When I open them, you're still here

Today Miss Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE would have been 73 years old.

Suffice to say, I love her and miss her.

Let us wallow in the magnificence that was Dusty Springfield, singing my all-time favourite of hers - against a backdrop of some magnificently bleak council estate in somewhere that could be Croydon, or so it seems.

Excuse the irritating sod speaking over the beginning of this video. He's French. They do this.

Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten

More Dusty over at the Dolores Delargo Museum of Camp

Even more Dusty here, here and here.