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Sandie Shaw

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2010-12-26
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  1. “No, I actually wanted him to be my manager on Naive. I always had so much money there was so much I can't tell you that much money I just didn't know what to do with it. I was very naive.”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “That was after Eurovision. He was so happy. There's that one. Right. Yeah, he was really happy that I'd won. And he was a great influence on my early career. in that he suggested lots of business deals that In the end came about that I owned all my material, and that would never have happened if it weren't for him, doing his deals, which is, you know, he's known for it, isn't he? Mr. Moneyman. He was, yes. He took so much money from me.”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “He was a huge star, and what happened was I came second in a local talent competition. Somebody saw me, introduced me to an agent who put me on a show that Adam Faith was starring in, I thought. So when I was singing all the guys, all the bands were all on the side of a stage or watching me, cheering me on and it was just fantastic.”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “I just got so bored and I was already singing in social clubs and dance halls before that and I'd already met people in London people in London. How mysterious and I'd met Adam Faith, I'd been on stage.”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yeah, that's true. I've never felt beautiful as a child. In fact, I wasn't. I was lanky and puberty didn't come until very late and had glasses and freckles, and I wore plaits and I just kind of felt out of place. I was very shy as well, and my aunties always used to encourage me to sing, to bring me out of myself, and”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Coconut Grove I've chosen because it really sets the scene. I'm so looking forward to be a marooned on my desert island and this song I sang in the late 60s. It's almost as if I knew that I was going to be on this desert island and this was preparing me for it.”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Oh I do have a wonderfully huge ego size of many solar systems, my husband says. I tried to turn it around by embracing as many people as I can within my ego, which is a struggle, and I think that's always a struggle of somebody with a big life. I prefer to call it a big life.”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Not really because I was introducing all these other women. So I was more concerned with how they were feeling about things and making sure that they were okay. And I took my mind off myself. And basically I just thought about my frocks. This is a wonderful displacement activity is to concentrate on the frocks.”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “I don't see people when they're together, I see people when they're falling apart, and they're so interested in themselves that they don't see me. I'm just something there for them to use, and that's perfectly all right for me.”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “No, that's part of who I am. I have recently started working again at Sandy Shaw and trying on that hat for size. I did the Goodwood Festival of the Vintage Festival and performed live dare for the first time in twenty five years. And loved doing that love producing the whole show. Really enjoyed that. And then I did theme tune for Maiden Dagnam. And”

    2010-12-26 · Desert Island Discs · Sandie Shaw · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source