Hold On Tight (Samantha Fox song)

The music video for Hold On Tight reflects the song's rockabilly sensibilities with Fox in a 1950s-style diner sporting a ponytail, midriff-baring shirt, denim hot pants, and cowboy boots. Soon after putting her song on the diner's jukebox she goes outside, now wearing a fringe trimmed red leather dress. As she sings "Hold On Tight", Fox dances with greasers and youths in letterman jackets and poodle skirts, typical of 1950s fashion.^[1]

Lucy O'Brien in a review of 30 August 1986 for New Musical Express gave a negative view of the song and video by saying that Samantha Fox was "aping Suzi Quatro with derivative R&R crap". She concluded: "It's not even worth a laugh on Wogan".^[2] William Shaw of Smash Hits expressed similar opinion. He called a voice of the singer "unpleasantly squeaky", the song itself he described as "attempt to try a spot of rock'n'roll" that became "absolute disgrace" and finalized single review by deride of Fox look as a "Bonnie Tyler motorcycle vixen" on picture sleeve.^[3] Pat Thomas of Number One magazine gave the single a negative review, describing it as a "standard country rockin' affair" that "falls a little flat" compared to Fox's previous work. Thomas concluded that "whatever attributes Ms Fox might possess, a singing voice isn't one of them."^[4]

Vinyl, 7" UK (FOXY 3)^[5]

1. "Hold On Tight" – 3:34
2. "It's Only Love" – 3:36

Vinyl, 12", Picture Disc UK (FOXY S 3)^[6]

1. "Hold On Tight (Extended Version)" – 5:06
2. "Hold On Tight (Instrumental Version)" – 3:36
3. "Touch Me (I Want Your Body) (Blue Mix)" – 5:49
4. "It's Only Love" – 3:34