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HELEN SHAPIRO

HELEN SHAPIRO

Spoken Word Gospel Testimony -
Helen Shapiro Recorded at Penkhull
Christian Fellowship, Stoke-On-Trent
2006, this superb DVD features Helen
Shapiro sharing her remarkable story
in word and song, presenting a powerful
Gospel challenge to both Jew and Gentile
alike. Running time: 100 minutes.
Song List:There is Someone
Oh the Deep Deep Love of Jesus
He is My Defence
Walking Back to Happiness
and excerpts from others
DVD £12.00 plus postage and packing

Click here to order

HELEN SHAPIRO

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ORDER YOUR COPY OF 'WHAT WONDROUS LOVE IS THIS'

Manna Music has added 15 sample tracks from Helen's album on their website....

What Wondrous Love Is This - The Gospel album by Helen Shapiro! Fifteen scriptural and uplifting tracks of worship, praise and exhortation. Helen's first Gospel album in 12 years.

Special offer: £10.00 plus p&p

See Order Form

The Gospel Collection - A compilation of Helen's first four gospel albums with a total of 35 songs! Available as a double CD for £12.00 plus p&p
See Order Form

Extra Special Offer: Buy 1 'Gospel
Collection' and 1 'What Wondrous
Love Is This' for £20.00 plus p&p

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See Order Form

If you missed Helen's interview on Revelation Television, it is now
available on YouTube..

The album, which includes several
tracks previously unreleased on
CD,
is available to order
from Amazon here >>>>>>>>>

Daily Express 4th February 2011

28TH DECEMBER

BBC RADIO LONDON

Another chance to hear Helen talking about her faith, career, and life in the music industry. Available for another four days.

2ND DECEMBER

GOSPEL OUTREACH DECEMBER 7TH

Sat Dec 7 Hitchin, Herts Christchurch Methodist Church, Bedford Rd SG5 1HF 01462 619205 or 07847 506728

25TH NOVEMBER

GOSPEL OUTREACH NOVEMBER 30TH

Sat Nov 30 Ferring, nr. Worthing Ferring Baptist Church, Greystoke Rd., BN12 5JY 01903 504103 or 01903 410237

13TH NOVEMBER

GOSPEL OUTREACH NOVEMBER 16TH

Sat Nov 16 Hartford, Northwich, Cheshire. St
Johns Church, Chester Rd. Hartford, CW8 1QL
Tel: 01606 872255 or office@stjohnshartford.org

Sat Nov 23 Broadstone Hebron (Simon Elman, Chrissy Rodgers and Helen Shapiro) in Concert, with guest speaker Sam Gordon.
Venue: Hamworthy Club, Magna Road, Canford Magna, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 3AP
01202 775 305

3RD NOVEMBER

GOSPEL OUTREACH NOVEMBER 9TH

Sat Nov 9 Llanelli Greenfield Baptist Church, SA15 1DZ 01554 741127

Over 350 tickets have been sold. Tickets are £3.00.

29TH OCTOBER

GOSPEL OUTREACH NOVEMBER 2ND

Sat Nov 2 Lowestoft St Mark's Church, Bridge Road, NR33 9JX Tel: 01502 514774

22ND OCTOBER

GOSPEL OUTREACH OCTOBER 26TH

Sat Oct 26 Macclesfield Tytherington Family Worship, Sandwich Dr. SK10 2UZ 01625 615195

17TH OCTOBER

GOSPEL OUTREACH OCTOBER 19TH

Sat Oct 19 S. Harrow, Middx. Beth Yeshua Messianic Fellowship, Roxeth Green Free Church, Coles Crescent, HA2 0TN. Hebron (Simon Elman, Chrissy Rodgers and Helen Shapiro) leading worship and ministering in song at Israel Day Conference 'The Restoration of All Things'. 10:00 am to 4:30 pm. Information and registration: Debbie Rodgers 07753 527738 or trevanddeb@hotmail.com

15TH OCTOBER

RADIO 2 PICK OF THE POPS

Tony Blackburn played the Pop Chart from 12th October 1961 on Saturday.
Helen had two records in the Chart: Walkin' Back To Happiness at #2, and
You Don't Know at #10. You can listen here until Saturday.

25TH SEPTEMBER

BARCLAYS TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT

Barclays are currently showing an advertisement for lost debit cards. Helen sings a line from 'It's My Party' right at the end.

22ND SEPTEMBER

GOSPEL OUTREACH OCTOBER 8TH

Tues Oct 8 Lochgelly, Fife. Lochgelly Centre,
Bank Street, KY5 9RD 01952 780317

21ST SEPTEMBER

PLAY IT COOL DVD

The DVD will be released on 10TH FEBRUARY
2014 and you can preorder now from Amazon.

11TH SEPTEMBER

R&R ONLINE ARTICLE

This article was posted on the online
magazine 'Relax and Read' today.
Helen is mentioned several times.

8TH SEPTEMBER

GOSPEL OUTREACHES SEPTEMBER 14TH AND 21ST

Sat Sept 14 Paignton Venue: St. Paul's Church, Torquay Rd., TQ3 2DH
N.B. This outreach is being hosted by Living Waters Church, Paignton
For all tickets and information, please contact Living Waters Church office: 01803 552538

Sat Sept 21 Bilston, Wolverhampton: Hebron will be leading worship at The Sanctuary Conference, Bilston Baptist Church, 5 Prouds Lane, WV14 6PW
Pre-booking is required.www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk

31ST AUGUST

GOSPEL OUTREACH SEPTEMBER 6TH

Fri Sept 6 London Rosh HaShanah celebration, City Temple, Holborn Viaduct. Worship led by Hebron (Chrissy Rodgers, Simon Elman and Helen). Meeting begins at 7 pm.
Please contact 0207 267 5597 for details.

HELEN SHAPIRO

13TH AUGUST

LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY HOME SUMMER FETE

Helen attended the summer fete at The Leonard Cheshire Disability Home
at John Masefield House in Abingdon, Oxfordshire on Saturday 27th July.

Here she is pictured with Kenny Lynch, and officers from RAF Benson who
flew in and landed a Chinook Helicopter for the afternoon.
The young children at the fete had a ball clambering around the helicopter.

18TH JULY

RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE JULY ISSUE (#416)

Helen was mentioned in the July issue
by Bob Solly in Ian McCann's column.
(Thanks to CHRISTIAN NAUWELAERS
for the information).

17TH JULY

MOJO MAGAZINE AUGUST ISSUE

Helen is briefly mentioned in the article
entitled 'THE BEATLES' which includes
a small photo, a 'Play It Cool' poster,
and a poster when she topped the Bill.
(Thanks to CHRISTIAN NAUWELAERS
for the information).

14TH JULY

JUDITH DURHAM - THE SEEKERS

Glad to hear that Judith is making good progress
recovering from a brain haemorrhage recently, and
currently undergoing a rehabilitation programme.
She also celebrated her 70th birthday on the
3rd of July. Her website is here.

Helen, Judith, and Brian Matthew photographed in 2003

26TH JUNE

DAILY MAIL LETTER

This letter was published in the Daily Mail on the 21st June.
Many thanks to Gay Wiggins.

25TH JUNE

MIKE BURGUM

Sorry to report the passing of Mike Burgum, a former Friend's Club member. He fell down some stairs and suffered devastating injuries on Friday night. Condolences to his family...

17TH MAY

TONY BLACKBURN INTERVIEW

The show is available here for the next seven days Helen's interview is at 1:38.45

12TH MAY

TONY BLACKBURN INTERVIEW
Helen will be interviewed by Tony Blackburn on
BBC Radio Berkshire
next Friday 17th May at
approximately 11.30a.m.

1ST MAY

REDDITCH ADVERTISER ARTICLE

Today's issue of the Redditch Advertiser reports that Helen has given The Redditch Ramblers her blessing to use the title of her hit single 'Walkin' back to Happiness' as the theme for the group’s new walks programme, which covers wide range of Saturday and Sunday walks, from five to 10 miles.

27TH APRIL

MAY GOSPEL OUTREACH DATES

Sat May 4 High Barnet High Barnet Baptist Church, 197 High St., EN5 5SU Tel: 01707 657012

Sat May 11 Herstmonceux, E. Sussex The Reid Hall Boreham Street BN27 4SD Tel: 01323 833296 (Scolfe’s Restaurant)

27TH MARCH

'TOPS WITH ME AND MORE' RELEASE ON CD

Another release on HALLMARK - Helen's complete Tops With Me album (stereo), and 8 tracks from her early singles (mono).

3RD MARCH

BBC RADIO 2 - GOOD MORNING SUNDAY INTERVIEW

23RD FEBRUARY

'IT'S TRAD, DAD' RELEASE ON CD
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1. Tavern In The Town - Terry Lightfoot's New Orleans Jazzmen 2. Lonely City - John Leyton 3. Another Tear Falls - Gene McDaniels 4. In A Persian Market - Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band 5. Let's Talk About Love - Helen 6. Down By The Riverside - Chris Barber 7. Ring-A-Ding - Craig Douglas 8. Space-Ship To Mars - Gene Vincent 9. Everybody Loves My Baby - Temperance Seven 10. Rainbows - Craig Douglas 11. Frankie And Johnny - Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band 12. The Lose-Your-Inhibitions Twist - Chubby Checker 13. Sometime Yesterday - Helen 14. When The Saints Go Marching In - Chris Barber

22ND FEBRUARY

BBC RADIO 2 - GOOD MORNING SUNDAY INTERVIEW

The album will be released on the
HALLMARK label on the 25th February

The DVD ([Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]) was released last year.

An interview with Helen will go out on March 3rd
on Radio 2's 'Good Morning Sunday' programme,
sometime between 7 and 9 am.

Clare Balding

13TH FEBRUARY

BBC RADIO 2 - PLEASE PLEASE ME - LIVE AT ABBEY ROAD

This BBC photograph brings back memories of Helen recording 'Where or when'
with Glen Tilbrook,
and Paul Jones writing 'She needs company' with Helen in mind.
Paul had already recorded the song a year earlier with Manfred Mann on the HMV
Album My Way (CLP 3586)....

12TH FEBRUARY

BBC RADIO 2 - PLEASE PLEASE ME - LIVE AT ABBEY ROAD

If you missed it, the recording is archived here.

11TH FEBRUARY

BBC RADIO 2 - PLEASE PLEASE ME - LIVE AT ABBEY ROAD

Jo Whiley played Walkin' back to happiness and chatted to Helen about
how The Beatles were a supporting act on her February 1963 tour, and
that Norrie Paramor turned down the chance for her to record 'Misery'.

10TH FEBRUARY

BBC RADIO 2 - PLEASE PLEASE ME - LIVE AT ABBEY ROAD

Helen has just agreed to do a short interview
about Paul and John writing 'Misery' for her.
It should be broadcast sometime between 8.30p.m
and 9p.m tomorrow
(Monday) on BBC Radio 2, when
they are celebrating a whole day of the 50th
Anniversary of The Beatles 'Please Please Me' album.

1ST FEBRUARY

BROWBEAT-SLATE'S CULTURE BLOG

Brow Beat is following the Beatles in “real time", 50 years later.
In the latest weekly installment, they are on tour, as Helen's support.

30TH JANUARY

GEORGE BETTINGER INTERVIEW

The archived radio interview is available here.

27TH JANUARY

JOHN SCHROEDER ENGAGEMENT

Congratulations to John Schroeder and Diane Allen on their engagement yesterday!

8TH JANUARY

GOSPEL OUTREACH EVENING

Helen's next Gospel Outreach Evening on Saturday 26th January is at the Bridge Chapel Centre, Heath Road, Liverpool L19 4XR at 19:30.
Telephone 0151 281 9716 or email bookings@bridgechapel.com for tickets.

1ST JANUARY

RADIO RECORD REQUESTS

If you are sending a record request by Helen to a UK radio station please remember to ask for songs from 1963 onwards, as performer fees prior to this date have now lapsed!

JOHN SCHROEDER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 'SEX AND VIOLINS- MY AFFAIR WITH LIFE, LOVE AND MUSIC'

"Schroeder was the producer or co-producer for no less than one hundred and seventy Artists throughout his career, including such stars as Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Helen Shapiro, and Status Quo."

The book was published on 21st November. 2009.

His story includes discovering Helen, and penning her No.1 hit Walkin' back to happiness.

Order the book from Amazon

His Press

Release here..

There are over 17 pages devoted to Helen, with several black and white photos, and makes very interesting reading!

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