Elkie Brooks looks back: ‘Before I went on stage I used to drink Guinness and a few shots of brandy’

<p>The singer-songwriter on her rock’n’roll past, playing second fiddle to the Beatles, and the key to being an energetic performer in your 80s</p><p>Born Elaine Bookbinder in Salford in 1945, Elkie Brooks is a rock, blues and jazz singer known as the British Queen of Blue