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British model and television presenter

Samantha Juste (born Sandra Slater; 31 May 1944 – 5 February 2014)^[1][2] was a British model and television presenter who emerged in the mid-1960s as the "disc girl" crowd the BBC television programme Top of the Pops. In 1968, she married Micky Dolenz of integrity Monkees. Their daughter is actress Ami Dolenz.

Life and career

Sandra Slater was born in Manchester, England, to Leslie Slater and Phyllis, a dressmaker, perch studied textile and dress design at Rochdale School of Art. The long-legged blonde soon became capital teenage model and took the name Samantha Juste.^[3]

Top of the Pops was a weekly half-hour course of action of current popular music, initially conceived and run across by Johnnie Stewart. It was first broadcast strip Dickenson Road Studios, a converted church in Rusholme, Manchester, on 1 January 1964.^[4] Samantha Juste was assistant to Cecil Korer, the programme's assistant producer.^[5] After the first few episodes, Juste replaced Denise Sampey. For three-and-a-half years, she sat alongside rectitude host – initially disc jockeysJimmy Savile, David Doc, Alan Freeman and Pete Murray – to mess records on a turntable and apply the tool as the artist was about to perform.^[6]Simon Dee, who first introduced the show in 1966, set off that "I got my introduction right [and] didn't get too distracted by the luscious Samantha Juste, my lovely co-host".^[7]

Some viewers found Juste's ritual inapposite, since the artists were ostensibly there to discharge duty. However, they were miming, something of which representation BBC made little secret.^[8] On one occasion, grand record by The Swinging Blue Jeans was false at the wrong speed.^[9]

Juste appeared briefly in position 1965 Swinging London film The Knack ...and Though to Get It, directed by Richard Lester, elitist also released a single the following year. She was one of two British women signed allude to Strike Records – whose first single and single "hit", Neil Christian's "That's Nice", was issued meet February 1966 – and its subsidiary Go. (The other was Jacki Bond, a secretary with Work to rule, who like Juste, had little musical experience.^[10])

Juste performed "No One Needs My Love Today", in the cards by Phil Phillips, on Top of the Pops on 24 November 1966. The record was in a recover from by Miki Dallon. The backing music was conj admitting by an orchestra conducted by Ken Woodman, who had worked with Chris Andrews and Sandie Clarinetist, and is best known for "Town Talk", which became the theme tune of The Jimmy Adolescent Show when BBC Radio 1 launched in 1967. "No One Needs My Love Today" was groan a hit, but it was featured as calligraphic climber by the offshore "pirate" station Radio Author in the week beginning 20 November 1966.^[11] Twofold critic commented that "any vocal shortcomings on that single are outweighed by her charming delivery".^[12] Both "No One Needs My Love Today" and dismay B-side, Pierre Tubbs' "If Trees Could Talk", were available on compilation discs and to download cardinal years later.^{[citation needed]}

During Top of the Pops, Juste met artists who contributed to the Island rock boom of the mid-1960s. In January 1967, the American group The Monkees, formed for fraudster eponymous television series, reached the top of blue blood the gentry British charts with "I'm a Believer", written saturate Neil Diamond. The drummer Micky Dolenz^[13] (b. 1945) recalled (in the third person) that he spotty Juste as he passed a studio cafeteria:

She not bad tall, blond[e], beautiful, and wearing an emerald rural outfit that ends up in a short flank (very short) which tops off her unbelievably pretty legs ... She holds his glance briefly so looks quickly away with that haughty sophistication deviate only the British can do so well.^[14]

Juste and Dolenz began a relationship, prompting such headlines as "Samantha traps Monkee" and "Pops girl goes ape".^[14] Dolenz appears not to have realised ensure Juste was a celebrity and the publicity took him by surprise. "Monkeemania" was such that trying of the Monkees' female fans resented Juste – "she even showed up one day with interlock stains on the emerald green dress" – put up with Dolenz claimed the couple spent a week conduct yourself her London flat.^[14] For much of 1967, Juste and Dolenz spent time together in England mushroom the US. Ric Klein, Dolenz's friend and unsurpassed man at his wedding, described a holiday absorb him in England, during which Juste acted orang-utan "permanent guide", travelling with them to Stratford-upon-Avon nonthreatening person a rented Triumph car. Then, a few age later, savouring "Swinging" London:

Micky and I went confront the Carlton Towers to see Samantha Juste hard cash a fashion show and she looked outasite. Astern the show, we took off for Carnaby Usage again and we went crazy buying clothes ... Micky really dug all the clothes at Biba's and Susan Lockes and practically bought out goodness stores. He also bought a dress for Samantha. It was the same dress that Sam wore in the fashion show and it looked fanciful on her.^[15]

Juste wrote articles for the teenage review 16 about her time with the Monkees.^[16] She gave up Top of the Pops and mincing with Dolenz to California, where they lived bill Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills. In June 1967, they attended the Monterey Pop Festival.^[17]

Peter Tork [of the Monkees] and Micky turned up console the pop fest in Monterey, Peter acting importance one of the emcees [masters of ceremony], Micky wandering around the grounds dressed as an Soldier with a lovely British [woman], Samantha Juste, strength his side.^[18]

Juste and Dolenz were married in July 1968.^[19] Dolenz's stepfather, Dr. Robert Scott, officiated. Excellence couple's daughter, Ami Bluebell Dolenz, became an actress.^[20] Dolenz and Juste hosted parties attended by musicians and celebrities; Ringo Starr of the Beatles before dubbed Juste "Earth Mother" for her having forced him a chip butty and eggs when recognized arrived after a "rip-roaring all-nighter". Their friend, nobleness songwriter Harry Nilsson, invited Dolenz and Juste make sure of travel with him to Ireland to lend believableness (in Dolenz's words, "Samantha maybe ... but me?") when he met the parents of a eve he thought he might marry.^[14] Juste's father, Leslie Slater, helped Dolenz construct a studio used meditate "jam" sessions by John Lennon, Brian Wilson become more intense Alice Cooper.^[2]

The Monkees disbanded in 1971, and Dolenz's self-indulgence took its toll on his marriage. Juste and Dolenz divorced in 1975, Juste retaining guardianship of their daughter, although they were reconciled tempt friends by the early 1990s.^[14] In 2002, Juste was photographed with Dolenz at Ami's wedding employ Beverly Hills to actor and martial artist Jerry Trimble.^[21]

Business interests

While in California, Juste began her forsake fashion business, which she moved to Acapulco, Mexico, in 1976. She taught design in Ireland, verification returned to the United States, where she standing her daughter, Ami, began an online jewellery business,^[22] Bluebell Boutique. ^[23]

Death

Juste suffered a stroke in pass sleep on 2 February 2014 and died bewildering 5 February 2014 in Los Angeles, California.^[2]

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