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Authors: Wendy Leigh

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Thanks to Steven Gaines; Vicki Hodge; Angela Bowie (whom I first interviewed in 1976 at Oakley Street); Mandy Rice-Davies; Meg Mathews; Claudia Skoda; John Eddowes; Lesley Joseph; Leslie Thomas; Maggie Abbott; Reverend Alan Dodds; Kim Fowley; Billy Sloane; Dana Gillespie; Betty Ann Grund; Bob Gruen; Mick Garbutt; Jonathan King; John Bloom; Ann Bloom; Noreen Taylor Greenslade; Ron Ross; Chris Charlesworth; Shirley Dunmall; Andy Peebles; Monique van Vooren; Asha Puthli; Jeff Griffin; Simon Napier-Bell; Si Litvinoff; May Routh; Laurence Myers; Steve Dube; Peter Gillman; Leni Gillman; Nicholas Defries; Stuart Lyons; Don Short; Joe Stevens; Tony Perry; Tony Zanetta; Leee Black Childers; Cherry Vanilla; Josette Caruso; Martin Samuels; Winona Williams; Glenn Hughes; Kenny Bell; Phil Lancaster; Suzi Ronson; Tony Hatch; June Millington; Jean Millington; Nick Dudman; Malcolm Diplock; George Tremlett; Dai Davies; Michael Armstrong; Arthur Stockwin; Audrey Stockwin; Nita Bowes; Yvonne Sewall; Eugene Chaplin; Tim Rice; Nic Roeg; Jean Rose (Random House); the Kensington and Chelsea Library; Clyde 1 radio station; Nick Pyke of
the Mail on Sunday
; Trudy Southern from the British Library; John Chittenden of Capital FM; Robin James from BBC/Getty Images; my thanks to Alexis Schumacher for her work, enthusiasm, and commitment to this book; Carole Mallett
of Ravensbourne College; Melanie Aldridge from Alamy; Alison Stacey of the
Birmingham Mail
; Faye Rawlinson of Tim Rice’s office; Jess Morris of Jess Morris PR; Kelly DiNardo; Brenda Evans; Lionel Bart Archive; IMDB; Christine Phillips of Barnardo’s; Millie Seaward (Random House); the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society;
Sunday Mail Glasgow
; Campbell Thompson; Jayne Marsden of the
Yorkshire Post
; Bene Factum Publishing; Annette Witheridge; Sharon Churcher; Allan Hall; Patrick Goldstein of
the Berliner Morgenpost
; Casian Sala of Legastat; Grace Robbins; Daniel Knight from
Q
; Marion Charles Pigache; Dwina Murphy-Gibb; Roger Alton, executive editor of
The Times
; Chris Bott; Eddie Mulholland; Justine Hodgkinson; Ken McReddie Associates; Rebecca Michael; Maggie Abbott, who has written her memoirs,
Total Recoil
, and a novel,
The Acid King
, and whose second novel,
The Bimbo Syndicate,
is published as an e-book; Alessandro Nasini of the Royal Collection; Anthony Marotto of the APA Agency; Loraine Budge, Simone Harris, and Arthur Holden at the Bromley Central Library; Buddy at Photofest NYC; Charlotte Russell of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society; Cheryl Minnis of Infomart; Diana Thomas; Emily Stillwell of the Royal Agricultural Society of England; Fiona Hamalton; Isaida Miranda from City of Rochester, NY; Jayne Marsden; Kirsten Foster of Curtis Brown Group; Laura Gibbons of CDA London; Laura Wagg of the Press Association; Lori Di Costanzo from Clare Best; Melanie Aldridge of Alamy; Melissa Tagoe of Laura Ashley; Nicole Hormuth of Agentur Aussicht; Paul Kasler from the Pleasure Home; Reinhard Keck from Axel Springer; Ryan Chambers of Bauer Media; Sally Wall of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society; Todd Ifft of Photofest NYC; Theresa Dellegrazie, Corbis, Starr Hackwelder, Alamy, Princess Pratt, Alamy, Simon Flavin, Mirrorpix, Stephen Atkinson, Rex Features, Michelle Butnick-Press, Getty Images.

Tom Freeman of Freeman News Service; Tom McCartney; Martine King, archive manager at Barnardo’s. Barnardo’s, where David’s father was press officer, works with more than 200,000 children, young people, and their families each year, and runs more than 900
services across the UK. “We believe in children and we believe every young person has a right to thrive. Our vision is to realize Thomas Barnardo’s dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need. We work to transform the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and every year we help thousands of families to build a better future. But we cannot do it without you. Visit
www.barnardos.org.uk
to find out how you can get involved and show you believe in children.”

With my thanks and admiration to my brilliant, cool, and perceptive publisher, Jen Bergstrom, and to Trish Boczkowski, editor extraordinaire, whose creativity and insight is unparalleled. And to the great team at Gallery Books: copy editor Polly Watson, production editor John Paul Jones, editorial assistants Elana Cohen and Paige Cohen. And to my agent, Daniel Strone, Chief Executive of Trident Media Group, always and forever the best agent on the planet, bar none.

WENDY LEIGH
is the
New York Times
bestselling author whose books include
Prince Charming: The JFK Jr. Story; True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess;
and
Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance.
She is the coauthor of the memoir
Shirley Jones,
and, with Christopher Ciccone,
Life with My Sister Madonna.