Biography
Barbara Ruth Dickson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish singer and actress whose hits include "I Know Him So Well" (a chart-topping duet with Elaine Paige), "Answer Me" and "January February". Dickson has placed fifteen albums on the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date, and had a number of hit singles, including four which reached the top 20 on the UK Singles Chart. The Scotsman newspaper has described her as Scotland's best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976. She is also a two-time Olivier Award-winning actress, with roles including Viv Nicholson in the musical Spend Spend Spend, and was the original Mrs. Johnstone in Willy Russell's long-running musical Blood Brothers. On television she starred as Anita Braithwaite in Band of Gold.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
547 releases · 81 albums · active 1967–2025
- Performance · 842
- Other credits · 86
- Production · 39
Studios: Chipping Norton Recording Studios · Berwick Street Studios · Marquee Studios · Advision Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Benny Andersson
- Mike Batt
- Elaine Paige
- Gerry Rafferty
- Archie Fisher
- Various
- Maddy Prior
- José Carreras