"Terry" is the debut single by British singer Lynn Ripley, who performed under the name Twinkle.

on grounds of taste (the last line, "Please wait at the gates of heaven for me, Terry" indicated the intention of suicide), but despite (or possibly because of) this, it shot up the charts.

It was Twinkle's only top 10 hit, although her follow-up, "Golden Lights" (later covered by the Smiths), reached number 21 in the UK.

[1] Claude François released a French version of "Terry" on his 1965 EP Les Choses De La Maison.

[4] AllMusic described "Terry" as "magnificent — Phil Spector meets The Shangri-Las on a rain-slicked English back-road" — and said that it "should have set up Twinkle for never-ending fame".