A Very Fine Love

A Very Fine Love is the fifteenth studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, and thirteenth released. Recorded in 1994 and released in 1995 and produced by Tom Shapiro A Very Fine Love was a Columbia Records release, in both the US and UK, Springfield's first such simultaneous release since Living Without Your Love in 1979. == Background ==

The album was originally tentatively called Dusty in Nashville, to tie in with the 25th anniversary of Springfield's keynote work Dusty in Memphis, but her record company "decided against it, in the belief that it would lead audiences to mistakenly expect a country album.". A Very Fine Love was to be promoted by the TV documentary Full Circle, a 90 minute career retrospective featuring British comediennes Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French interviewing Springfield in their inimitably irreverent way - Springfield herself was a big fan of French & Saunders' and their goonish sense of humour - as well as interviews with friends, fans and colleagues like the Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello and Martha Reeves, and footage from the recording of the upcoming Nashville album.

During the three months of recording of the album, Springfield often had bouts of laryngitis and other undiagnosed health issues. Upon returning to England, she saw a specialist and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. Upon learning Springfield was to undergo radiotherapy, her manager, Vicki Wickham, was able to convince Columbia Records to delay releasing A Very Fine Love until Springfield was well enough to do promotion work.

Due to modest sales of the album, Springfield and Columbia Records decided not to renew the contract, and as the cancer recurred in late 1996, and Springfield died in 1999, it proved to be Springfield's final album.