FLASHBACK to CHARLIE GRACIES FIRST BRITISH TOUR in the SUMMER of 1957: WELSH-BORN SINGER--DOROTHY SQUIRES--APTLY DUBBED: THE BETTE DAVIS OF SONG (with a highly emotional and combative personality to match) REFUSED to take SECOND BILLING to CHARLIE GRACIE at the LONDON HIPPODROME! DOROTHY was a GREAT PERFORMER but the TIMES WERE A-CHANGING. HER TIRADE garnered CHARLIE an amazing amount of FRONT PAGE PUBLICITY all over the UNITED KINGDOM. She filed so many law suits during her lifetime that the BRITISH HIGH COURT declared her to be a VEXATIOUS LITIGANT, preventing her from any further legal actions without the permission from the COURT itself! She was married to Actor ROGER MOORE for 9-years and was instrumental in launching his career. She later apologized to CHARLIE at a later venue the he and his agent, BERNIE ROTHBARD attended. But so goes a piece of rock & roll history! DOROTHY passed away in 1998 after loosing the fortune she had amassed over a lifetime. She lived in the borrowed home of a devoted fan at the time of her death.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 06:30:50 +0000