Walking Back To Happiness ~ Helen Shapiro

Helen Shapiro was born at Bethnal Green Hospital in the East End district of Bethnal Green, London,[1] and brought up in Clapton in the London borough of Hackney, where she attended the Clapton Park Comprehensive School. She is the granddaughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Her parents were too poor to own a record player but they encouraged music in their home (Helen had to borrow a neighbour’s player to hear her first single). Shapiro played banjo as a child and sang with her brother Ron occasionally in