Biografia

[on the media hoopla over her working two years at Debenham'] "It was quite upsetting. The coverage implied I had to go to work because we were starving, but Kevin [husband Danny Finn] has always kept me in the manner to which I want to be accustomed.

People believe if you've been a pop star you can't do anything else. You're not allowed to show your face unless it's that show-business face-lest it destroy their illusion of you.

I know there are people who specialize in tracking down unpaid royalties; if they'd like to do that for us I'd love to hear from them. But it makes you too bitter if you get involved yourself. It's a waste of life.

We were laid-back interpreters of songs. We were entertainers. I saw no shame in that. But then Paul Layton and Marty Kristian worked out they could get money if they wrote the songs, and it just wasn't the same.

No matter how big the success, it just becomes work. The problem for me was loneliness. I'd sit in my flat the whole time. It was a terribly lonely time for me.

The Americans thought it was a hoot that we tap-danced.