feminist singer lesley gore dead at 68
Last Updated : GMT 09:03:51
Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today
Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today
Last Updated : GMT 09:03:51
Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today

Feminist singer Lesley Gore dead at 68

Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today

Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today Feminist singer Lesley Gore dead at 68

Feminist singer Lesley Gore
New York - AFP

Lesley Gore, who became a breakthrough teen star with her 1963 hit "It's My Party" and emerged as an early feminist in pop music, died Monday. She was 68.
Her death was announced by her longtime partner, jewelry designer Lois Sasson, who said that Gore died from lung cancer at a New York City hospital.
Gore, born as Lesley Goldstein, was a middle-class teenager when, as legend has it, one of her recordings from a voice lesson in New York found its way to legendary producer Quincy Jones.
Jones was soon visiting her family home in New Jersey and persuaded her to sing "It's My Party," which had already been recorded as a minor track by the English jazz singer Helen Shapiro.
Built up with studio effects including a doubling of Gore's voice and backing horns, "It's My Party" turned the 16-year-old into a pop sensation well before the concept of a teenybopper star was mainstream.
The lyrics to the song -- "It's my party / And I'll cry if I want to / You would cry, too, if it happened to you" -- have become quotable for generations of Americans charmed by the song's tale of a girl stood up by a boyfriend who leaves with "Judy."
Even as the song evoked the dating scene in the conservative post-World War II era, Gore herself was lesbian, although she says that she did not realize her sexual orientation until she was in her 20s.
Gore soon afterward scored another hit with "You Don't Own Me," in which the teenager demanded of her partner: "Don't tell me what to do / And don't tell me what to say / And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display."
The song, later covered by Dusty Springfield and by a trio including Bette Midler in the movie "The First Wives Club," was unusually forthright in an era long before Beyonce and other successful women in music have embraced feminism.
In a 2005 interview, Gore said that unlike Hollywood, the music industry has "always been a man's world."
"It's always been a patriarchal situation, and it always puts women, not necessarily down, but certainly on a lower rung," she told AfterEllen, an online publication about lesbian and bisexual women in entertainment.
Gore said in the interview that she never hid her sexual orientation but was careful not to "put it in anybody's face."
"Times were very different then, so, you know, I just tried to live as normally as humanly possible. But as truthfully as humanly possible," she said.
"There were was very little acceptance of gay people. I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic."

almaghribtoday
almaghribtoday

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

feminist singer lesley gore dead at 68 feminist singer lesley gore dead at 68

 



Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

feminist singer lesley gore dead at 68 feminist singer lesley gore dead at 68

 



Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today Skincare PR Performance Full Year 2017

GMT 09:22 2018 Monday ,22 January

Skincare PR Performance Full Year 2017
Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today New hunt for flight MH370 gets under way

GMT 11:03 2018 Wednesday ,24 January

New hunt for flight MH370 gets under way
Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today Modern colorful bedroom renovation

GMT 10:57 2017 Thursday ,21 December

Modern colorful bedroom renovation
Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today Puigdemont candidate for Catalan president

GMT 13:56 2018 Tuesday ,23 January

Puigdemont candidate for Catalan president
Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today Turkey detains dozens more

GMT 10:47 2018 Wednesday ,24 January

Turkey detains dozens more

GMT 21:00 2011 Thursday ,29 September

Al Jaber to agree debt deal by year-end

GMT 05:50 2012 Saturday ,05 May

French patisserie with delightful structure

GMT 01:56 2012 Friday ,06 April

Sheraton Hotels to boost spa offering

GMT 08:51 2012 Thursday ,26 April

Arab women still unrecognised

GMT 07:08 2011 Thursday ,22 September

Hotel Shilla sets up first free shop in Macau

GMT 08:52 2018 Friday ,12 January

Film legend Delon says he's ready to die

GMT 14:48 2017 Sunday ,31 December

UAE cancels Tunisia handball games amid row

GMT 18:49 2017 Tuesday ,31 October

Celtics snap NBA losing streak to injury-hit Spurs

GMT 12:54 2011 Monday ,26 December

Anti-bullying program launched by Tulsa schools

GMT 15:07 2012 Wednesday ,07 November

Oriflame to launch Sparkle in Paris collection

GMT 07:31 2017 Friday ,20 October

Tillerson heads to Gulf, downbeat

GMT 18:23 2017 Wednesday ,19 July

Chile moves to ease strict abortion laws
Almaghrib Today, almaghrib today
 
 Almaghrib Today Facebook,almaghrib today facebook  Almaghrib Today Twitter,almaghrib today twitter Almaghrib Today Rss,almaghrib today rss  Almaghrib Today Youtube,almaghrib today youtube  Almaghrib Today Youtube,almaghrib today youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

.almaghribtoday .almaghribtoday .almaghribtoday .almaghribtoday
almaghribtoday almaghribtoday almaghribtoday
almaghribtoday
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
almaghribtoday, Almaghribtoday, Almaghribtoday