Elkie Brooks - The Long Farewell Tour

Elkie Brooks is playing Salisbury City Hall on Sunday 15 November, as part of her Long Farewell Tour. She'll be on stage with her band, and the tour is a look back at a career that's been running for about 65 years.

Brooks started out in 1960, born Elaine Bookbinder in Salford, Manchester. She was a fifteen-year-old drawn to the blues, jazz and singers like Ella Fitzgerald, and she left home to pursue it, appearing with Humphrey Lyttelton. Later she formed the rock-fusion band Dada with Pete Gage, which became Vinegar Joe when Robert Palmer joined. They picked up an Island label deal before splitting in 1974.

She returned to the UK in 1975 and released her first solo album, Rich Man's Woman, followed by the hit 'Pearl's a Singer', which brought her first Top 10 success. Her 1981 album Pearls sold over 1.2 million copies, making her the biggest-selling British female singer at the time and earning her Guinness recognition as the most charted female album seller of the last 25 years. The Long Farewell Tour celebrates that award-winning career, presented by BookBinder & Joyce Production in association with Backline Studios and RLN Music.

The show runs from 19:30 to 22:00, with doors opening at 18:30, and tickets are £53.35.