Dame Elaine Paige
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864 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Dame Elaine Paige’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he said, no, no.
He said, it's just that this one, this is the one in the score that sifts the men from the boys because it has a huge three and a half octave range to it.
And he wanted to, I suppose, make sure that I had the pipes to be able to do it more than once.
And I remember as I was leaving, Andrew and Hal were sort of leaving and then Tim Rice said to me...
Oh, that's right.
Hal Prince said to me, what have you been up to?
And of course I hadn't been up to anything other than singing do-ups on other people's albums.
That's how I made a bit of a living to, you know, keep the wall from the door.
Singing backing vocals.
And I told him that's what I'd been doing.
And anyway, so at the end of the audition they left and Tim Rice said to me, I don't think you have to worry about backing vocals much longer.
And I said, oh, really?
And I thought, I don't know, what's he saying?
Does he mean I've got it?
Haven't I got it?
So it was all sort of, you know.
Of all, yes.
When I was playing Piaf, I went to France, to Paris, armed with a camera, a video camera and a map.
And I walked all the way around Paris to all the different places, the corners of the street where she would have stood and sung.
And this was all part of the research that I did.
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