DIONNE WARWICK

APRIL 28, 1963. BACKSTAGE AT PARIS’S OLYMPIA THEATRE, Dionne Warwick was doing her best to remain calm. Waiting to perform at Les Idoles Des Jeunes, she’d met the revue’s local stars Françoise Hardy and Sylvie Vartan and said hello to fellow imports The Shirelles and a 13-year-old Stevie Wonder. After recent months on the chitlin’ circuit in the still-segregated Southern US, her European debut promised a glimpse of another side of life. She took to the stage, however, to applause that quickly gave way to silence. From the cover of Warwick’s latest French release, This Empty Place – featuring a barefoot strawberry blonde in a coquettish pose – they were expecting something, or someone rather different. “There was an audible gasp when I walked on stage,” Warwick recalls. “They didn’t…

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