Like Charles and Di’s wedding, and Torville and Dean’s Olympic Gold, Bucks Fizz cheekily whipping their skirts off at Eurovision became one of the defining moments of the 1980s.
Almost 40 years have passed since the band sang Making Your Mind Up that night. And – boy! – has a lot happened since. ‘People don’t remember the song, they just remember the skirts coming off!’ chuckles Mike Nolan, 65, who’s now reunited with Cheryl Baker, 65, and Jay Aston, 59, to form new band The Fizz. ‘Times were more innocent then,’ adds Cheryl. ‘Jay wanted to wear a mini skirt, I wanted a longer one to cover my chunky thighs.
So we flippantly said, ‘Let’s have both’. It was a lightbulb moment that won us Eurovision and gave us our careers.’ While the band has
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