Lynsey de Paul (born Lynsey Monckton Rubin, on 11 June 1950 in London, UK) is an English singer-songwriter. Renowned for her keyboard skills, ability to write catchy songs and sultry looks, de Paul first hit the UK charts in 1972, initially as the writer of the Fortunes hit, "Storm in a Teacup". A few months later she was propelled into the limelight as the performer of her very own song hit song "Sugar Me", which rapidly found it's way into the Top Ten of the UK Singles Chart as well as the top of the singles charts in Holland and Belgium. She was the first woman to be awarded an Ivor Novello Award for her ballad, "Won't Somebody Dance With Me", another UK Top 20 hit. ...show more

Lynsey de Paul (born Lynsey Monckton Rubin, on 11 June 1950 in London, UK) is an English singer-songwriter. Renowned for her keyboard skills, ability to write catchy songs and sultry looks, de Paul first hit the UK charts in 1972, initially as the writer of the Fortunes hit, "Storm in a Teacup". A few months later she was propelled into the limelight as the performer of her very own song hit song "Sugar Me", which rapidly found it's way into the Top Ten of the UK Singles Chart as well as the top of the singles charts in Holland and Belgium. She was the first woman to be awarded an Ivor Novello Award for her ballad, "Won't Somebody Dance With Me", another UK Top 20 hit.

The BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Ed Stewart spoke the words "May I Have The Pleasure Of This Dance" near the end of the record (he often played the record on his Junior Choice programme on Saturday mornings) although Tony Blackburn said it when she appeared on BBC Television's Top of the Pops. De Paul recorded the female lyric to Mott The Hoople's hit, "Roll Away the Stone", but did not perform the song with the band when they were promoting the single. In 1973, when Mick Ralphs left Mott the Hoople, his replacement Luther Grosvenor was contractually obliged to change his name - de Paul suggested Ariel Bender. After appointing Don Arden, her new manager, de Paul released "Ooh I Do", which hit the charts in the UK, Netherlands and Japan.

A second Ivor Novello award followed a year later for "No Honestly", which was also the theme tune to a hit ITV comedy of the same name, and provided her with another UK Top 10 hit, peaking at #7.[The TV series No Honestly was followed by Yes Honestly, and although Georgie Fame wrote and performed the theme tune to the first series of Yes Honestly, an instrumental version of de Paul's "No Honestly" was chosen as the theme for the second series. De Paul continued to release a number of singles through the 1970s and early 1980s. A prolific songwriter, de Paul also continued to write songs for a wide range of recording artists as well as composing the theme music to the 1970s documentary television programme Pilger (John Pilger) for ATV. In a five year period (1972-77) she wrote a total of fourteen UK Singles Chart hits most notably "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" which was a hit for co-writer Barry Blue as well as Flash Cadillac and bond. ...show less