26 Facts About Sandie Shaw

Sandie Shaw returned to the UK Top 40, for the first time in 15 years, with her 1984 cover of the Smiths song "Hand in Glove".

Sandie Shaw attended Robert Clack Technical School in Becontree Heath, Dagenham.

Sandie Shaw introduced her to his manager, Eve Taylor, who won her a contract with Pye Records in 1964 and gave her the stage name of "Sandie Shaw".

Sandie Shaw's version rose to No 1 in the UK Singles Chart in the autumn of 1964, and charted in the United States at No 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 early the following year.

Sandie Shaw was seen as epitomising the "swinging Sixties", and her trademark of performing barefoot endeared her to the public at large.

Sandie Shaw recorded most of her hit singles in Italian, French, German and Spanish boosting her popularity in Europe.

Sandie Shaw was invited by the BBC to represent the UK in that year's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.

Sandie Shaw was to have made her film debut in Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, but she walked out of the production before filming began.

Sandie Shaw produced her own album, Reviewing the Situation, which contained versions of songs by artists such as Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones and made Sandie Shaw the first known artist to cover a Led Zeppelin song.

Sandie Shaw retired from life as a pop singer and began working on other ventures, including co-writing a full-length rock musical, songwriting, acting in stage productions and writing children's books.

In 1973, Sandie Shaw was one of eight artists each given their own TV special in the BBC1 series Music My Way, where her guests included Blue Mink.

Sandie Shaw recorded a version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" for their Music of Quality And Distinction album on the Virgin label, which brought her back into the public eye.

Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders invited Sandie Shaw to perform a duet rendition of "Girl Don't Come" at a Pretenders performance, and the two women began a long-term friendship.

Sandie Shaw recorded a new version of her first hit " Always Something There to Remind Me" for the film Letter to Brezhnev and then released two singles on the Polydor label.

Sandie Shaw embarked on two more successful university tours and made appearances at Gay pride and Peace festivals.

Sandie Shaw appeared at the Sanremo Music Festival 1990, singing "Deep Joy", the English version to Milva's song "Sono Felice".

Sandie Shaw embarked on a successful legal battle to establish ownership of her entire recording catalogue and began working with contemporary acts and producers, reworking much of her 1960s and 1980s material.

In 2003, Sandie Shaw licensed her recording catalogue worldwide to EMI, continued to develop her Arts Clinic and began executive coaching and mentoring.

Sandie Shaw briefly sat in for Brian Matthew on his long-running BBC Radio 2 Saturday morning show Sounds of the 60s in December 2006.

On 26 February 2007, in honour of her 60th birthday, Sandie Shaw released a new version of "Puppet on a String" on her website.

Sandie Shaw took the opportunity to criticise the Eurovision Song Contest, saying that it was bad when she did it, but had now got even worse.

Sandie Shaw was Jools Holland's special guest on his 2011 Tour.

On New Year's Eve in 2011 Sandie Shaw performed on BBC Two's Hootenanny backed by Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.

Sandie Shaw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to music.

On 6 March 1968, Sandie Shaw married fashion designer Jeff Banks at the Greenwich Register Office in London.

Sandie Shaw then married her third husband, the psychologist Tony Bedford.