O'Brien, Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette
1939 - Born on April 16th in London, England. British vocalist who made her mark as a female hitmaker and icon during the 1960s beat boom that resulted in the British Invasion.
1966 - The high point of her career, though, was the ballad “You Don't Have to Say You Love Me”, which reached number four on the American charts.
1969 - She began to take herself seriously as a soul diva, signing with Atlantic Records and cutting her Dusty in Memphis album in the famed American Sound Studios with producers Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin.
- It brought her an international hit with “Son of a Preacher Man,” but her career trailed off into a slurry of drug and alcohol abuse.
1987-1988 - Repeated comebacks failed until she teamed up with the Pet Shop Boys on “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” and the soundtrack for Scandal, a film set in the pre-Swinging London of her earliest success.
1990 - She was a camp icon.
- Resettling in England, she battled cancer.
1998 - Received the Order of the British Empire.
1999 - She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Died on March 2nd in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
1966 - The high point of her career, though, was the ballad “You Don't Have to Say You Love Me”, which reached number four on the American charts.
1969 - She began to take herself seriously as a soul diva, signing with Atlantic Records and cutting her Dusty in Memphis album in the famed American Sound Studios with producers Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin.
- It brought her an international hit with “Son of a Preacher Man,” but her career trailed off into a slurry of drug and alcohol abuse.
1987-1988 - Repeated comebacks failed until she teamed up with the Pet Shop Boys on “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” and the soundtrack for Scandal, a film set in the pre-Swinging London of her earliest success.
1990 - She was a camp icon.
- Resettling in England, she battled cancer.
1998 - Received the Order of the British Empire.
1999 - She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Died on March 2nd in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
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