664 Dusty Springfield (1939-1999) “Wishin’ and Hopin’” 1963

“There is no avoiding psychobiography when writing about Dusty Springfield. She was troubled, out of place in her world. The authorized Dusty Springfield biography portrays Dusty’s life as one long, often sad if occasionally and curiously joyous, car crash of a life, a redemptive turn coming late in the game but almost too late. If one is to believe the biography—and why not?—Dusty was a good but deeply conflicted soul, more often settling for diversions from her torments rather than solutions to them” (Warren Zanes, Dusty in Memphis, 2003). 

Dusty Springfield “Wishin’ and Hopin’”