Thanks to her beautiful singing voice, bright blue eyes and eye-catching beehive hairdo, Dusty Springfield was one of the biggest icons of the Swinging Sixties.

Before her sad death at the age of 59 in 1999, the star sang major hits like You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me , I’ll Try Anything , Son of a Preacher Man and What Have I Done to Deserve This? .

The 1960s were famed for being a sexually liberating time, something that Dusty took in her stride, never putting a label on her sexual identity. In an interview with the Evening Standard in 1970, she famously said: “Many other people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times that I’ve…

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