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Education
South Hampstead High School. G.P.D.S.T.
 8 ‘O’ levels. 2 ‘A’ levels. Art/ German
 Hornsey College of Art  -
                     Diploma in Art and Design course
 Royal Academy of Music Grades
                                                  1 to 6 - keyboards

 English, German, French
Piano, keyboards (proficient)
British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts,
Performing Right Society,
 Mechanical Copyright Protection Society
 Equity
Performing Right Society Ltd
Musicbiz4u Ltd
Lynsey de Paul Music Ltd
Performing Right Members’ Fund.
 Help The Aged
ChildLine, Compassion in World Farming,
 Viva! NAVS
Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund
Egyptology, wildlife, work with various animal
sanctuaries, scuba-diving, music, art - including
art history, film.
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Extensive experience in the Music and Entertainment industries:
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Singer
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Composer
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Musician
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Actor
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Presenter
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Two Ivor Novello Awards
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Gold Badge Award (for contribution to the music industry)
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Woman Of The Year Award For Music from Variety Club of Great Britain
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Composer of 12 top twenty hit records
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Composer of 9 prime-time television themes & incidental music
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Royal Television Society Award for her BBC 1 documentary “Eve Strikes Back”

 Lynsey de Paul is widely known throughout the Media, Music Industry and to the General Public. She has extensive experience in most aspects of the Music and Entertainment Industries.  
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Lynsey de Paul studied classical music with a tutor from the Royal Academy of Music, and took a Diploma in Art and Design course at the Hornsey College of Art. She worked as a commercial artist and designer for 3 years before writing her first top ten hit in 1972.  For many years she concentrated on working in the Music Industry, but went on to include acting, radio and television presentation work, and television and video production in her varied career.

Having appeared continuously in all forms of the Media, Lynsey de Paul is easily recognisable with a wide demographic appeal.

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Lynsey has written 12 top twenty hits, 6 of which she personally recorded. She has won numerous awards including 2 Ivor Novello Awards and “Woman Of The Year For Music” with the Variety Club of Great Britain. At the end of 2005, she was awarded the Gold Badge Award for her ‘outstanding contribution’ to the music industry. She has written 9 prime-time television themes including “Hearts of Gold” for BBC 1 / Esther Rantzen, and wrote and produced the commissioned theme song for London “There’s No Place Like London” recording Shirley Bassey and a fifty- four piece orchestra. She wrote and performed the song “Rock Bottom”, which represented Great Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest attaining second place in the finals.
Lynsey orchestrated, played, and produced 2 classical records of compositions by Handel and Bach for Deutsche Grammaphon. Her work for the Channel Tunnel Group included writing and producing an album of children’s songs with accompanying song colouring book for Euro- tunnel’s mascot entitled “ Marcus The Mole”. She has written film music for and acted in the children’s film “Gabrielle and the Doodleman”, and has composed on-air JINGLES for broadcast radio including Capital Radio.
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Lynsey’s recent TV guest appearances include ‘Breakfast TV’ for BBC1, ‘Celebrity Come Dine With Me’ for Channel 4, The Wright Stuff for Channel 5 and ‘Cash in the Attic’ for BBC1, which is to be aired in the Spring of 2009.
Her television production, and presentation work includes her BBC 1 Royal Television Society Award-winning documentary on self-defence called “Eve Strikes Back” which she devised, demonstrated, presented and associate produced. She went on to present and produce a sell-through video on the same subject called “Taking Control” for Video Collection International and wrote a book of the same title published in the same year.
Lynsey hosted and was chief consultant on her own half-hour television series for Granada Sky Broadcasting entitled “Women Of Substance” with guests including Heather Mills- McCartney, and Tracey Edwards (the first round-the-world yachtswoman).
She has been the subject of her own prime-time 45-minute Channel 4 documentary entitled “Ladybirds”. She has presented many other television programmes including travelogues for Granada Sky Broadcasting, a television phone-in for “This Morning” on self-defence, and was consultant and guest presenter on “Living Issues” for UK Living on the subject on self-defence, writing a six-page safety pamphlet given to viewers. Her radio presentation work includes her own two-hour series for Capital Radio, entitled “Sunday Best.

Lynsey went on to host her own television series of 15 half hour programmes called “Living Room Legends”, and a series of 3 one hour programmes called “The Vinyl Frontier” - the pop version of the antiques road show.
Lynsey has made innumerable television and radio guest appearances in programmes for music, to variety to current affairs including “Any Questions” and “Call My Bluff”, and has been featured four times on ITN and BBC national news for her work and charity work.
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Lynsey recently guest starred in Stephen Fry’s drama series called “Kingdom”, aired on ITV 1. She has appeared as Lead in the West End musical “Pump Boys and Dinettes”, as headline at the London Palladium, and as Lead in the thriller “Shriek” at the Churchill Theatre Bromley, plus Lead in various pantomimes. She has also appeared as Lead in the BBC television musical play entitled “Dangerous Days”.

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Having trained at the Hornsey College of Art, Lynsey kept up her artwork and was employed as the resident weekly cartoonist for Okay! Magazine in its first year of weekly distribution, with her pocket-cartoon series entitled “Light Entertainment”. She also cartooned for the woman’s magazine “Chic” with another series of pocket-cartoons entitled “Woman to Woman”.

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She has performed public speaking on several occasions at the request of the Metropolitan Police, Barclay’s Bank, and The Business Woman’s Network.

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Breaking News: TO PERFORMING RIGHT SOCIETY MEMBERS
 Lynsey de Paul has just completed her first 3 year Term on the PRS Board and is now standing for re-election in March 2009. Click here
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