Bucks Fizz
Nolan along with singers Bobby G, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston became known as Bucks Fizz. In February, they won the 1981 A Song for Europe with "Making Your Mind Up". Two months later, they won the Eurovision final itself. The group were catapulted to fame overnight and the song made No.1 in several countries, including the UK.
Over the next few years, Bucks Fizz became one of the biggest pop groups in the UK with several hit singles and albums, including two more No.1 hits, "The Land Of Make Believe" and "My Camera Never Lies". Nolan became known as the male pin-up of the group and attracted many fans through his good looks. He also gained critical acclaim for his lead vocal on the top ten hit "Now Those Days Are Gone".
While on tour in 1984, Bucks Fizz were involved in a coach crash. All four members were injured, but Nolan was most seriously affected when he fell into a coma and at one point was given the Last Rites. Nolan was featured on the front page of many of the tabloids over the next few days with headlines declaring him to be "on the brink of death". After three days, he awoke and spent the next six months recuperating before returning to work with the group, although the effects of the crash still affect him today.
Bucks Fizz scored their last hit in 1988 and Nolan continued with the group (now in an altered line-up) until 1995.
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Famous quotes containing the words bucks and/or fizz:
“I’m a very smart guy. I haven’t a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops ... I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you’ll think of me, I’ll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“In the atom’s fizz and pop we heard possibility
uncorked. Taffeta wraps whispered on davenports.
A new planet bloomed above us; in its light
the stumps of cut pine gleamed like dinner plates.
The world was beginning all over again, fresh and hot;
we could have anything we wanted.”
—Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)