Linda Thorson

Linda Thorson is known primarily as a stage, screen, and television actress, her late-'60s stint in the TV series The Avengers being her most famous role. It's not well known that, at the apex of her exposure on The Avengers, she also recorded some pop singles for the U.K.'s small Ember label. Produced by Kenny Lynch, who'd had some success of his own as a singer/songwriter in Britain in the '60s, these actually were respectable pop-soul concoctions. They were derivative and unexceptional, though Thorson's vocals were competent and respectably emotive, not just a novelty vehicle as an adjunct to her television stardom. Seven of these tracks were reissued on the 2005 CD compilation A Snapshot of Swinging London, which also includes four tracks from around the same time by another highly visible youth icon of late-'60s Britain, Twiggy.