Early Life
Duncan was born in Stockton-on-Tees on August 12, 1943, and left school while only 14 years old. At 19, while working in a London coffee bar, she and her brother were placed on weekly retainers by a music publisher. Within a year Duncan had signed her first recording contract, with major label EMI, and appeared in the film What a Crazy World.
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