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Elkie Brooks

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2005 - Electric Lady

1997 - The Very Best of Elkie Brooks

1996 - Amazing

1995 - Circles

1993 - 'Round Midnight

1991 - Pearls III

1989 - Inspiration

1988 - Bookbinder's Kid

1986 - No More The Fool

1986 - No More the Fool

1984 - Minutes

1984 - Screen Gems

1982 - Pearls II

1981 - Pearls

1979 - Live and Learn

1977 - Two Days Away

1975 - Rich Man's Woman

0 - Powerless

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1 Female

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Broughton, Salford, England, UK

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Classic Rock

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Good Natured

Born

1945

Active
1945 to Present...

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Elkie Brooks - No More the Fool
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Elkie Brooks - Pearl's a Singer
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Elkie Brooks - Pearl's a Singer

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Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder on 25 February 1945, Broughton, Salford, England) is an English singer, formerly a vocalist with Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist. A professional singer since she was fifteen, Brooks' début, a cover of Etta James's "Something's Got A Hold On Me", was released on Decca in 1964. Later she became the vocalist with a British 12-piece Stax-influenced, jazz-rock fusion band called Dada that released one, eponymous, album in 1970. Brooks, along with guitarist Pete Gage, singer Robert Palmer and bassist Steve York formed Vinegar Joe in 1971, adding keyboard player Dave Thompson. The band was without a drummer; Conrad Isidore and Rob Tait drummed on the first album, released in 1972. In 1974, after three albums Vinegar Joe split and Brooks went solo. After a time in the US as backing singer with the American southern boogie band Wet Willie, she returned to England. Her first solo album on A&M records was Rich Man's Woman (1975).