Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien OBE, known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a significant singer of blue-eyed soul, pop, and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz also in her repertoire.
Where were Dusty Springfield ashes scattered?
Singer Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) has a gravesite and marker on the grounds of St Mary the Virgin parish church. Her ashes were scattered in Henley and in Ireland at the Cliffs of Moher. Each year her fans gather in Henley to celebrate “Dusty Day” on the closest Sunday to her birthday (16 April).
Springfield was brought up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, until the early 1950s and later lived in Ealing in west London.[8] She attended St Anne’s Convent School, Northfields, a traditional all-girl school.
The comfortable middle-class upbringing was disturbed by dysfunctional tendencies in the family: her father’s perfectionism and her mother’s frustrations sometimes resulted in food-throwing incidents.
Springfield and her brother were both prone to food-throwing as adults. She was given the nickname ‘Dusty’ for playing football with boys in the street and was described as a tomboy.