I NEED YOUR LOVE - DOLLAR - (1979) - YouTube I NEED YOUR LOVE - DOLLAR - (1979) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 13, 2013 DOLLAR are a pop vocal duo from the UK, consisting of David Van Day and Thereza Bazar. The duo were successful in the late 1970s and 1980s. Formation Thereza Bazar and David Van Day met at 17 when they successfully auditioned for the cabaret act Guys 'n' Dolls. The group enjoyed a number of hit singles in the mid-1970s and during this time Van Day became romantically involved with Bazar. By 1977 the group was in decline and the pair complained about the choice of material and musical direction.

Van Day decided to quit the band to embark on a solo career while Bazar would continue with Guys n' Dolls to earn a living for them both. The group's management were unhappy with the situation and sacked Bazar with the reasoning that a six-piece group consisting of three couples would now look odd with five members. With the change in circumstances, the pair decided to begin a career as a duo. They were picked up by French label Carrere Records, going under the name Dollar. Career 1970s and 1980s Dollar's first single, "Shooting Star", was released in late 1978 and, after a slow climb, reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart. The follow-up, "Who Were You With In The Moonlight?", was released in early 1979 and also reached number 14. After two hit singles featuring Van Day on lead vocals their third, the ballad "Love's Gotta Hold On Me" was sung by Bazar. It became Dollar's first self-penned hit as it entered the Top Ten and was one of their biggest, climbing to number 4 in the UK chart.

Encouraged by this steady run of success, the group released their debut album, Shooting Stars, which made the top 40. In a change of pace, the band released a cover of The Beatles' song "I Want to Hold Your Hand", which reached number 9. At the same time, Dollar had their first (and only) US hit with "Shooting Star", which made No.74. By February 1980, the group had scored four UK Top 20 hits, but this was not to last. In 1980 Dollar moved to WEA Records. Buoyed by the success of "Love's Gotta Hold On Me", the pair decided to write and produce all the songs for their second album. Attempting a move towards a rockier sound, the album, along with its singles, failed to sell well. In a bid to generate sales, Van Day and Bazar announced their engagement, but this was later revealed to be a publicity stunt. In 1981, Bazar approached record producer, Trevor Horn, whom she had met during her days in Guys n' Dolls, and asked if he would work with them.

He agreed, and produced their 1981 and 1982 material. Horn's production work gave Dollar a more distinctive sound, and their four Horn-produced singles represented the high point in the band's career. It gave them another two Top Ten singles ("Mirror Mirror" and "Give Me Back My Heart") and two more Top Twenty hits ("Videotheque" and "Hand Held in Black and White"). The production on these four hit singles had brought Horn to the attention of other bands, notably ABC, and it was not long before he was too busy to continue working with the duo. "Give Me Some Kinda Magic", a Top 40 hit Dollar had written and produced themselves was the lead-in single to their final studio album, The Dollar Album, which was a mixture of Horn's and the duo's own efforts. It became the biggest of their three albums, peaking at No. 18 in the UK and was certified Silver by the BPI. Split and reformation During a promotional trip to Japan in February 1983, relations between the duo had become increasingly tempestuous and Van Day quit the band. Their latest single ("Two Hearts") went unreleased in the UK and Dollar split.

Van Day had ambitions to be a solo artist after he and Bazar split. He released the single "Young Americans Talking", which was written and produced by the people behind Bucks Fizz. Meanwhile Bazar recorded an album, The Big Kiss, with producer Arif Mardin, and a theme song for the US film Gotcha! with composer Bill Conti. This was released as a single. But neither of them enjoyed the same kind of success as solo artists as they had had as Dollar. By 1986 they had reformed, and released the singles "We Walked In Love" and "Haven't We Said Goodbye Before". Neither of these met with much success and soon the group were looking for another record contract. In late 1987, the group covered the hi-NRG-style Erasure song "O L'amour". In early 1988 the song became one of their biggest hits and peaked at No.7. The group then hit a stumbling block in deciding on a follow-up and past ill-feeling between the pair was rising again.

Six months later they finally released another single, "It's Nature's Way", but it was to be their last release as the single flopped and work on a possible album had been long delayed. In late 1988, Dollar disbanded again. Category 'I hope that awful vain man swallows a worm and chokes on it': I'm A Celebrity star David Van Day's Dollar bandmate lets rip | Daily Mail Online 'I hope that awful vain man swallows a worm and chokes on it': I'm A Celebrity star David Van Day's Dollar bandmate lets rip By LUCIE MORRIS 'He is an awful vain man': Thereza Bar, pictured at her home in Sydney last week, says she's furious with her Dollar bandmate David Van Day Thereza Bazar is pacing her Sydney sitting room fuming, her slender arms gesticulating wildly. Her matching Maltese dogs, Pom Pom and Romeo, slink out of the room, safely out of earshot. The 51-year-old singer is getting on to the subject of David Van Day, her former lover and stage partner, and there is clearly a lot more to come.

Van Day, of course, is making a name for himself on I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, getting on the wrong side of his fellow contestants by throwing tantrums about the sleeping arrangements and apparently expecting hero worship for enduring a slurry of maggots. ‘He’s a bit Marmitey,’ presenter Declan Donnelly declared last week. ‘People either love him or hate him.’ There is little doubt which side Thereza’s on right now. ‘I really hope he swallows a worm in there and chokes on it,’ she says. It comes as a shock, given that Thereza has been performing with Van Day on and off for nearly 30 years as the other half of bubble-gum singing duo Dollar. Her house is even filled with pictures from their glory years. There are few people who can claim to have seen more of him than Thereza – but it is clear that what she has seen lately is more than enough. In recent days she has looked on as Van Day has preened himself in the ‘jungle’, a stage set created in a patch of damp rain-forest a few hundred miles north of Sydney.

But while his fellow contestants have been marvelling at Van Day’s impenetrable self-obsession, Thereza has registered no surprise at all, just exasperation. As far as she is concerned, the 52-year-old with the chiselled but implausibly tight features is ‘at it again’. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share ‘He will tread on his fellow contestants to try and win, just like he has used me for so many years,’ she says. ‘For once I’m going to speak my mind about that awful, vain man that I’ve had to put up with – and mother – for all these years. The silence needs to be broken.’ 'I hope he swallows a worm in there:' Van Day is making a name for himself on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! It might seem strange that, after all this time, she should suddenly be so overwhelmed by fury. She has never given a newspaper interview about Van Day before and even now the pretext for her anger seems rather slender: it emerges that Van Day omitted to inform her he was taking part in I’m A Celebrity, even though it takes place on her home turf.

The first she knew about his participation was when a friend told her by text message. Cue more wild gesticulations. ‘How can he come to my country, my patch and not even tell me?’ she says. ‘I don’t care if the producers told him to keep it a secret; we are supposed to be working partners and great friends. I am totally incensed.’ Dollar in their Eighties heyday: Thereza Bazar and David Van Day In other respects, life seems pretty good for slender Thereza, who divides her time between teaching children to sing and looking after her two sons at an ocean-side home in Vaucluse, one of the city’s most beautiful suburbs. Recently divorced from her barrister husband, she says she is rather enjoying the single life. To unwind, she takes long walks on Bondi Beach. Or she can sit on the balcony of her £1million property, relax, drink white wine and do a little whale watching. Yet Van Day’s antics have plainly got under her skin. It turns out, in fact, that David Van Day has been getting under her skin for much of the past 30 years and, now that he is back in the public eye, her anger is beyond containment.

‘I have been so good to that man. Now, as usual, his ego and thirst for celebrity have gone above everything,’ she says. ‘I did so much of the hard graft for Dollar. I wrote a lot of the songs. I did most of the organisation. But he took the glory. ‘I always felt pushed to the sidelines in our years together. He always wanted the lead vocals and the most camera shots and basically the most attention. 'When it came to Dollar, I always thought about us. He always thought about himself.’ 'Desperately concerned about his image': The singer before entering the jungle Thereza has known Van Day since they were teenagers. The pair met when they worked together as members of Seventies group Guys ‘n’ Dolls and, aged just 17, started dating. She recalls: ‘Even then he was very vain and had more beauty products in his bathroom than me. ‘I wasn’t at all surprised when he had a full facelift earlier this year. He was always very much more concerned with plucking his eyebrows, putting on fake tan and retouching his highlights than our relationship.

‘But even so, he was my first love and we were very much in love, I totally adored him. I was very much the unworldly devoted young girlfriend and he could be very romantic, sexy and passionate . . . if he wasn’t too busy looking in the mirror.’ Determined to find success as a duo they decided to break away from Guys ’n’ Dolls in 1977 and form their own act, Dollar. After a slow start, they began to notch up hit singles, such as Hand Held In Black And White, Videotheque and Mirror Mirror. Thereza, petite and blonde, added the feminine glamour to the so very Eighties band. Her hair was sprayed to within an inch of its life, her mouth was caked in bright red lipstick – and she loved every minute. ‘They were great years, so much travelling, touring and fun, but through it all we had to constantly pamper David’s ego. He made sure of it,’ she recalls. ‘One time we were picked up by a car to take us to perform on Top Of The Pops but because the BBC didn’t send a limo he refused to get in.

It was a perfectly nice black saloon but he just wouldn’t hear of it until they sent a stretch limo. He could be such a diva; I used to wince with embarrassment. ‘For him, it was only about the fame game and all the trappings of celebrity.’ She particularly remembers one occasion when the band was approaching the height of its fame. ‘It was 1979, we were performing Love’s Gotta Hold On Me on Top Of The Pops. I’d written 95 per cent of the song but David expected to do the vocals. ‘But when we got to the studio, he found he couldn’t sing in the right key and couldn’t remember the words. 'I had to take the lead. It was a new thing for him, just standing there. He hadn’t done that before. Afterwards, he went into meltdown, he was so angry.’ And with David’s growing love of a high-octane celebrity lifestyle came the all too familiar tale of endless partying, cocaine addiction and reckless spending in clubs, restaurants and luxury hotels. ‘We were going in totally different directions,’ explains Thereza. ‘He loved all the fame and materialistic trappings.

'I liked to enjoy myself too but really wanted us to make Dollar a long-term success. I knew that we had to develop and improve to stay on top. ‘I suspect there were groupies at the time too. Endless girls would put their phone numbers in his pocket. David Van Day takes part in bush tucker trial - Hell-O-Phone on the ITV show 'I never confronted him about it I didn’t want to know the truth at the time I suppose.’ On one particularly bad day in the early Eighties, David was in such a state that Thereza had to send him home from the recording studio. ‘He came in hungover and slurring his words from yet another drink and cocaine binge. ‘I said, “Just go home David,” but he never seemed sorry, even though it was costing thousands to pay the studio musicians and the producers.’ Their love affair could not survive the intense demands of success and fame. By the time they recorded O L’amour in 1983 they were no longer a couple. Thereza says: ‘We had grown apart romantically but I wasn’t upset about it, we were more like brother and sister by then. In fact I felt more like a mother to him most of the time.

‘I was just really keen to try to crack the US market together but David often didn’t perform as well as he could and I had to help him so much. It was such a strain.’ During a trip to Hong Kong in 1984, David suddenly declared he wanted to ‘go it alone’. For years afterwards, they hardly spoke. He found personal happiness, for a while at least, with model wife Maria. They had two children – Olivia, now 16, and Amber, now 12 – before they also went their separate ways. Unpopular: David and Esther Rantzen have a heated exchange Van Day’s career veered from one disaster to another. He joined a new version of the group Bucks Fizz but in 2002 had to declare himself bankrupt after a costly legal dispute over the use of the name. Then came public humiliation, when he was pictured cooking burgers for a living in a mobile van in Brighton. In 2007 he stood as a candidate to be a Conservative councillor in Brighton but failed dismally after making homophobic remarks. Thereza, too, found it difficult to rediscover fame and in 1988 moved to Australia, hoping for a fresh start.

She met a Sydney barrister, David Cowan, and together they started a family. ‘When I read about David selling burgers I was shocked,’ she says. ‘Maybe he enjoyed the attention of his customers recognising him. 'Even though there were lots of cruel headlines at the time calling him Burger Van Day, I think – strangely – he relished every moment.’ Her feelings about Van Day had long since soured. Yet in 2000 he started calling Thereza, asking if she was interested in reviving Dollar. Eventually, she agreed, and they started performing together again. ‘David said Eighties bands were having a comeback,’ she says. ‘I wasn’t keen at first but then I thought it would be fun for my children to see me on stage and thought why not?’ And so, on and off, for the past eight years she has been returning to the UK to perform with Van Day. In 2003, they took part in ITV’s ‘Reborn In The USA’ reality show. Embarrassingly, they were the first act to be voted off. Thereza says: ‘David was the same as ever, desperately worried about his image and keen on any kind of publicity.

'I put up with it because I enjoyed performing again and I have been quite keen on keeping Dollar going long-term.’ Indeed, until Thereza was told that Van Day was in the Australian jungle, she had even been planning for the duo to record a new track as well as a new Greatest Hits album. ‘I thought this new track could be a real hit for us, but when I discovered he had gone into the jungle without even telling me I just felt so angry,’ she says. ‘In recent years I’ve travelled the UK at his request for Dollar revivals and TV shows. 'Now I realise it was all just part of his masterplan to increase his fame. He’s been totally selfish by excluding me and being so sneaky behind my back. It’s a total lack of respect. ‘If it weren’t for me and the increased profile he has had recently with our revival of Dollar he’d never have been chosen to go into the jungle. 'He could have at least asked for me to be there to see him go in and it would have been great for Dollar, but no, he has chosen to make sure he gets all the attention on his own.’ Now she wants nothing to do with his jungle exploits.

‘I’ve already been asked by the show’s producers to fly up to the Gold Coast to be there when he gets out, but why should I? David always expects me to drop everything just for his benefit.’ She does admit to a certain amount of intrigue as to how he is coping and relies on regular internet updates from the show – which is not being shown on TV in Australia. ‘I am furious with him,’ she says. ‘But I can’t help but want to know how it is going for him in there. It must be pretty horrible at night out in the open.’ I couldn’t be sure – but that might have been said with a certain amount of glee. Last night David Van Day’s publicist Paula Seabourne-Pearson said: ‘I am surprised to hear that Thereza doesn’t like David. She has been very happy to work with him, especially right now. 'David was not allowed to tell anyone he was going into the jungle under his contract.’ She added: ‘Thereza did write a lot of the songs. David is a great businessman and an amazing PR man. They have different skills. 'To make out that Thereza was the person who did Dollar is ridiculous. They were a duo.

‘Of course he’s vain. He never denies he had a surgical facelift and, of course, he took cocaine. He doesn’t hide anything. He was a naughty boy and he admits that.’ WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT - DOLLAR - (1979) - YouTube WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT - DOLLAR - (1979) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Apr 8, 2010 DOLLAR are a pop vocal duo from the UK, consisting of David Van Day and Thereza Bazar. The duo were successful in the late 1970s and 1980s. Career Thereza Bazar and David Van Day met at 17 when they successfully auditioned for the cabaret act Guys n' Dolls. The group enjoyed a number of hit singles in the mid 1970s and during this time Van Day became romantically involved with Bazar.

By 1977 the group was in decline and the pair complained about the choice of material and musical direction.[1] Van Day decided to quit the band to embark on a solo career while Bazar would continue with Guys n' Dolls to earn a living for them both. The group's management were unhappy with the situation and sacked Bazar with the reasoning that a six-piece group consisting of three couples would now look odd with five members.[2] With the change in circumstances, the pair decided to begin a career as a duo. They were picked up by French label Carrere Records, going under the name Dollar. Dollar's first single, "Shooting Star", was released in late 1978 and, after a slow climb, reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart.[3] The follow-up, "Who Were You With In The Moonlight?", was released in early 1979 and also reached number 14. After two hit singles featuring Van Day on lead vocals their third, the ballad "Love's Gotta Hold On Me" was sung by Bazar.

It became Dollar's first self-penned hit as it entered the Top Ten and was one of their biggest, climbing to number 4 in the UK chart. Encouraged by this steady run of success, the group released their debut album, Shooting Stars, which made the top 40. In a change of pace, the band released a cover of The Beatles' song "I Want to Hold Your Hand", which reached number 9. At the same time, Dollar had their first (and only) US hit with "Shooting Star", which made No.74.[4] By February 1980, the group had scored four UK Top 20 hits, but this was not to last. Early 1980s In 1980 Dollar moved to WEA Records. Buoyed by the success of "Love's Gotta Hold On Me", the pair decided to write and produce all the songs for their second album. Attempting a move towards a rockier sound, the album, along with its singles, failed to sell well. In a bid to generate sales, Van Day and Bazar announced their engagement, but this was later revealed to be a publicity stunt.

In 1981, Bazar approached record producer, Trevor Horn, whom she had met during her days in Guys n' Dolls, and asked if he would work with them. He agreed, and produced their 1981 and 1982 material. Horn's production work gave Dollar a more distinctive sound, and their four Horn-produced singles represented the high point in the band's career. It gave them another two Top Ten singles ("Mirror Mirror" and "Give Me Back My Heart") and two more Top Twenty hits, "Videotheque" and "Hand Held In Black And White". The production on these four hit singles had brought Trevor Horn to the attention of other bands, notably ABC, and it was not long before he was too busy to continue working with the duo. "Give Me Some Kinda Magic", a Top 40 hit Dollar had written and produced themselves, and the lead-in single to their final studio album, The Dollar Album, which was a mixture of Horn's and the duo's own efforts. It became the biggest of their three albums, peaking at No. 18 in the UK and was certified Silver by the BPI.

Category Bucks Fizz - Music on Google Play Bucks Fizz About the artist Bucks Fizz are a British pop group that achieved success in the 1980s, most notably for winning the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Making Your Mind Up". The group was formed in January 1981 specifically for the contest and comprised four vocalists: Bobby G, Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston. They achieved instant attention with the dance routine which accompanied the song, involving a skirt-rip. The group went on to have a successful career around the world, while the UK remained their biggest market, where they had three No.1 singles with "Making Your Mind Up", "The Land of Make Believe" and "My Camera Never Lies" and became one of the top-selling groups of the 1980s. They also had UK Top 10 hits with "Now Those Days Are Gone", "If You Can't Stand the Heat", "When We Were Young" and "New Beginning". Their worldwide record sales have exceeded 15 million.

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The young David harboured plans to become an actor, and he combined an acting career (involving television commercials for Clark's shoes and an appearance in a film version of Oliver!) with his studies as a pupil at the Italia Conti Stage School. However, his big break came when he took on the hugely-prestigious part of Cousin Yellowstone in a Mancunian stage production of The Wombles. An insightful agent saw through to the stellar talent that lay beneath the furry costume and, on the basis of Van Day's masterful interpretation of the existential turmoil of the litter-conscious Wimbledon Common dweller, offered him a place in cabaret group Guys and Dolls. During his tenure as 'blond bloke' in this wholesome combo, David met Thereza Louise Bazar (born 23 May, 1957, in Toronto). Bazar's career, following attendance at the Tiffin Grammar School in Kingston-upon-Thames and then the Arts Educational dance and drama college in London, had involved spells in pantomimes and summer shows, until she met Trevor Horn. The two of them joined the New Seekers, just as the band were about to split.

From there, Thereza joined Guys and Dolls, where she met David. Love's Gotta Hold on Me After 18 months on the cabaret circuit, David and Thereza, still in their teens, felt that what they were doing was a little old-fashioned. By now an item, the duo tried their luck with record companies, and in 1978 they signed a contract with Acrobat/Carrere records. In November of that year they had a hit with 'Shooting Star', which reached number 14 in the charts. More hit singles followed in 1979: the accusatory 'Who Were You With In The Moonlight?' in May, and 'Love's Got A Hold On Me' in August. All three singles featured on their first album, Shooting Stars and the year was rounded off with an unimaginative flourish when their cover of the Beatles' 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' reached the UK Top Five in November. A new decade saw Dollar move to a new record company. Now signed to WEA, Dollar released their second album, The Paris Collection, but only one of the three singles released from it, 'Takin' A Chance on You' made the UK Top 75.

Although anonymity seemed to be beckoning, in October the couple celebrated their engagement in style at London's Savoy Hotel, planning to marry in spring the following year. Oh L'Amour Romantic euphoria was short-lived, however. As Britain rioted and prepared for the imminent royal wedding in equal measures, David and Thereza, feeling the pressures of fame, decided to end their relationship in the summer of 1981. Still, Dollar continued, and in August released 'Hand Held in Black and White', the first single from their third, imaginatively-titled collection of songs, The Dollar Album. This was their first collaboration with by now legendary music producer Trevor Horn (who Thereza knew from their time together in the New Seekers). The album spawned a huge hit, 'Mirror Mirror', and, the following year, 'Give Me Back My Heart' and 'Videoteque'. Their last release of '82, the Van Day- and Bazar-penned 'Give Me Some Kinda Magic' was less successful, failing to dent the top 30, and was to be their last single until 1986.

Van Day has claimed that Bazar's refusal to continue with Dollar, should he pursue a solo career, led to the band's demise. The pair, though both professionally and emotionally separate, weren't completely silent during the intervening years. David released a single, 'Young Americans Talking' in 1983 but it failed to make the top 40. Thereza released an album called The Big Kiss, produced by Arif Mardin, but neither of the two singles released from it hit the charts. In late 1985 she got in touch with David again and the two set about re-launching Dollar. However, aside from a cover of Erasure's 'Oh L'Amour', which hit the top ten in January 1988, none of the subsequent releases found acceptance outside of dance clubs, and Dollar split up. Van Day tried finding replacement female vocalists and released the solo single 'She Said She Said' (not a cover of the Beatles' classic) before joining another group, Bucks Fizz. Bazar stopped singing in order to raise a family, and settled in Sydney, Australia.

Piece of the Action By the mid-80s both girls from the line-up of 1981 Eurovision victors Bucks Fizz had left the band. In 1995 the 'boys' - Mike Nolan and Bobby G - went their separate ways too; and it was at this point that Bobby G (real name Robert Gubby) stepped in to help his old chum, who claimed to have blown a million pounds on cocaine. He approached Van Day and asked if he wanted to join the band, and they worked together for 15 months before the ex-Dollar man's departure. The split was not amicable, and Van Day then got together with Mike Nolan and two new girls to perform together under the slick alias of Bucks Fizz Dollar, which was later abbreviated to the altogether catchier 'Bucks Fizz'. Give Me Back My Cart Bucks Fizz was just one of the many strings to Van Day's bow. In November 2000, David, alongside fellow showbiz luminary Geoffrey from iconic children's TV show Rainbow, starred in a television campaign for Virgin One, which focused on his financial downfall.

Asked if he could have benefited from financial advice, his answer was clear - 'You betcha!' came the voice from the Brighton burger van. Unashamed of his career change, Van Day seemed to see the ad, the van (which he likened, without embarrassment, to Rolling Stone Bill Wyman's Sticky Fingers restaurant), his various musical sidelines, and indeed his ten-minute Wednesday morning slot on Southern Counties radio, as part of his portfolio - part of a wider business career. He did a life insurance sales course and invested in endowments and property. No Man's Land Meanwhile, Gubby, his ex-Bucks Fizz pal, was launching a legal action against him. Although he had been part of a line-up that involved original member Mike Nolan (who eventually settled with Gubby out of court), Van Day had a cavalier attitude towards the chirpy quartet.

In May 2000, after a performance at the Birmingham Gay Pride celebrations, Van Day explained how a reformed Dollar would only play at similar prestigious events: We're not going to go and do holiday camps that's for sure, even though I do them with Bucks Fizz and Mike - that's more our market, but not for Dollar, we wouldn't do that. This didn't mean, however, that he wasn't willing to pursue a bitter legal battle to use the name. In a memorable episode of Trouble at the Top 1 Bobby G raged against the injustice of it all: I was at Eurovision. I have had all the success with Bucks Fizz. I don't know why David Van Day doesn't go away and call himself the Beatles and give them the bother. An unrepentant and clearly Pontins-phobic Van Day continued to twist the knife: We are doing different things, in any case. He's doing... well, let's say a well-known holiday camp, which is fine, I suppose. But I've been picking up some really good festival dates, country house dates. We're trading on the nostalgia trip, that's our thing. I don't think we're a contemporary act in any way.

But I think maybe he does about his band. In July 2002, the case made it to the High Court, where Mr Justice Jacob refused to grant an injunction to prevent David Van Day's present pop group from using the name Bucks Fizz on the grounds that Bobby G had decided to take legal action too long after van Day started recording and touring as Bucks Fizz, and that it would cause van Day more harm through ticket sales and loss of reputation than would be caused to Gubby if the two bands kept using the name. A victorious Van Day, though garnering fewer bookings than Bobby G's combo, continued with the act and his burger van in Brighton. Refreshingly unpretentious about his music, first and foremost a businessman, Van Day explained: I didn't win two Oscars, we just had a few hits and I don't see the big deal about it... I just do things that come along, we're not in the premier division of pop music anymore. Haven't We Said Goodbye Before? David van Day has successfully gone on to have his cake and eat it, taking a reformed Dollar (oddly enough with 100% original components) back on the road.

Following the success of the Here and Now Christmas Party in 2002 - a national tour that saw them perform alongside the likes of the Human League (Sheffield's answer to Kraftwerk ), singing gardener Kim Wilde, Essex spendthrifts Five Star, jangly popsters Altered Images, all-female combo the Belle Stars and Tellytubby fan Steve Strange's Visage - a reunited Dollar were last seen performing on reality TV series Reborn in the USA in 2003. Love s Got A Hold On Me You have already voted for this video. Requested by my good friend David (PlsB9s)... pls enjoy!!!19:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)19:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)1... Requested by my good friend David (PlsB9s)...

pls enjoy!!!19:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)19:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)19:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)19:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)19:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)Dollar are a pop vocal duo from the UK, consisting of David Van Day and Thereza Bazar. The duo were successful in the late 1970s and 1980s.Thereza Bazar and David Van Day met at 17 when they successfully auditioned for the cabaret act Guys n' Dolls. The group enjoyed a number of hit singles in the mid 1970s and during this time Van Day became romantically involved with Bazar. By 1977 the group was in decline and the pair complained about the choice of material and musical direction. Van Day decided to quit the band to embark on a solo career while Bazar would continue with Guys n' Dolls to earn a living for them both.

The group's management were unhappy with the situation and sacked Bazar with the reasoning that a six-piece group consisting of three couples would now look odd with five members. With the change in circumstances, the pair decided to begin a career as a duo. They were picked up by French label Carrere Records, going under the name Dollar.Dollar's first single, "Shooting Star", was released in late 1978 and, after a slow climb, reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart. The follow-up, "Who Were You With In The Moonlight?", was released in early 1979 and also reached number 14. After two hit singles featuring Van Day on lead vocals their third, the ballad "Love's Gotta Hold On Me" was sung by Bazar. It became Dollar's first self-penned hit as it entered the Top Ten and was one of their biggest, climbing to number 4 in the UK chart. Encouraged by this steady run of success, the group released their debut album, Shooting Stars, which made the top 40.

In a change of pace, the band released a cover of The Beatles' song "I Want to Hold Your Hand", which reached number 9. At the same time, Dollar had their first (and only) US hit with "Shooting Star", which made No.74. By February 1980, the group had scored four UK Top 20 hits, but this was not to last.In 1980 Dollar moved to WEA Records. Buoyed by the success of "Love's Gotta Hold On Me", the pair decided to write and produce all the songs for their second album. Attempting a move towards a rockier sound, the album, along with its singles, failed to sell well. In a bid to generate sales, Van Day and Bazar announced their engagement, but this was later revealed to be a publicity stunt. In 1981, Bazar approached record producer, Trevor Horn, whom she had met during her days in Guys n' Dolls, and asked if he would work with them. He agreed, and produced their 1981 and 1982 material.

Horn's production work gave Dollar a more distinctive sound, and their four Horn-produced singles represented the high point in the band's career. It gave them another two Top Ten singles ("Mirror Mirror" and "Give Me Back My Heart") and two more Top Twenty hits.The production on these four hit singles had brought Trevor Horn to the attention of other bands, notably ABC, and it was not long before he was too busy to continue working with the duo."Give Me Some Kinda Magic", a Top 40 hit Dollar had written and produced themselves, and the lead-in single to their final studio album, The Dollar album, which was a mixture of Horn's and the duo's own efforts. It became the biggest of their three albums, peaking at No. 18 in the UK. Categories:

Question: David Day and Thereze Bazar had hits in the 1980s under what name?
Answer: Dollar