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Welsh singer

Mary Hopkin
Hopkin at the Eurovision Song Contest 1970

Hopkin at the
Eurovision Song Contest 1970
Background information
Born (1950-05-03) 3 May 1950 (age 71) [1]
Pontardawe, Wales, UnitedKingdom
Genres Folk
Occupation(south) Vocalist-songwriter
Instruments
  • Vocals, guitar
Years agile 1968–present
Labels
  • Apple
  • Mary Hopkin Music
Associated acts
  • Paul McCartney
  • Tony Visconti
  • David Bowie
  • Ralph McTell
  • Benny Gallagher
Website maryhopkin.com

Musical artist

Mary Hopkin (born three May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti (from her marriage to Tony Visconti), is a Welsh singer songwriter best known for her 1968 United kingdom number i single "Those Were the Days". She was ane of the first artists to be signed to the Beatles' Apple label.

Biography [edit]

Early singing career [edit]

Hopkin was born into a Welsh-speaking family in Pontardawe, Wales; her male parent worked every bit a housing officeholder.[2] She took weekly singing lessons every bit a child and began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Prepare and Mary. She released an EP of Welsh-linguistic communication songs for a local record label called Cambrian, based in her hometown, earlier signing to Apple tree Records, owned by the Beatles, i of the commencement artists to do and so.[3] The model Twiggy saw her winning the ITV television talent show Opportunity Knocks and recommended her to Paul McCartney.[three]

Her debut single, "Those Were the Days", produced by McCartney, was released in the UK on 30 Baronial 1968. Despite contest from well-established star Sandie Shaw, whose unmarried was likewise released that year, Hopkin's version became a number 1 hit on the UK Singles Chart.[four] It reached number 2 on the Usa Billboard Hot 100, where for 3 weeks it was held out of the elevation spot past the Beatles' "Hey Jude",[5] and spent two weeks at number 1 on Canada'due south RPM singles chart. Information technology sold over ane,500,000 copies in the Usa alone, and was awarded a golden disc by the RIAA. Global sales topped 8,000,000.[6]

On 2 October 1968, Hopkin appeared at St Paul's Cathedral in London for the Pop Experience, where she sang "Morning of My Life", "Turn Turn Turn" and "Plaisir d'flirtation".[7] In Dec that year, the NME music magazine reported that Hopkin was considering a lead interim office in Stanley Bakery's planned movie Rape of the Off-white Land, which was to be based on Alexander Cordell'due south book of the same proper name.[eight] That particular project did not materialise but Hopkin did sing the title songs to two of Bakery's films, Where's Jack? and Kidnapped.

On 21 February 1969, Hopkin's debut anthology, Post Card, again produced by McCartney, was released.[9] Information technology included covers of three songs from Donovan, who also played on the anthology, and one song each from George Martin and Harry Nilsson. It reached number 3 on the UK Albums Chart, although information technology proved to be her solitary success in that chart.[4] In the United states, Postal service Menu reached number 28 on the Billboard albums nautical chart.[5]

The next single was "Goodbye", written by McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and released on 26 March 1969.[ten] It reached number ii on the Britain Singles Chart,[four] number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100[10] and number 15 on the RPM nautical chart in Canada.[11] Hopkin said she interpreted "Goodbye" equally McCartney pledging to stop "micromanaging" her career, since she was uncomfortable with his positioning of her every bit a pop chanteuse.[12] She also expressed dissatisfaction with her manager at this time, Terry Doran.[13]

Hopkin's third single, "Temma Harbour", was a re-arrangement of a Philamore Lincoln song. Her first single not to be produced by McCartney,[14] it was released on 16 January 1970 and peaked at number 6 in the UK and number 42 in Canada.[15] In the Usa, "Temma Harbour" reached number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 on the magazine'south Like shooting fish in a barrel Listening chart.[16] Along with Donovan and Billy Preston, Hopkin was one of the chorus singers on the Radha Krishna Temple'south 1970 hit unmarried "Govinda", produced by George Harrison for Apple Records.[17]

Eurovision [edit]

In March 1970, Hopkin represented the United Kingdom in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest, achieving 2nd place with "Knock, Knock Who'due south In that location?"[iii] Although she gave a confident performance and sang in a crystal-clear voice, and despite being the pre-contest favourite, Hopkin lost to "All Kinds of Everything", performed by Irish vocalist Dana.[18] Produced by Mickie Near, "Knock, Knock Who's In that location?" was released every bit a single on 23 March 1970 and peaked at number two in the Britain.[4] It was a worldwide hit, selling over a million copies.

Hopkin's concluding large hit was "Think About Your Children", released in October 1970, which reached number 19 in the Uk. Hopkin has expressed dissatisfaction with the fabric produced by Most, who had taken over every bit her producer with "Temma Harbour". After appearing in Eurovision, Hopkin wanted to return to her folk-music roots.

Later on Eurovision [edit]

At McCartney's insistence, Hopkin had recorded a cover of "Que Sera, Sera" in August 1969.[xix] Hopkin had no wish to record the song and refused to have the single released in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[xix] Initially issued in France in September 1969, it was released in North America in June 1970. [14] The unmarried peaked at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100[14] and number 47 in Canada,[ commendation needed ] and was also a hitting in Nihon, Australia, New Zealand, and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe).

The last single to hit the British charts was "Let My Name Be Sorrow", which reached number 46 in July 1971. Information technology was produced by Tony Visconti, whom Hopkin had met earlier for a Welsh recording of "Sparrow". "Let My Proper noun Be Sorrow" was a hit in Poland in January 1972.

Hopkin'south 2d album, World Song, Body of water Song, was released past Apple tree on one October 1971. The album was produced by Visconti and included comprehend versions of songs written by Cat Stevens, Gallagher and Lyle and Ralph McTell, as well every bit the two title tracks by Liz Thorsen. Hopkin felt it was the album she had always wanted to brand, so, congruent with her marriage to Visconti and with little left to prove, she left the music scene.[xx] The album's unmarried, "Water, Paper and Dirt", missed the Billboard Hot 100. It was Hopkin's last single for Apple tree Records, which she left in March 1972.

After Hopkin's deviation from Apple, a compilation album titled Those Were the Days was released in the latter part of 1972. The album featured all of Hopkin's hits merely failed to chart. "Knock Knock, Who's There?" was released every bit a single in the United states and Canada, both countries having been excluded from the first release of that record in 1970. The single reached number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 11 on the Easy Listening chart in December 1972, giving Hopkin her last United states of america hit.

Television serial [edit]

Following her appearance in the Eurovision contest, Hopkin had her own elevation time TV series, Mary Hopkin in the Land of ..., on BBC 1. Created past Eric Merriman, each episode featured Hopkin looking at a different attribute of storytelling through music and trip the light fantastic. The vi 30-minute programmes were broadcast in 1970 and were repeated in 1971.[21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]

After the hit singles [edit]

After marrying Visconti in 1971,[three] Hopkin withdrew from the pop-music scene to have a family. Although reportedly unhappy with prove business organisation, she did not terminate recording. She travelled to Australia with Visconti in January 1972 and performed at a large outdoor rock festival in S Australia, in add-on to giving concerts in several major cities.[ citation needed ] In March, Hopkin announced her deviation from Apple Records; her director, Jo Lustig, said they were considering offers from "three major [record] companies".[29] In June, the single "Summertime Summertime" / "Sweet and Low" was released on Bell Records under the name of Hobby Horse. The A-side was a cover of a 1958 vocal past the Jamies. With Visconti's help, she released the 1972 Christmas single "Mary Had a Baby" / "Cherry Tree Carol" on Regal Zonophone Records.

Hopkin starred in her ain, one-off Idiot box special for BBC 1 on 29 July 1972. Titled Sing How-do-you-do, Sing Lo, information technology was billed simply as "light entertainment starring Mary Hopkin".[thirty]

Although no other singles or albums came out in her name until 1976, she sang on numerous recordings that her husband produced, such as those featuring Tom Paxton, Ralph McTell, David Bowie (Depression), Bert Jansch, The Radiators from Space, Sparse Lizzy, Carmen, Sarstedt Brothers, Osibisa, Sparks, Hazel O'Connor, and Elaine Paige. On all of these recordings (and too on her husband's ain Inventory anthology) she is credited equally "Mary Visconti". During this time, she also appeared on various Boob tube shows such as Cilla Blackness's, and diverse radio programmes.

Return to recording [edit]

In 1976, she returned to recording under her birth name and released the single "If You lot Beloved Me (Really Love Me)" (originally recorded by Édith Piaf every bit "Hymne à fifty'amour"), which reached Number 32 in the Britain chart.[4] The B-side, "Tell Me Now", was an original composition by Hopkin. Her next single was "Wrap Me in Your Arms", with the B-side once again written by Hopkin ("Just A Dreamer"). These singles came out on Visconti'due south Good Globe Records label.[4] Several songs recorded for an album at the time accept now been released under Hopkin's own label, Mary Hopkin Music.[1]

Two members of Steeleye Span (Bob Johnson and Pete Knight) chose Hopkin to play "Princess Lirazel" on their concept album The King of Elfland's Girl. She besides appeared at the Cambridge Folk Festival with Bert Jansch. In 1976, her 2nd child was born. Before the 1970s ended, Decca released a compilation album of Hopkin'due south Cambrian recordings, The Welsh World of Mary Hopkin.

1980s [edit]

Hopkin's first project in the 1980s was a well-reviewed stint playing the Virgin Mary in Stone Birth at the Hexagon Theatre in Reading, Berkshire.[7] After this, Mike Hurst (record producer and formerly of the Springfields) asked her to sing lead in a new group named Sundance that he had formed with Mike de Albuquerque of ELO.[3] Their only unmarried, "What's Love", allowed them to bout the United kingdom with Dr. Hook but Hopkin quickly left the group, dissatisfied with the gigs. "What'south Love" proved very pop in South Africa, admitting the just territory where it charted, peaking at no.x in April 1982. In 2002, Hurst released recordings from this time on the Angel Air label.

Hopkin and Visconti divorced in 1981. The post-obit year she provided vocals on "Rachael's Song" for the Vangelis soundtrack of Bract Runner. Around 1984, Peter Skellern asked her to join him and Julian Lloyd Webber in a grouping called Oasis. Their self-titled and but anthology, Oasis, was released on WEA along with two singles. The album reached number 23 on the UK album nautical chart in 1984 and remained there for 14 weeks. A tour of the UK was planned but was brought to an sharp end considering Hopkin became ill. The grouping disbanded presently afterwards.

During the 1980s, Hopkin appeared in several clemency shows, including an advent at the London Palladium with Ralph McTell. In 1988, she took office in George Martin's production of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood. She played the character Rosie Probert and performed a piece called "Love Duet" with Freddie Jones as Captain Cat. The making of the record was filmed and made into a special edition of The S Bank Show, where Hopkin and Jones were shown rehearsing and recording "Love Duet". In 1992, the cast reunited for a performance of the play as a tribute to Thomas in the presence of Prince Charles for The Prince's Trust.[vii]

Hopkin recorded an album called Spirit in 1989. This was released on the Trax label and is a collection of light classical songs and featured the single "Ave Maria". The record was produced by Benny Gallagher, of Gallagher and Lyle, who had contributed songs to her during her days at Apple Records.

1990s [edit]

Early in 1990, Hopkin sang with The Chieftains at the London Palladium in a charity show and subsequently joined them on a bout of the UK.

She continued to practise projects of her choosing, working with people such as Julian Colbeck; she wrote the lyrics and performed a song on his CD Back to Bach. Also, there was Marc Cerrone's The Collector, a stage play/opera, for which she performed two songs on the CD and video. She worked again with old friends, the guitarist Brian Willoughby and Dave Cousins (of Strawbs) on their CD The Bridge. She also appeared on a Beatles' tribute album by RAM Pietsch.

Album cover of Y Caneuon Cynnar – The Early Recordings

In 1996, the Welsh label Sain bought Cambrian's back catalogue and released all of Hopkin'southward Welsh recordings on a CD called Y Caneuon Cynnar/The Early Recordings,[31] which removed the overdubbed drums establish on the Decca recordings.

In 1999, she once again joined The Chieftains on their UK bout and, later that twelvemonth, performed concerts in Scotland with Benny Gallagher and Jim Diamond.[7] In that location were also three TV documentaries virtually her, one each for HTV (1998), BBC Television (1998) and S4C (2000).[7]

She made a guest appearance on The Crocketts' anthology The Smashing Brain Robbery, sang the theme song for Billy Connolly'southward BBC Goggle box series World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales and re-recorded "Those Were The Days" with Robin Williams rapping. She also appeared in the Sara Sugarman film Very Annie Mary.

2000s [edit]

In September 2005, she released a retrospective album on a label run by her girl, Mary Hopkin Music, titled Alive at the Regal Festival Hall 1972.[1] It was followed in December 2006 by a Christmas recording, "Snowed Under", released on download only.

To gloat her 57th altogether in 2007, she released an album called Valentine on her new eponymous label.[one] It included 12 previously unheard tracks dating from 1972 to 1980, three of which were written by Hopkin.[ane] In 2008, a new album, Recollections, was released on her own label.[one] Information technology included eleven tracks that were originally recorded between 1970 and 1986, alongside a CD of three Christmas songs which included "Mary Had a Babe" and "The Cherry-Tree Carol" (these tracks were first released on Purple Zonophone in 1972) and "Snowed Under", which was released in 2006 every bit a download only.

Her final archival CD, Now and Then, was released in May 2009. It comprises 14 tracks recorded between 1970 and 1988. She sang the song "Y 'deryn pur" ("Gentle Bird") on the anthology Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers – An Anthology of Welsh Music and Vocal released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in June 2009.

2010s [edit]

Hopkin's daughter, Jessica Lee Morgan, released her first CD, chosen I Am Not, on which Hopkin sings on several songs.

In October 2010, Hopkin and her son, Morgan Visconti, released Yous Look Familiar, a collaboration which brings together Hopkin's melodies, lyrics and vocals with her son'due south instrumentation and arrangements.[32]

In 2013, Painting past Numbers was released on Mary Hopkin Music. The album includes 10 tracks written by Hopkin, two of which are co-written with friends; "Love Belongs Right Here" with Brian Willoughby and "Love, Long Distance" with Benny Gallagher.

For Christmas 2014, Hopkin recorded a unmarried with her son and daughter. The traditional ballad, "Iesu Faban" (meaning "Baby Jesus" in Welsh), was described on her website as a "close, intimate choral operation of a traditional Welsh Christmas carol".[33]

To gloat the 50th anniversary of the release of "Those Were the Days", on 30 August 2018 Hopkin released a new audio-visual version, on an EP as well featuring the live version from her 1972 "farewell" concert at the Regal Festival Hall. Too included are the versions of "Those Were the Days" and "Bye" released in 1977, produced by her then married man, Tony Visconti.[34] [ citation needed ]

Discography [edit]

  • Post Card (1969)
  • Earth Song, Ocean Song (1971)
  • Spirit (1989)
  • Valentine (2007)
  • Recollections (2008)
  • Now and Then (2009)
  • You lot Expect Familiar (with Morgan Visconti; 2010)
  • Painting past Numbers (2013)
  • Another Road (2020)
  • A Christmas Chorale (2020)

See also [edit]

  • Apple Records discography

References [edit]

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  2. ^ "Those Were The Days: the Mary Hopkin story". BBC. five September 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d e Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number Ane Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 120. ISBN0-85112-250-7.
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  5. ^ a b "Mary Hopkin | Awards". AllMusic. 3 May 1950. Retrieved xix August 2015.
  6. ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Volume of Aureate Discs (2d ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 241. ISBN0-214-20512-half-dozen.
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  9. ^ "Biography past Richie Unterberger". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  10. ^ a b Womack, Kenneth (2014). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 336. ISBN978-0-313-39171-ii.
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  21. ^ "Mary Hopkin in the Land of Films". Genome - Radio Times 1923-2009. BBC. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  22. ^ "Mary Hopkin in the Land of Legend". Genome - Radio Times 1923-2009. BBC. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  23. ^ "Mary Hopkin in the Country of Theatre". Genome - Radio Times 1923-2009. BBC. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  24. ^ "Mary Hopkin in the Land of Books". Genome - Radio Times 1923-2009. BBC. Retrieved v June 2018.
  25. ^ "Mary Hopkin in the Country of Rhymes". Genome - Radio Times 1923-2009. BBC. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  26. ^ "Mary Hopkin in the Land of Pantomime". Genome - Radio Times 1923-2009. BBC. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  27. ^ "Mary Hopkin in the country of". TV Popular Diaries . Retrieved 5 June 2018. [ self-published source ]
  28. ^ "Mary Hopkin in the State of Films". Genome - Radio Times 1923-2009. BBC. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  29. ^ Badman, Keith (2001). The Beatles Diary Book 2: After the Suspension-Upward 1970–2001. London: Omnibus Printing. p. 68. ISBN978-0-7119-8307-6.
  30. ^ "Sing Hi, Sing Lo". 29 July 1972. p. sixteen – via BBC Genome.
  31. ^ "Mary Hopkin – Y Caneuon Cynnar / The Early Recordings". Sain.
  32. ^ "Bio". Morgan Visconti . Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  33. ^ "Mary Hopkin's Christmas comeback". BBC News. 24 November 2014.
  34. ^ "Those Were The Days – Mary Hopkin". www.maryhopkin.com . Retrieved 9 Baronial 2019.

External links [edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Biography on BBC Wales
  • Interview on BBC Wales

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