Pamela Agatha Nestor was born on 28 April 1948 and is a former singer, songwriter and actress who was active in the entertainment industry in the 1960s and 1970s.
24 Facts About Pam Nestor
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Pam Nestor left the music industry in 1979 and in later life took to academic pursuits, gaining a doctorate in 2009 from Birkbeck College, University of London.
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Pam Nestor moved to England in 1961 and at the age of 14 lived in Muswell Hill, London, with her mother and younger sister.
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Pam Nestor was a free spirit, in her own words: "crazy, tough, intense, idealistic".
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Pam Nestor is said to have loved being in Hair, 'revelling in the.
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One day in their lodgings while on tour, Pam Nestor showed her some of her poems and Armatrading set them to music, and so their writing partnership was born.
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Pam Nestor was Tuesday Productions, owned by Gus Dudgeon, and Cube was their in-house label.
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The sidelining of Pam Nestor seems to have been a decision made by both of them, with Stone saying at the time he " wasn't keen on this duo idea".
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Tuesday Productions had wanted to call the album Joan Armatrading, but Pam Nestor fought against that decision, saying it was "absolutely not right" to do so, given the work she had done over three years.
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Pam Nestor commented: "I got really hysterical about it" and "I was disposable as far as they were concerned".
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Pam Nestor was the catalyst that enabled Joan Armatrading's career to take off, as Kent said: "she'd do the rapping, the mixing while her quiet friend who spent so much time cloistered behind her piano or guitar, would hang back in the shadows, protected by the former's feisty joie de vivre".
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Pam Nestor felt that her role in pushing Armatrading towards a career in music had been undervalued.
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Pam Nestor supplied the lyrics to the song "Dinah's Cafe" and sang it in the film's title sequence.
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Pam Nestor appeared on an edition of BBC's Open Door in August 1973 to promote the film, and was interviewed by Austin John Marshall of New Musical Express.
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Pam Nestor set about trying to rebuild a singing and performing career, eventually putting together a band that was known as the Pam Nestor Band, and reverted to her earlier attempts to launch a singing career, recording some material with Henry Spinetti, who had played on the Whatever's for Us album, and with Ken Cumberpatch producing.
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Pam Nestor continued with some singing and performing engagements, for example, appearing with her band at the Nashville in Kensington, London, on 25 May 1978 supporting the Bowles Brothers, at the Acklam Hall, Notting Hill, on 27 November 1978 along with Liz Xtian and Clapperclaw, and at the Witcombe Lodge in Cheltenham on 25 August 1979, supported by Madness.
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Merger recorded a reggae album titled Exiles Ina Babylon on the Sun Star Label, which was released in 1977, and played the title track, "Exiles Ina Babylon" on an edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977, with Pam Nestor appearing as a backing singer.
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Pam Nestor is credited on the album notes as providing backing vocals and percussion.
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Pam Nestor was credited as writing the lyrics and music for both of the songs.
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Pam Nestor has kept a low profile and seems after 1979 to have left the music business entirely.
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In 2000, Pam Nestor was one of an organising team for a three-day conference at Birkbeck College, University of London, titled The Black Gaze.
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In July 2011, Pam Nestor made a guest appearance at Queen's College, an independent school in Harley Street, London.
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Pam Nestor was invited to take part in singing for a BBC Radio 4 drama about the suffragettes, broadcast in autumn 2012.
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Pam Nestor took part in singing "My Family", a song to which she wrote the lyrics, and which headlined the Whatever's for Us album.