"Micky" (Twinkle) b/w "Darby and Joan" (Twinkle) (1969).Sloan, Steve Barri) b/w "Now I Have You" (Tommy Scott) (1966) "The End of the World" (Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee) b/w "Take Me to the Dance" (Tommy Scott) (1965)."Poor Old Johnny" (Twinkle) b/w "I Need Your Hand in Mine" (Tommy Scott) (1965)."Tommy" (Chip Taylor,Ted Daryll) b/w "So Sad" (Tommy Scott) (1965)."Golden Lights" (Twinkle) b/w "Ain't Nobody Home but Me" (Tommy Scott) (1965) UK No." Terry" (Twinkle) b/w "The Boy of My Dreams" ( Tommy Scott) (1964) UK No.On, Twinkle died at 66 on the Isle of Wight, after a five-year battle with cancer. They had two children, Michael and Amber. In 1972, she married actor-model Graham Rogers, who starred in Milk Tray chocolate adverts. Photographic publicity portraits of Twinkle taken in the mid-1960s are exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery. It was later issued on a special edition of her album, Mandy. "Terry" was also covered by Mandy Smith in 1987, but her highly publicised version was pulled from release after negative feedback. In the 1980s "Golden Lights" was covered by The Smiths and appeared on their compilation albums The World Won't Listen and Louder Than Bombs while in 1983 Cindy & The Saffrons covered "Terry". She recorded a 1975 single, "Smoochie" with her father, Sidney Ripley as "Bill & Coo". Her later recordings appeared under the name Twinkle Ripley. These remained unreleased until they were included on CD compilations. In the ensuing years, unsigned and working in music for advertising, she recorded a suite of songs inspired by her relationship with "Micky", the actor/model Michael Hannah, who was killed in an air-crash in 1974. In 1969 she recorded a self-written single, the Tamla Motown-styled "Micky", backed by "Darby and Joan", both produced by Mike d'Abo (also among the relatively few pop musicians of a privileged background in that era) for the Instant label. After recording six singles for Decca Records she "retired" at the age of eighteen in 1966. Twinkle made few live appearances but performed Terry at the annual New Musical Express hit concerts. "Johnny" continued to explore dangerous territory, this time that of a childhood friend who becomes a criminal, but it seems the pressure to produce "another Terry" led her producers to pass over her own material, for "Tommy", a song written for Reparata and the Delrons and "The End of the World" a tune composed for Skeeter Davis. The lyric expresses disillusionment with the pop business: her EP track "A Lonely Singing Doll", the English-language version of France Gall's 1965 winning Eurovision Song Contest song for Luxembourg, " Poupée de cire, poupée de son", originally written by Serge Gainsbourg, returned to a theme similar to "Golden Lights". By then Cluskey was her ex-boyfriend: Twinkle dated Peter Noone in 1965. The follow-up, Golden Lights, was also written by Twinkle, with a B-side again by producer Tommy Scott. The theme was of a common type for the era: it bore some similarities to the Shangri-Las' slightly earlier " Leader of the Pack" (1964), but the record caused a furore, accusations of bad taste leading to a ban from the BBC. Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page and Bobby Graham were among the high-profile star session musicians who played on the recording, which conjured up a dark mood with its doleful backing vocals, spooky organ, 12-string guitar and slow, emphatic rhythm arranged by Phil Coulter. Her song Terry was a teenage tragedy song about the death of a boyfriend in a motorcycle crash. Twinkle owed her rapid entry into the recording studio at the age of 16 to her then-boyfriend Dec Cluskey, of the popular vocal group The Bachelors, who was introduced to her by her sister, music journalist Dawn James, and who passed on to his manager a demo that Twinkle's father played to him. She attended Queen's Gate School with Camilla Shand, later Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and was the aunt of actress Fay Ripley.
She had chart success in the 1960s with her songs " Terry" and "Golden Lights".īorn in Surbiton, Surrey, into a well-to-do family, Ripley was known to her family as Twinkle. Lynn Annette Ripley (15 July 1948 – ), better known by the stage name Twinkle, was an English singer-songwriter.
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