The singer-songwriter on her rock’n’roll past, playing second fiddle to the Beatles, and the key to being an energetic performer in your 80s Born Elaine Bookbinder in Salford in 1945, Elkie Brooks is a rock, blues and jazz singer known as the British Queen of Blues. She spent much of the 1960s o...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/13/elkie-brooks-looks-back-interview-singer-the-long-farewell-tour)

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