Those were her days

I'm rather fond of the voice of Mary Hopkin. I was thinking about her after hearing her song Goodbye pop http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.photo.gifup on my ipod. You'll know she was in the Apple stable, which I always find quite incongruous, though most of the Apple stars were.

Only a few hits and then she was gone. She did some great singles - Temma Harbour, Think About Your Children and, of course, Those Were The Days. Her album Postcard is a classic must have too. Lots of Donovan songs on there, and I love it when she sings in Welsh. It's almost as good as someone singing in French.

It's a shame we went quiet though. I see from her Wikipedia page - if it's to be believed - that she's still recording. And I do recall that 'supergroup' she was in with Peter Skellern, called Oasis. Never heard this project though.



It's a shame she gave it all up. Twiggy apparently discovered her on Opportunity Knocks, though how, when half the country was watching it too, can she take the credit for it God only knows.

There's a very unilluminating website, and it seems she never gives interviews or signs autographs, so we'll never really know her reasons for backing away from the limelight. Such huge promise and then she chose to retreat.

Still I've bought the live from 1972 album from the website with a lovely pic of her on it, so to me she'll always be remembered as the blonde girl in the miniskirt balancing a guitar on her shapely knee.