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| • | "No way am I angelic. Here I am with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of wine in the other!", Sky Magazine (UK), Nov. '89 |
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| • | "I had a quite standard upbringing. Oh, I did the normal things like not going to school and hiding in the park, smoking a cigarette. But that was all'", Boston Globe, May 11, '90 |
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| • | "Pausing to light a cigarette", Los Angeles Times, May 20, '90 |
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| • | "the chain-smoking singer Lisa Stansfield", Stern (Germany), c. '92 |
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| • | "Her right hand dangles and a cigarette, clamped between second and third finger, idly coils smoke", Vox Magazine (UK), Nov. '93 |
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| • | "She smokes a fag in front of the telly", Arena Magazine (UK), Winter '93/'94 |
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| • | "I'm still smoking as much as I used to", You Magazine (UK) (Mail on Sunday), Mar. 30, '97 |
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| • | "taking a drag from one of the Silk Cut cigarettes she chain-smokes apologetically", Vibe Magazine, Apr. '97 |
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| • | "Lisa lights one of her 40-a-day Benson and Hedges cigarettes", The Irish Times, Apr. 18, '97 |
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| • | "'at least we're not in America here and I can smoke!' Three packs a day 'or something like that, anyway a few too many for a singer'. Really...stubs out her cigarette on the biscuit plate...still smiling, cigarette between her teeth", Die Welt (Germany), May 17, '97
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| • | "I do three sets of 15 stomach machine exercises, with a cigarette between each set", Q Magazine (UK), May '97, p. 12 |
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| • | "puffing away at an interminable series of Silk Cut", "Lisa smokes as much as she swears; she was taught at the age of 14 by her boyfriend who said: 'You'll sound like a black girl when you sing'. And indeed, fans were confused to find out that Lisa's throaty soul voice, deepened by 40 cigarettes a day, belonged to a white woman", Sunday Express (UK), May 9, '99 |
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| • | "I smoke, drink and swear a lot...When I'm in LA, I'm made to feel like a social pariah. I light up a cigarette and people scream, 'Ohmigaahd!'...[My then friend and now husband] encouraged me to smoke at 14. He said it would make my voice really husky and make me sing like a black girl", Mail on Sunday (You magazine) (UK), Mar. 25, '01 |
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| • | "she chain-smokes Silk Cut, and her big green eyes and translucent hands poke through the fog...'Oh, I really do want to give up. It does annoy me, because it determines how you live your life. I can't go to certain places because I can't smoke there. I can't do certain things because I can't smoke while doing them. It's irritating. I think, 'Oh, God, I've got to get on the plane to Los Angeles tomorrow and that will mean going 11 hours without a cigarette'. I got some patches and they sent me bananas, and I got some sleeping tablets, and I thought, 'You've really got to give this up.' She taps off the ash, holding her cigarette in a weirdly clumsy way, as if it has nothing to do with her. 'For the past year, I've been on a bit of a health kick, and smoking is the only thing I can't cut out you know'... The other interesting thing about her is that she has been with her musical partner and husband, Ian Devaney, for ever -*in fact, he was the one who started her smoking at the age of 14. ... stiffly leaning forward to light another cigarette... carefully stubs out the cigarette", Mail on Sunday (Night & Day magazine) (UK), May 27, '01 |
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| • | "Stansfield, who has complained of having too boring a life, has only one vice. The 35-year-old soul singer has recently stated that she regrets not making a porn movie when she was younger, to spice up an otherwise boring life. So what is this dark secret? 'Smoking,' she says. 'I smoke 30 a day but it doesn't affect my voice. Maybe if I stopped, I wouldn't sing as well. I felt I wasn't hitting some of the top notes properly so I went for a quick drag during some technical hitches'", World Entertainment News Network, Jun. 28, '01 |
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| • | "her voice was still as good as ever. So what's her secret? 'Smoking,' she said surprisingly. 'I smoke 30 a day but it doesn't affect my voice. Maybe if I stopped, I wouldn't sing as well. I felt I wasn't hitting some of the top notes properly so I went for a quick drag during some of the technical hitches'", Daily Express (UK), Jun. 29, '01 |
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| • | "My favourite part of my body is my tummy because I used to have a pot belly and I've really worked hard at it for the past year. All I need to do now is lose my cheesecake vice. When me and my husband Ian go away on holiday, we both get this cheeky grin on our faces as we pass duty- free. We're like, 'Brilliant, tonight's ciggies and cheesecake night!' Not good!'", Mirror (UK), Jun. 30, '01 |
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| • | "My biggest vice. I've been smoking since I was 16, and I've cut down to 30 a day. I used to smoke two packs, and on a really, really busy day, I used to smoke 50. Yet I manage to run, and exercise and work out. I must have freak lungs, because singing-wise, I've got quite good breath control. I'm going to stop. I've given myself a year to give up. If I just suddenly did it, I'd be the bitch from hell. I wouldn't want to subject anyone to that", The Mirror (UK), Jul. 6, '01 |
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| • | "Is it true you're a chain-smoker? Does it help your singing voice? And have you ever thought of giving up? 'I smoke a lot, and I want to give up. I've got a healthy lifestyle now, and I feel such a hypocrite because I'm shovelling down vitamins and then sparking up a cigarette. It never has affected my voice - if it had, I probably wouldn't be smoking now. Smoking may give my voice a certain quality, but I'm not telling would-be singers to smoke 40 a day. No way. I've never been a stereotypical lady - I smoke, I swear'", The Independent (UK), Sep. 19, '01 |
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| • | "Well, I've never been a stereotypical lady. I smoke, I swear", Guardian (UK), Sep. 20, '01 |
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| • | "Q: Global chains of coffee shops, good or bad thing? 'Oh, they get on me nerves! You can't go in and order a bloody coffee. You've got to order a mocha chocca frappuccino. And you can't smoke in any of them. And I smoke like a trooper, so it's like torture for me'. ... Q: What's in your pockets? 'Ooh, it's embarrassing. Twenty Silk Cut blue, a Zippo, and some Prada lip gloss", Time Out (UK), Sep. 26, '01 |
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| • | "I try to keep healthy, although I have probably knocked five years off my life already, smoking 30 cigarettes a day since I was 15", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 13, '01 |
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| • | "'D'you smoke?' She looks relieved when I say yes, and produces a pack of organic cigarettes. 'At least it's a politically correct way of killing yourself,' she says", The Guardian (UK), Jan. 27, '03
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| • | "I smoke", Sunday Mirror (UK), Feb. 2, '03 |
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| • | "Her only vice these days is a tendency to chain-smoke ... 'He and I were five feet away from each other and the electricity between us was amazing. We had a few drinks, smoked some dope and went to the hotel'", Daily Express (UK), Feb. 15, '03 |
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| • | "What was the last thing you put in your mouth? Lisa: An apple. I eat healthily, but I'm still smoking. I went to the Allen Carr guy, had the hypnotherapy thing and stopped. After the first week, I started crying and didn't stop for a week. And then I had a cigarette. I love smoking, but it's a pain in the arse, everybody hates it. And Ian's not smoking, so I feel guilty every time I light up", The Mirror (UK), Feb. 22, '03 |
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| • | "She laughs and lights up an organic cigarette. 'Natural American Spirit - they've got no chemicals in them. Means a better class of cancer I suppose'...wishes she could stop smoking. It doesn't affect her voice - lack of sleep and too much cheese do that - but almost wishes it did, because then she would have good cause to give up. 'I've tried hypnosis but that didn't work and I'll find any excuse not to stop'", The Scotsman (UK), Feb. 22, '03
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| • | smoked throughout concert at Montreaux Jazz Festival, Montreaux, Switzerland, netizen sighting, Jul. 18, '03 |
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| • | "Actually, I smoke like a trooper and I swear like a docker", The Independent (UK), Aug. 28, '04 |
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| • | "lights up another cigarette...'I loved those pictures of Britney with spots and no make-up, having a cigarette'...knows that as far as her looks and health go, smoking is her big downfall. 'But I've got to have one little thing, haven't I? She grins like a wicked child, and admits it may be only vanity that drives her to give up. 'Just the thought is terrifying...I've tried giving up twice, but then I became the bitch from hell. Unconsciously, I think I do it on purpose. You want someone to turn round and say, 'For God's sake, have a cigarette!' Because you want any excuse to have one. I tried the Allen Carr method first, and lasted two weeks. I put on half a stone, I was climbing the walls. When I went to him, I got a cigarette out, and he said, 'Wait before you light it. It's your last one.' I was in bits, I was shaking, crying. I couldn't believe what a pathetic mess I was. Like a junkie...I felt like a friend had died.'...It was while out walking in New York last summer that Lisa caved in for the second time. Using patches, she'd managed to give up for over a year. 'I was following people who were smoking, just to breathe in their smoke. How sad is that?...The ground floor of our apartment is a wholefood supermarket, and on the corner is a health shop. I went across to the deli, bought a packet of Marlboro Lights, walked back, and on purpose sat on the windowsill of the health shop and lit up. I just thought, 'Up yours!' '...Hopefully, if I take care of myself, and I could stop bloody smoking, I'll live to 80-plus'...She stubs out her cigarette and grins", Mail on Sunday (Night & Day magazine) (UK), Aug. 29, '04 |
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| • | "Singer Lisa Stansfield, 38 (left), has tried giving up smoking and became 'the bitch from hell.' Worse, 'The two times I've given up, I felt like a friend had died.'", Mail on Sunday (UK), Aug. 29, '04
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| • | "What's the first thing you do in the morning? 'Have a cigarette, unfortunately. I would love to rectify that at some point. I've tried to give up before, but I end up the bitch from hell, being horrible to the people I love'", Glasgow Herald (UK), Sep. 4, '04 |
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| • | "she revealed her downfall is cigarettes and she is smoking as many as 30 a day", The Mirror (UK), Sep. 8, '04 |
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| • | "tells why she likes being in Germany so much: 'Germany is simply great, because everyone smokes here', says the ardent smoker, who tried in vain to quit this vice. In this respect she doesn't have an easy time in her hometowns: 'I live in Dublin and New York, and in both cities you're not allowed to smoke anywhere at all. But that's good too, because I simply smoke less'", Nordrhein-Westfalen Radio (Germany), Feb. 24, '05
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| • | "has kept her unchanging voice although she is a smoker: 'In the past year I stopped smoking for three months. And became totally fat', she insists. So she continues reaching for cigarettes, because the only poison for her voice is 'milk and too little sleep'", Der Standard (Austria), Feb. 27, '05
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| • | "A throaty, self-satisfied laugh follows this coquettishly calculated joke - and a drag on her cigarette. The woman, who has sold around 20 million records, wants to give up this vice 'sometime, perhaps' for cosmetic reasons. But smoking doesn't seem to damage her voice", Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Mar. 1, '05
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| • | "Lisa admits that she smokes too much. but if she quits smoking, she would quickly put on weight and that is something she can't live with.", HR3 (German radio), Apr. '05
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| • | "Measures to outlaw smoking in public places could do serious career damage to Lisa Stansfield. The simple act of her lighting up on stage produces ripples of knowing cheers. 'I'm sure I only do it to piss them all off,' she says, revelling in insurrection. She exhales seductively and adopts a risqué pose in a revealing boob tube underneath a smoky plume. Meanwhile, her songs' litany of romances and lines about 'lighting up this city' suggest this female puffer is not convinced by the 'she smokes, she stinks' advert. By the time Stansfield brings new subversive meaning to Barry White's Never Gonna Give You Up, you suspect that she's been secretly employed by tobacco multinationals. In fact, the fags are intrinsic to the carefully nurtured image of Stansfield as an ordinary lass from Rochdale who happens to have lungs big enough to resist whatever she throws at them", The Guardian (UK), Jul. 19, '05
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