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SPEAKER_05: Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica. We're celebrating Pride with icons, supreme queens of queer culture. Some are household names, others are a little more behind the scenes. All have defied social norms that influenced generations of people to be unapologetically themselves. Today we're talking about a pop star of the swinging 60s. With her teased beehive and mascara rimmed eyes, she became a larger than life icon and inspired musicians for decades to come. Let's talk about Dusty Springfield. Dusty Springfield was born in 1939 in Hampstead, London. Her parents named her Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, and they were just as liberal in their music tastes as they were in their name giving. Mary grew up in listening to an eclectic mix of classical music and jazz alongside pop stands and Brazilian samba. One of Mary's biggest early musical influences was Peggy Lee, an American pop singer and a previous Womanican. Mary would listen to Peggy sing love songs in her signature whisper while attending Catholic convent school. Soon after finishing school, Mary jumped into the world of professional singing, first with a girl group. Then she joined the Springfields. She changed her name to Dusty Springfield and began her career as a singer. Dusty Springfield began singing folk pop music alongside her two bandmates. The Springfields and their folksy sound were a commercial success. They had a TV show in the UK and their song Silver Threads and Golden Needles broke into the top 20 on the US charts. Being part of the Springfields gave Dusty the opportunity to travel to America to record music, which is how one day Dusty found herself in New York in front of a Broadway record store. The store was blasting Tell Him by the Exciters, an all-black American pop group. Dusty was enraptured by the song Sound, an upbeat mix of soul, rhythm and blues and pop. She decided she wanted to do that, not folk music. So in 1963, Dusty started her solo career. Her first single was called I Only Want to Be with You. Audiences around the world fell in love with her warm voice filled with emotion. The single made Dusty the second English musical act to hit it big in America as part of the British invasion. The first was The Beatles. Dusty's musical style and her stage presence were influenced by American Motown artists who wore heavy eye makeup and elegant gowns. From there, she developed her own signature look, a teased-up platinum blonde beehive hairdo, eyes rimmed with black mascara and glamorous rhinestone gowns. And her look wasn't the only way Dusty played homage to the black music community. In 1965, she helped organize a special Motown series of the show Ready Steady Go!. It gave a television platform to musicians like The Supremes and Stevie Wonder. The year before, she insisted that her shows in South Africa be integrated, and the government promptly deported her. Throughout the 1960s, Dusty was a true star. 11 of her singles made it to the American pop charts. She was insecure and exacting in her recording style, demanding nothing short of perfection. Dusty's crowning achievement came near the end of the decade when she traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to record her album Dusty in Memphis. The album's single, Son of a Preacher Man, was originally written for Aretha Franklin. Dusty sang it with full-bodied emotion, joined by Aretha's own backup singers. The album matched songwriting talent with brilliant musicians and Dusty's remarkable voice, and it's widely considered a pop masterpiece. In the 1970s, Dusty moved to Los Angeles. During that time, she also came out as bisexual. In an interview, she said, I know that I'm as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. As the years went on, Dusty kept making and releasing music. But it never lived up to the commercial success of her previous work. Living in Los Angeles as a fading star was difficult, and Dusty struggled with her mental health. But then, in 1987, she made a comeback. The Pet Shop Boys, a British musical duo, asked her to sing the chorus on their song, What Have I Done to Deserve This? The song made it into the top five of the Billboard charts. Two years later, Dusty collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys again to record the song, As one of the band members recalled, Dusty recorded the song at an excruciating pace, one syllable at a time. It took two days. And in the end, the song reached the top 20 on the UK charts. In 1990, Dusty released the album, Reputation, which featured electro-pop and even a rap song. Around the same time of Dusty's triumphant return to the charts, she was diagnosed with a heart attack She retired from public life and died in 1999. Two weeks after her death, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All month, we're highlighting icons. For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. Come back tomorrow for a bonus episode presented by our sponsor, Planned Parenthood. We talk about Pride Month, and how it's been a long time since we've been together. We'll be back in a month on the next episode of the Pride Month and how to end abortion stigma.
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