The British singer, icon of the swinging sixties and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967, was born in 1947 in the suburbs of London She started working at a very young age as a typist (at a ...

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But that is, of course, part of the competition's charm. While entrants used to stick to the current fashions (see Lulu, Sandie Shaw and Olivia Newton-John), over the years, competitors have begun ...

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