Escaping an abusive teen marriage and being blessed with the opportunity to create a new life for myself and my two young children in London at the height of the swinging 60s.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
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b. 1946
Born in California, PP Arnold, 77, joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue as a teenager. In 1966, the group arrived in London to support the Rolling Stones but Arnold stayed, going on to become a solo artist. She had hits with The First Cut Is the Deepest and Angel of the Morning; later she appeared in musicals. In 2019, she released an album called The New Adventures of … PP Arnold, and in 2022 she performed at Glastonbury. The paperback of her memoir Soul Survivor, and her single of the same name, are out now. She lives in London.
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Escaping an abusive teen marriage and being blessed with the opportunity to create a new life for myself and my two young children in London at the height of the swinging 60s.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
Oprah Winfrey, as Maya Angelou and Tina Turner are no longer with us. These women are Afro-American queens who, despite growing up in the racist south experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse, rose to the top of their professions and are an inspiration to women everywhere.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
At this time in my life, I quite like myself but, for a large portion of my life, I deplored being shy.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
Loving, sincere, honest.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
To live your best life every day, because tomorrow isn’t promised.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
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