Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Bucks Fizz (music group)


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 30 May 12)

  
  BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Bucks Fizz story refuses to go flat
Bucks Fizz survived a tour coach crash in 1984, in which Nolan was seriously injured, but Aston quit the following year in acrimonious circumstances.
Originally planning a straightforward Bucks Fizz musical, Woo made Aston the star after finding her at the centre of all the "drama, tension and jealousy" within the band.
Cheryl Baker, who left Bucks Fizz in 1993 after becoming a TV presenter, confirms on Stocker's website that a reunion with Aston is extremely unlikely.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/4445173.stm   (876 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Reviews for The Ultimate Anthology: Music: Bucks Fizz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It has to be said, Bucks Fizz have had to endure a lot of stick over the years as a band, and their music has never been given the accolade it so rightfully deserves....until now.
Bucks Fizz have been the butt of many jokes over the years and it is easy to forget that they had 3 number 1 singles and over 20 singles released.
Bucks fizz were a very very under rated group who were wrongly judged because they won the Eurovison (look at abba).
www.amazon.co.uk /Ultimate-Anthology-Bucks-Fizz/dp/customer-reviews/B0009VKR44   (2231 words)

  
 BUCKS FIZZ TRADEMARK HIGH COURT RULING
Bucks Fizz are still going to this day, and they have an official web site.
He argued the name Bucks Fizz was a registered trademark and none of the original members were in Mr Van Day's group.
His argument is that having traded successfully as Bucks Fizz for five years, he has a right to continue under the name.
www.bluebird-electric.net /don_wales/bucks_fizz_ruling.htm   (1794 words)

  
 BUCKS FIZZ : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Variations on theme with a cappella-styled "Now Those Days Are Gone', reggae-tinged "If You Can't Stand The Heat' were notably less successful; fall was arrested by importing material: cover of Romantics' '83 US hit "Talking In Your Sleep' restored top 40 UK status '84, the boys playing instruments in an image shift towards adulthood.
Coach crash Dec. '84 in which Nolan was seriously injured preceded split in ranks: Aston, whose sexy image was at odds with cleancut appeal of group, quit mid-'85 for solo career; replaced after more mass auditions by lookalike Shelley Preston (b 14 May '64).
(Aston's move delighted the tabloids with revelations about hanky-panky in group and resulted in lawsuits needed to free her from management contract.) Baker meanwhile became part-time TV show host; Gubby wrote/sang theme to BBC's Big Deal sitcom.
www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/b/B389.HTM   (363 words)

  
 Rafaels and Stefans pictures
The group and entourage suffered various degrees of injury, most notably Mike Nolan who was taken to the hospital in a comatose state believed to be brain-damaged.
A big chock for all Bucks Fizz fans came at the beginning of July when it was announced that Jay Aston had left the group.
Bucks Fizz performed as the third act on Wembley on Thursday Dec 16.
www.raffem.com /BucksFizz85till2003.htm   (2983 words)

  
 [No title]
Bucks Fizz were one of the biggest bands of the early 1980's.
The group’s success was briefly interrupted by a coach crash during their 1984 tour, followed by the departure of Jay Aston.
Bucks Fizz continued as a threesome for the next four years.
www.bucksfizzofficial.co.uk /gbiog.htm   (863 words)

  
 Bucks Fizz - 1985   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As Mike was on the road to recovery Bucks Fizz received yet another blow as jay Aston decided to depart the group in June of this year.
This was just in time for the group to continue promoting the single 'You And Your Heart So Blue' and to commence their next sell out tour in August/September.
Finally this year the group released their 16th single, 'Magical' which was co-written by Meatloaf.
www.bucksfizzearlyyears.co.uk /1985.htm   (145 words)

  
 VH1.com : Magna Carta : Biography - Urge Music Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The group was founded in 1969 by Chris Simpson (who also sang) and Lyell Tranter on acoustic Gibson guitars and Glen Stuart singing harmony.
They were not, strictly speaking, a pure folk group even then, but utilized folk and traditional elements very heavily in their songwriting and sound, in a manner similar to that adopted by John David Gladwin and Terry Wincott of the Amazing Blondel at approximately the same time.
By 1975, however, the group was down to one member -- Gordon and Smith left in 1974, and a disagreement about their sound and future direction led to Stuart's exit in 1975 after the release of Martin's Cafe (the latter also marked their final release on Vertigo).
www.vh1.com /artists/az/magna_carta/bio.jhtml   (909 words)

  
 Bucks Fizz - The Bubble Burst - Where are they now?
Buck's Fizz were formed as a four piece pop group for the purpose of entering the 1981 Eurovision song contest.
In 1989 Shelley Preston left the group to pursue a solo career as Bucks Fizz continued for 4 years as a trio.
Cheryl, Mike, and Shelley re-formed as Bucks Fizz in 2004 for the "Here And Now" tour, and due to the success of this, in 2005 they announced that they would continue to perform as a threesome.
www.thebubbleburst.co.uk /bb.php?entry=Bucks+Fizz   (408 words)

  
 Rafaels and Stefans pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But as many ABBA fans are even Bucks Fizz fans so they can temporarily forget all ABBA re-releases of previously released and re-released material and have fun listening to brand new material released on the new Fizz compilation "The Lost Remasters".
The Bucks Fizz management and the former members of the group wanted to give us a little bit more and we, fans, are really grateful.
Shelley joined Bucks Fizz in 1985 and stayed in the group for 5 years but she did not achieve the same status as Jay Aston and she did not get a possibility to show her skills as a singer on the group's last studio album "Writing On The Wall" (the only one recorded with Shelley).
www.raffem.com /BucksFizzNNews.htm   (597 words)

  
 BUCKS FIZZ JAY ANSTON BOBBY GEE CHERYL BAKER MIKE NOLAN
Bucks Fizz was a British pop group, formed in 1981 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest that year.
The initial group members were Jay Aston, Cheryl Baker, Bobby G (or Gee, actually Gubby) and Mike Nolan, the classic 'two male - two female' Eurovision line-up established by ABBA.
The group were quick to build on their Eurovision success, Making Your Mind Up was their first Number One in March 1981 and they followed up with two Top Twenty singles and a further Number One in November 1981 with The Land Of Make Believe and also an eponymously-titled album.
www.solarnavigator.net /music/bucks_fizz.htm   (414 words)

  
 [No title]
Bucks Fizz were one of the biggest bands of the early 1980's.
The group’s success was briefly interrupted by a coach crash during their 1984 tour, followed by the departure of Jay Aston.
As the group continued to take on more live dates, Cheryl left Bucks Fizz in 1993 to concentrate on her family life and blossoming television career.
www.bucksfizz.co.uk /gbiog.htm   (854 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Writing on the Wall: Music: Bucks Fizz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
the good includes "new beginning" which saw the fizz back in the top ten for the first time in 3 years...this must be one of the best fizz songs they ever did and it wouldnt look out of place sitting at the top of the charts...all them drums..all that chanting...and a great pop song..
Bucks fizz were a very very under rated group who were wrongly judged because they won the Eurovison (look at abba, they don't seem to have the same stigma).
this was bucks fizz final album released in 1986-this special edition shows how the original cd should have been with lots of extra and unreleased tracks.
www.amazon.co.uk /Writing-Wall-Bucks-Fizz/dp/B0006A7WQY   (1534 words)

  
 Bucks Fizz Tickets
Bucks Fizz - 80s pop chart toppers who hit the big time in 1981 with their Eurovision Song Contest winning 'Making Your Mind Up'.
Bucks Fizz are as popular as ever with a dynamic new stage show which shocked and impressed even their most ardent fans, reinforcing their status as one of the world's top live bands.
The group made some exciting changes, whilst retaining and refreshing the essential hits - in a show which continues to evolve.
www.ents24.com /web/event/1230608/Bucks_Fizz.html   (210 words)

  
 Sudeep Audio : Music Softwares, Indian Music, Articles, Contests, Jobs
Their compact disk series is dedicated to representing an independent experimental music tradition that continues to thrive in the cracks between the commercial, academic and classical music establishments.
ECS productions combine different aspects of contemporary music which becomes integrated elements of the composition,like for example, the virtual reality, the spatiality of the sound event, the expressiveness of sound changing in time, and all this contributes to opening up to the attentive and active listener extraordinary scenes of surreal beauty.
The Voiceprint Group of Companies are a group of record labels established in 1990 who have achieved success by having a keen ear for neglected classics and a great selection of new music.
www.sudeepaudio.com /lessons/labels.htm   (8593 words)

  
 21ma.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ABBA is the most successful popular music group ever to come out of Scandinavia, and ranks amongst the top acts in the history of popular music.
The musical context from which ABBA evolved is that of so-called Euro-pop - a flossy, bouncy, sometimes triumphantly silly fluff-music that derives not from the urgency of American blues (the source of rock), but from older forms of European folk music....
While selling their music into Russia during the late 1970s, ABBA was paid in oil commodities because of an embargo on the ruble.
www.21ma.com /mod3.php?title=ABBA   (8736 words)

  
 ABBA
ABBA were a Swedish pop music group, the most successful to date from that country.
The group was formed around 1970 by Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fältskog, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (nicknamed "Frida"), and the name ABBA comprises their first initials.
However, the momentum seemed hard to maintain, and follow-up singles did nowhere near as well, partly because the group were overstretched and unable to promote these convincingly in any one territory, and partly because the songs were perhaps not as strong.
www.artistopia.com /abba   (2800 words)

  
 All Organisations
Bucks Fizz is a very supportive environment especially for fledging business or those relocating to the area.
The Chilterns 20-30s Walking Group was established in 2000, with the aim of providing a friendly, supportive environment for people in their 20s and 30s to meet up, unwind and enjoy the pastime of...
The aim of the group is to stimulate the little ones with live music and to let them react and explore the rhythms and melodies.
www.bucksinfo.net /directory/dir?letter=all&num_rows=0   (8021 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bucks Fizz: Music: Bucks Fizz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The funkier edge of "Took It To The Limit" was a welcome foil to the overall perkiness and could have held its head high on some of the group's later - and better - albums.
The contemporary B-sides live down to their status and the Spanish language tracks are interesting but it is the later recordings that show how well the group developed and achieved their potential.
Find out in Music You Should Hear, where these and other artists tell you about the music they love.
www.amazon.com /Bucks-Fizz/dp/B00024WYM6   (788 words)

  
 Bucks Fizz Guestbook
I must admit I havent heard any music from you hear in Australia for at least 12yrs except the early favourites as people here in Oz never followed you very closely in general especially with regard to becoming afan club member.
Bucks Fizz opened the show and then later had their own spot when they performed many of their hits superbly.
He really needs some support from the people he knows and since I know Bucks Fizz means everything to him maybe you guys can cheer him up a little by writing him a message.
www.bucksfizzofficial.co.uk /view.htm   (2694 words)

  
 Discussion Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
You must be a member of the Rock and Pop Music group to reply to this topic.
Groups > Topical Groups > Rock & Pop Music Groups > Rock and Pop Music > Are They Really the.......
I believe Bucks fizz are in a legal wrangling over who has rights to the name as there are two groups touring under the same name, but Pete and Roger, fine by me
friendfinder.com /intgroups/gi41/qi69805/acview_thread_message.html?highid=8736710_35271   (667 words)

  
 Autograph House - Specialists in all types of autographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Early 'Rock group in beatles style suits.Signed by all 4.
Principal Conductor & Music Director of the Halle Orchestra.Super photo with exellent signature.
John famous for his music for films,a great shot with a exellent signature.
www.members.aol.com /ttwible/music.htm   (991 words)

  
 [No title]
Researcher Adrian North has shown that hearing a piece of music "activates all types of knowledge." In this case, he believes classical music has "connotations of sophistication, affluence and wealth" that lead to the increased spending.
Another of his studies showed that music slows the passage of time: for telephone customers "on hold," Beatles songs kept them hanging on a full minute longer than those given pre-recorded verbal requests to keep holding.
Deutsch, who has researched the links between hearing, music and language acquisition, speculates, "It makes sense to me think that originally [all] speech was pitched as tones," much as Chinese, Vietnamese and other languages still are.
www.museumofmusic.org /vibrationsback/v02n01/l2.html   (600 words)

  
 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST | OIKOTIMES.COM | Bucks Fizz release anniversary DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
They're one of the most successful Eurovision Song Contest winning groups - now Bucks Fizz (1981) have released a DVD to celebrate the group's 25th anniversary.
Sure to become a must-have for fans of "the Fizz", and will be available through the Bucks Fizz - the early years - website.
The bucks fizz website you quote as source is wrong bucks fizz.
www.oikotimes.com /site/index.php?id=6343   (385 words)

  
 Bucks Fizz online - information and memorabilia. 80's Music, 80's Bands and musicians and more!
The group comprised Bobby G, Jay Aston, Mike Nolan, Cheryl Baker and Shelley Preston and had several number one hits with songs including "Making Your Mind Up" and "Land of Make Believe".
Bucks Fizz ended for me when she left in 1985.
Most people I know only remember Bucks Fizz for Making Your Mind Up & The Land of Make Believe, which for me are two of their worst.
www.doyouremember.co.uk /memory.asp?memID=8   (632 words)

  
 [No title]
Talking of fans, my older sister Catherine (who will hate me for saying this) was a huge Bobby G fan (we're talking all the records, posters you name it she had it!) came to see a show, it was quite amusing watching her meet him face to face.
However back to BUCKS FIZZ and with the summer now over I’m looking forward to the up-and-coming shows we have lined up for the rest of the year.
We are both enjoying being a part of BUCKS FIZZ and hope that you’ll still continue to follow, support and enjoy the group just as you have done over the years.
www.bucksfizzofficial.co.uk /news.htm   (2503 words)

  
 World Of Kitsch | Music | Bucks Fizz
Eighties band Bucks Fizz rocketed to success with their stunning win at the Eurovision Song Contest.
The group consisting of members Bobby G, Jay Aston, Mike Nolan, Cheryl Baker and Shelley Preston were formed in 1981 as the band topped to bring British glory to the Eurovision song contest.
Their first number one and debut single was "Making Your Mind Up", the song which had brought the band Eurovision success.
www.worldofkitsch.com /music/bucksfizz.html   (214 words)

  
 Jay Aston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born on May 4th 1961 Jay was always known as the baby of the group.
Jay's departure from the group was a shock for all the fans as the group was just about recovering from the trauma of their coach crash.
Since leaving Bucks Fizz, Jay has written alot of material and has recorded some songs under various other names.
www.bucksfizz.org.uk /jay/jay.html   (129 words)

  
 POP MUSIC SINGERS HISTORY PRODUCERS RECORD COMPANIES LABELS NEW SONGS TOP BANDS GROUPS RECORDING CONTRACTS ...
Although changes in the way music is delivered are a threat to the giants, they have the financial, legal, and technological muscle to minimize their losses and maximize their gains.
The bright point is the music publishing division, which is the largest in the world, with over a million song titles.
UMG is the world' largest music company, and its growth over the past year has far outstripped its rivals'.
www.speedace.info /music_index.htm   (1050 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.