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Betty Boo - 90s icon and BRIT and Ivor Novello Award winner - picks her favourite records whilst sharing the stories behind them in this omnibus edition of Tracks of My Years.

Betty - real name Alison Moira Clarkson - first rose to fame after a chance meeting in McDonalds with Public Enemy, who she ended up supporting on tour in the US.

In 1989, she featured as guest vocalist on The Beatmasters’ Top 10 single - Hey DJ/I Can't Dance. Her first solo single - Doin’ The Do - was released the following year and announced Betty Boo as a phenomenon in her own right. Doin’ The Do and the follow up Where Are You Baby? were both written and demoed by Betty Boo in her bedroom using basic sampling gear - a process she would return to in recent years after a period of writer’s block.

Betty released two albums - Boomania and GRRR! It’s Betty Boo - and then mostly retired from the public eye. But then earlier this year, she released the Human League sampling banger Get Me To The Weekend - her first solo music in three decades.

In August Betty releases her new single 'Right By Your Side', a duet with multiple Brit Award nominated singer-songwriter David Gray. This is the third single released by Betty Boo in 2022 and a new Betty Boo album is due for release later this year.