Laurie Styvers

Laurette Stivers, known as Laurie Styvers, was a British-based, American singer-songwriter.
Career.
Justine.
In London, in the late 1960s, Styvers responded to an advertisement for female singers which had been placed by John McBurnie (latterly of Jackson Heights) and Keith Trowsdale. The three, with additional vocalists Bethlyn Bates and Valerie Cope, formed the psychedelic folk band Justine and recorded one album with producer Hugh Murphy, which was released in 1970. Styvers left soon afterwards and the remaining group disbanded.
Solo.
With Murphy as producer, co-writer and boyfriend, Styvers released two solo albums and one single between 1972 and 1973. None were commercially successful. Reviewing her "Spilt Milk" LP (released in 1971 by Warner Bros.), Robert Christgau wrote in "" (1981): "Normally, I ignore records as rightfully obscure as this one, but I thought it was time I mentioned that our hippest record company is getting more complacent all the time—just how many L.A. airheads can we stand? Styvers is the kind of person who makes me like junkies—you know, the baby you want to steal candy from, so trite and pretty-poo in her fashionably troubled adolescence that you hope she chokes on her own money. One line says it all: 'There just aren't words for the songs of the people who really feel.' Oh shut up, Laurie."
Styvers subsequently ended her music career and returned to the United States.
Death.
Styvers died in 1997 as a result of alcoholism.