BRIAN BOYDand TONY CLAYTON-LEAreview this week's music DVDs

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

Just Dusty – The Real Dusty Springfield Odeon Entertainment ****

She was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien and became the UK’s best ever female singer, though still a tad underappreciated by many. This is a timely, comprehensive retrospective of a glittering career, given that there seem to be so many “new Dustys” out there now. The DVD features fabulous live performances as well as rare archive footage. Along the way, it fills in all the missing blanks in Springfield’s life story and includes spot-on contributions from Burt Bacharach, Mari Wilson, The Pet Shop Boys and those who worked closely with her. This will send you straight back to your copy of Dusty in Memphis.

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13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests Plexi *****

Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol conducted an experiment in portraiture when he advertised for budding stars, bohemian types, aspiring demimondes and other habituees of New York’s avant-garde scene. The location of these silent monochrome screen tests was Andy’s Factory, which lends a dingy otherworld atmosphere as more than 400 unknowns (and some familiar faces, such as Nico and Lou Reed) parade their faces. The result is a series of wholly engaging images that reveal as much as the “model” wants to reveal. Reed looks super cool, Nico preens, others chew gum, brush their teeth, fidget, stare. A superb exercise in physicality under scrutiny, with suitably NYC/Velvet Underground- influenced music from two of the best VU-influenced musicians in the business: former Luna members Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips.