Bucks Fizz star Cheryl Baker has admitted the group’s iconic Eurovision Song Contest-winning hit Making Your Mind Up is far from her favourite song in the world.
The singer topped the charts with the 1981 hit, which turns 40 next year, but she told the Daily Star that, despite “owing everything in my life to it,” the song is “not my cup of tea at all”.
“Put it this way, my taste in music is James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, so that’s hardly Making Your Mind Up,” she laughed. “Yet I owe everything in my life to it. That and Velcro.”
The track sold four million copies after winning at the contest with live performances featuring that iconic skirt-ripping moment, which the star believes won the group the contest.
During her chat with the paper, Cheryl, who now performs with Mike Nolan and Jay Aston as The Fizz, and recently released new single The World We Left Behind, from the album Smoke & Mirrors, also admitted tensions were rife within the group from the start.
“It worked with me and Mike. It never worked with Jay, and with Bobby, never,” she insisted.
“Things were very strange in the Bucks Fizz camp. Bobby G and I were like oil and water. We were never gonna get on.”
While Cheryl told Loose Women back in 2018 she and Jay are “closer than ever” following her mouth cancer ordeal, the group remains estranged from Bobby G, whose wife owns the Bucks Fizz trademark and performs a show of covers and group singles under the moniker.
