Vicki Wickham


Vicki Heather Wickham is an English talent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter.

Career

Wickham was an assistant producer of the 1960s British television show Ready Steady Go!, and was fashion consultant for the short-lived The Mod's Monthly magazine, first issued in March 1964 by Albert Hand Publications, and edited by Mark Burns. However she is probably best known as the manager of well-known pop/soul acts Dusty Springfield and Labelle.
Wickham co-wrote the English lyrics to Springfield's only British #1 hit, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", adapted from the Italian song "Io che non vivo senza te". With Penny Valentine, she co-wrote Dancing with Demons, a biography of Dusty Springfield..
Wickham is gay, but has said that her sexuality was never a problem, noting that she "wasn't out in the 60s. I didn't know what I was, really. Everyone knew I was gay, but we were so unpolitically conscious". In 2012 she told BBC radio listeners: “I found somebody in 1970 and have been with her ever since. I wouldn’t swap it for the world.”

Awards

Wickham was given a Music Industry "Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1999, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List, for services to music.