Fact #63926
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Short story:
British schoolgirl star Helen Shapiro reaches No1 in the UK Singles Chart for the first time with You Don't Know.
Full article:
Helen Shapiro : I was fourteen when Don't Treat Me Like A Child went to No3 so, for the first year, while I was still at school, my mum and dad looked after me. My next two singles were both No1 but the laws that protect kids from being exploited meant I couldn't really do all the work that an adult would do to maintain success.
I could do the odd weekend concert or tv or radio but, on live concerts, even if I was top of the bill, I had to close the first half of the show and be out of the theatre by 10pm. Inspectors were sent to theatres to make sure everything was clean and decent.
When you're fourteen you have such self-confidence, you don't even know the pitfalls. It was like a dream. I'd top the bill at The London Palladium and go back to school the next day, but the thing that really impressed my friends at the youth club was that I could get Cliff's autograph (Cliff Richard) for them.
Until I was seventeen, I couldn't work anywhere that they served alcohol. Until I was eighteen, I had to get a licence from Bow Street Magistrates court every time I wanted to work abroad. And, while I was away, I'd have to report daily to the British Consulate as a safeguard.
When I toured with The Beatles, I was already a star so I wasn't in awe of them or anything, but I fancied John Lennon like mad. With me being so young, though, he treated me like a kid sister. He'd look after me when I was crossing the road and so on, which wasn't what I had in mind at all.
I lived at home until I got married. No-one had to protect me from gangsters or drugs, because I never had any inclination towards drugs, which I think came from having a solid, sheltered family life.
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I could do the odd weekend concert or tv or radio but, on live concerts, even if I was top of the bill, I had to close the first half of the show and be out of the theatre by 10pm. Inspectors were sent to theatres to make sure everything was clean and decent.
When you're fourteen you have such self-confidence, you don't even know the pitfalls. It was like a dream. I'd top the bill at The London Palladium and go back to school the next day, but the thing that really impressed my friends at the youth club was that I could get Cliff's autograph (Cliff Richard) for them.
Until I was seventeen, I couldn't work anywhere that they served alcohol. Until I was eighteen, I had to get a licence from Bow Street Magistrates court every time I wanted to work abroad. And, while I was away, I'd have to report daily to the British Consulate as a safeguard.
When I toured with The Beatles, I was already a star so I wasn't in awe of them or anything, but I fancied John Lennon like mad. With me being so young, though, he treated me like a kid sister. He'd look after me when I was crossing the road and so on, which wasn't what I had in mind at all.
I lived at home until I got married. No-one had to protect me from gangsters or drugs, because I never had any inclination towards drugs, which I think came from having a solid, sheltered family life.
(Source : not known)