Twinkle Queen

Contents.Early life Born in, into a well-to-do family, Ripley was known to her family as 'Twinkle'. She attended with, and was the aunt of actress. Sanrio world smash ball. Career Twinkle owed her rapid entry into the recording studio at the age of 16 to her then-boyfriend, Dec Cluskey, of the popular vocal group, who was introduced to her by her sister, music journalist Dawn James, and who passed on to his manager a demo that Twinkle's father played to him. Her song 'Terry' was a about the death of a boyfriend in a motorcycle crash., and were among the high-profile star who played on the recording, which conjured up a dark mood with its doleful backing vocals, spooky organ, 12-string guitar and slow, emphatic rhythm arranged. The theme was of a common type for the era, it bore some similarities to the ' slightly earlier ' (1964), but the record caused a furore, accusations of bad taste leading to a ban from the.The follow-up, 'Golden Lights', was also written by Twinkle, with a B-side again by producer Tommy Scott.

By then Cluskey was her ex-boyfriend: Twinkle dated in 1965. The lyrics express disillusionment with the pop business: her EP track 'A Lonely Singing Doll', the English-language version of 's 1965 winning song for Luxembourg, ', originally written by, returned to a theme similar to 'Golden Lights'. 'Johnny' continued to explore dangerous territory, this time that of a childhood friend who becomes a criminal, but it seems the pressure to produce 'another Terry' led her producers to pass over her own material, for 'Tommy', a song written for and a tune composed for. Twinkle made few live appearances but performed 'Terry' at the annual hit concerts. After six singles for she 'retired' at the age of eighteen in 1966.In 1969 she recorded a self-written single, the -styled 'Micky', backed by 'Darby and Joan', both produced by (also among the relatively few pop musicians of a privileged background in that era) for the Immediate label.

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The single vanished, unpublicised. In the ensuing years, unsigned and working in music for advertising, she recorded a suite of songs inspired by her relationship with 'Micky', the actor/model Michael Hannah, who was killed in an air-crash in 1974.

These remained unreleased until they were included on CD compilations. Her later recordings appeared under the name Twinkle Ripley. She recorded a 1975 single, 'Smoochie' with her father, Sidney Ripley as 'Bill & Coo'.In the 1980s 'Golden Lights' was by and appeared on their and while in 1983 covered 'Terry'. Photographic publicity portraits of Twinkle taken in the mid-1960s are exhibited in the. Personal life In 1972, she married actor-model Graham Rogers, who starred in the chocolate adverts. They had two children, Michael and Amber. Death On 21 May 2015, Twinkle died at 66 on the, after a five-year battle with.

Discography Singles for. ' (Twinkle) b/w 'The Boy of My Dreams' (Tommy Scott) (1964) No. 4. 'Golden Lights' (Twinkle) b/w 'Ain't Nobody Home But Me' (Tommy Scott) (1965) UK No. 21. 'Tommy' (Chip Taylor,Ted Daryll) b/w 'So Sad' (Tommy Scott) (1965).

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