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Biography
For|the New Zealand field hockey player|Mandy Smith (field hockey)BLP sources|date=March 2008Infobox musical artist| name = Mandy Smith| image =| alt =| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = AmandaLouise Smith| alias = Mandy| birth_date = birth date and age|1970|07|17| birth_place =| origin =| death_date = | death_place =| genre = Pop (music)|Pop | occupation =| instrument =| years_active = 1986-present| label = PWL | associated_acts =| website = URL|kisspr.net/mandy.html| notable_instruments = Mandy Smith (born AmandaLouise Smith, 17 July 1970) is an England|English dance-pop singer, former Model (person)|model .
Early life
In 1983, at age 13 she started dating 47-year-old The Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman , with the consent of her mother. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/the-curse-of-hello-824875.html The curse of Hello! The Independent, 9 May 2008cite book | last = Wyman | first = Bill | authorlink = | coauthors = Ray Coleman | title = Stone Alone | publisher = Viking | year = 1990 | location = London | pages = 26 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 670-828947 In a 2010 interview with the Daily Mail Smith admitted to starting a sexual relationship with Wyman at just 14. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1266664/Mandy-Smith-I-DID-sleep-Bill-Wyman-I-14--man-life-God.html Mandy Smith: I DID sleep with Bill Wyman when I was 14... but now the only man in my life is God Mail Online, 17 April 2010
Smith married Wyman in 1989; they divorced in 1991.Cite news|url= http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302463,00.html|title=A Teen Bride for a Stone |publisher=Entertainment Weekly|first=Chris|last=Nashawaty|date=3 June 1994 Her wedding dress and those of her bridesmaids and pageboy was designed by Louise Hamlin-Wright .cite book | last = Wyman | first = Bill | authorlink = | coauthors = Ray Coleman | title = Stone Alone | publisher = Viking | year = 1990 | location = London | pages = 31 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 670-828947 cite book | last = Smith | first = Mandy | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = My Life with Bill Wyman, It's all over now | publisher = Blake Publishing Ltd. | year = 1993 | location = London | pages = 214 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-85782-0444
Music career
The press coverage that surrounded Smith's personal life largely contributed to her career as a singer. In 1986, Smith was to be interviewed on TV's Saturday Live until Raidió Teilifís Éireann|RTÉ decided she should be downgraded to being a mere member of the audience. She was axed entirely when her manager disagreed, with RTÉ saying she was "not important enough" and that she might "give a bad example to young teenage girls". The story appeared in the international media.cite news|url= http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/relationships/the-sex-factor-1491630.html|title=The Sex Factor|date=7 October 2008|accessdate=16 November 2008|work=Irish Independent
In 1986, at 16, Smith was signed to PWL by Stock Aitken Waterman . The SAW team wrote and produced her first two singles - " I Just Can't Wait " and " Positive Reaction ". Collaboration with Daize Washbourne produced further singles, " Boys and Girls (Mandy Smith song)|Boys and Girls " (which reached No. 8 in South Africa) and " Victim of Pleasure ". Despite the lack of British chart success with these singles, an album, Mandy (album)|Mandy , was released in 1988. Smith was successful in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Turkey, South Africa and Japan, where she entered the Top 10 music chart. She was about to launch her career in the United States in 1989 with her single "Victim of Pleasure" released under Atlantic Records but due to health problems, she had to cancel the promotion. The same happened with her fifth European single, a cover of The Human League hit single " Don't You Want Me Baby (Mandy Smith song)|Don't You Want Me Baby ." These events and a difficult recovery marked the end of her short musical career though several remixes of "I Just Can't Wait" appeared in the early 1990s; her album was also re-released in Japan in 1993 and a special edition was released with bonus tracks in 2009. She also recorded the original version of " Got to Be Certain ," which would later be the second international single release for fellow PWL act, Kylie Minogue . Smith's version remained unreleased until 2005 when it was premiered on PWL Radio and included on the 2005 release Stock Aitken Waterman Gold as a bonus track.
Modelling
During the 1980s and 1990s, Smith appeared in TV series and shows in the UK, all over Europe, and parts of Asia/Australia. She appeared in magazines as a model. In 1988 she was voted second most attractive female singer by the readers of German youth magazine "Popcorn". Smith was named " Rear of the year|Rear of the Year " in Britain in 1994, award for her buttocks|posterior . In 1995, she was 72nd in FHM 's list of " FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 1995|100 Sexiest Women in the World ".
Personal life
On 19 June 1993 she married footballer Pat Van Den Hauwe , but this only lasted two years. She published her biography ''It's All Over Now'' in 1993.cite book | last = Smith | first = Mandy | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = My Life with Bill Wyman, It's all over now | publisher = Blake Publishing Ltd. | year = 1993 | location = London | pages = 1 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-85782-0444 In 2001, she was briefly engaged to Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair fashion model Ian Mosby with whom she had a son, Max Harrison Mosby. Smith is now resident in Manchester . Smith is now teetotal and vegan.cite news| url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1189753/If-happened-Bill-jail-Mandy-Smith-Rolling-Stone-seduced-her.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Antonia | last=Hoyle | title='If it happened now, Bill would go to jail.' Mandy Smith on the Rolling Stone who seduced her at the age of 13 | date=3 June 2009 Smith was raised as a Roman Catholic and, in recent years, has returned to the church. cite news| url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1265407/Former-wildchild-Mandy-Smith-finds-religion-swaps-clubbing-communion.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Beth | last=Hale | title=Bill Wyman's former child bride Mandy Smith swaps clubbing for communion | date=13 April 2010
Other interests
Having tried a career as a make-up artist , Smith is presently training to be a counsellor .cite news|url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1180255/Mandy-Smith-rock-chick-mother-hen-20-years-marriage-Bill-Wyman.html|title=Mandy Smith, from rock chick to mother hen, 20 years after her marriage to Bill Wyman|publisher=Daily Mail|date=11 May 2009|accessdate=11 May 2009 | location=London | first=Simon | last=Cable Smith has also set up her own business together with her sister Nicola, a Marketing company named Kiss PR. http://www.kisspr.net/mandy.html Mandy Smith Kiss PR
Discography
Albums
1988 Mandy (album)|Mandy (ITA Number 44 ; SWI Number 14 ; SWE Number 35)
2009 Mandy (album)|Mandy (re-issue with bonus tracks)
Singles/EP's
"-" denotes releases that did not chart in that country.
http://plasticretro.com/mandysmith Plastic Retro - English fansite with discography
http://www.kisspr.net/mandy.html Mandy's Official website, Website Kiss PR
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