Where Are You Now: Jackie Trent
The early 1960s saw the arrival of a new wave of British female pop singers, but one led the field in combining her talents as a vocalist with those of a songwriter. She was Jackie Trent, who wrote or co-wrote more than 400 numbers.
Trent, who died on 21 March 2015, aged 74, topped the charts almost exactly 50 years ago with her rendition of Where Are You Now, which she co-wrote with her first husband, the composer Tony Hatch.
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March 23, 2015 at 1:01 pm
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Jackie Trent from the Daily Express
“Trent, whose real name was Yvonne Burgess, was born in 1940 and began singing when she was three. She used to stand on the kitchen table and entertain visitors to the family home.
After changing her name and leaving the Potteries in her midteens Trent claimed she was romanced by Elvis Presley. It was said to have happened while she was entertaining US troops in Germany, where The King was doing his national service.
“I shared a few kisses with Elvis,” she later recalled.
“He was gorgeous, he really was. He said ‘Hi pretty lady, come and sit with me.’ We had a fantastic evening. Everyone had taken their instruments with them and he got out his guitar.
“We had a sing-song for about three hours. Once he got started you couldn’t stop him. He told me that I must go to the States. I was very tempted, believe me.”
On another occasion she was propositioned by Aristotle Onassis in a bar in Cyprus. Jackie revealed: “He came in with his cronies, dripping in gold and buying Dom Perignon champagne. I could never understand why Jackie Kennedy married him because he was the most repulsive little man I had ever met. He made my skin crawl.”
Hatch never really gave her credit for involvement in nearly 400 songs for everyone from Tom Jones to Scott Walker to (the pride of Epsom) Pet Clark, nothwithstanding that “I couldn’t live without your love” was co written by Hatch and Trent reflecting upon their affair which was to become very public.
However, when that song comes on about an underpass, and Pet’s beautiful voice entices you to “Don’t Sleep in the Subway”, it was the brilliant Jackie that wrote the lyrics.
Jackie Trent was Fab – Nuff said
March 23, 2015 at 6:31 pm
My Dear Hedley,
Thank you for all this. I figure most people, and that would include me, didn’t know enough about her.