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Sandy Dillon
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Sandy Dillon is an American singer and songwriter
Born in East Overshoe near Cape Cod, Sandy Dillon studied Orchestral Composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston, before moving to New York where she lived at the Chelsea Hotel. She played Janis Joplin on Broadway in ‘Rock n Roll: The First 5,000 Years’ where she spotted by Tony DeFries, who had managed both David Bowie and Iggy Pop. Defries steered her to Elektra, for whome she recorded two (unfreleased) albums Candy From A Stranger (produced by Man Parrish) and Flowers (co-produced by Mick Ronson and Dieter Meier.
Dillon moved to London where she met her husband Steve Bywater who was to produce several of her albums. She signed to One Little Indian for whom she recorded Electric Chair. In 2000 she released Las Vegas Is Cursed, a collaboration with Hector Zazou and East Overshoe. Nobody’s Sweetheart in 2003, was the first of Dillon's albums to be released in the US. Her most recent album, Pull the Strings was released in 2006
- Electric Chair (1999) One Little Indian
- Las Vegas is Cursed (2000) Crammed Records
- East Overshoe (2000) One Little Indian
- Nobody’s Sweetheart (2003) One Little Indian
- Pull the Strings (2006) One Little Indian