Bucks Fizz (band)
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| Bucks Fizz | |
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 Bucks Fizz on stage in 1983
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| Origin | United Kingdom |
| Genre(s) | Pop, Dance, Dreampop, pop-rock, MOR, AOR |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Label(s) | RCA, Polydor |
| Website | Bucks Fizz The Early Years |
| Members | |
| Bobby G Heidi Manton Tammy Choat Paul Fordham |
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| Former members | |
| Jay Aston Cheryl Baker Mike Nolan Shelley Preston Amanda Szwarc David Van Day Karen Logan Louise Hart Graham Crisp Nikki Winters Wayne Chinnery Jenny Phillips |
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Bucks Fizz are a British pop group, formed in 1981 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest that year. They won with "Making Your Mind Up" and went on to have a successful pop career. The group was made up of four performers: Bobby G, Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston, whose gimmick was that they were all blond.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Early career
On 11 March 1981, Bucks Fizz, a virtually unknown group, beat seven other artists to win 'A Song for Europe', the United Kingdom selection show for the Eurovision Song Contest. They followed the classic and successful 'two male — two female' Eurovision line-up established by ABBA. The group were put together by producer/writing combo Nichola Martin and Andy Hill especially for this performance. Baker had formerly been a member of the group Co-Co, who came 11th at the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest with the UK entry "The Bad Old Days”.
Bucks Fizz then went on to represent the UK at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland. They performed "Making Your Mind Up", which featured a famous skirt-ripping dance routine and won the Eurovision Song Contest by a margin of just four points. They produced further hit singles and albums in the early 1980s. "Making Your Mind Up" was a Number One Hit for the group in nine different countries.
[edit] Post Eurovision success
The Eurovision win was promptly followed by a further two Top 20 hits in the UK, "Piece of the Action" and "One Of Those Nights". After winning Eurovision, the group built on their success with other awards and accolades. In November 1981, they won the Best Song Award at the Yamaha Song Contest in Tokyo with the song "Another Night".
Their next single released in November 1981, "The Land of Make Believe" reached number one, as did "My Camera Never Lies". They were the first British act of the 1980s to score 3 number ones within a 12 mo