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Mr Morningstarr* · 04-09-2008, 18:58

80s has-beens Bucks Fizz, who won the highly acclaimed Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, are going to appear in some shitty new reality show called Pop Goes The Band which will be on Living TV next month. The show follows several 80s bands as they undergo fitness training, make overs and even more extreme, cosmetic surgery! Then they will be hurled back on stage to try and resurrect their long lost musical careers.

Here they are pictured last night at some Living TV promotion. It's not the original line-up, it's Bobby Gee, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston who were three of the original members. And the other woman is Shelley Preston who actually replaced Jay Aston when she quit in 1984. The other bloke who was in the group, Mike Nolan, is wisely steering clear.

Bucks Fizz

The Daily Mail were quick to point out that Preston and Aston are both showing off their tanned slim legs, but Cheryl Baker looks "matronly" and has struggled with her weight. Which was nice of them.

The thing which amazed me was I thought Jay Aston died in a coach crash!

Obviously not.

The other losers in the show are rumoured to be Bananarama, Visage, soul diva Chaka Khan and teen bands 911 and Cleopatra. Cleopatra? They were only about munching 12 when they were in the charts, fancy putting them up against these other old timers. I've no idea which line-up of Bananrama will be on the show, be interesting to see those old slappers.

The freak out of Dollar, David Van Day is supposed to be in the show too. He's like Bucks Fizz's arch-nemesis isn't he? He tried stealing their name and being the new Bucks Fizz. They should fight.

The Nolans refused to do the show.

Gemo52 · 04-09-2008, 19:11

Wasn’t there a conflict with the two guys in Bucks Fizz - each of them touring with their own version of the split band. I tried googling to find out more but all the search turns up is the new stuff.

Gemo52 · 04-09-2008, 19:18

Found it in good old Wiki:

On New Years Eve 1989, after nearly five years, Shelley Preston announced that she was leaving the band and Cheryl, Bobby and Mike continued as a three piece until 1993 when Cheryl left to start a family and concentrate on her TV presenting career. Cheryl was replaced by two newcomers, Heidi Manton (who would later go on to marry Bobby) and Amanda Swarzc. This line-up would continue until 1996 when Mike and Amanda both left and ex-Dollar star David Van Day joined with Karen Logan.

Shortly after David Van Day left Bucks Fizz, he teamed up with Mike Nolan and two new female recruits to form a new version of Bucks Fizz. Confusion was averted when Nolan agreed to call his band "Bucks Fizz starring Mike Nolan"; their website said the new band was an amalgamation of Bucks Fizz and Dollar (using the slogan "Bucks Fizz plus Dollar equals Lots of Cents"). This version of the band released two singles and a compilation album which featured new vocal versions of old hits.

In 2001, Nolan left his version of Bucks Fizz but Van Day continued to tour under the moniker "Bucks Fizz". As Heidi Manton, now owner of the name "Bucks Fizz", still continued to play with Bobby G in the official version of Bucks Fizz, much confusion was caused and Bobby G brought a case in the High Court against Van Day. In 2001, a judge refused to grant a court injuction against Van Day as he been operating in "Bucks Fizz" for five years at the time.

The feud and legal battle between Bobby G and David Van Day as to who owned the name "Bucks Fizz" was the subject of a BBC television documentary, Trouble at the Top. The case was settled out of court in August 2002 when David Van Day agreed to call his version of the band "David Van Day's Bucks Fizz Show".