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Band history
The band was founded by Young, who had composed the song "Under the Boardwalk" for the Drifters in 1964. Young had worked off and on with the Australian singer Susan Traynor on one of his solo albums, Last Stage For Silverworld, where she was listed as 'Amanda', after Young had written Reparata and the Delrons' "Captain of Your Ship", which had been a UK hit.

Young then discovered Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers on a television show, who had recently released the single, "Play The Drama till The End". The partnership produced hit singles over a three-year period, beginning with "Come Back and Shake Me". With this, Rodgers became something of a blueprint[clarification needed] for the group, as she recorded demos of some of the songs which would eventually surface on the first Fox album in 1975, as well as earlier Young tunes.

Meanwhile, Traynor was in a folk group called Wooden Horse, which released two albums before breaking up. After his success with Rogers, Young founded Fox with Irish singer Herbie Armstrong, recruiting Traynor as lead singer. She adopted the stage name 'Noosha', a scrambled version of her own name, and a glamorous image inspired by Marlene Dietrich, wearing elegant dresses to contrast with the scruffy look of the rest of the group.

The band's self-titled debut album was released on GTO Records in 1975 to critical acclaim. The lead single, "Only You Can", was a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart, the follow-up "Imagine Me Imagine You" also reached the Top 20 and "He's Got Magic" was a hit in some European countries. The track "Love Ship" was played extensively on Radio Caroline, and was subsequently adopted as one of their theme tunes in the 1970s. Shortly after the release of their first album, Fox made a cameo appearance in the film Side by Side.

However, Noosha shared vocals with other members of the band in 1975 follow-up album, Tails of Illusion, with the songs sung by Noosha, Young, Frank and Armstrong.. The album enjoyed some cult critical acclaim but not the sales success of its predecessor; without Noosha's distinctive voice, casual listeners did not associate the songs with the band that had recorded "Only You Can". Roger Taylor of Queen added backing vocals to the song "Survival".

The band returned to the charts in April 1976 when "S-S-S-Single Bed" was a Top 5 UK hit and topped the Australian chart. (Bananarama did their own version of this song in 2009 on their album Viva.) Again, the band did not attempt to capitalise upon its previous success, and the accompanying album Blue Hotel (1977), yielded only one further single, even though Noosha was lead singer on all its tracks.

Noosha Fox left the band after Blue Hotel. Armstrong and Young continued to work together in the band Yellow Dog, Their 2nd single for Virgin became the first hit single that Virgin Records released, 'Just One More Night' making it to no. 7 on the charts. but after a short period of success, Armstrong went on to work with Van Morrison, and Solley later joined Procol Harum. Noosha launched a solo career, and her first single, "Georgina Bailey", written and produced by Young, briefly entered the Top 40 in the UK (reaching number 31), after getting banned by the BBC, in 1977.

In 1979, Noosha Fox tried again to start her solo career with a single, "The Heat Is On", on Chrysalis Records. A cover version by ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog was a big European hit four years later. Noosha recorded several singles in the early 1980s for the Earlobe label but none were successful, and she evidently retired from the music industry, although she did not return to Australia.

Fox reformed briefly in 1980, releasing the new wave-influenced "Electro People", written as the theme music for the Kenny Everett Show. The band considered a reunion in the early 1990s, but the tracks recorded at this time were unreleased until 2004, when they appeared as bonus tracks on the Tails of Illusion CD.


01. The Can You Only (K. The Young) 
02.Me, You Imagine Imagine Imagine Imagine (K. The Young) 
03.Game Magic's's Got the He (K. The Young) 
04. Strange Ships (K. Young) 
05.Single Room The Bed-the SSS (K. The Young) 
06. My Old Man's Away (K. Young ) 
07. Electro People (K. Young) 
08. Out of My Body (K. Young) 
09. If I Point at the Moon (K. Young) 
10. Love Ship (K. Young) 
11. The Juggler (K. Young / H. Armstrong) 
12. Little Brown Box (K. Young / H . Armstrong) 
13. Silk Milk (K. Young / H. Armstrong) 
14. Are You Sure? (K. Young / P. Becque / H. Armstrong) 
15. If You Do not Want My Peaches ( K. Young) 
16.Bailey is Georgia You (K. The Young)


CD2
01. Survival (K. Young / H. Armstrong) 
02. Red Letter Day (K. Young / H . Armstrong) 
03. Magic Machine (K. Young / H. Armstrong) 
04. Blue Hotel (K. Young / H. Armstrong) 
05. Spirit (K. Young) 
06. Dejenina (K. Young / S. English ) 
07. Model in a Leotard (K. Young) 
08. I Want to Be Alone (K. Young ) 
09. Dancing With An Alien (K. Young) 
10. Teyo (K. Young) 
11. Temple of Love (K. Young) 
12. Torn Between Two Worlds (K. Young) 
13. Captain of Your Ship (K. YoungB. Yardley) 
14. Almond Eyes (K. Young) 
15. Love Letters (V. Young / E, Heyman) 
16. Kupu Kupu (K. Young) 
17. Me Without You (K. Young) 
18. Under Your Own Umbrella (K. Young / H. Armstrong) 
19. Pretty Boy (K. Young / H. Armstrong

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