Released in 1979 on A&M (catalog no. Grey cassette with black print.
Genres: Pop Soul, Pop. Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder, 25 February 1945) is an English singer.
Featured peformers: Mike Stoller (producer), Jerry Leiber (producer), Mike Stone (engineer), Bernie Grundman (mastering), Michael Ross (art … New Submission Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Live & Learn - Elkie Brooks on AllMusic - 1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Learn_(Elkie_Brooks_album) She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist.She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s, releasing 13 UK Top 75 singles, and reached the top ten with "Pearl's a Singer", "Sunshine After the Rain" and the title track of the album No More the Fool. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1979 Cassette release of Live And Learn on Discogs. Live and Learn, an Album by Elkie Brooks. Live And Learn She is generally referred to as the "British Queen of Blues".Her older brothers are Raymond Bookbinder (born 1938) and Anthony Bookbinder (born 28 May 1943), who went by the stage name of Tony Mansfield, and was drummer for According to Brooks, her unofficial debut was a gig at a club called the "Laronde" on It came before a run of 16 albums in 20 years, starting with In 1986, she sang the title song for the BBC television series "In early 1987, the song "No More the Fool" reached the top five and became her biggest hit single to date with In July 2017 after signing to Virgin EMI she issued a new CD In 2017 Brooks recorded the closing theme song "Running to the Future" for the British movie In the early to mid-1970s, Brooks was married to guitarist AMLH 68509; Vinyl LP).