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Elkie Brooks
Once dubbed as the UK's answer to Janis Joplin due to her raw, bluesy vocal
style, Elkie Brooks enjoyed her biggest success in 1975 with the crossover hit
Pearl's A Singer. The sister of Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas drummer Tony
Mansfield, she was raised in Lancashire in the north of England, made her debut
at 13 and became so popular on the cabaret circuit she turned professional two
years later. Brooks released her first single - a cover of Etta James's
Something's Got A Hold On Me - in 1965 and toured with many of the biggest bands
of the 1960s, including The Beatles, The Anim...
