Biography
Following the appearance of Barry McGuire’s ‘Eve Of Destruction’, the singer placed a milder protest number, ‘Come Away Melinda’, inside the UK Top 50 during 1965 on Columbia Records. St. John proved unable to convert that limited success into additional chart placements. She nevertheless secured steady session work with figures such as Alexis Korner, Long John Baldry, Duster Bennett and further leading lights of the late-60s blues boom. The following decade expanded her contributions across mainstream pop acts including Bryan Ferry, Cockney Rebel, Andy Fairweather-Low and Elton John, alongside more unconventional undertakings with Viv Stanshall, Kevin Coyne, John Cale and Daevid Allen. By the 1980s her client list had grown to encompass Pink Floyd, Tom Robinson and Whitesnake.