Noosha Fox

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.

On 1 August 2022, renowned music producer Shel Talmy released a 5-track downloadable EP of original songs by Noosha which had been recorded in 1978.^{[citation needed]}

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]

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