Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now (Samantha Fox song)
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" is a song performed by British singer Samantha Fox and written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman (SAW). It was released as the first single from Samantha’s eponymous second album, "Samantha Fox", in the spring of 1987. The track was recorded after Fox's label heavily lobbied SAW to record with the singer, who the trio had previously vowed nor to work with due to her topless modelling past. The producers agreed to record with Fox after being  impressed with her during an initial meeting, with Stock then writing lyrics inspired by Fox's comments to him about wanting to break free of her manager father. The single became Samantha's third and final top ten single in the United Kingdom, peaking at #8 in June. In the United States, the single was released in the fall of 1987 and reached only #80 that October. It was a Top 10 hit in Continental Europe. It also reached #22 in Australia. In 2009, Fox re-recorded the song with British producers Pete Hammond, Nathan Thomas, and Carl M Cox . It was supposed to feature on her 2009 "Greatest Hits" album, but as yet the track remains unreleased. The first evidence of its existence was a short clip on the website, www.prolificmedia.co.uk. The 2009 version has subsequently been discovered in its entirety at www.soundcloud.com. In 2010 the song was covered by German television celebrity Daniela Katzenberger. Music video. The accompanying music video for the song was filmed in Marbella, Spain. Samantha Fox is shown using several forms of locomotion including a Sunseeker XPS 34 motorboat, a horse, an Alfa Romeo Spider, a Cessna Skymaster, and a BMX bike. She is  also shown beside (and in) an outdoor swimming pool, wearing a "zebra-print" one-piece bathing suit with high-heeled shoes. Impact and legacy. British magazine "Classic Pop" ranked the song number 40 in their list of 'Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs' in 2021. They wrote, "Page 3 girl Samantha Fox, the pin-up on many a pre-pubescent teen’s bedroom wall, was hardly the pop sophisticate, but SAW gave her an exceptionally big hit with this inspiriting UK No.8."