Jackie Trent
| Jackie Trent | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Yvonne Burgess |
| Also known as | Yvonne Ann Gregory |
| Born |
6 September 1940 Newcastle-under-Lyme, England |
| Died | 21 March 2015 (aged 74) Minorca, Spain |
| Genres | Popular music, theatre |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1962–2015 |
| Labels | Pye, Piccadilly, Oriole, Columbia |
| Associated acts | Tony Hatch, Petula Clark, Sweet Sensation, Scott Walker, Shirley Bassey, Perry Como, Val Doonican, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. |
| Website | Official website |
Jackie Trent (born Yvonne Burgess, 6 September 1940 – 21 March 2015) was an English singer-songwriter and actress.
Trent was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, the daughter of a coal-miner. At the age of nine she won first prize in a national poetry competition. Her first stage appearance was as a ten-year-old ingenue in the pantomime Babes in the Wood, but her primary interest was a career in pop music, inspired by her parent's love of music. At the age of 11 she won the "Carrol Levis and His Discoveries" talent show. She sang to packed audiences in local British Legion and working men's clubs and with all the local big bands and became known as "the Vera Lynn of the Potteries".
Her first single, "Pick Up the Pieces", was released in 1962 on the Oriole label, but it was not until Pye Records and three years later that she scored her first hit with "Where Are You Now", written by Tony Hatch and Trent, who at that time were involved in a successful professional collaboration with Petula Clark. The song was featured in the popular TV series It's Dark Outside. "Where Are You Now" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in May 1965, topping the chart for one week. The song was written and recorded in just four days after Hatch was asked by Granada TV to produce a song for the female lead in the programme to be seen on screen playing to herself. The lyrics were written by Trent on Christmas 1964, just before she embarked on a three-month tour of South Africa. When the song first hit the TV screen, people contacted TV Times to ask where they could buy the record with sales accelerating. The song went to number one in May 1965, replacing the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride".
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