A soft spot for Gill

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Submitted by gibb1962 on Fri, 2012-01-06 00:51
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I've got a soft spot for Gill.She never seems get any attention.There are many routines where i think she's just great.Sunday Girl,Never Let Her Slip Away,Supernature,my favourite Love's Unkind,Red Light Spells Danger.These are just a few of the dances where Gill shines.She was good and i like her.

Submitted by PansRubyLegs on Sat, 2012-01-07 12:29
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I have to agree with you, gibb1962. Gill is my favourite Legs & Co member. She might not have the balletic poise of Patti or Sue, but she is a highly skilled dancer with a sensuality that IMHO none of the other Legs & Co girls can match. I think this is shown particularly well in her performance to "Please Don't Go". Apart from some of the numbers you mention - particularly "Sunday Girl" and "Supernature" - I think Gill's skill as a dancer and performer is shown particularly well in "Morning Dance", "Lady" and "The Groove". I think there should be more appreciation of Gill as she is often forgotten. Her name wasn't even mentioned in the Legs & Co segment of Arlene Philips' documentary, "Super Troupers", losing out to Patti who was mentioned twice!

Submitted by PansRubyLegs on Sat, 2012-01-07 12:34
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Whilst I'm standing up for Gill, why is she one of the only dancers not to have at least a couple of lines in her biography? We have biographies for all manner of Zoo dancers who may only have appeared once or twice on the TOTP, but hardly anything on Gill expect for her date and place of birth. Surely she deserves a line or two?

Submitted by Gary on Sat, 2012-01-07 15:45
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Hi PRL

Of course Gill deserves more than a line or two. I'm constantly working on the biographies, researching each dancer and finding out as much information as possible. Gill's biography will be posted as soon as I have enough information on her. Some dancers are easier to research than others. For example, lot's of information can be found on Dee Dee and Babs but it's harder to find any on Andrea. There isn't a lot of information on Gill, other than her being the winner of several beauty titles and being the last to join Legs & Co. Everyone has their favourite dancer and I try to please everyone as best I can. I originally contacted panfan to ask if I could write biogs for PP - at the time, we didn't anticipate that we'd end up writing biographies for Legs & Co, RF, the Gojos - and the list of dance troupes is constantly expanding, which means more work for all of us. I promise to do Gill's biography soon.

Best wishes

Gary    

Submitted by panfan on Sat, 2012-01-07 12:40
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Hi PRL!

We'll do what we can to fill in the gaps: as you might gather, there's tremendous amounts to do on the site (eg simple things: I still have dozens of thumbnails for the bios to do), but I'll mention it to Gary. If you can help with any details, to get things started, that would be most appreciated.

Some dancers (eg Zoo) had contacted us with details, so that is why things might appear sporadic and unsystematic: it's nothing to do with priority!

Submitted by panfan on Sat, 2012-01-07 12:43
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Maybe someone would like to start a Gill gallery, screen grabs etc of her finest moments?

Submitted by panfan on Sun, 2012-01-08 09:46
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Just to let you know if you don't notice it, but Gary's been quick off the bat and updated Gill's biography page this morning.

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sat, 2012-02-11 22:38
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Gill in Lalo Schifrin's Theme to Jaws.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Wed, 2012-03-21 23:48
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Gill in the stylish Chanson D'Amore,Never Let Her Slip Away,Don't Walk Away and Love's Unkind.

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Glenn

Submitted by panfan on Tue, 2012-01-10 23:34
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Those are amazingly clear images - is it from a VHS recording?

Especially impressed by the clarity of the chanson d'amore one!

Submitted by gibb1962 on Tue, 2012-01-10 23:40
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They're all from YouTube videos saved on my PC.I have more to come.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sat, 2012-02-11 23:03
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Gill in Sunday Girl.I love her dancing in this one.

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Glenn

Submitted by Lee and Mary Fan on Wed, 2012-01-11 05:58
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Nice work gibb 1962, very clear images.

Any captures of Mary, Lee, Patti and Andrea would be welcome......esp Mary  : )

Submitted by gibb1962 on Wed, 2012-01-11 19:10
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Talking of one of your favs,Mary,i saw her in A Kind Of Hush the other day and i must say i liked it.I've been too dazzled by Lulu,Rosie and Gill to notice her before,but i think i may search her out a bit more. 

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Glenn

Submitted by Lee and Mary Fan on Thu, 2012-01-12 22:52
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Hi gibb 1962,

If you are new to Mary , i would reccomend you check out Pans People routines for Barbados, Jungle Rock, Paperback Writer & Theme From Mahogany, Mary  ( along with all the other members ) looks gorgeous, Cornershop and Andy has provided some cool screencaps of Mary.....but I can never get enough of my favorite.

I really like your screencaps.

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sat, 2012-02-11 23:08
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Gill in Talking In My Sleep.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Mon, 2012-07-23 01:09
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Gill and Rosie in New Kid In Town.

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Glenn

Submitted by PansRubyLegs on Thu, 2012-01-12 22:30
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Here are a few of my fave Gill pics, or should be if this works....

Submitted by PansRubyLegs on Thu, 2012-01-12 22:32
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Sorry - they seem to be a bit big (and grainy). Hope you like 'em anyway.....

Submitted by PansRubyLegs on Thu, 2012-01-12 22:37
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Hope these don't end up being mahoosive as well....

Submitted by Jase on Thu, 2012-01-12 22:52
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Wow! That is a really nice pic! Hot hot hot! :)

Submitted by PansRubyLegs on Thu, 2012-01-12 22:39
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I'm afraid I'm at a loss as regards picture mahoosiveness....

Submitted by gibb1962 on Fri, 2012-01-13 23:17
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I took my pics from YouTube and didn't do anything to them.You could photoshop yours and decrease the size easily.I have 'Paint' on my PC and that does the trick.

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Glenn

Submitted by Gary H on Thu, 2012-01-12 23:57
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Looking back I'm surprised Gill didn't feature on a Roxy Music cover - What a beauty!

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Gary H

Submitted by gibb1962 on Fri, 2012-01-13 23:20
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Yes,i think Bryan Ferry missed a trick there.Roxy would have been more popular than they already are.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sat, 2012-02-11 23:16
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Gill in Abba's Chiquitita.

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Glenn

Submitted by panfan on Sun, 2012-01-29 00:07
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These are really quality images, thanks guys!

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sat, 2012-02-11 23:24
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Lovely Gill in the Bee Gees' Love You Inside Out.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Mon, 2012-07-23 01:10
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Gill in a beautiful dance to Don't Leave Me This Way.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Mon, 2012-07-23 01:11
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Gill in Dancing In The City,and in Love Hit Me - she's just knocked out Pauline.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sat, 2012-02-11 23:31
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Gill in a great dance to Heart Of Glass.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sat, 2012-02-11 23:38
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Gill in Hopelessly Devoted To You and Please Don't Go.

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Glenn

Submitted by panfan on Fri, 2012-02-10 18:35
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Really appreciate all the work you guys have done on these!

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sun, 2012-02-12 01:12
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Gill does some lovely solo dancing to Dylan's Baby Stop Crying.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Mon, 2012-02-13 23:11
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Gill in a lovely dance to David Soul's Don't Give Up On Us.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Tue, 2012-02-14 23:56
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Gill in a great dance to Dorothy Moore's I Believe you.

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Glenn

Submitted by Andy on Wed, 2012-02-15 01:18
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Some Screencaps of Gilly

Submitted by gibb1962 on Wed, 2012-02-15 19:39
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Thanks Andy.Gill looked and sounded so nervous introducing herself on her first appearance,but she soon blossomed.She's great,i just love her dance to Sunday Girl.

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Glenn

Submitted by Andy on Sun, 2012-03-04 23:14
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Gill in Oxygene (Only have a fragment, Logo been blank on Screencap)

Submitted by gibb1962 on Mon, 2012-03-05 17:25
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Thanks Andy.Just makes me want to see the clip even more,as i'm sure we all do. 

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sun, 2012-04-08 17:24
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Gill looking stunning in this beautiful dance to 'Going In With My Eyes Open'.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Fri, 2012-06-22 02:28
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Gill in Disco Inferno.

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Glenn

Submitted by Andy on Sun, 2012-06-24 18:24
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A couple Screen Caps of Gilly

Submitted by Boogiebox on Sun, 2012-07-08 18:24
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I love all the photos of all the dancers and the other random photos of artists who performed in the studio and on film in various parts of the site.

Like Cherry and the others, these are really nice piccies of Gill. :)

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Claire

Submitted by gibb1962 on Mon, 2012-07-23 01:16
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Gill in the great Hotel California.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Fri, 2012-07-27 02:06
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Gill in Diana Ross' 'It's My Turn' from 1981.

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Glenn

Submitted by Andy on Fri, 2012-08-10 22:56
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Gilly  in "Oh Lori"

Submitted by Andy on Thu, 2012-10-04 15:41
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Gilly in "Way Down"

Submitted by gibb1962 on Sat, 2012-10-27 22:50
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Gill in a great dance to Best Of My Love.

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Glenn

Submitted by gibb1962 on Thu, 2012-11-01 01:03
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Gill in the 80's milk campaign 'Lotta Bottle'.

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Glenn