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 the 1960s and, after weathering scandals, bankruptcy and foot surgery, still looks as striking today
At 75, Shaw remains one of the defining faces and voices of the original emergence of girl power on the British charts. Not only was she the first-ever British winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, when Puppet On A String topped the UK charts it made her the first British female singer ever to have three