Vicki Wickham
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Vicki Heather Wickham (b. 1939) is an English talent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter.
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[edit] Career
She is most known for producing the 60s British television show Ready Steady Go!, and managing well known pop/soul acts Labelle[1] and Dusty Springfield. She also wrote (with Simon Napier-Bell) the English lyrics to Springfield's only British #1 hit, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", adapted from the Italian song Io che non vivo senza te. She co-wrote Dusty's biography Dancing with Demons with Penny Valentine. Vicki Wickham was also the Fashion Consultant for the monthly The MOD magazine issued at the start of 1964, the Editor was Albert Hand.
[edit] Bibliography
- Dancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield, Penny Valentine and Vicki Wickham, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, Aug 2000, ISBN 0340766735 [2]
[edit] Awards
- Music Industry "Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1999[3]
[edit] External links
- Vicki Wickham at the Internet Movie Database
- Discography at Discogs
- Interview, "Ready, Vicki, Go", The Guardian, November 30, 1999
[edit] References
- ^ "Belles of the Ball", Dustin Fitzharris, Bay Windows, Oct 29, 2008
- ^ Review of Dancing with Demons, "You don't have to say you love me", The Observer, September 3, 2000, Barbara Ellen
- ^ Hodder & Stoughton author details
