Singer-songwriter Jackie Trent, the woman behind the Neighbours theme song, which you will now have stuck in your head for the rest of the day, has passed away at the age of 74.
Trent, born Yvonne Burgess in Newcastle-on-Lyme in the UK, began her singing career as a child, and entertained troops around Europe, before signing her first recording contract in the early 1960s.
She and collaborator Tony Hatch wrote hundreds of songs together, and married in 1967, a year after penning the song ‘I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love’, inspired by their own romance.
The pair wrote the Neighbours theme while based in Australia in the early ’80s, and some version of it has been used ever since. Try not to get a little bit teary-eyed as you listen to its evolution through the years.
Trent’s marriage to Hatch broke up in the mid-’90s, but she remarried in 2005, and moved to Spain. BBC News report that she passed away in hospital in Menorca on Saturday after battling a long illness.
R.I.P., you absolute legend.
We recently went behind the scenes with Neighbours for the show’s 30th anniversary:
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