Lynsey de Paul

On 16th June 2015, the Performing Rights Society (PRS) Music Foundation together with PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund announced the launch of the Lynsey De Paul Prize. Recognizing Lynsey's passion for helping young women in to the music industry, this career-developing prize has been set up to help emerging female singer-songwriters. It is being run by PRS for Music Foundation, the UK's leading charitable funder of new music and talent development.

In 2013, Cherry Red Records released two double CDs containing most of Lynsey's major recording output from the 70's. It includes the hit singles, B-sides and many album tracks and showcases her versatility as a singer-songwriter plus two booklets where Lynsey describes the inspiration for some of her songs and interesting facts and experiences from her career in music.

Lynsey has been selected as a member of the UK jury for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest.

Lynsey's Vintage Love Songs will be transmitted from late February 2011 on Vintage TV [February 2011]

Received Gold Badge Award of Merit in 2005, presented by BASCA in association with PRS for Music at the Savoy in London, for her contribution to the music industry.

Lynsey was present at Patti Boulaye's charity "Support for Africa 2000." held at Abuja House, home of Nigerian High Commissioner Prince Bola Ajibola. Other guests included Hot Chocolate's Errol Brown and operatic singer Russell Watson.

More recently, she released a self-defense video for women, titled Taking Control (1992).

Comedian Spike Milligan wrote a song for her in 1987. This is not the first time that she has been the subject of a song - former boyfriend 'Roy Wood' wrote two songs in her honour, "Rock 'n' Roll Winter" and "Why Does Such a Pretty Girl Sing Such Sad Songs" in 1974.

Received "Rear of the Year" award in 1985 - accepted this award by thanking the organisers "from the heart of my bottom" (quote).

She has appeared on stage in the thriller "Shriek" and the musical "Pump Boys and Dinettes" as well as in the film Gabrielle and the Doodleman (1984) and the TV drama The Starlight Ballroom (1983).

In 1981 she released a single that was co-written with Sue Shifrin, entitled "Strange Changes".

On her fifth album, "Tigers and Fireflies", released in 1979, there are two tracks co-written with the actor James Coburn ("Melancholy Melon" and "Losin' the Blues for You") who was her partner at the time.

with Mike Moran in the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest with the song, "Rock Bottom", which came second.

The sound track to All This and World War II (1976) features her version of The Beatles song "Because" and was also released on the album that accompanied this film. This is the only song written by another artist that Lynsey has recorded (Lynsey prefers to record only her own songs).

The film Side by Side (1975), the theme song for which was written by Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue was released on DVD in 2013.

In 1973, Lynsey was the first women to win an Ivor Novello award for "Won't Somebody Dance With Me", a feat she repeated again in 1974 for the TV theme "No Honestly". Ever busy, she also wrote a number of hits for other artists in the 70s and 80s. Lynsey was oft to be seen on a variety of UK TV shows, particularly during the 70s, displaying her varied talents and so it was inevitable that she would turn to acting.

In 1972, after co-writing her first hit single for The Fortunes ("Storm in a Teacup"), Lynsey emerged as a performer in her own right with hit single "Sugar Me". Success as a singer-songwriter was consolidated with a run of hit singles and four albums, including representing the U. K.

Trained in classical music, London-born pianist Lynsey de Paul entered art college and turned her hand to designing album sleeves as a means to boost her income. This awakened her interest in songwriting and some of her first tunes were recorded by other artists in 1971.

In Patrick McCabe's book "Breakfast on Pluto", about the life of a gender confused Irish teenager in the 1970's, she has a chapter named after her. Another chapter, called "Dancing on a Saturday Night" quotes the lyrics from this well known Lynsey De Paul song.

Was impersonated by Jackie Wright on The Benny Hill Show (1969)

Lynsey was one of the guests appearing on the 10th anniversary episode of Top of the Pops (1964) in 1974.

Lynsey was one of the 60 celebrities chosen by British quality newspaper "The Independent" to choose her all-time favorite single. She chose "Love Came to Me" by Dion DiMucci(1962) and said "It was a really good pop record of its time. Certain songs have emotional associations in one's life. This was almost a coming of age".