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I'm in the process of expanding the citations for Kelly. I'll rewrite the text as the citations fill out. She died before the World Wide Web became widespread (21 October 1990) so WP:RS online are a bit thin and hard to track down. For example, I still haven't found online copies of three contemporary obits in major papers: The Independent, half-page with photo, Tues, 23 October 1990; The Times, featured obit, Thursday, 25 October 1990; and The Guardian, Friday, 26 October 1990. There was an over-dependence on Tony Russell's Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray when I started but it would be good to scale back those as other sources are put in. Particularly the quote from an unnamed and not credited "obituarist," the quote probably being from one of the three obits above, should either be properly credited and/or removed as better quotes are found. I'm moving rather slowly on this re-write (several weeks now) as I focus on adding citations. Cheers, Mark Ironie ( talk) 21:02, 23 August 2019 (UTC) reply

I have attempted to clean up some detail regarding her career, however, this is proving difficult due to her tendency to appear as an irregular member of several British Blues bands in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I feel, therefore, we need to either create a more complete discography or refine to any major releases and /or artists she collaborated with. Zerosprite ( talk) 16:46, 9 September 2019 (UTC) reply

@ Zerosprite: I concur, , which is why I've added a discography section. I've broken it down to three sections: releases where she is the primary artist, compilations of her work, and those where she is a featured artist (her name on the cover art) but not the primary artist. I'm still mulling over where to put things like her work with Tramp (band), The Blues Band, John Dummer Band, and a few others. I think she was mostly a vocalist in those bands but I'm still researching that point. I think those might have to be yet another section of the discography which seems inordinately messy to me but it's the reality of her varied recorded work. I don't think just lumping all of them in a chronological list helps the reader understand her career. I've finally reached a point where I can start beefing up the body text and sections. I was concentrating on finding WP:RS and I now have a variety of sources, including the major obituaries I was looking for above. Cheers, Mark Ironie ( talk) 23:45, 19 September 2019 (UTC) reply

For the moment, I'm completely removing the "Further reading" section. It's clear many of these books provide insight on the early British blues scene but it is unclear how much information about Kelly is included. She's probably mentioned in all of them. None of them is actually about Kelly but she was associated with many of individual musicians and groups mentioned.

Further reading

• Bane, M., (1982) White Boy Singin' the Blues, London: Penguin, 1982, ISBN  0-14-006045-6.
• Bob Brunning, Blues: The British Connection, Helter Skelter Publishing, London 2002, ISBN  1-900924-41-2 – First edition 1986 – Second edition 1995 Blues in Britain
• Bob Brunning, The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies, Omnibus Press London, 1990 and 1998, ISBN  0-7119-6907-8
• Martin Celmins, Peter Green: Founder of Fleetwood Mac, Sanctuary London, 1995, foreword by B.B.King, ISBN  1-86074-233-5
• Fancourt, L., (1989) British Blues on Record (1957–1970), Retrack Books.
• Dick Heckstall-Smith, The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and Blues, 1989 Quartet Books Limited, ISBN  0-7043-2696-5. Second Edition: Blowing The Blues: Fifty Years Playing The British Blues, 2004, Clear Books, ISBN  1-904555-04-7
• Christopher Hjort, Strange Brew: Eric Clapton and the British Blues Boom, 1965–1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone 2007, ISBN  1-906002-00-2
• Paul Myers, Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Vancouver 2007, GreyStone Books, ISBN  1-55365-200-2
• Harry Shapiro Alexis Korner: The Biography, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London 1997, Discography by Mark Troster, ISBN  0-7475-3163-3
• Schwartz, R. F., (2016) How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom, New York: Routledge, ISBN  9781317120940.
• Mike Vernon, The Blue Horizon story 1965–1970 vol.1, notes of the booklet of the Box Set (60 pages)

Cheers, Mark Ironie ( talk) 23:57, 19 September 2019 (UTC) reply