Barbara dickson biography

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    Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances.

    Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….and Bert’ and asked her to perform the music. The combination of fine writing, a superb cast of young unknowns, (including Antony Sher, Bernard Hill and Trevor Eve), and Barbara’s idiosyncratic interpretation of Beatles songs made the show hugely successful.

    The show’s co-producer, Robert Stigwood, signed Barbara to his record label, RSO Records, where she recorded the album ‘Answer Me’, the title track becoming a top ten hit in 1976. This led to her guest residency on the much-loved ser

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    As a multi-million selling recording artist with an equally impressive Olivier Award winning acting career, Barbara Dickson OBE has firmly established herself as one of the most enduring and popular artistes in Britain today.

     

    Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, Barbara’s love of music was evident from an early age – she began studying piano at the age of five and by twelve had also taken up the guitar. She developed an interest in folk music whilst at school which led to floor spots singing at her local folk club. After relocating to Edinburgh, she went on to combine a day job in the Civil Service whilst steadily pursuing her first love, music, in local pubs and clubs.

     

    The watershed moment came in 1968 when, after being refused leave from her job for an overseas singing engagement, Barbara resigned, determined to pursue a career for herself in the burgeoning folk scene of the late ‘60’s.

     

    The next few years saw her gradually

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    1947:

    Barbara Ruth Dickson is born in Dunfermline, Scotland on September 27th.

    1952:

    Barbara attends Camdean Primary School in Rosyth.

    1956: 

    The Dickson family move to Ochil Terrace in Dunfermline where Barbara attends Pitcorthie Primary School.

    1958:

    Barbara moves to Woodmill Junior High School. Her music teacher fryst vatten Sandy Saddler, who becomes a great influence.

    1964:

    Barbara leaves school. Her friends encourage her to sing on scen at the Howff människor club in Dunfermline. She forms a musical partnership with guitarist Jack Beck - they play three weeks at the Aberdeen summer music festival.  

    Aged 17, Barbara moves to Edinburgh and works in the Registrar General's office.

    1965: 

    A civil servant by day, Barbara performs in människor clubs bygd night and at weekends. She contributes a song, 'The Waters of Tyne', to the privately-pressed LP 'Folksong '65'.

    1966:

    Barbara continues to play live locally - venues include the Kinema Ballroom, T