. The accountant was always pleading with me. Please give me some expenses. You're paying ninety percent tax.”
2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source