Gracie Fields – Her Career Takes off
Aspirates her weak point-
But by dint of much encouragement,
She won a Rochdale talent show,
Singing ''Whhhat makes me love you ?'' aged seven
One of the ''Nine Dainty Dots,''
Joined ''Hayley's Juveniles'' at ten,
Then two years with ''Charburn's Young Stars"
[Then a half-timer in the mill
Singing from the balcony
Until a lary local woman
Umbrellaed her to stop.]
Gertie Gitana, the first George Formby,
Glamorous names for her star-struck mother.
Grace's ambitions?
To earn a hunded pounds,
And to sing at the Coliseum
Before she was twenty-one.
She begins to indulge
In a talent for mimicry
Until a leading lady complains
That she's stealing people's brains.
From then on it burgeons-
You know how it goes
Shopping-centre auditions
Makeover shows
Joining TV's "Pop Tartz"
The NEXT BIG THING,
With pop svengali
Simeon Sting
We watch her career
Simply explode
Limos,champagne,
Life ''On the road"
Dating Marky,
The guy from ''Maid Up"
HELLO Magazine spread,
''At home with her pup"
MTV showcase
Sell-out shows
Lads' magazine shoots
Diet videos
Pop
Shop
Thrills
Pills
Coke
Broke
Her career unfurled
In the News of the World:
"WE HAD GRACE
ALL OVER THE PLACE"
When she sang
"Mr Tower of London"
At the Coliseum
She was twenty-six.
She wanted to hang
The cheque on the wall
At home in Rochdale,
But her family's fear of burglars
Was too strong for that.
