#vicki wickham

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3 photos I found by Tony Gale

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Vicki Wickham

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1939

Ethnicity: White - British

Occupation: Talent manager, producer, songwriter

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SUZI'S CUE — Journo-turned-publicist/manager TOBY MAMIS talks to Suzi Quatro (Zoo World, 1974), meets the Beach Boys in New York (Creem, 1971) and discusses Labelle and more with former Ready, Steady, Go! producer Vicki Wickham (Phonograph Record, 1971).

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♫ You Don't Have To Say You Love Me ♫ (Redux)

I actually left the house today for the first time since well before Christmas!  The girls and I went to Barnes & Noble, browsed for an hour or so, then to Fresh Market for some fresh fruit ‘n snacks.  That little bit just exhausted me, so tonight I was looking for a song to redux, but preferably one that I hadn’t played for a few years.  Well, I found this one that I haven’t played since 2019,…

♫ You Don't Have To Say You Love Me ♫ (Redux)

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♫ You Don't Have To Say You Love Me ♫

♫ You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me ♫

Originally, this was a Italian song composed by Pino Donnagio. Dusty Springfield heard Donnagio perform it at the San Remo festival and asked her friend Vicki Wickham, who produced the British TV show Ready Steady Go, to write some English lyrics for it. With the help of Yardbirds manager Simon Napier-Bell, she did.

According to Napier-Bell …

“Vicki and I used to eat together, and she told me…

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Dave Godin on meeting George

One more incident I remember with pleasure was an occasion when Kim Weston was appearing on 'Ready, Steady, Go'. Also on the programme were The Beatles, who, at that time, were at the very height of their popularity. The studio was besieged with hundreds of screaming and hysterical fans, and security was so tight we had to enter the studio through what seemed to be a nuclear bunker in a neighbouring building. When the show was over, Vicki Wickham, (whom glory doth adore), said there would be drinks in the Green Room after, and would we like to join them? Now, my knowledge of any non-classical music outside of the black American field is ZERO, and I panicked and said to Vicki, 'For goodness' sake get a photo of The Beatles and tell me which one is which!'. I didn't even know their names properly!! So, that done, I eventually met them all, name perfect, and George Harrison said to me, 'I always read your column in 'Blues & Soul'! That was such a generous act of human kindness that it has remained in my memory as a lesson ever since. OK, he may have been, and probably was, briefed by Vicki beforehand as to who I was, he might never have set eyes on my column in his life, but the fact that he remembered, and had nothing to gain from remembering, and to say this when he was in a position where they practically ruled the world, was not only touching but a lesson in humility for all those who think they are so high and mighty they no longer have to say 'please' or 'thank you'. It was a magnificent acte gratuite, and, as those who know me know, I'm an acte gratuite junkie! By this simple act, I always remember George Harrison as a fellow human-being, rather than as a Superstar!

Dave Godin-from 'Dave Godin's Magic Moments' on Ace Records Website

http://www.acerecords.co.uk/features/ace-on-the-road/dave-godins-magic-moments

NB Dave Godin was instrumental in introducing Motown to the UK and coined the phrase 'Northern Soul (amomgst his other many achievements)- he is still deeply missed on the UK Soul Scene. As an aside do yoursalf a favour and get all four of his 'Deep Soul Treasures from the vaults' compilations -you will not regret it

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Scanned from 'Dancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield' by Penny Valentine and Vicki Wickham.