Bucks Fizz week: So many Bucks Fizzes...

I couldn't finish Bucks Fizz week without featuring the abomination that is The Land of Make Believe. This was the first single I remember buying myself (in Woolies), but it - and that video - is ... not good.

Of course, they were never the same after the accident and eventually they split, but, much like a worm*, instead of dying, they formed two new Bucks Fizzes.

I lost the thread around this time. I think I was at university or getting married or something, but there ended up being a Bobby Bucks Fizz and a Mike and David Van Day out of Dollar Bucks Fizz.

Bobby's is The Official Bucks Fizz and features Bobby (obviously) who is now about 55, and a lad and two girls whose combined age probably isn't 55 (one of whom I think he's married to - the girls, not the lad).

There was a documentary about the David Van Day farrago and he appeared to be a complete and utter git. (I thought that $ sign in the logo referred to him being a mercenary sod, but then I remembered  he was in Dollar. Even so.)

Thankfully that's over too (at least I think so) and Mike, Cheryl and Shelley are touring as the original Bucks Fizz. Bobby was meant to be joining them for one of those 80s revival shows, but it didn't happen, sadly.

There's also been some talk of the original four plus Shelley getting together as Buck5Fizz, but I don't know if that's going to happen. They did all appear in the Peter Kay 500 Miles video though (but I haven't seen it, must look it up...).

I hope you've enjoyed Bucks Fizz week. I've loved it. I've still got more to say (no, really) so I think I might have to instigate "Fizzing Fridays" or something...

*This isn't actually true. I saw it on QI.

Comments

[Suzi]

When is it going to be Bros week?

[Sarah]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane with Bucks Fizz!

[diane]

just write a book, will you! :)

(Bros week? arrrrrgh!)

[Kit]

Bobby G lives in Tiverton, Devon, with Heidi, also in Bucks Fizz. He's the closest we've got to a celebrity in this neck of the woods, except Caroline Quentin who lives near Tiverton and was married in Tiverton Register's Office, and David Copperfield (not the magician, the comedian who was in Three of a Kind with Lenny Henry and Tracey Ullman; you're probably too young to know the show). Joss Stone, however, was originally from near Tiverton. We first got to hear about her when she was little Jocelyn Stone, winning a children's talent show on the BBC.

[Keris]

Thanks, Kit! I do remember Three of a Kind. One of my fave jokes of all time was on that show. They were doing like a spoof of Howard's Way and one of the characters was saying their boat had been stolen and another character said:

"Well, I never did it! Get stolen!"
*thinks*
"Well I never. Did it get stolen?"

Heh.