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Dusty memories

Dusty Springfield (left), the diva of blue-eyed soul, is the subject of a new biography by Annie J. Randall, an associate professor of musicology at Bucknell University. Dusty Springfield (left), the diva of blue-eyed soul, is the subject of a new biography by Annie J. Randall, an associate professor of musicology at Bucknell University.
By James Reed
Globe Staff / December 23, 2008

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Like her silken voice and towering beehive, Dusty Springfield remains larger than life nine years after her death from breast cancer. The iconic British pop star fashioned what we now call blue-eyed soul, a genre alive and well in the music of Amy Winehouse, Duffy, and Jamie Lidell. (Full article: 411 words)

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