Liquid Gold — The Terrifying Truth!
A handful of facts about Dance Yourself Dizzy hitmakers Liquid Gold:
They were formed from the ashes of Babe Ruth (the band, not the sportsperson) who conjured up The Mexican which was quite a floorfiller with the ‘big beat’ set!* (*It was on a Prodigy mix album). This is what it sounds like:
Liquid Gold’s lungsmith Ellie Hope also sang backing vocals for Mud as well as being the female voice on Oh Boy, and rather bonus-ly was Rob Davis’ sister-in-law!
Liquid Gold’s first single Anyway You Do It was co-written by original Rubette Paul da Vinci!
Their label was Polo, a subsidiary of Creole, and were ‘nutured’ by Adrian Baker. Alongside his many achievements, Adrian Baker formed Gidea Park who had a hit during 1981’s medley craze with the undiscussable Beach Boy Gold, which mystifyingly led to him being offered a job as an actual Beach Boy from 1981–2004!
He was also in Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons for a couple of years too!
Baker teamed up with the songwriter Eddie Seago to invent Dance Yourself Dizzy. Seago’s previous big success was Y Viva Espana!
I have copied this paragraph from some website that goes DEEP on Liquid Gold. It really is incredible: ‘Some members of the band didn’t have great belief in the song, as Syd Twynham recalled, “We didn’t think it really going to happen but we were playing a residency at Caesar’s Palace in Luton and the song came on and everyone was dancing so we were really surprised when it took off the way it did.” Ellie was more hopeful, “It was coming to the end of the punk era and I guess we were the young fresh faces with that ‘I wouldn’t mind them living next door to me’ type of fun group.” Peter Stringfellow added, “It was fun, and Liquid Gold was an accepted soul disco group and they were one of the big names in my club.” Their stage antics were quite wild and colourful, “None of my stage outfits were expensive,” Ellie said, “in fact I got them from some very cheap places!”’
Amazing!
I always had Liquid Gold and Dance Yourself Dizzy down as Pub Disco and found it all a bit horrendous, but that none-more-1980 above paragraph has raised my respect somewhat. It only needs ‘Liquid Gold ended up on A Song For Europe the following year but lost out to Bucks Fizz’ to make it more 1980.
Liquid Gold ended up on A Song For Europe the following year but lost out to Bucks Fizz(!)
By 1983, with things looking all a bit Dumper-y, Liquid Gold enlisted Mickie Most’s brother as a songwriter. MICKIE MOST’S BROTHER. They would never grace the chart again.
Anyway, eventually the Dumper was fed and Ellie and Ray married and have been running the One-Offs pine furniture shop in Reigate since 1991, and it had the address of Knotts Pine, 1 West St, Reigate RH2 9BL.
*in earpiece* Oh it closed for good in 2023.
Anyway, that’s about the dimensions of Liquid Gold and Dance Yourself Dizzy. Or at least as much as I can be arsed to write.
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