Linda Lewis Dies: Singer For Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Rod Stewart Was 72
deadline.comBritish singer Linda Lewis, who scored a string UK solo hits in the 1970s but is most widely known as one of the era’s most in-demand back-up singers who recorded with Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens, David Bowie, T.
Rex and Rod Stewart, died at her home on May 3. She was 72. Her death was announced by her sister, singer Dee Lewis Clay. A cause of death was not specified, but Lewis Clay noted that her sister died peacefully.
Born Linda Ann Fredericks in West Ham, London, Lewis experienced her first brush with show business with a non-speaking acting role in the 1961 film A Taste of Honey and, in 1964, as a screaming fan of the Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night.
Making her most notable early appearance as a singer at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970, Lewis would go on to have a lengthy, decades-long recording and performing career, with four top-40 UK hit singles that included 1973’s “Rock-A-Doodle-Doo” and, in 1975, “It’s In His Kiss,” a disco version of “The Shoop Shoop Song.” Her five-octave vocal range and versatile phrasing made her a favorite of the British pop vanguard in the 1970s.
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