Topic - Cleo Laine

'Scruff', although I don't think I was scruffy. It was just that having come from the sticks, I didn't know how to put things together as well as the other singers of the day," she told the Irish Independent. "And anyway, I didn't have the money, because they weren't paying me enough."

Cleo Laine, regarded as Britain's greatest jazz voice, dies at 97 →