The creator of the unique style known as "blue-eyed soul", Dusty Springfield was instrumental in introducing Motown to Britain, and for several years reigned supreme on both sides of the Atlantic. Her voice--flutelike, smoky and sensual, often in the space of the same song--was similarly unique. Over a decade after her passing she remains a show business legend--yet she also remains an enigma, a completely self-fabricated, difficult, yet strangely vulnerable woman who allowed few into her complex, personal world where at times there was little difference between reality and make believe.David Bret is one of Britain"s leading celebrity biographers. In this the first of his "Brit Girls" series, which also includes the story of teen sensation Helen Shapiro, he tells the story of the Dusty he adored with honesty and compassion.David Bret"s previous best-selling books include acclaimed biographies of Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Morrissey, Mario Lanza, and Maria Callas.