“When our wee Lena sang, she lit up the stage,” says Margaret Zavaroni. “But she was separated from her home, her family. I realise now she was separated from her own adolescence and in the end she ...

The cast from Lena, a new play with music based on the life of Lena Zavaroni, seen from the point of view of her father Victor Lena, a new play with music based on the singing sensation Lena Zavaroni ...

"If it was your own child and she had a career in front of her, and she was being successful in it, what would you think? "Would you let her do it or would you say, that’s enough, let us have her back ...

SHARING a stage with a superstar like Frank Sinatra could be daunting for anyone, but a ten-year-old Lena Zavaroni took it all in her stride. Sadly, fame at such a young age ended up taking its toll ...

Younger viewers – especially those who think of TV talent shows as a 21st-century phenomenon that began with Simon Cowell – might not have heard of Lena Zavaroni. In the 1970s though, she was huge.

NOEL Coward understood implicitly the demands that showbiz can make on a young person’s mind in 1935 when he wrote the comedic – but searingly poignant song – Don’t Put Your Daughter On The Stage, Mrs ...

It may not quite rank as the greatest commercial mistake of all time – Decca turning down the Beatles takes the title – but the coolest and most influential record label, Stax, knocking back Aretha ...

Erin Armstrong is heartbreaking as Lena Zavaroni in Feather Productions’ new play about the rise and fall of the 1970s child star, writes Joyce McMillan The full moon was marking magical silver ...