Welcome to the Lyn Paul website. Whether it's the latest news on Lyn you're after or information about her career, you've come to the right place.
Check the Contents list below to find the page that interests you the most. Alternatively, take a look at the Site Guide, which includes an easy to use Site Map and explains the layout of the site in more detail.
Click this option for the latest news about Lyn Paul. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Lyn is doing, why not join our Mailing List? We'll keep you posted whenever we add anything new to the site.
These pages also feature a Q&A section where we'll do our best to answer your questions about Lyn. Lyn has even answered some of your questions herself!
Year by year snapshots of Lyn's career together with a short biography and Fact File. These pages describe Lyn's stage début with the Chrys-Do-Lyns in 1963, her early days with the Nocturnes and her rise to stardom with the New Seekers. They follow her solo career from the mid 1970s through to the '80s, '90s and '00s, including her triumph in Willy Russell's musical Blood Brothers and her subsequent success in Boy George's musical Taboo.
To set Lyn's career in context each page is accompanied by a selection of news and sports headlines from that year, together with lists of the most notable successes in the world of music, film and television.
These pages cover Lyn Paul's time as a member of the New Seekers (1970-74), giving a complete history of group, line-up by line-up, from its formation in 1969 through to the present day. It includes information about the group in their years without Lyn Paul as well as biographies and career profiles of the other members of the group.
The Lyn Paul website is also host to a New Seekers' portal - the best starting point on the net for those in need of news and information about the group or for those who collect New Seekers' memorabilia.
New Seekers You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me (sheet music).
Pictured (left to right): Lyn Paul and Eve Graham (standing), Peter Oliver, Marty Kristian and Paul Layton (front).
The front cover of Lyn Paul's
1974 single Who's Sorry Now.
A guide to some of the books that feature Lyn Paul or the New Seekers, and to some of the articles, reviews and interviews that have been published in newspapers and magazines from the 1970s through to the present day.
The front cover of Lyn Paul's
1977
Song For Europe, If Everybody
Loved The Same
As You.
On the Net
If you like Lyn Paul, you might also like some of the web sites listed here. On these pages you'll find links to a variety of news and entertainment web sites covering the Eurovision Song Contest, rock, pop and country music from the 1960s and '70s, the Theatre (including Blood Brothers and Taboo) and current affairs. These pages also include links to the web sites of other recording artists and to sites about songwriters whose songs have been recorded by Lyn Paul.
There's also a postcard gallery, with a wide range of images for you to send as e-postcards. These include some doodlebugs (based on a drawing Lyn Paul did for charity) and some post-a-quote cards featuring quotes from Lyn.
Who said that?
Just for fun, a selection of well-known or witty quotations have been added at the bottom of some pages.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is to quote another's wit. Christian N. Bovee
Quotation: something that somebody said that seemed to make sense at the time. Egon J. Beaudoin
A widely-read man never quotes accurately ... misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned. Hesketh Pearson
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. Dennis Potter, 'The Guardian', 15th February 1993
When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. Nigel Rees
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. George Bernard Shaw
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard
Nothing has yet been said that's not been said before. Terence, 'Eunuchus'
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. Bern Williams
