Vicki Heather WickhamOBE (born 1939) is anEnglish talent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter.[1]
Career
editWickham was an assistant producer of the 1960sBritish television showReady Steady Go!, and was fashion consultant for the short-livedThe Mod's Monthly magazine, first issued in March 1964 by Albert Hand Publications, and edited by Mark Burns.[2][3] However, she is probably best known as the manager ofDusty Springfield andLabelle.[4]
Wickham co-wrote (withSimon Napier-Bell) the English lyrics to Springfield's only British No. 1 hit, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", adapted from the Italian song "Io che non vivo senza te". WithPenny Valentine, she co-wroteDancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield.[5]
Wickham is gay, but has said that her sexuality was never a problem, stating that she "wasn't out in the 60s. I didn't know what I was, really. Everyone knew I was gay, but we were so unpolitically conscious".[1] In 2012 she told BBC radio listeners: "I found somebody in 1970 and have been with her ever since. I wouldn't swap it for the world."[6]
Her long-term partner is the musicianNona Hendryx.[7]
Awards
editWickham was given a Music Industry "Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1999,[8] and was appointed anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Queen'sBirthday Honours List, for services to music.[9]
References
edit- ^abSullivan, Caroline (29 November 1999)."Ready, Vicki, Go".The Guardian.ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved16 January 2017.
- ^"You can't keep up with the mods".tintrunk.blogspot.com.au. 23 November 2009. Retrieved5 April 2015.
- ^"Burns, Mark: The Mods Monthly". cultjones.com. Archived fromthe original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved5 April 2015.
- ^"Belles of the Ball"Archived 21 April 2009 atarchive.today, Dustin Fitzharris,Bay Windows, 29 October 2008
- ^"Ellen, Barbara: 'You don't have to say you love me'".The Guardian. 3 September 2000. Retrieved9 May 2020.
- ^"The Reunion: 60s Girl Singers". BBC Radio 4. 19 August 2012. Retrieved26 April 2020.
- ^Cashmere, Paul (16 June 2013)."Vicki Wickham Awarded OBE".Noise11.com. Retrieved22 August 2021.
- ^Dancing with Demons. Hodder & Stoughton. 2001.ISBN 9780340766743. Retrieved5 April 2015.
- ^"No. 60534".The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 14.
Bibliography
edit- Valentine, Penny; Wickham, Vicki (April 2000).Dancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. p. 320.ISBN 9780340766736
External links
edit- Vicki Wickham atIMDb
- Discography at Discogs
- Interview, "Ready, Vicki, Go",The Guardian, 30 November 1999