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| 1980 saw two more single releases
Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees and It Goes Like It Goes,
the latter being issued in Europe, also used as the theme for Norma Mae, but
which actually only saw its first UK release on the compilation album
Something Special in 1996. |
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The 1982 album release, White
Heat was only issued in the USA and Canada. Dusty co-produced the album,
and in it she displays her incredible ability to give herself to any musical
genre. The album captures perfectly the '80s musical era, and with her voice
in fine form, the album is a masterpiece. Once again it did not sell well,
mainly due to complications with the record company. |
| In 1985 Dusty teamed up with night
club owner Peter Stringfellow, and released the single Sometimes Like
Butterflies on his Hippodrome label.
The relationship between this coupling was acrimonious, with Dusty later
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| “Peter knew fuck all about the record
industry” |
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| The single was promoted, but with
complications in the distribution, the single failed to make it to the shops
and only reached number 82 in the UK charts. This single separates the fan
base, with those who think the track contains raw emotion, and others who
think that Dusty was not in good voice, and thus sounded raw. |
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In 1987, Dusty stormed back onto
the musical stage with What Have I Done To Deserve This, a duet with
the Pet Shop Boys. Dusty's soulful approach was an incredible complement to
the PSB's almost expressionless style, and the song was a well deserved
international success. |
| The album Reputation (1990)
followed, spawning hit singles such as In Private, Nothing Has
Been Proved and the title track.
Dusty was back, and was showing that she had lost nothing of her musical
ability. |
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| “...I'm really grateful to the Pet Shop
Boys....they had the faith in me that I didn't have. They saw something
in me that I was about to lose.” |
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| Dusty's love of cats is as much a
legend as the great woman herself. |
Vicki Wickham, Dusty's friend and manager is on record as saying: |
Reputation was
dedicated to her cat Malaysia, tragically killed by a car after the
recording had been completed, and the love of her life for the last 13 years
was Nicholas, who gets a mention on the sleeve notes of A Very Fine Love. |
| “The cat meant everything to her and he
was a true member of her family.” |
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| Dusty was asked by Richard
Carpenter to record a song on his album Time. This was to be his
first project since the death of his Sister Karen. Dusty was thrilled to be
approached, and recorded the beautiful and haunting Something In Your
Eyes.
The Pet Shop Boys had been responsible for introducing Dusty to a new
generation of fans. New Greatest Hits complications sold well, and
Dusty was right back in the limelight, where she rightfully belonged. |
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| She savoured this renewed success
for a few years, as she thought on how she wanted to approach her next piece
of work. |
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