Lynne Hamilton was born 1950 in Lancashire, England, the eldest of four children to Reg Hamilton and his wife. Her career as a singer began as a teenager when she joined a backing group The Desperadoes. They appeared on the same bill as acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Who, Freddy and the Dreamers and The Animals. She knew the Beatles personally, having been signed with the same record labels and having been on the same TV shows and at the same parties and social promotional events for the record label for four years. She later had a four-year stint as a singer with The Caravelles, who successfully toured in the UK and across Europe. In 1971, Hamilton moved to Australia where she variously owned and operated a car hire company, lingerie business and restaurants.
Signed to RCA she released her first single ''Needing You / Put It All Together'' in 1978. The single was produced by Bruce Rowland and failed to chart. In 1979 Hamilton was invited to sing "On the Inside", written by Allan Caswell as the theme tune for Australian soap opera, Prisoner. The song was released as a single in Australia, reaching #4 on the singles chart and selling in excess of 70,00 and became Australia's largest selling single by a female artist. The song was also released in the United States, Canada and NZ. An album followed in 1979 released on the Summit label.
Three more singles followed ''Getting Into Love'' (1979), ''Slowly'' (1980) and ''Will I Ever Get To Heaven'' (1981) without success. Ten years after the success of ''On The Inside'', the song was issued in the UK for the first time, to coincide with the series' first broadcast on UK television. It reached #3 on UK singles charts. Hamilton performed the song on Top of the Pops. In 1989, Hamilton released "In Your Arms (Love song from Neighbours)" for the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
SINGLES
On the Inside
| 2 APR '79 | #4 |
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Hamilton
http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/
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