Jewish singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul has died at the age of 64, after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

Her family said that she had been in perfect health and that her death was completely unexpected.

Born Lynsey Monckton Rubin in Edgware, north London, Ms de Paul had a string of pop hits in the 1970s, and represented the UK in the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest.

She was the first woman to win an Ivor Novello award.

She achieved even greater ubiquity via her affairs with Ringo Starr, George Best and James Coburn, to whom she was briefly married.

In an interview with the JC in 2013, she said that she had “always strongly acknowledged my Jewish roots”.

Describing her clean-living lifestyle, she said: “I’m not a wild person. I’ve never taken drugs. I remember being in a restaurant in LA where the whole table was taking coke, and I just said ‘no, thanks’ and passed it on. I don’t even drink coffee. I’m horribly clean.”