In 1967, Randell toured the United States with The Monkees and performed on-stage with support act Jimi Hendrix.
22 Facts About Lynne Randell
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Lynne Randell wrote for teen magazine, Go-Set, and television programme guide, TV Week.
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Lynne Randell was born as Lynne Randall in Liverpool, England, in 1949 and had started primary school.
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At the age of 14, Lynne Randell started working for celebrity hairdresser Lillian Frank on a trial basis and promptly asked for annual holidays to fulfil her singing gig.
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Lynne Randell was 'discovered' whilst working as a 14-year-old apprentice hairdresser for Lilian and Antonio Frank.
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Lynne Randell cut a demo in a dining room and Rofe played it on his radio show.
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Lynne Randell appeared on television to promote her single including Bandstand, Saturday Date and Sing Sing Sing.
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Lynne Randell appeared on another TV series, Kommotion with fellow pop artists including Burns and featured performers miming to overseas artists' hits: Meldrum, for example, mimed to "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band.
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Lynne Randell worked the dance scene and discotheques, usually backed by The Spinning Wheels, with her trendsetting clothes and mod style carefully orchestrated by manager, West.
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Lynne Randell was marketed as Australia's Miss Mod and became the most popular female performer in the mid-1960s.
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Teen magazine, Go-Set, had separate columns written by Meldrum and Rofe, it ran a pop poll, with Lynne Randell voted 'Most Popular Female Vocal' in October 1966.
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Lynne Randell wrote in Go-Set and television programme guide, TV Week, of her experiences while touring the US.
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Epic Records released it in the US, Lynne Randell shot a colour video for "Ciao Baby" which is believed to be the first by an Australian artist.
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Lynne Randell developed a long term addiction which subsequently damaged her brain, nervous system and adrenal glands.
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Lynne Randell moved to Los Angeles in 1968 and released "An Open Letter".
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Lynne Randell married Abe Hoch, an Atlantic Records company executive, in 1969.
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Abe Hoch later became head of Swan Song Records and they moved to London in 1976 where Lynne Randell had further health problems related to her methamphetamine addiction and prescriptions by doctors.
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Lynne Randell worked for Seymour Stein of Sire Records as his personal assistant in New York during the late 1980s, living close to her son Jamieson.
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Lynne Randell moved back to Melbourne in the 1990s and made occasional appearances in oldies concerts.
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Lynne Randell went public about her methamphetamine addiction in 2004 in an interview with Peter Wilmoth of The Age.
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Lynne Randell was found dead at her home in Toorak, Melbourne, on 8 June 2007.
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Lynne Randell left notes and gifts for family and friends.