WITH her petticoats, angelic voice and perfect beehive hairdo, singer Dusty Springfield projected a prim persona. But the picture of perfection couldn’t hide the human being who was cracking up under the pressure of hiding her true self.
Finally her inner turmoil led Dusty to be sectioned in a psychiatric hospital, in one of many such stays. In the Sixties she had become one of Britain’s most successful singers, with 16 hit singles including I Only Want To Be With You and Son Of A Preacher Man, but she also battled cocaine abuse, alcoholism, suicidal feelings and a volcanic temper.
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