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Barbara Dickson

United Kingdom • b. 1947-09-27

Barbara Dickson is credited on 452 releases across 82 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1967–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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452

Pressings credited

82

Albums

7

Decades active

237

In collections

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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Credited work

452 releases · 82 albums · active 1967–2025

  • Performance · 757
  • Production · 35
  • Other credits · 26

Studios: Chipping Norton Recording Studios · Berwick Street Studios · Advision Studios · Marquee Studios

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