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Mandy Smith Birth name Amanda Louise Smith Also known as Mandy Born July 17, 1970 Genres Pop Years active 1986-present Labels PWL Website kisspr.net/mandy.html Mandy Smith (born Amanda Louise Smith, 17 July 1970) is an English dance-pop singer, former model and aspiring counsellor.
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Early life
In 1983, at age 13 she started dating 47-year-old The Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, with the consent of her mother.[1][2] In a 2010 interview with the Daily Mail Smith admitted to starting a sexual relationship with Wyman at just 14.[3]
Smith married Wyman in 1989; they divorced in 1991.[4] Her wedding dress and those of her bridesmaids and pageboy was designed by Louise Hamlin-Wright.[5][6]
Music career
The press coverage that surrounded Smith's personal life largely contributed to her career as a singer. In 1986, at 16 she was signed to PWL by Stock Aitken Waterman. The SAW team wrote and produced her first two singles - "I Just Can't Wait" and "Positive Reaction". Collaboration with Daize Washbourne produced further singles, "Boys and Girls" (which reached No. 8 in South Africa) and "Victim of Pleasure". Despite the lack of British chart success with these singles, an album, Mandy, was released in 1988. Smith was successful in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Turkey, South Africa and Japan, where she entered the Top 10 music chart. She was about to launch her career in the United States in 1989 with her single "Victim of Pleasure" released under Atlantic Records but due to health problems, she had to cancel the promotion. The same happened with her fifth European single, a cover of The Human League hit single "Don't You Want Me Baby." These events and a difficult recovery marked the end of her short musical career though several remixes of "I Just Can't Wait" appeared in the early 1990s; her album was also re-released in Japan in 1993 and a special edition was released with bonus tracks in 2009. She also recorded the original version of "Got to Be Certain," which would later be the second international single release for fellow PWL act, Kylie Minogue. Smith's version remained unreleased until 2005 when it was premiered on PWL Radio and included on the 2005 release Stock Aitken Waterman Gold as a bonus track.
Modelling
During the 1980s and 1990s, Smith appeared in TV series and shows in the UK, all over Europe, and parts of Asia/Australia. She appeared in magazines as a model. In 1988 she was voted second most attractive female singer by the readers of German youth magazine "Popcorn". Smith was named "Rear of the Year" in Britain in 1994, award for her posterior. In 1995, she was 72nd in FHM's list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Personal life
On 19 June 1993 she married footballer Pat Van Den Hauwe, but this only lasted two years.[7] She published her biography It's All Over Now in 1993.[6] In 2001, she was briefly engaged to Vanity Fair fashion model Ian Mosby with whom she had a son, Max Harrison Mosby. Smith is now resident in Manchester. Smith is now teetotal and vegan.[8]
Other interests
Having tried a career as a make-up artist, Smith is presently training to be a counsellor.[7] Smith has also set up her own business together with her sister Nicola, a Marketing company named Kiss PR.[9]
Discography
Albums
Singles/EP's
"-" denotes releases that did not chart in that country.
Year Single Peak chart positions Album Notes UK ITA DEU CHE[10] JPN NOR SWE S AFR 1987 "I Just Can't Wait" 91 9 14 16 1 9 Mandy New Zealand #37 "Positive Reaction" - 9 39 11 - UK Indie Chart - Number 48[11] 1988 "Boys and Girls" - 12 23 4 - 8 "Victim of Pleasure" 93 11 49 28 - US Dance Chart - Number 22 "The Mandy EP" - - - - - Non-album release Released in Hong Kong only 1989 "Don't You Want Me Baby" 59 11 - - - 16 1992 "I Just Can't Wait ('92 Remixes)" - - - - - - - - Promo 12" only 1995 "I Just Can't Wait ('95 Remixes)" - - - - - - - - Promo 12" only References
- ^ The curse of Hello! The Independent, 9 May 2008
- ^ Wyman, Bill; Ray Coleman (1990). Stone Alone. London: Viking. pp. 26. ISBN 670-828947.
- ^ Mandy Smith: I DID sleep with Bill Wyman when I was 14... but now the only man in my life is God Mail Online, 17 April 2010
- ^ Nashawaty, Chris. "A Teen Bride for a Stone". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302463,00.html.
- ^ Wyman, Bill; Ray Coleman (1990). Stone Alone. London: Viking. pp. 31. ISBN 670-828947.
- ^ a b Smith, Mandy (1993). My Life with Bill Wyman, It's all over now. London: Blake Publishing Ltd.. pp. 214. ISBN 1-85782-0444.
- ^ a b Cable, Simon (11 May 2009). "Mandy Smith, from rock chick to mother hen, 20 years after her marriage to Bill Wyman". London: Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1180255/Mandy-Smith-rock-chick-mother-hen-20-years-marriage-Bill-Wyman.html. Retrieved 11 May 2009.
- ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1189753/If-happened-Bill-jail-Mandy-Smith-Rolling-Stone-seduced-her.html
- ^ Mandy Smith Kiss PR
- ^ Swiss Charts. Discography Mandy.
- ^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1999. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4.
External links
Categories:- 1970 births
- Living people
- English pop singers
- The Rolling Stones
- English vegans
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