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Jackie DeShannon: Return Of The Starry-Eyed Girl

Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 1 May 2009

IT'S LUNCHTIME at Claridge's, and a glamorous blonde in sparkling stilettos shimmers out of the lift. No one bats an eyelid, but then she starts speaking. "Shall we go to the bar? It really has zip. And I came in yesterday morning, stayed up all night carousing, so, you know, I need zippin'!"

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