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Outlook: Rediscovering my ‘Mama’ – the music legend I never got to know

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Owen Elliot-Kugell with her mother Cass Elliot

05/06/2024 GMT

Rediscovering my ‘Mama’ – the music legend I never got to know

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Mama Cass Elliot died as her solo career was flourishing and her daughter was just seven

Mama Cass Elliot died suddenly on tour as her solo career was flourishing and her daughter, Owen Elliot-Kugell, was just seven.

Cass Elliot, known as 'Mama Cass', shot to fame in the 1960s with the folk-rock group The Mamas & the Papas. Their intricate harmonies in songs like California Dreamin' and Monday Monday captivated audiences. After launching a solo career Cass Elliot became a regular face on television chat shows and in 1974 had just completed a run of concerts at the London Palladium when she died unexpectedly aged only 32. Cass left behind a musical legacy but also a seven-year-old daughter, Owen, who has spent the last 50 years speaking to those who knew Cass best and trying to discover who her mother really was.

Owen Elliot-Kugell has written a book about that journey called My Mama, Cass.

Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Thomas Harding Assinder

Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com or WhatsApp +44 330 678 2707

(Photo: Owen Elliot-Kugell with her mother Cass Elliot. Credit: Henry Diltz)

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