In 1972, she starred in the unbroadcast television series Go Girl, as a go-go dancer caught up in thriller situations. and Bert (1974, playing Linda McCartney), Tom Stoppard's Dirty Linen (1976), Shut Your Eyes And Think Of England! (1978) and Funny Peculiar (1985). Her stage work includes A Man Most Likely To (1969, with George Cole), Pyjama Tops (1969), Decameron 73 (1973), John, Paul, George, Ringo. Other film credits include Man of Violence (1969), Freelance (1971), Not Tonight, Darling (1971), The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), Vampira (1974), Land of the Minotaur (1976), The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980) and Pacific Banana (1981). Peters is known for her appearances in Hammer horror films of the 1970s such as Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Twins of Evil (1971). In 1971, she starred in Not Tonight, Darling a drama directed by Anthony Sloman. A year later, she joined Joan Littlewood’s drama school at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. She left that band in June 1966 subsequently, as Luan Peters (a name she adopted in the late 1960s), she succeeded Tina Charles as frontwoman of 5000 Volts. One of her first records was an Ike & Tina Turner song called ' A Fool in Love', released on Columbia. In Manchester, under the name Karol Keyes (named after her management, Keystone Promotions), she fronted Karol Keyes and the Big Sound, a band previously known as The Fat Sound. She started singing in a band for £2 a night as a way of earning extra money while attending drama school. Luan Peters (11 June 1946 – 24 December 2017), also known as Karol Keyes, was an English actress and singer.īorn Carol Ann Hirsch, she made her stage debut in a pantomime aged four, then went on to win a drama scholarship at the age of 16 after a performance of Twelfth Night.

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