Lynsey de Paul - C or D? S & D

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What are the opinions on this lady's work?

― Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I only remember "Won't Someone Dance With Me?" and the mole on her face.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Over at Uncut, Mr Lester and I are currently trying to start up an LDP revival - two mentions this month! We think she's great. The whips and viola (Fred Frith!) on "Sugar Me." The template for Elastica which is "Getting A Drag." The neurotic funk of "Water." Also the tracks on the Barry Blue compilation which has just come out (reviewed by Lester in current issue) are largely cowritten by the good lady. Yes I know she's a Tory, but she is (or at least was) a pop visionary (and yes I did fancy her like mad when I was a nipper).

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Friday, 16 January 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

All sounds very good... Uncut seems the place for appreciation of her music, as Mr Carlin has made many mentions, at least on his blogs. Maybe gradual mentions could lead to a feature? :) Though I take it features tend to be on less obscure (obscure now anyway) artists?

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus wept.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 16 January 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I met her once, when she was the presenter and i was the guest on a risible Live! TV (remember them? trampolining dwarves reading the weather, topless darts etc) show called *cough* "The Vinyl Countdown". It was kinda like "The Antiques Roadshow" for music and memorabilia - I had an old David Bowie album (woo), a signed limited edition Gene single (yay) and The Wit & Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan which the producers decided wasn't sufficiant, so they bunged me some naff Michael Jackson-related tat to present to LDP as if it were my own. She seemed entirely made of plastic. I've never heard her music.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 January 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

She was James Coburn's main squeeze for quite a while.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 16 January 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Lynsey is totally underrated, Lynsey wrote 14 top 40 hits in the period '72-'77. She was the UKs first real female singer songwriter.

PS as host of a TV show she would ahve hardly had time to be anything more than plastic. I have met her and she was great!

― Brad St. John, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Check out the following sites dedicated to LDP

http://home.swipnet.se/skroff/lynseydepaul.html

http://perso.club-internet.fr/dadon/lynseydepaul.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0210880/

― Brian Salmons, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

please kill me

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

With pleasure - please provide contact details.

― Brad St John, Sunday, 25 January 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Lynsey recorded 5 albums in the 70s - in those days albums were not stuffed with singles but nevertheless the standard of the songs were excellent as were the B-sides to her singles.

― Brian Salmons, Friday, 27 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

Love this one…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQCDZarHWUI

― Reggaeton Sax (NickB), Saturday, 22 March 2025 23:26 (one year ago)

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