Sandie Shaw has retired from music In an interview with The Telegraph, the British pop singer, 66, said that her last gig was at Christmas and she no longer wants to compete with the "lovely young people" in the music business. "I'm finished with singing, finished with performing," she said. I did my last gig at Christmas with Jools Holland and I went away to have a sabbatical, I looked up into the starry sky and said, 'That's it. I'm pleased with what I did. That's a great finishing point'. And that was that. She previously "retired" from the music business in the early-1970s, but later returned to recording and touring, and her career enjoyed a revival in the 1980s, thanks in part to support from indie band The Smiths. Although she is giving up performing, Shaw will retain her role as chair of the Featured Artists Coalition, which campaigns to protect musician's rights in the digital age. That is a position I find myself more suited to now. I know contracts backwards because I fought all my life for my own contracts. So I am still in music. I'm just not singing any more. Read the full interview with Sandy Shaw tomorrow in the Daily Telegraph and on Telegraph.co.uk