Mary Hopkin was one of the first artists to be signed to the Beatles' Apple label.
24 Facts About Mary Hopkin
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Mary Hopkin grew up in Ystradgynlais, near Swansea in South Wales.
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Mary Hopkin took weekly singing lessons as a child and began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Set and Mary.
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Mary Hopkin released an EP of Welsh-language songs for a local record label called Cambrian, based in her hometown, before signing to Apple Records, owned by the Beatles, one of the first artists to do so.
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Mary Hopkin said she interpreted "Goodbye" as McCartney pledging to stop "micromanaging" her career, since she was uncomfortable with his positioning of her as a pop chanteuse.
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Mary Hopkin expressed dissatisfaction with her manager at this time, Terry Doran.
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Mary Hopkin's third single, "Temma Harbour", was a re-arrangement of a Philamore Lincoln song.
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Mary Hopkin has expressed dissatisfaction with the material produced by Most, who had taken over as her producer with "Temma Harbour".
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At McCartney's insistence, Mary Hopkin had recorded a cover of "Que Sera, Sera" in August 1969.
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Mary Hopkin had no wish to record the song and refused to have the single released in Britain.
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Mary Hopkin felt it was the album she had always wanted to make, so, coinciding with her marriage to Visconti and with little left to prove, she left the music scene.
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Mary Hopkin travelled to Australia with Visconti in January 1972 and performed at a large outdoor rock festival in South Australia, in addition to giving concerts in several major cities.
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Mary Hopkin starred in her own, one-off TV special for BBC 1 on 29 July 1972.
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Mary Hopkin appeared at the Cambridge Folk Festival with Bert Jansch.
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Mary Hopkin played the character Rosie Probert and performed a piece called "Love Duet" with Freddie Jones as Captain Cat.
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Early in 1990, Mary Hopkin sang with The Chieftains at the London Palladium in a charity show and later joined them on a tour of the UK.
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Mary Hopkin continued to do projects of her choosing, working with people such as Julian Colbeck; she wrote the lyrics and performed a song on his CD Back to Bach.
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Mary Hopkin worked again with old friends, the guitarist Brian Willoughby and Dave Cousins on their CD The Bridge.
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Mary Hopkin appeared on a Beatles' tribute album by RAM Pietsch.
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Mary Hopkin made a guest appearance on The Crocketts' album The Great Brain Robbery, sang the theme song for Billy Connolly's BBC TV series World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales and re-recorded "Those Were The Days" with Robin Williams rapping.
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Mary Hopkin appeared in the Sara Sugarman film Very Annie Mary.
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In September 2005, she released a retrospective album on a label run by her daughter, Mary Hopkin Music, titled Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1972.
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For Christmas 2014, Mary Hopkin recorded a single with her son and daughter.
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Mary Hopkin released an album called Two Hearts, alongside her daughter Jessica Lee Morgan.