Sandie Shaw

Sandie Shaw (born Sandra Ann Goodrich on 26 February 1947) was an English pop singer, who was one of the most successful British female singers of the 60's. In 1967, she was the first UK act to win the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with her track "Puppet On A String". After the 60's, her record sales went down and she retired from the music industry and concentrated on writing and acting. In the 80's, her profile started to rise in the indie scene, when Johnny Marr and Morrissey from The Smiths persuaded her to cover some of their songs, as both musicians were fans of her's. One of the Smiths songs she covered, "Hands In Gloves" entered the UK Top 30 Singles Chart in 1984. In the 90's, she wrote her biography and decided to pursue a career as a psychotherapist. In April 2013, she announced her retirement from music.

Links To Peel
Peel was playing Sandie Shaw's records, while he was working for Radio London and later in the late 80's on BBC Radio One. However he disliked her Eurovision song winner, "Puppet On A String", as dismal and won't stand much chance in San Remo. In the 80's, when she started collaborating with Morrissey and Johnny Marr, Peel started playing her new material and even invited her to do a session, which she did in 1988, where she did some covers from the Waterboys and Jesus And Mary Chain.

Sessions
1. Recorded 1988-12-05. First Broadcast: 05 December 1988. Repeated: 04 January 1989
 * Girl Called Johnny / Cool About You / Flesh And Blood / Strange Bedfellows

Other Shows Played
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1967 1988 1994 Top Of The Pops
 * 15 March 1967 (Radio London):  'Tell The Boys' (7" EP & other side of 'Puppet on a String', which JP says is "dismal" and "won't stand much chance in San Remo" or wherever the Eurovision Song Contest will be held. It seems that the other DJs agreed, according to the Radio London Fab 40 page for this week, "'Tell The Boys' was the side receiving heavier promotion at this time, being the only side featured in the Curzon Street list and the only side played on the Fab 40 show") (Pye 7N 17272)
 * 17 July 1967: Midnight In Tokyo
 * 01 November 1988: Nothing Less Than Brilliant
 * 22 January 1994 (BFBS): Hand In Glove
 * 01 February 1968 (TOTP): Today (New record- Not in the chart)
 * 05 May 1983 (TOTP): Brief interviews