Vicki Wickham
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Vicki Heather Wickham is an English
talent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter.
television show Ready Steady Go!
, and managing well known pop/soul acts Labelle
and Dusty Springfield
.
She also wrote (with Simon Napier-Bell
) the English lyrics to Springfield's only British #1 hit, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
", adapted from the Italian song Io che non vivo senza te. She co-wrote Dusty's biography Dancing with Demons with Penny Valentine
. Vicki Wickham was also the Fashion Consultant for the monthly The MOD magazine issued at the start of 1964, the Editor was Albert Hand.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
talent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter.
Career
She is most known for producing the 60s BritishUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
television show Ready Steady Go!
Ready Steady Go!
Ready Steady Go! or simply RSG! was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes. It was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the producer. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966...
, and managing well known pop/soul acts Labelle
Labelle
Labelle is an American all female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia/Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing...
and Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
.
She also wrote (with Simon Napier-Bell
Simon Napier-Bell
Simon Napier-Bell has undertaken many jobs in the music industry, including bandboy, manager, producer, songwriter, journalist and author and gourmet...
) the English lyrics to Springfield's only British #1 hit, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" is the title of a 1966 hit recorded by British singer Dusty Springfield which proved to be her career record reaching #1 UK and #4 US: the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley , Guys 'n' Dolls and Denise Welch with Presley's version...
", adapted from the Italian song Io che non vivo senza te. She co-wrote Dusty's biography Dancing with Demons with Penny Valentine
Penny Valentine
Penelope Ann Valentine was a British music journalist, rock critic, and occasional television personality....
. Vicki Wickham was also the Fashion Consultant for the monthly The MOD magazine issued at the start of 1964, the Editor was Albert Hand.
External links
- Vicki Wickham at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Discography at Discogs
- Interview, "Ready, Vicki, Go", The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, November 30, 1999