Recognised as having a unique style, she had a great impact on other musicians and on the industry as a whole, being celebrated not only for the music itself and her assiduousness as a recording artist, but also for her charming personality, stylish appearance and energy, traits which lead to her status as an icon of the British pop scene.
Her career is seen as symbiotic with the decades it unfolded in, her music, attitude, the life philosophy she conveyed and her appearance being in tandem with the intense changes society was undergoing at the time.