Georgina bailey noosha fox biography

British pop band

For the Australian band, see What the Hell Is Going On?

Fox were a British-based pop band popular in the mids. Led by American songwriter and record producer Kenny Young, the band was perhaps best known for its charismatic Australian lead singer Noosha Fox.

They had three top 20 hits on the UK Singles Chart - "Only You Can" and "Imagine Me, Imagine You" in and "S-S-S-Single Bed" in , and Noosha Fox had a solo hit in with "Georgina Bailey".

Band history

The band was founded by Young, who had composed the song "Under the Boardwalk" for the Drifters in Young had worked off and on with the Australian singer Susan Traynor on one of his solo albums, Last Stage For Silverworld, where she was listed as 'Amanda' after Young had written Reparata and the Delrons' "Captain of Your Ship", which had been a UK hit.

Young then discovered Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers on a television show, who had recently released the single, "Play The Drama till The End".

Wikidata item. With an artist who is more generally known, this would not matter much, but in this case there are few sources of information and therefore reissues are quite important. On 1 August , renowned music producer Shel Talmy released a 5-track downloadable EP of original songs by Noosha which had been recorded in Retrieved 24 April

The partnership produced hit singles over a three-year period, beginning with "Come Back and Shake Me". With this, Rodgers became something of a showcase for the group, as she recorded demos of some of the songs which would eventually surface on the first Fox album in , as well as earlier Young tunes. Rodgers' husband John Morris was the first manager of the group.^[1]

Meanwhile, Traynor was in a folk group called Wooden Horse, which released two albums before breaking up.

After his success with Rogers, Young founded Fox with Irish singer Herbie Armstrong, recruiting Traynor as lead singer.^[2] She adopted the stage name 'Noosha', a scrambled version of her own name, and a glamorous image inspired by Marlene Dietrich, wearing elegant dresses to contrast with the scruffy look of the rest of the group.

The band's self-titled debut album was released on GTO Records in to critical acclaim.^[2] The lead single, "Only You Can", was originally released in mid under the title "Only You" and failed to chart, but was reissued at the beginning of with a word added to its title and was a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart.^[2] The follow-up "Imagine Me, Imagine You" later the same year also reached the Top 20^[3] and "He's Got Magic" was a hit in some European countries such as Germany, where it reached #^[4] The track "Love Ship" was played extensively on Radio Caroline, and was subsequently adopted as one of their theme tunes in the s.

Georgina bailey noosha fox biography Independent September Noosha Fox. Retrieved 23 April Fox has been married since to physician and academic Michael Goldacre , [10] with whom she has four children, one of whom is Ben Goldacre , a physician and academic best known for his "Bad Science" weekly column.

Shortly after the release of their first album, Fox made a cameo appearance in the film Side by Side.

However, Noosha shared vocals with other members of the band in follow-up album, Tails of Illusion, with the songs sung by Noosha, Young, Frank, and Armstrong. The album enjoyed some cult critical acclaim but not the sales success of its predecessor; without Noosha's distinctive voice, casual listeners did not associate the songs with the band that had recorded "Only You Can".^{[citation needed]}Roger Taylor of Queen added backing vocals to the song "Survival".

The band returned to the charts in April when "S-S-S-Single Bed" was a Top 5 UK hit,^[2] and topped the Australian chart.

(Bananarama did their own version of this song in on their album Viva.) Again, the band did not attempt to capitalise upon its previous success, and the accompanying album Blue Hotel (),^[2] yielded only one further single, even though Noosha was the lead singer on all its tracks.

Noosha Fox left the band after Blue Hotel.^[2] Armstrong and Young continued to work together in the band Yellow Dog.^[2] Their second single for Virgin became the first hit single that Virgin Records released, "Just One More Night" making it to No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart. After a short period of success, Armstrong went on to work with Van Morrison, and Solley later joined Procol Harum.^[2] Noosha launched a solo career, and her first single, "Georgina Bailey",^[2] written and produced by Young, briefly entered the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart (reaching number 31) in ^[3]

In , Noosha Fox tried to restart her solo career with a single, "The Heat Is On" (a song written by Florrie Palmer and Tony Ashton), on Chrysalis Records.

A later version of the song, by ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog, was a European hit four years later.

Discography [ edit ]. She left after their third album, Blue Hotel , to launch a solo career. She adopted the stage name Noosha, a corruption of an anagram of her first name nussa , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and in performances wore dresses and accessories in s and s style. I along with a lot of other people would also love the chance to hear the Noosha Fox singles and solo album, and it would be great to have clarity about whether any of the unreleased tracks are actually from that album, or to at least know the relationship between the whole solo career thing and the band.

Noosha recorded several singles in the early s for the Earlobe label but none were successful, and she evidently retired from the music industry, although she did not return to Australia.

Fox reformed briefly in , releasing the new wave-influenced "Electro People", written as the theme music for the Kenny Everett Show in ^[5] The band considered a reunion in the early s, but the tracks recorded at this time were unreleased until , when they appeared as bonus tracks on the Tails of Illusion CD.

After the band

In , it was reported, on BBC Radio 4's The Music Group, that Noosha Fox was working on new material. An unreleased track from that time called "Judy Blue" is available via YouTube Music.^[6] In April , her son Ben Goldacre confirmed that she is actively making music^[7][8] but no more new material has been released.

Herbie Armstrong recently tried to find solo success, appearing on the series of Britain's Got Talent. He made it through to the live semi-finals but did not make it through to the final.

Noosha fox biography Susan Traynor was born in Australia in It features almost all the singles and B-sides, and really shows how great a songwriter Kenny Young was and how well suited he was to the glam rock genre. She adopted the stage name Noosha, a corruption of an anagram of her first name nussa , [4] [5] and in performances wore dresses and accessories in s and s style. Bananarama did their own version of this song in on their album Viva.

In his semi-final, he appeared singing a version of Barry Manilow's hit, "Mandy".

Members

Discography

Albums

Year	Title	Format	Label	Catalogue ref	Chart position
	Fox	inch LP	GTO	GTLP	No. 7 UK
	Tails of Illusion	inch LP	GTO	GTLP
	Pop Power – The Fantastic Fox	inch LP	POLYDOR		compilation
	S-S-S-Single Bed (European version)	inch LP	GTO	GTLP	compilation
	S-S-S-Single Bed (Australian version)	inch LP	GTO		No. 22 AUS[9]
	Blue Hotel	inch LP	GTO	GTLP
	Only You Can	CD	WISE BUY	WB	compilation, including unreleased material
	The Very Best of Fox	CD	THE HIT LABEL	AHLCD 51	compilation
	Fox (plus four bonus tracks)	CD	CHERRY RED	CDMRED
	Tails of Illusion (plus two bonus tracks)	CD	CHERRY RED	CDMRED
	Blue Hotel (plus one bonus track)	CD	CHERRY RED	CDMRED
	Images ''84 - Deluxe Edition	2×CD	CHERRY RED	CDBRED	35 tracks including all 7 singles A and B sides
	The Fox Box	4CD	CHERRY RED	CRCDMBOX 28	Fox (+4) + Tails of Illusion (+2) + Blue Hotel (+1) + Images - A Collection (from "Images ''84")

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Singles

Year	Single	Format	Label	Catalogue ref	Chart positions
					UK	AUS[9]	US	DE	NL
	"Only You" / "Out of My Body"	7-inch single	GTO	GT 5	-	-	-	-	-
	"Only You Can" / "Out of My Body" (Reissue)	7-inch single	GTO	GT 8	3	68	53	2	-
	"Imagine Me, Imagine You" / "If I Point at the Moon"	7-inch single	GTO	GT 21	15	16	53	7	-
	"He's Got Magic" / "Love Ship"	7-inch single	GTO	GT 37	-	-	-	-	-
	"He's Got Magic" / "The Juggler"	7-inch single	GTO	PSC	-	-	-	-	-
	"Strange Ships" / "Little Brown Box"	7-inch single	GTO	GT 41	-	-	-	-	-
	"He's Got Magic" / "Strange Ships"	7-inch single	GTO		-	-	-	-	-
	"S-S-S-Single Bed" / "Silk Milk"	7-inch single	GTO	GT 57	4	1	-	-	10
	Love Letters: "Love Letters" ~ "The Juggler" / "Only You Can" ~ "Spirit"	7-inch EP	GTO		-	-	-	-	-
	"My Old Man's Away" / "Are You Sure?"	7-inch single	GTO	GT 94	-	-	-	-	-
	"Electro People" / "If You Don't Want My Peaches"	7-inch single	BBC	RESL	-	-	-	-	-

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