Jackie DeShannon on her incredible career: ‘It was really difficult being a woman’ | Music
Say the name Jackie DeShannon and two things spring to most listeners’ minds. “A lot of people think I popped out of nowhere singing What the World Needs Now is Love and Put a Little Love in Your Heart,” DeShannon said of her two biggest hits. “They don’t know there’s a history there.”In fact, there’s an incredibly long and varied one. As a singer and songwriter, DeShannon has seminal connections to many of the most important musical forces of the last century, including Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Burt…