Vicki Wickham
Vicki Heather WickhamOBE(born 1939) is anEnglishtalent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter.[1]
Career
[edit]Wickham was an assistant producer of the 1960sBritishtelevision showReady Steady Go!,and was fashion consultant for the short-livedThe Mod's Monthlymagazine, first issued in March 1964 by Albert Hand Publications, and edited by Mark Burns.[2][3]However she is probably best known as the manager of well-known pop/soul actsDusty SpringfieldandLabelle.[4]
Wickham co-wrote (withSimon Napier-Bell) the English lyrics to Springfield's only British No. 1 hit, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me",adapted from the Italian song" Io che non vivo senza te ". WithPenny Valentine,she co-wroteDancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield.[5]
Wickham is gay, but has said that her sexuality was never a problem, stating that she "wasn't out in the 60s. I didn't know what I was, really. Everyone knew I was gay, but we were so unpolitically conscious".[1]In 2012 she told BBC radio listeners: "I found somebody in 1970 and have been with her ever since. I wouldn't swap it for the world."[6]
Her long-term partner is the musicianNona Hendryx.[7]
Awards
[edit]Wickham was given a Music Industry "Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1999,[8]and was appointed anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire(OBE) in the 2013 Queen'sBirthday HonoursList, for services to music.[9]
References
[edit]- ^abSullivan, Caroline (29 November 1999)."Ready, Vicki, Go".The Guardian.ISSN0261-3077.Retrieved16 January2017.
- ^"You can't keep up with the mods".tintrunk.blogspot.au.23 November 2009.Retrieved5 April2015.
- ^"Burns, Mark: The Mods Monthly".cultjones. Archived fromthe originalon 4 March 2016.Retrieved5 April2015.
- ^"Belles of the Ball"Archived21 April 2009 atarchive.today,Dustin Fitzharris,Bay Windows,29 October 2008
- ^"Ellen, Barbara: 'You don't have to say you love me'".The Guardian.3 September 2000.Retrieved9 May2020.
- ^"The Reunion: 60s Girl Singers".BBC Radio 4. 19 August 2012.Retrieved26 April2020.
- ^Cashmere, Paul (16 June 2013)."Vicki Wickham Awarded OBE".Noise11.Retrieved22 August2021.
- ^Dancing with Demons.Hodder & Stoughton. 2001.ISBN9780340766743.Retrieved5 April2015.
- ^"No. 60534".The London Gazette(Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 14.
Bibliography
[edit]- Valentine, Penny; Wickham, Vicki (April 2000).Dancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield.London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. p. 320.ISBN9780340766736
External links
[edit]- Vicki WickhamatIMDb
- Discographyat Discogs
- Interview, "Ready, Vicki, Go",The Guardian,30 November 1999
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