Lena Zavaroni sings 'Going Nowhere ' 1981

🙏 Remembering Lena Zavaroni who died twenty-six years ago today, aged 35. The little girl with the big voice was ten when she appeared on Opportunity Knocks – television’s predecessor to Britain’s Got Talent and Pop Idol – singing 'Ma! He’s Making Eyes at Me', eleven when it became a top 10 hit and thirteen when she was diagnosed with anorexia, a barely known illness then called the “slimmer’s disease”. Before she passed away in 1999 the girl from Rothesay on the Scottish island of Bute had hos

“That was the last words she says to me.” At the age of just 35, Lena Zavaroni passed away from pneumonia, following a surgical leucotomy/lobotomy. Watch Lena Zavaroni: The Forgotten Child Star now on BBC iPlayer #LenaZavaroni #LenaZavaroniTheForgottenChildStar | BBC Scotland