Babs Beverley of 1950s British pop trio The Beverley Sisters dies aged 91 – three years after death of older sibling Joy
- Babs and her sisters, Teddie and Joy, became famous after a series of hits
- These included I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and Little Drummer Boy
Babs Beverley of 1950s British pop trio The Beverley Sisters has died aged 91 – three years after death of older sibling Joy.
Babs and her sisters, Teddie and Joy, became famous after a series of hits including I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, Little Drummer Boy and How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?
Once Britain’s highest-paid female entertainers, ‘The Bevs’ were as close as their three-part harmonies, living in adjacent houses in North London and dressed identically.
Babs (left, in an undated photo) and her sisters, Teddie and Joy, became famous after a series of hits including I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and Little Drummer Boy
As prototype pop stars they garnered a vast fan base in the Fifties and Sixties, and became global celebrities.
Babs and Teddie broke their long silence in 2015 after their sister died of a stroke.
‘We refuse to believe it,’ Babs said at the time. ‘We can’t think that she’s not going to walk through the door.’
No cause of death has yet emerged.
As prototype pop stars the Bevs garnered a vast fan base in the Fifties and Sixties, and became global celebrities. They are seen meeting the queen in London on July 4, 2002, with Babs on the left next to Joy and Teddie
Babs packs a bag at her home in Hampstead on the night before her marriage to businessman James Mitchell