As a kid I had a big crush on the sixties pop singers like Cilla Black and Lulu but the only one that really stayed with me was Sandie Shaw. It was something about her hair and her mini dresses and her penchant for always singing minus her shoes and stockings. When I came back to her in the late Seventies it was through an Astor compilation that featured her on the front cover holding a union jack. Which fitted in with Little Murders and the way we draped flags over our amps. The song on the album was "Girl Don't Come" basically Sandie singing to a guy whose date hasn't turned up. As a record it's almost as evocative as Waterloo Sunset with it's distant bells chiming nine.
On my album "We Should be home by now" I wrote an homage to Sandie and this song.
Later she did 3 wonderful songs with the Smiths including "Jeane" a lost Smiths treasure. When I was in England a couple of months ago I saw she was playing live again. Unfortunately I couldn't make it but I would have loved to go. Except she would probably have played Puppet on a String and blown the atmosphere.
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