Bucks Fizz: To Hell And Back
Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 2 July 1986
BUCKS FIZZ have survived a coach crash, the Jay Aston "scandal" and Shelley's chaotic audition. And they're still having top ten hits and rattling on about Blue String puddings, upside-down teddy bears and turning into teapots. Tom Hibbert is delighted.
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