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In this extract from the former Lush singer’s memoir, she recalls how Britpop sanded the edges off a thriving UK music scene and enshrined a culture of nasty, relentless sexualisation
She landed her most famous role over better-known faces but it proved to be a brief time in the limelight
<strong>Other lives: </strong>Actor who started in film and ended as an extra in opera and ballet productions in Covent Garden
Actress and King's mistress, Nell Gwynne was reputed to have stayed at the Highgate landmark where a new musical explores her life
In a statement released on social media, her family said: 'In very sad news, Valerie James, lovely wife of Sid and a performer in her own right in her early days, has died aged 93.'