MOST TALENTED CELEBRITIES
LAUREN FIELD
So we started playing in Clubs and hotels and bars. We’d do a really camp set, a mixture of show tunes, old disco numbers and big ballads. We played a weekly gig in Covent Garden every Friday night. We were a real hit there and it would get crowded with students (a complete fire hazard – once in there was no way out till the end of the night) and one night my future partner, record producer Charles Foskett walked in - and you could say that our eyes met across a crowded room, but actually he had a glass of red wine spilt down his white suit and couldn’t wait to get out! But he gave me his card and said call me, I’ve got some work for you.” Previous Lauren's showbiz and television credits include the BBC's "TOP OF THE POPS", Britain's best known and longest running music show, PEBBLE MILL and THE TUBE. Her live performances include shows at the West End's ADELPHI THEATRE, Covent Garden's ROCK GARDEN for “DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES” and THE LAUGHING CACTUS CLUB at THE WATER RAT’S THEATRE in Kings Cross. She performed live for both regional, national and international radio including many one hour jazz standards sessions for radio 2 and her own compositions for the BBC and GLR. In addition, Lauren provided distinctive back-up vocals for many well-known National and International artists including: Bonnie Tyler, Petula Clarke, The Who, Kim Wilde, Holly Johnson, Elkie Brookes, John Parr, Elvis Costello, Cliff Richard and John Fernham. But, Lauren had to create her own musical identity. For, honestly, she is as good as those stars and big names in the business. SO? One way to do it. Go all the way and release a great CD/Album. And she did it! Lauren said: "The only trouble was, I was so busy singing back up for other artists, I didn’t feel I was progressing with my own solo career. So in early 1990 I decided, no more. I put an eight piece band together and we toured the country. All my own songs – a kind of country, rock, blues hybrid. It was exactly what was not happening in England at that time.
We did some great gigs but we were broke. So we mixed it up with functions and festivals, culminating in a huge beer festival. I was eight months pregnant! A week later I gave birth to a baby boy – he was four weeks premature. With all that racket I am sure he was thinking – “Get me out of here!” I wrote to producer extraordinaire Charles Foskett and asked him to tell me something, anything funny and unusual about Lauren. Charles told me this about Lauren" The most recent story, I think, displays Lauren’s trooper form of professionalism, and I know she won’t mind me repeating it, as she, with her inimitable self-deprecating sense of humour, saw the funny side. In June, Lauren and her band performed at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London with a host of celebrities for the Teenage Cancer Trust. After playing a storming set she was invited to join Randy Bachman on stage, to sing one of their co-written tunes, followed by two of Randy’s big hits to close out the first half of the evening. Along with Randy’s wife, Denise McCann, Lauren sang back up on “Taking Care of Business” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”. The final tune proved prophetic. During a somewhat over-energetic performance on a hot and steamy stage, the very flimsy top that Lauren was wearing gradually slipped down and finally off.
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