Return of the starry-eyed girl

It's lunchtime at Claridge's, and a glamorous blonde in sparkling stilettos shimmers out of the lift. No one bats an eyelid, but then she starts speaking. "Shall we go to the bar? It really has zip. And I came in yesterday morning, stayed up all night carousing, so, you know, I need zippin'!" Jackie De Shannon is one of America's pop's most formidable characters. Born Sharon Lee Myers in Kentucky in 1944, she was singing on the radio at six, and had her own show by 11. At 15, she briefly dated E...

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