Noosha Fox
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Career
Susan Traynor was born in Australia in 1944.[1] She began her music career as a singer in Sydney-based folk rock band Wooden Horse, who moved to England in 1970 and released two LPs.[2] After the band split up, she provided background vocals on American singer and songwriter Kenny Young's 1973 solo album, Last Stage For Silverworld.[3]
She then formed Fox, the band that included Young and Northern Irish singer-songwriter Herbie Armstrong. She adopted the stage name Noosha, a corruption of an anagram of her first name (nussa),[4][5] and in performances wore dresses and accessories in 1920s and 1930s style.[6] With Fox, Noosha achieved three top 20 hits on the UK Singles Chart: "Only You Can" and "Imagine Me, Imagine You" in 1975 and "S-S-S-Single Bed" in 1976. She left after their third album, Blue Hotel, to launch a solo career. Her first single, "Georgina Bailey", written and produced by Young, briefly entered the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 31 in 1977.[7]
In 1979, Noosha Fox tried to restart her solo career with a single, "The Heat Is On", written by Florrie Palmer and Tony Ashton, on Chrysalis Records. A later version of the song, by ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog, was a European hit four years later.[7] In 1980, Fox provided guest vocals for the songs "Perfect Strangers" and "Havana Moon" on Tim Renwick's self-titled debut album.[8]
Fox recorded several singles in the early 1980s for the Earlobe label but none were successful, and she withdrew from the music industry.[1] Although she did not write her own songs, her performance style has been credited with influencing Kate Bush and Alison Goldfrapp.[5] It was reported in 2007 on BBC Radio 4's The Music Group that Fox was recording a solo album of electropop[9] but it was not released.
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Personal life
Fox has been married since 1973 to physician and academic Michael Goldacre,[10] with whom she has four children, one of whom is Ben Goldacre, a physician and academic best known for his "Bad Science" weekly column.[11] Ben Goldacre announced that Fox was his mother after seeing her perform "S-S-S-Single Bed" on a BBC4 repeat of Top of the Pops, and stated that she was working on new material.[12]
Discography
| Year | Title | Format | Label | Catalogue ref | Chart position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | "Georgina Bailey" / "Pretty Boy" | 7" single | GTO | GT 106 | No. 91 AUS,[13] No. 31 UK |
| 1979 | "The Heat Is On" / "Some Enchanted Evening" | 7" single | CHRYSALIS | CHS 2337 | |
| 1979 | "Skin Tight" / "Miss You" | 7" single | CHRYSALIS | CHS 2383 | |
| 1981 | "More Than Molecules" / "Odd Peculiar Strange" | 7" single | EARLOBE | ELB S 101 | |
| 1981 | "Hot As Sun" / "The Cheapest Night" | 7" single | EARLOBE | ELB S 105 |
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References
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- ↑ John Connors, "Fantastic Noosha Fox", This Way Up, 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2020
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