Flash back to 1977 The Trammps Carole Bayer Sager Electric Light Orchestra Boz Scaggs Elkie Brooks Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder; 25 February 1945) is an English rock, blues and jazz singer. She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s, releasing 13 UK Top 75 singles, and reached the top ten with "Pearl's a Singer", "Sunshine After the Rain" (both 1977) and "No More the Fool" (1986).[5] She has been nominated twice for the Brit Awards.[6]
Brooks is a Gold Badge Award of Merit winner from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) (now The Ivors Academy)[7] and is generally referred to as the "British Queen of Blues" Rod Stewart
