Popular music is full of stories of fragile or crippled greatness. Dusty Springfield is one of the UK’s most prominent examples, having risen to some startling heights before stumbling into drug and alcohol use as well was falling foul of continued mutterings regarding her sexuality.

Just Dusty casts an eye over these elements of Springfield’s career, but this is far from being a sleazy dissemination of one of the great modern soul singers. Instead, Just Dusty is chock-full of close friends and associates chatting candidly and with much affection about the now deceased singer, revelations regarding her personal life delivered with sensitivity and respect.

The film traces her story from pop icon elevation in the 1960s, as well as her efforts to introduce Motown and soul music to Britsh audiences, through to her misguided shift to America in the 70s. Springfield fell on hard times in the US, struggling with a number of addictions, before making the move back to the UK and back into the charts with her canny collaborations with the Pet Shop Boys.

Just Dusty isn’t the most expensive or imaginatively mounted music documentary. In many ways, the talking head nature of the film would make it perfect grist for television. But the feature length allows for what will be one of the main attractions for most: seeing the star’s many archived performances brought back to life.