It was Sandie Shaw's third UK number 1 hit - a record for a female artist at that time. Seeing the Eurovision Song Contest as the ideal launchpad for some international success, Shaw also recorded ...

Of the five songs, “Puppet on a String”, as bouncy as a space hopper, was Shaw's least favourite. “I hated it from the very first oompah to the final bang on the big bass drum,” she's said.

SANDIE SHAW is one of the iconic voices and faces of the 1960s. Puppet On A String made her the first British winner of the Eurovision Song Contest but the truth behind the song and her famous ...

Sandie Shaw has been famous since she was just 17. It is also 56 years since she swept to victory at the Eurovision Song Contest with Puppet On A String. The Dagenham lass was one of the faces of ...

SANDIE Shaw shot to fame with her winning Eurovision belter Puppet On A String – but she ended up losing everything. The UK pop star became a national treasure when she was crowned victorious… ...

Sandie Shaw, the Sixties singer who was a comprehensive-educated car factory worker before being talent spotted, yesterday attacked the music industry, ... with “Puppet on a String” in 1976.

Sandie Shaw, the original barefoot Princess of Pop, these days buys her shoes from Clarks. The Puppet on a String star, a shoeless teen sensation in the Swinging Sixties and Britain’s first ...

Former Eurovision winner Sandie Shaw stunned fans as she dropped the F-bomb live on BBC Radio 2.. The singer turned the air blue as her song Puppet On A String was played on the Jeremy Vine show ...

One of the writers behind Sandie Shaw ’s Puppet On A String has given the thumbs up to former Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall ’s use of the song on her debut solo single.. Phil Coulter co-wrote ...

Talking to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 in Liverpool, singerSandie Shaw was audibly upset when the station played the 1967 version of her Eurovision-winning hit Puppet On A String. Listen closely as ...