Elkie Brooks performs at the Grand Theatre, Lancaster on Saturday January 24 and at the Lowry, Salford Quays, on Wednesday February 4.1958: First gig at the Laronde club, Cheetham Hill Road in north Manchester.1960: Wins a talent show at Palace Theatre, Manchester, and starts touring the UK.1964: First record release - a cover of Etta James’s Something’s Got A Hold On Me1975: Elkie’s first solo album Rich Man’s Woman meets critical acclaim, but also controversy over the cover, featuring Elkie wearing only a strategically-draped feather boa.1977: Pearl’s A Singer gets into the Top Ten, beginning a run of chart hits including Sunshine After The Rain, Lilac Wine and Don’t Cry Out Loud.1986: A career high for Elkie as the album No More The Fool reaches number five in the album chart, and the title track number five in the singles chart.2003: Elkie takes part in an ITV reality show Reborn In The USA, finishing seventh out of ten.2003: Releases Trouble In Mind, an album with old friend Humphrey Lyttleton. Back in the 1930s, you had to completely turn your back on the way you were living before.
See the full gallery: 8 Facts You Never Knew About Elkie Brooks. 6 Get track I think I project my voice better than I’ve ever done,’ muses Elkie. 5 Most Popular #91024.
But I feel that’s where all the music comes from.’In recent months, Elkie has made contact with a descendant of Maud’s sister, who lives in Oldham, and is gradually filling in the family history her late mother did not feel able to share.Elkie now describes herself as a Lancashire Cockney Devonian.
1958: First gig at the Laronde club, Cheetham Hill Road in north Manchester.
She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist.She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s, releasing 13 UK Top 75 singles, and reached the top ten with "Pearl's a Singer", "Sunshine After the Rain" and the title track of the album No More the Fool. Bette Midler. 22
Jay, the elder of their two sons, manages Elkie’s career and produces her albums, the 22nd of which is due out in the middle of next year. 7 In the 1970s, she turned rock chick with the band Vinegar Joe (whose other singer was the late Robert Palmer) then enjoyed a massively successful solo career which took off with the single Pearl’s A Singer in 1977.And yet, Elkie is only now discovering family history which may explain all that musical talent. Case Walker. I never liked doing that 30 years ago.
Fact Eight. 1960: Wins a talent show at Palace Theatre, Manchester, and starts touring the … 2
‘My lower register is fuller.