Jackie Trent

	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Singles
	Where Are You Now (My Love)
	When the Summertime Is Over
	I'll be there

Jackie Trent , actually Yvonne Ann Burgess , (born September 6, 1940 in Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffordshire , † March 21, 2015 in Ciutadella , Menorca , Spain ) was a British singer , songwriter and actress .

Life

Jackie Trent's first stage appearance was on the mime show Babes in the Wood as a ten-year-old , but she preferred a career as a pop singer to the stage. Her first single, Pick Up the Pieces , was released in 1962, but it wasn't until two record labels and three years later that she had her first (and biggest) hit: Where Are You Now (My Love)? conquered the top position in the British charts on May 20, 1965 . She wrote the song with Tony Hatch , who also produced it.

Hatch was working very successfully with Petula Clark at the time. Clark didn't like Trent because she made clear advances to the married Hatch. When Hatch and Trent started writing songs for Petula together, these were initially passed off as songs written by Tony alone. With the song I Couldn't Live Without Your Love (1966), inspired by their affair, they made their love public. A year later they were married in Kensington , London .

Although Trent recorded numerous singles and albums, both solo and in duets with her husband, she was better as a songwriter than as a singer. In addition to composing for Clark, she and Hatch wrote many songs for other artists, including Frank Sinatra , Nancy Wilson , Des O'Connor , Shirley Bassey , Vikki Carr, and Dean Martin .

In the late 1960s, Trent returned to the stage. She went on a tour of the UK with the musical Nell .

In the 1970s, Trent and Hatch made a detour into the world of musicals . Her first project, The Card , was based on a novel by Arnold Bennett and was performed in London's West End with Jim Dale and Millicent Martin in the lead roles. An album with the stage version was released in 1975. A rewritten version of the show, starring Peter Duncan and Hayley Mills , was performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theater in the 1990s and also released as an album. The second Hatch / Trent musical was Rock Nativity , with libretto and lyrics by David Wood. It was initially produced in Newcastle upon Tyne ; In 1976 a revised version, which was also recorded for television, went on tour through Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In 1978 Trent and Hatch moved to Dublin and stayed there for four years. You hosted the television series Words and Music and It's a Musical World . Hatch continued to produce themed music for television series such as Seagull Island and Airline before the two moved to Australia in 1982. There, the pair wrote one of his most famous compositions, the theme of the television soap opera Neighbors (Neighbors) . Trent and Hatch separated in 1995 and divorced in 2002.

After breaking up with Hatch, Trent made a successful comeback on British stages with a tour of the musical High Society . She then spent a few years withdrawn, but in April and May 2004 she gave a series of concerts in Australia and wrote new songs. In 2005 she married again. Trent died on March 21, 2015 in Ciutadella on the Balearic island of Menorca at the age of 74.

Studio albums solo

1965: The Magic of Jackie Trent
1965: Yesterdays
1967: Stop Me and Buy One
1967: Once More With Feeling
1969: The Look of Love
1976: Can't Give It Up

Studio albums with Tony Hatch

1968: The Two of Us
1968: Live for Love
1969: Together Again
1971: Words and Music
1972: Two for the Show
1973: Opposite Your Smile
1980: Our World of Music

Web links

Works by Jackie Trent in the catalog of the German National Library
Website of Jackie Trent (English)
Jackie Trent in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Charts UK
↑ Spencer Leigh: Jackie Trent: Singer who wrote hits for Petula Clark as well as the theme tunes to Neighbors and Crossroads. In: The Independent of March 22, 2015 (accessed March 23, 2015).

personal data
SURNAME	Trent, Jackie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burgess, Yvonne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British singer, songwriter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffordshire , England
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 2015
Place of death	Ciutadella , Menorca , Spain

[1] Charts UK

[2] Spencer Leigh: Jackie Trent: Singer who wrote hits for Petula Clark as well as the theme tunes to Neighbors and Crossroads. In: The Independent of March 22, 2015 (accessed March 23, 2015).