"in 1999 and wrote her first book, ""The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook"", which became one of the best-selling cookbooks of the year. She would go on to write more cookbooks and, in 2002, started production of a television show on the Food Network, also named the ""Barefoot Contessa"", which continues to run. In the latter half of the 20th century, many singers, primarily females, have performed barefoot, a trend that continues in the early 21st century. One of the first singers to become well known for singing barefoot on stage was Sandie Shaw, who became known as the ""Barefoot Pop Princess"
"Samantha Fox Samantha Karen Fox (born 15 April 1966) is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at age 16, she began appearing as a topless model on Page 3 of British tabloid newspaper ""The Sun"", and continued as a Page 3 girl until 1986. During this time, she became the most popular pin-up girl of her era, as well as one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s. In 1986, she launched a pop music career with her debut single ""Touch Me (I Want Your Body)"", which peaked at number-one in 17 countries."
"including ""I'll Stop at Nothing"", ""Long Live Love"", her second UK No. 1 in 1965, and ""Message Understood"". The singles were produced by Taylor, Andrews and Shaw herself (though she was never credited), with help from Pye Records arranger Ken Woodman. Sandie Shaw was a regular on popular British TV programmes of the time such as ""Top of the Pops"", ""Ready Steady Go!"" and ""Thank Your Lucky Stars"". She was seen as epitomising the ""swinging Sixties"", and her trademark barefoot performances endeared her to the public at large. She also recorded most of her hit singles in Italian, French, German"
"Marianne Faithfull Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single ""As Tears Go By"" and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States. Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a Rolling Stones party where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. After the release of her hit single ""As Tears Go By"", she became an international star. Her debut album ""Marianne Faithfull"" (1965) (released simultaneously with her"
"Samantha Jones (singer) Jean Owen (born 17 November 1943), known as Samantha Jones is a former English singer whose career spanned the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. She won three international pop music contests and charted records in the Benelux countries. Her recordings later experienced a revival on the Northern soul scene. Jean Owen started her career in 1961 as part of popular English vocal group The Vernons Girls. During her time with the group, the line-up went from sixteen members to just three girls. The Vernons Girls enjoyed a couple of top 40 hits, including ""Lover Please"", ""Only You"
"June Wilkinson June Wilkinson (born 27 March 1940 in Eastbourne) is an English model and actress, known for her appearances in ""Playboy"" magazine and in films of the 1960s. One of the world's most-photographed women in the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the height of her career she was called ""the most photographed nude in America"". June Wilkinson was born 27 March 1940 in Eastbourne, England. Having started as a stage performer at the age of 12, she went on to become the youngest topless dancer, at the age of 15, at the Windmill Theatre in London from 1957"
"Alma Cogan Alma Angela Cohen (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966), known professionally as Alma Cogan, was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the ""Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice"", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. She was born on 19 May 1932 in Whitechapel, London, of Russian-Romanian Jewish descent. Her father's family, the Kogins, arrived in Britain from Russia, while her mother's family were refugees from Romania. Cogan's parents, Mark and Fay Cohen, had another daughter, the actress Sandra Caron, who went on to"
"the theatre in his youth. A blue plaque commemorating Cogan was installed by the entrance of 44 Stafford Court, her longtime residence, on 4 November 2001. Alma Cogan Alma Angela Cohen (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966), known professionally as Alma Cogan, was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the ""Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice"", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. She was born on 19 May 1932 in Whitechapel, London, of Russian-Romanian Jewish descent. Her father's family, the Kogins, arrived in Britain from"
"and the ""embodiment of the 1960s"". Like Pattie Boyd, the wife of Beatles guitarist George Harrison, Shrimpton gained international fame for her embodiment of the ""British female 'look' – mini-skirt, long, straight hair and wide-eyed loveliness"", characteristics that defined Western fashion following the arrival of the Beatles and other British Invasion acts in 1964.<ref name=""Hibbert/HistoryOfRock""> Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).</ref> Other popular models of the era included Veruschka, Peggy Moffitt and Penelope Tree. The model Twiggy has been called ""the face of 1966"" and ""the Queen of Mod"", a label she shared with, among others, Cathy McGowan, the host"
"complications of pneumonia, aged 87. † Ruby Murray with Anne Warren Ruby Murray Ruby Florence Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996) was a Northern Irish singer and actress. One of the most popular singers in the British Isles in the 1950s, she scored ten hits in the UK Singles Chart between 1954 and 1959. She also made pop chart history in March 1955 by having five singles in the Top Twenty in a single week. Ruby Florence Murray was born on Donegall Road in south Belfast, Northern Ireland, the youngest child in a Protestant family. Her voice's distinctive"
"costume. The skirts seemed to be so wide – I don't know where they hung them up!"" Cogan topped the annual ""NME"" reader's poll as ""Outstanding British Female Singer"" four times between 1956 and 1960. The UK musical revolution of the 1960s, symbolised by the rise of the Beatles, suddenly made Cogan unfashionable; in the 1991 BBC documentary ""Alma Cogan: The Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice"", Lionel Blair said she was perceived as ""square"". Her highest 1960s chart ranking in the UK was no. 26 with ""We Got Love"", and most of her successes at this time were"
"Ruby Murray Ruby Florence Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996) was a Northern Irish singer and actress. One of the most popular singers in the British Isles in the 1950s, she scored ten hits in the UK Singles Chart between 1954 and 1959. She also made pop chart history in March 1955 by having five singles in the Top Twenty in a single week. Ruby Florence Murray was born on Donegall Road in south Belfast, Northern Ireland, the youngest child in a Protestant family. Her voice's distinctive sound was partly the result of an operation on her throat"
"Crispian St. Peters Crispian St. Peters (born Robin Peter Smith, 5 April 1939 – 8 June 2010) was an English pop singer-songwriter, best known for his work in the 1960s, particularly his 1966 hits, The Changin' Times' ""The Pied Piper"" and Ian & Sylvia's ""You Were on My Mind"". St. Peters was born in Swanley, Kent and attended Swanley Secondary Modern School. He learned guitar and left school in 1954 to become an assistant cinema projectionist. As a young man, he performed in several relatively unknown bands in England. In 1956, he gave his first live performance, as a member"
"Beverley Knight Beverley Knight, (born Beverley Anne Smith; 22 March 1973) is an English recording artist, radio presenter and musical theatre actress who released her debut album, ""The B-Funk"", in 1995. Heavily influenced by American soul music icons such as Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin, Knight has released eight studio albums to date. Widely labelled as one of Britain's greatest soul singers, Knight is best known for her hit singles ""Greatest Day"", ""Get Up!"", ""Shoulda Woulda Coulda"" and ""Come as You Are"". In 2006 Knight solidified her transition into the mainstream by starring in the BBC music TV series ""Just"
"Twiggy Lesley Lawson (""née"" Hornby; born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model in swinging sixties London. Twiggy was initially known for her thin build (thus her nickname) and her androgynous look consisting of big eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair. In 1966, she was named ""The Face of 1966"" by the ""Daily Express"" and voted British Woman of the Year. By 1967, she had modelled in France, Japan, and the US, and had landed on the covers of ""Vogue"""
"Louise Griffiths Louise Griffiths (born 31 July 1978) is an English singer, songwriter, model and actress. Griffiths was born in Hertfordshire, England. She is the daughter of a London taxicab driver. She plays the saxophone, and was a contestant in the BBC television series ""Fame Academy"" in 2003. Griffiths was a member of an unsuccessful all-girl band, Orchid, who originally recorded the song ""Sound of the Underground"" in 2001. However their version was never released, and the song became a hit only when it was subsequently re-recorded and released by Louis Walsh's pop band Girls Aloud. In 2003, Griffiths was"
"Sandie Shaw Sandie Shaw, MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich; 26 February 1947) is an English singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, in 1967 the song ""Puppet on a String"" performed by her became the first British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest. After a long and successful career, Shaw announced her retirement from the music industry in 2013. Sandra Ann Goodrich was born and brought up in Dagenham, Essex, England. On leaving school, she worked at the nearby Ford Dagenham factory, and did some part-time modelling before coming second as a singer in"
"Helen Shapiro Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is an English pop singer, jazz singer and actress. She is best known for her two 1961 UK chart toppers, ""You Don't Know"" and ""Walkin' Back to Happiness"". Shapiro was born at Bethnal Green Hospital in the East End district of Bethnal Green, London. Her early childhood was spent in a Clapton council house in the London borough of Hackney, where she attended Northwold Primary School and Clapton Park Comprehensive School until Christmas 1961. She is the granddaughter of Russian Jewish immigrants; her parents, who were piece-workers in the garment industry,"
"Gaye Advert Gaye Advert (born August 29, 1956), also Gaye Black, is an English punk rock musician, who played bass guitar in the band the Adverts in the late 1970s. She was one of the first female rock stars of the punk rock movement, whom ""The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music"" called the ""first female punk star"". She was ""one of punk’s first female icons"". Dave Thompson wrote that her ""photogenic"" looks, ""panda-eye make-up and omnipresent leather jacket defined the face of female punkdom until well into the next decade"". Black and Adverts frontman T. V. Smith were both from"
"""That Old Feeling"", ""Anema e Core"", ""Croce di Oro"" and ""This Ole House"". Joan Regan Joan Regan (born Joan Bethel or Siobhan Bethel; 19 January 1928 – 12 September 2013) was an English traditional pop music singer, popular during the 1950s and early 1960s. Regan was born Joan Bethel or Siobhan Bethel in Romford, Essex, to Irish parents. She had rheumatic fever as a child which left her with a damaged mitral valve, although this did not cause problems until she was in her seventies. Regan married an American serviceman, Dick Howell, a friend of her brothers who met in"
"last name, their favorite, had to be dropped following an injunction, and they split up again."" Helen Shapiro Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is an English pop singer, jazz singer and actress. She is best known for her two 1961 UK chart toppers, ""You Don't Know"" and ""Walkin' Back to Happiness"". Shapiro was born at Bethnal Green Hospital in the East End district of Bethnal Green, London. Her early childhood was spent in a Clapton council house in the London borough of Hackney, where she attended Northwold Primary School and Clapton Park Comprehensive School until Christmas 1961. She"
"behind this appalling blackmail and smear campaign must be brought to justice. And the persecution of independent journalists in Azerbaijan must stop."" In August 2014, Shaw was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ""The Guardian"" expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. Sandie Shaw Sandie Shaw, MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich; 26 February 1947) is an English singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, in 1967 the song ""Puppet on a String"" performed by her became"
"This had previously been the B-side to Douglas' 1969 release, ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"", a cover of the B.J. Thomas song. Douglas' 2011 album, ""The Craig Douglas Project"", included his versions of ""Auberge"" and ""Creep"". Craig Douglas Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins, 12 August 1941) is an English pop singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His sole UK chart-topper, ""Only Sixteen"" (1959), sold more copies in the UK than Sam Cooke's original version. Born a twin, in Newport, Isle of Wight the former Terence Perkins was employed as a milkman before becoming a"
"in newspaper fashion pages. Boyd and Harrison were among the leading couples in the Swinging London era, when, according to a 1966 article in the ""Daily Express"", ""actors, pop singers, hairdressers, and models"" were London's new ""privileged class"". UK underground writer Barry Miles later described her as ""by far the most glamorous"" of all the Beatles' wives and girlfriends, while author Shawn Levy writes that, even more so than Jane Asher, the London-born stage actress who was Paul McCartney's girlfriend for much of the 1960s, Boyd epitomised what ""sixties stardom was meant to confer upon its chosen"". Writing in 1966,"
"Craig Douglas Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins, 12 August 1941) is an English pop singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His sole UK chart-topper, ""Only Sixteen"" (1959), sold more copies in the UK than Sam Cooke's original version. Born a twin, in Newport, Isle of Wight the former Terence Perkins was employed as a milkman before becoming a professional singer, and was known to many as the 'Singing Milkman'. His manager was Bunny Lewis, who gave him the name Craig Douglas. Lewis saw the name outside a house in Scotland. Douglas said there were a"
"Susan Maughan Susan Maughan (born Marian Maughan, 1 July 1938,) is an English singer who released successful singles in the 1960s. Her most famous and successful song, ""Bobby's Girl"" (a cover of the Marcie Blane single), reached number three in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas time in 1962. It also reached number six in the Norwegian chart in that year. Maughan was born in Consett, County Durham. The sleeve notes on her 1963 album, written by John Franz, stated that ""Susan's family moved to Birmingham (in 1953) when Susan was 15. She started work there as a shorthand typist,"
"Cleo Higgins Cleopatra Madonna Higgins, better known mononymously as Cleo, is a British R&B/soul/pop singer, dancer, songwriter and actress based in Manchester, England. Higgins was the lead singer of the eponymously named sister act, Cleopatra. In 2000, Higgins branched out from Cleopatra and recorded two duets with tenor Russell Watson. The first song, ""Someone Like You"" was featured on Watson's multi-platinum debut album The Voice which climbed to No. 1 on the U.S classical charts. Higgins and Watson performed the song both on tour and on the National Lottery and they collaborated a second time, recording another duet called ""The"
"Her agents were keen to organise a tour. A 2006 compilation titled ""This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'"" contained her complete surviving recorded output. Glenda Collins Glenda Collins (born 16 December 1943) is a former British pop music singer active in the 1960s. Collins was discovered by Carroll Levis, whose promotion landed her a contract with Decca Records. She released three singles through Decca which failed to chart and was dropped by the label. Her manager father then recorded some demos with her and introduced her to independent record producer Joe Meek, who took her on. Meek featured house bands The"
"Machine"", which was produced by Joe Strummer and released the following year. In December 1983, the British music magazine, ""NME"", reported that Jones was on the 'comeback trail'. Janie Jones Marion Mitchell (born 1941 in Seaham, County Durham), better known by her stage name, Janie Jones, is a former English singer. She became renowned for holding sex parties at her home during the 1970s, and was jailed for her involvement in 'controlling prostitutes'. She first achieved notoriety in August 1964, when she attended the film premiere of ""London in the Raw"", wearing a topless dress. Jones began her show-business career"
"Nico Christa Päffgen (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, musician, model, and actress. She had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini's ""La Dolce Vita"" (1960) and Andy Warhol's ""Chelsea Girls"" (1966). With the insistence of Warhol, she recorded vocals for three songs of the Velvet Underground's debut album ""The Velvet Underground & Nico"" (1967). At the same time, she started a solo career and released ""Chelsea Girl"". Nico's friend Jim Morrison suggested that she start writing her own material. She then composed songs on an harmonium, a"
"Swinging Sixties The Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London as its centre. It saw a flourishing in art, music and fashion, and was symbolised by the city's ""pop and fashion exports"". Among its key elements were the Beatles, as leaders of the British Invasion of musical acts; Mary Quant's miniskirt; popular fashion models such as Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton; the mod subculture; the iconic status of popular shopping areas such as London's King's Road, Kensington and Carnaby Street; the political"
"Marion Ryan Marion Ryan (4 February 1931 – 15 January 1999) was a popular British singer in the 1950s. Born in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, she attended Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls in Leeds, now Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College. She was once called ""the Marilyn Monroe of popular song"", Marion Ryan was a pop singer of the 1950s in the early years of British Independent Television. Her song ""Love Me Forever"" peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart in 1958. She was the regular singer in the popular musical quiz ""Spot the Tune"""
"album with the same name as her debut album was released by EMI Records. Sandy Edmonds Sandy Edmonds (born Rosalie L. Edmondson, 18 October 1948) is a British-born former pop singer and model, who achieved widespread popularity in New Zealand in the 1960s. At the height of her popularity she was New Zealand's most recognizable teen idol. She recorded and released several singles, and appeared on television and in magazines until she unexpectedly dropped out of the scene, later living in Australia and, after her music career ended, becoming a fashion retailer. Edmondson was born on October 18, 1948 in"