Featured In
ALBUMMillionaire's Daughter - SingleMary Hopkin & Dennis Locorriere
Albums by Mary Hopkin
ALBUMTwo HeartsMary Hopkin & Jessica Lee Morgan
ALBUMPiecesMary Hopkin
ALBUMA Christmas ChoraleMary Hopkin
ALBUMAnother RoadMary Hopkin
ALBUMPainting By NumbersMary Hopkin
ALBUMSpiritMary Hopkin
ALBUMYou Look FamiliarMary Hopkin & Morgan Visconti
ALBUMNow and ThenMary Hopkin
ALBUMValentineMary Hopkin
ALBUMY Caneuon Cynnar (The Early Recordings)Mary Hopkin
Mary Hopkin's Popular Music Videos
Those Were The Days (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 27, 1968)
Mary Hopkin
Goodbye (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, May 25, 1969)
Mary Hopkin
Love Is The Sweetest Thing (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, May 25, 1969)
Mary Hopkin
Morning Of My Life (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 27, 1968)
Mary Hopkin
Artist Biography
It was the British supermodel Twiggy who alerted Paul McCartney to the Welsh singer Mary Hopkin when Apple Records was looking for talent in 1968. The waifish soprano scored a huge worldwide smash with her first Apple single, the melancholy but rabble-rousing ballad "Those Were the Days," in late 1968; it actually knocked the Beatles' own "Hey Jude" out of the number one position in the U.K. Paul McCartney lent Hopkin a further hand by producing her first album and writing her second single, "Goodbye," which was also a hit. More comfortable with refined, precious ballads and folky pop than rock, Hopkin scored several more hit singles in the U.K., although she never entered the American Top 40 again. Her commercial success diminished as Apple's fortunes dwindled in the early '70s. ~ Richie Unterberger
Hometown
Pontardawe, Wales
Genre
Singer/Songwriter