A Short Interview with the late Jackie Trent

The interview took place on the day that a carved wooden seat in memory of Harry Goodwin was unveiled at Chorlton precinct in South Manchester, 2nd November 2013. We caught up with her at the K-Style Barber Shop in Chorlton, with kind permission from Ron Keeling and of course Jackie herself. She was remembering her long-term friend, photographer to the stars.

[@chartstuff000]

I've lived in Chorlton for twenty five years and Ron and his team have been cutting my hair all that time. I happened to walk in to get my hair cut just after the dedication. (I didn't know anything about Harry's tribute and the shop was open as normal). I'm a massive fan of the Hatch/Trent songwriting team and of course being an idiot I walked right by Jackie not recognising who she was. If only I'd known I would have taken just a moment to thank her for all those wonderful songs. Sadly much too late now. However, I'm very happy to see this video. Thanks for posting. RIP Jackie and thanks x

[@waiata216]

excellent valuable video

[@Soundofsilence-j4d]

Cant believe she passed on so wonderful person.

[@megasoid]

What a beautiful singing voice she had.

[@VincentComet-l8e]

After the Speldhurst Annual Fete near Tunbridge Wells in Kent in 1997 a group of us went to a local pub, the George & Dragon, where an Anglo-American pop group were on a makeshift stage out front playing to an appreciative audience. They were pretty good and worth listening to.
After a while there was some audience reaction in the wings and somehow it was made clear that they had somebody of their own and that she should take the stage too. This turned out to be 1960s pop star Jackie Trent, and she was soon up there beside them with a microphone joining in.
But after a while rather than harmonising and complementing them she was starting to take over, then in mock severity commenced haranguing them instead - eventually she was finger-jabbing loud accusations & criticisms of them and their music - and the audience loved it!
The band, having no answers and unable to compete with this tirade, were soon reduced to helpless laughter as they struggled to keep on playing. Which just pushed her to get more raucous and dismissive about what she was hearing, with the audience lapping it up and encouraging her.
I remember the drummer, grinning broadly in reply to one of her barbs, probably about them being supposed to be transatlantic or something, was shaking his head and laughing ‘Me - I’m from Sunderland!’
It was great entertainment, a completely unexpected display of impromptu theatre I’ve never seen before or since, and the audience loved it…

[@nickpalmer3076]

Nice to see this interview.

[@michaelthompson2761]

It was a privilege to interview her.

[@Nigel-ef2ft]

How can you interview the 'late' Jackie Trent? She was obviously still alive!

[@bigtwit799]

This was BEFORE she died.

[@alfching2499]

Not After

[@brendamckay5751]

😂 Clearly

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😮

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