Helena Springs was a vocalist for Dylan's 1978 World Tour, and the following year on his Gospel Tour.
16 Facts About Helena Springs
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Helena Springs stopped working with Dylan in either late 1979 or early 1980.
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Helena Springs has been a backup singer for other artists, including David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Bette Midler, Pet Shop Boys, and Elton John.
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Helena Springs later worked in cabaret, and launched a line of toy dolls.
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Helena Springs had personal relationships with Dylan and Robert De Niro, and was married to music executive Tony Lisandrello for six years.
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Helena Springs was born c 1961 in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
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When Helena Springs was 17, she joined Bob Dylan's band as a backing singer, performing throughout 1978 on his World Tour, and the following year on his Gospel Tour.
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Helena Springs appeared on Dylan's albums Street-Legal, Bob Dylan at Budokan, and Slow Train Coming, as well as the compilation The Bootleg Series Vol.
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Helena Springs told interviewer Chris Cooper that she had not known about Dylan before he auditioned her, and that working with him was her "first major gig".
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Helena Springs called "Coming from the Heart", which has been performed in concert by Dylan only once, and was covered by the Searchers, "one of Dylan's best love songs".
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In 1987, Clapton told an interviewer for Dylan fanzine The Telegraph that Dylan had handed him a cassette tape with the two songs when they met in Germany, and that "[Dylan and Helena Springs] were co-writing, and I think he was very proud of it".
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Helena Springs was a backing vocalist on David Bowie and Mick Jagger's cover of "Dancing in the Street", and performed on stage with Bowie at Live Aid the same year.
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The reviewer of New Love in the Evening Post wrote that Helena Springs "seems to have a penchant for hi-energy pop soul" but "doesn't really have the songs".
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Helena Springs was described as having a "rather deep voice which is well-suited to this techno-pop-gone-crazy single", by John Lee in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
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Helena Springs later worked in cabaret, and launched a line of toy dolls.
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Helena Springs had a personal relationship with Dylan, which is thought to be the inspiration of his song "New Pony".